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Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·June 22, 2021·7 min read

Signs of Inflammation in Brains of People Who Died of COVID-19

Post-mortem studies of COVID-19 patients revealed significant signs of neuroinflammation and impaired brain circuits which researchers believe were caused by the disease. Researchers said the changes noticed in the brains of COVID patients were similar to the changes that occur in both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

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Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·March 26, 2020·3 min read

How to identify factors affecting COVID-19 transmission

Researchers discuss the need for long-term and more quantitative approaches by experts spanning various fields, to help understand viruses, like SARS-CoV-2, and how they may affect drinking water treatment strategies.

This brain image is made up of words associated with PTSD

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·April 3, 2019·8 min read

Biology may make certain PTSD patients unresponsive to behavioral therapy

A neuroimaging and behavioral signature associated with connectivity in the ventral attention network has been identified in a subgroup of PTSD patients who fail to respond to treatment.

An image of green poison ivy leaves with "summer" under the image is positioned above an image of red and orange poison ivy leaves with "fall and spring" under it. Both of these images are to the left of a graphic of a brain with the striatum and hippocampus drawn in and labeled. Areas are labeled with the words avoid, red, leaflets, shiny, and summer on the graphic.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·March 6, 2019·7 min read

More Than Just Memories: A New Role for the Hippocampus During Learning

A new role for the hippocampus involving pattern separation and conjunctive representation in reinforcement learning is discussed.

a dna strand

Featured Genetics Open Neuroscience Articles

·May 29, 2018·4 min read

Wars and Clan Structure May Explain Strange Biological Event of 7,000 Years Ago

Math models and computer simulations have helped researchers answer a perplexing question about a biological event that occurred 7,000 years ago.