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New research has revealed the role that kinesin, a nanoscopic motor protein, holds in the brain. It helps build dendritic spines, the physical structures that grow from neurons.
Deciphering how neurons talk to each other by reading the brain’s electrical activity has given scientists insights into memory and conditions like epilepsy and Alzheimer’s.
Fluctuating hormones affect the frequency of seizures at multiple times in women’s lives. So we need to tailor their therapies accordingly.
How exactly do anaesthetic drugs shut down the brain? We still don’t have a complete picture, but a new study just got us a step closer.
A new study shows that it is possible to reduce the symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by reducing the inflammation caused by immune cells in the brain.
Eating right, exercising, playing sports, reading and journaling are just a few of the ways you can keep your brain in top shape.
Studying the human brain is difficult because of its vast and intricate network of neural connections. The fruit fly offers a simpler but similar model that researchers can more easily map.
Our bodies have a dedicated channel for sensing only the very lightest of touches.
Robots often have a hard time navigating through debris, but robots designed based on worms and snakes could move around obstacles faster, thanks to an idea called mechanical intelligence.
Montréal is home to one of the world’s largest brain banks, the Douglas-Bell Canada Brain Bank, where discoveries about different neurological and psychiatric diseases are made.
Neuromorphic computers aim to one day replicate the amazing efficiency of the brain.
Itch-sensing neurons in your skin are intertwined with your immune cells. Counterintuitively, the molecule that connects them triggers responses that both worsen and improve skin conditions.
Change in the brain usually comes with plenty of effort over time. Neuroscientists are working to understand how psychedelic drugs provide a shortcut that seems to rely on existing brain systems.
From dopamine hacking to dopamine detoxes, some people have sought to harness this brain chemical to improve their mood and productivity. But it’s far more complicated than that.
We still don’t know a lot about how the networks of cells in the brain enable conscious experience.
New research on what attracts blood-feasting flies to blue objects could help minimise the impacts of those insects on people and animals.
When fruit flies see other dead fruit flies, their life spans are cut short. Other species also undergo analogous physiological changes when seeing their dead.
TENS machines for period pain are all over social media. But what are they? And do they work?
Pinpointing where memories are stored in the brain and how they are transmitted could provide new targets to treat neurological diseases and serve as models for neuromorphic computing.
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Professeur agrégé de neurosciences computationnelles et neurophysiologie, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neurosciences, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering, Tau Beta Pi Eminent Engineer, University of South Florida
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Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Research fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Penn State
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Professor of Cognition, Lancaster University
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Graduate Student in Biomedical Science, Harvard University
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Sir Henry Dale Fellow in Cell & Developmental Biology, UCL
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Ph.D. Student in Bioengineering, Researcher at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, University of Washington
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Professor in Neuroscience, The Open University
