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Featured Neuroscience

·October 14, 2016·10 min read

Chronobiology: Internal Clocks Sync

Researchers explore how how body's natural time keepers work.

Image shows a diagram of how the SCN affect circadian rhythm.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·November 29, 2016·4 min read

Depressive Behaviors Caused by Disrupting Brain’s Internal Clock: Mouse Study

A new study reports that disrupting the natural circadian rhythm in mice causes depression and anxiety.

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Featured Neuroscience

·December 22, 2016·7 min read

Why You Don’t Feel Jet Lagged When You Run a Fever

Researchers report on a link between core body temperature and circadian rhythm in mice.

Featured Neuroscience

·March 12, 2017·4 min read

Brain Hardwired to Respond to Others’ Itching: Mouse Study

According to researchers, socially contagious itching may be hard wired in the brain.

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience

·March 25, 2017·7 min read

Astrocytes Keep Time For Brain and Behavior

A new study reveals astrocytes play an surprisingly important role in the body's circadian clock.

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Featured Neuroscience

·April 18, 2017·3 min read

Cells in the Retina Light the Way to Treating Jet Lag

Researchers have discovered a group of neurons in the retina that affect circadian rhythm by sending signals to the SCN.

Featured Genetics

·May 9, 2018·4 min read

Study Links Breast Cancer to Body’s Internal Clock

Researchers have found an association between the Per2 gene and breast cancer. The Per2 gene plays an important role in both the body's circadian clock and mammary gland development.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 13, 2018·4 min read

The VIPs of the Nervous System

Researchers have unlocked a cure for jet lag by activating VIP neurons in the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·January 10, 2019·3 min read

New Role for Astrocytes in Controlling Circadian Rhythms

Astrocytes may lead the tempo of the body's internal clock and control patterns of daily behavior, a new study reports.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 20, 2019·3 min read

Newly discovered neural pathway processes acute light to affect sleep

Study challenges the widely accepted belief that all light information is relayed through the suprachiasmatic nucleus, which synchronizes the circadian rhythm.