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What is neuroscience? Neuroscience is the scientific study of nervous systems. Neuroscience can involve research from many branches of science including those involving neurology, brain science, neurobiology, psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics, prosthetics, neuroimaging, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, pharmacology, electrophysiology, biology, robotics and technology.

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Featured Neuroscience

·April 1, 2015·1 min read

New App Tests for Synesthesia

Radboud University researchers have created a smartphone app which tests for synesthesia.

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Featured Neuroscience

·April 1, 2015·4 min read

BigNeuron Will Advance Digital Reconstruction and Analysis of Single Neurons

Collaborative BigNeuron project set to advance state of the art digital tracing of neurons.

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Featured Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology Visual Neuroscience

·April 1, 2015·6 min read

Faster Consolidation of Learning Visual Tasks Seen in Video Game Players

A new study reports video gamers could learn visual tasks quicker than their non gaming peers.

This shows 0's and 1's (binary code) overlayed onto neurons.

Featured Neuroscience

·March 31, 2015·4 min read

Brain Big Data Resource Will Accelerate Research and Understanding of Neuronal Function

Researchers use data mining to create a new resource that indexes physiological information about neurons obtained from scientific literature.

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Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·March 31, 2015·2 min read

Tracking Dendritic Activity During Learning Reveals How the Brain Encodes and Stores Information

A new study provides additional insight into how the brain stores and encodes new information.

This is a drawing of the hippocampus with CA3, CA1 and the DG labeled.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·March 30, 2015·3 min read

Building Block for Memory and Learning Identified

Researchers discover a key receptor which is responsible for activating opposing forms of plasticity in the hippocampus.

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·March 27, 2015·3 min read

Sensory Nerves Allow Good Fat to Communicate with the Brain

Researchers report sensory nerves allow brown fat to communicate with the brain while the fat is generating heat.

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·March 26, 2015·2 min read

Wearable Device Helps Vision Impaired Avoid Collision

A new wearable device appears to help those with vision loss avoid collisions with high level objects, researchers report.

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Featured Neuroscience

·March 26, 2015·2 min read

Sea Slugs Help Researchers Map How Neurons Fire

Research demonstrates how the complex locomotion of Aplysia can be simplified and interpreted.

Images shows the location of the visual cortex in the brain.

Featured Neuroscience Neuroscience Videos Visual Neuroscience

·March 25, 2015·3 min read

A Non Visual Opsin Could Help Future Studies of the Brain and CNS

Researchers have discovered a light sensitive opsin protein that could play a critical role in neuron maturation.

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·March 25, 2015·4 min read

Carbon Nanotube Fibers Make Superior Links to Brain

Carbon nanotube fibers appear to be superior to metal electrodes for DBS, a new study reports.

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·March 24, 2015·2 min read

Childhood Development of Visual Processing Predicted by Gaze of Newborn

A new study supports the idea that key cognitive abilities are present in newborn babies.

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