Breaking down the brain for everyone to understand
Despite what you may have heard, dietary fat isn’t all bad. On the contrary, some types of dietary fats, such as omega 3 fatty acids, can positively impact mood and have a protective effect against symptoms of mood disorders like depression.
Bacteria are more powerful than you think - scientists uncovered that they can turn off neurons.
A recent study found that a specific region in your brain recognizes inflammation in your gut.
Electroconvulsive therapy is an effective treatment for some people with mental illness, but how does this so-called “shock therapy” affect the brain?
Recent developments in our understanding of how COVID-19 affects the brain have led scientists to revisit an old idea that Alzheimer’s could be virally induced.
How hormones may ease patients’ stroke recoveries
Neuroscience wrapped: as we move into a new year, let’s reflect on some notable discoveries in the field of neuroscience from 2021.
New insights into the link between exercise and improved cognition
How a protein from algae might help blind patients see
Part of the answer to “why can’t I remember where I put it ?!?!”
The delicate dance of building and breaking down that goes into learning a new skill
A recent study suggests that an Alzheimer’s disease-related protein could explain why specific neurons die first.
Scientists may have found a way to prevent age-related memory loss.
How do social interactions help us through stress?
Researchers identified a protein that eliminates synapses
A recent study found that consumption of a high sugar diet had lasting effects on sweet taste perception.
How does your body use its natural systems to relieve pain? Might we be able to use what we know about natural pain relieving processes in order to treat chronic pain and battle the opioid epidemic?
A hyperactive form of an immune molecule helped neurons regenerate their connections after injury
Recent research suggests microglia, the immune cells in your brain, are responsible for forgetting memories.
By engaging a cell-breakdown process called autophagy, fasting can clear more than the belly.
Researchers found perfectly preserved neurons in the remains of the Mount Vesuvius eruption
Can anesthesia lead us to better pain killers?
New research in mice shows how gut microbes affect the brain, even before birth.
How do we form memories, and why does this process break down in autoimmune encephalitis?
New study reveals how a certain protein plays a role in both nicotine addiction and type II diabetes
General anesthetics are used in millions of surgeries each year, yet we still don’t know exactly how they work.
Zika and West Nile viruses cause cognitive problems when immune cells team up
Different conditions uncover how one protein is important in controlling pain
Did you know neurotoxins are used for research and medical treatments? But how do they work and why are they so deadly?
Targeting an important protein in the pathway of Alzheimer’s disease is not proving itself to be the cure-all people hoped for
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