Current Authors
Catrina Hacker:
Turning pages, swiping screens, and hitting play: Is reading always the same to our brain?
How is biomedical research funded in the United States?
The jura-sick world of dinosaur brains
Making a case for case studies in neuroscience
Eating your way to better brain health: The science behind brain foods
How the ability to visualize the human brain has revolutionized neuroscience and what comes next
The neurons turning the dial on inflammation>The neurons turning the dial on inflammation
Your brain by the numbers
Advertising to the brain: The basics and ethics of neuromarketing
Neuro MythBusters: The truth behind 10 common myths about your brain
First steps toward a new approach to overcoming memory loss
Growing evidence for a link between viral infections and brain diseases
The case for turning up the bass
The lies our eyes tell us
A bug’s life: 3D vision in humans and praying mantids
Dopamine: More than just reward
The problem of brain size
What COVID-19 has to tell us about Alzheimer’s Disease
Restoring Sight to the Blind
Image memorability: A shared tendency to remember certain things we see
In sync: the neuroscience of successful communication
Do I know you?
Out with the old and in with the new? Navigating the explore-exploit tradeoff
How Spotify uses what we know about the brain to make music recommendations
Victoria Subritzky Katz:
Can we trust our memory?
A river of screens: How our digital habits are reshaping our mind
Lindsay Ejoh:
Do plants feel pain?
Video supplement: How is biomedical research funded in the United States?
The brain on menopause
Beyond the uterus: Uncovering endometriosis pain
Of mice and men (and brains)
Why haven’t we cured chronic pain?
A new tool to bypass common drug side effects
Sex differences in pain
Video supplement to electroconvulsive therapy: The mystery of mechanism
The placebo effect and pain relief
Pain relief can be zen
Sensing Our Organs
3 Notable Neuroscience Discoveries in 2021
Studying Animal Behavior Through the Ages
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Why does sex feel so good?
Stressing yourself sick: the impact of stress on the gut
The endogenous opioid system: your body’s natural pain reliever?
Tone-Deafness and the Brain
Joseph Stucynski:
Transcranial focused ultrasound: A new way to stimulate the brain
Vagus nerve stimulation: A new frontier
Reaching the boiling point
A clear solution for cleaning your brain
Critical thinking: How networks in the brain may be optimally organized
Lessons from Mike the Headless Chicken: The importance of the brainstem
Can a racing heart lead to a racing mind?
We have the technology!
Much ado about microglia
Go with the flow
The neuroscience of worms
Owls, dophins, squids, and … worms? Oh my!
What’s a neural circuit?
Omer Zeliger:
Going viral: How scientists use viruses in research every day
Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary: The science of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Patient S.M.: Neuroscience’s most fearless participant
Spinning silk: How do spiders build their webs?
Object anthropomorphism: Walking a day in someone else’s wheels
Like it was yesterday
Octopus: the animal that keeps itself company
The sweet taste of lemon
Life from the machine
Meowza, that scared me!
The neuroprotective double-life of estrogen
Margaret Gardner:
How to make a guy compost in 10 days
Changing climate, changing brains
Bacteria in the brain: Friend, foe, or figment?
If you want to diagnose mental illness, study… the body?
Weathering the storm
Exergames: The video games that won’t rot kids’ brains
Changing body, changing brain
Video Supplement: Learning to read the mind
Cutting through the “noise”
Glutamate: Hungry for more
Meet Glutamate
What’s in a framework?
Electroconvulsive Therapy: The Mystery of Mechanism
Kara McGaughey:
Your brain’s behavioral blueprint: The chemicals behind how we eat, sleep, feel, and socialize
Falling back into hold habits? Stress could be to blame
The brain’s gatekeeper: A closer look at the blood-brain barrier
Penguin power naps: Racking up a day’s worth of sleep four seconds at a time
A dog’s eye view: Exploring the visual system from the kennel to the clinic
Monoclonal antibodies: From COVID-19 to Alzheimer’s
When did you become you?
You are what you eat: Exploring fecal microbiota transplant
Use it or lose it: A look at cortical mapping, remapping, and implications for brain function
Your body, your brain, and a continuum of arousal states
Andrew Nguyen:
To pee or not to pee: How the brain controls the bladder
Neuroscientists are building Google maps for the fly brain
When worms invade: Exploring a common parasite and its role in epilepsy
Sniffing us out: How mosquitos seek their hosts
Seasonal allergies pollinating the brain
Science in spooktober: Fear on the brain
Might microbes: The gut-brain axis and the motivation to exercise
The lonely brain: The neuroscience of social isolation
Stephen Wisser:
Sweet but not innocent: Artificial sweeteners and brain health
A hung jury on hangovers
Psychological biases in voting
When nature helps neuroscience
Your brain on Ozempic
Phonesick: fact or fiction? Your brain on EMFs
Thinking about mind over matter
Shopping the brain: How to find regions to test drive
Serena Chen:
The brain behind the balance
The neurons next door
From the brain’s view: Surviving a multitasking world
Bee-lieving in the brain
Interoception: The “sixth” sense that shapes our wellbeing
Astroctyes: The “stars” of our central nervous system
What do our pets really think about us?
Abby Lieberman:
Recording everything everywhere all at once
How bats are helping us rethink how the brain hears
Under the influence: The mechanics of brainwashing
Moving and grooving with birds-of-paradise
For cuttlefish, intelligence is skin deep
Tiny faces, big expressions: Reading rodent faces
How brain synchrony connects us
Jafar Bhatti:
Eye movements: A window into cognition, disease, and individuality
How cochlear implants create sound for the hard of hearing
What does “brain activity” actually mean?
A drifting mind: How reliable are our brains?
The early bird and the night owl: A look at differences in our sleep behavior
Taking a “trip” through the impact of psychedelics and the conscious experience
Nita Rome:
Vaccines and autism: Let’s talk about it
Animal matriarchies
What motivates you? The two types of motivation
Emma Noel:
Why our brains find conspiracy theories appealing
Fighting brain cancer, one cell at a time
Eve Gautreaux:
The unique human ability to cry
The neuroscience of habits
Emma Fischer:
Emotional support animals: A life- (and brain-) changing bond
Overconsumption core: How our brains drive us to consume
Carris Borland:
Mind muscle connection: How does your brain tell your muscles to move?
The UPS system inside your neurons
Carly Seligman:
Counting sheep: How should we fall asleep?
Anna Kasper:
The blood brain barrier and its Trojan horses
Hayley Lenhard:
Lucas Tittle:
When good things turn bad: How your brain decides what you like and dislike
Alumni Authors
Sarah Reitz:
Depression and the immune system
The Benefits of Gift-Giving
I Got it From my Mama: Maternal Microbes Support Brain Development of Her Offspring
Timing Is Everything
Aphasia as a Symptom of Autoimmune Encephalitis
A World Without Smell
Do No Harm
The Bilingual Brain
How does sleep affect the blood-brain barrier?
The World in Color
Going Under
The genetics behind short sleepers
Infantile amnesia: Why can’t we remember early childhood?
Manipulating Memories
Your Brain With A Migraine
Sleep It Off
The Laughing Brain
Fooling the brain into weight loss
Forget the turkey: the neuroscience behind the “food coma”
Putting the “high” in runner’s high
Brain boosts – how much do brain training games really work?
It’s getting hot in here: How your brain knows when you need to cool off
How does space flight affect the brain?
Tasting With Your Brain
A face is worth…205 neurons?
Synesthesia: A Tale of Two Senses
Get Some Z’s Please!
Carolyn Keating:
Neurological complications of Lyme disease
Mapping the Brain
Healing in Nature
A Punch in the Gut
Brainwashed
The “Immune” in Autoimmune Encephalitis: The Role of T and B Cells
Sleeping with one eye open
More than a bug bite
Defining Glioblastoma
When Your Brain is on Fire
The Dreaming Brain
“Zombie” Brains
Chemo-brain
Consciousness and Coma
Time flies when you’re having fun
Shocked into Strolling
A brain walks into a bar…
Baby on the Brain
Brain-Computer Interfaces
Ghost Sensations
The Double-Edged Sword of HIV Treatment
What’s in a Brain?
Clear Your Mind
Blitzing the Brain
Nitsan Goldstein:
Blood, sweat, and clusterin
The Neuroscience of Acupuncture
The neuroscience of skill
A circuit for social distance
A detailed look inside the human brain
Brain maps
The neurological exam
COVID-19 and the Brain: An Update
No pain… a lot to gain
Masters of Disguise
French Fries or Side Salad?
COVID-19 and the Brain
The Hope for A Cure
Artificial Sweeteners and the Brain
Making Memories
The link between smoking and diabetes
The Neuroscience of Dyslexia
Parched
The Voice Within
On the Hunt
Deep Brain Stimulation
Unconscious Vision
Wired to Respond
Brains in a Dish
The Numerical Brain
Epigenetics: what DNA won’t tell you
Inside the Brain of a Psychopath
To Eat or Not to Eat
Greer Prettyman:
Do melatonin supplements help with sleep?
Familiar Faces
Your brain on a bender
Get a grip
Am I hearing things?
The neuroscience of narcolepsy
A Bug’s Life
Echo, Echo
Get a whiff of this
Active by default
Diagnosing Autoimmune Encephalitis
LSD on the brain
Stressed Out
Learning to Read the Mind
Sing me a song
That’s Too Real
Medical CBD
The scent of memory
I like it like that
I’ll have what she’s having
Stimulants in the brain
Resist the temptation
Curious about Curiosity
Neurofeedback: learning from your brain
Déjà vu? I’ve seen that before.
Ketamine: from street drug to depression cure?
Claudia Lopez-Lloreda:
How natural disasters bring monkeys –and maybe humans– together
Why getting better at baseball might require just a little sleep
Octopi feel pain like you and I
It’s all about balance: how the brain eliminates unwanted connections
An unexpected molecule helps mice walk again
Scary movies and haunted houses: understanding the fear and fun paradox
How a volcano turned a brain into glass
Psychedelics lead to long-lasting brain changes
It’s in the blood
Light at night may mess with your brain
Translating faces into emotion
Insulating your memories
How “little brains” may help us treat brain cancer
What happens when people are missing important parts of the brain?
Transforming cells to repair the brain
The protein that makes you feel pain
Why are Alzheimer’s disease drugs failing?
Yoga and the brain
The quest for emotion mirror neurons
A Gut Feeling
Sara Taylor:
Memory suppression genes – team forgetful
Parenting across species
Creativity in the brain
Forgetting, remembering, and stress
When concussion symptoms stick around: the elusive post-concussion syndrome
Katerina Placek:
What if it’s not Alzheimer’s?
Does your dog love you?
Alzheimer’s disease – an immune system ‘glitch’?
Socioeconomic Status and the Brain
Barbara Terzic:
Your (Baby’s) Brain on Hurricanes
Sensory Overload
Genetic Disposition
Brain freeze: what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
Intelligent Invertebrates
Rebecca Somach:
Feeling Frosty
The Cells of Consciousness
A Wandering Mind
Go-karts, for science?
The Biased Brain
A Sense of Attraction
Alone, but not lonely
A Shocking Discovery
Buying on the Brain
Ride the Wave
The One and Only
Dying to Know: how do neurotoxins work?
Neuroethology: The wild side of neuroscience
Happy Mother’s Day!
Best of the Year 2018: Imaging in Behaving Animals
At Attention, Soldier!
Hannah Deutsch:
Where do we go when we fall asleep?
What we can learn from the fly on the wall
Vanessa B. Sanchez:
Brush it real good
Bacteria tell you when you’re full
A new type of rhythm: eta
Ataxia and Autoimmune Encephalitis
Is your brain full of plastics?
Can we prevent memory loss?
Dissociative Amnesia?
Brain beats
Can intermittent fasting change how we age?
Morgan Kindel:
How are neurons categorized?
Go with your gut: How your gut knows the difference between sugar and artificial sweetener
Can dietary fat boost your mood?
Memories of mealtime: how our memory influences how much we eat
Marissa Maroni:
The curious tale of epigenetics: How do genes change during your life?
Can fungus turn ants into zombies?
What is a headache?
Trash in the brain leads to Alzheimer’s disease
Clownfish brains change during sex transition
From gut to brain: do your neurons know the gut is inflamed?
What do you see in your mind?
What are our brains doing when we see something scary?
Alzheimer’s Disease: what’s causing some of our neurons to die?
Brain fog and chronic fatigue syndrome
Can a high sugar diet change how you taste?
What causes our brains to forget?
Jake Parker:
Decide quickly or decide accurately? How your brain solves a classic decision-making problem
The experiments that opened the brain’s black box
Why forgetting might actually be a good thing
ChatGPT versus the brain: A nerve-wracking matchup
Joseph Gallegos:
Queen of the hill
Caught up in your thoughts
A new hope in human prion diseases
An unlikely culprit behind “brain fog”
From paleolithic to petri dish
Sophie Liebergall:
Two sides of the matter: The human brain may be symmetric in form, but not in function
Do you hear what I hear? That ringing sound?
When sparks fly!
The silent majority
Not for the faint of heart
Catching the brain’s tallest waves
10 Big Unanswered Questions in Neuroscience (Part One)
A window of opportunity for learning
Why do we get the hiccups?
Seeing the forest for the trees
Are people who stutter really tongue-tied?
Keeping a cool head
What is a seizure?
Barnes Jannuzi:
Wildfire in the brain: What has neuroscience learned from studying epilepsy
What happens when the brain is out of a job?
ALL ABOARD! The mirror neuron hype train
Mixed messages: How your brain deals with conflicting information
Can you control your dreams?
How did the chicken cross the road?
When you add two halves do you get a whole?
The curious thing about a tickle
Lisa Wooldridge:
Music on the brain
Under the weather
Patient H.M.: Neuroscience’s favorite subject
Opioid drugs: Pain, pleasure…poison?
What makes a musician?
Healing from the hypothalamus
Don’t move a muscle
Seeing the light again
A Calming Presence
Too hot to handle
Julia Riley:
Might mitochondria, the powerhouses of your nervous system
Basic science, exceptional outcomes: A look at how non-clinical research is an important investment into human health
Magnetic manipulation of brain activity to treat mental illness
Out-of-this-world impacts of spaceflight on the brain and body
Glia in neurodegeneration: Gladiators or traitors?
Parsing Parkinson’s pathology
Talking to ourselves: The neuroscience behind the voice in our heads
Guest Authors
Yarden Wiesenfeld:
Sense from the Noise
These Circuits Were Made for Walking
The Dad-Baby Bond
Elizabeth Rivabem:
The Sound of Music Therapy: Harmony Between the Brain and its Memories
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