neuroscience

Credit: Scientific Animations/CC BY-SA 4.0 Neurotransmitters binding with a neuron. (Credit: Scientific Animations/CC BY-SA 4.0)Parkinson’s disease, a progressive disorder of the central nervous system, is...

Trying to understand the howPhoto by National Cancer Institute on UnsplashDisclaimer: The views in this article are mine, this article only helps me paint a picture of how I have tried to understand the brain.For my...

The Brain. Credit: NIDAA massive 379 million deadly doses of Fentanyl were seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA] this year. There was a record number of overdose deaths in the US. Life expectancy dipped...

Envision the ability to manipulate the world around you through the sheer force of your intellect — a notion that may seem like the stuff of science fiction, yet with the emergence of machine-brain interfaces...

Snow at Hyde Park, Chicago. Credit: MGHow the brain gives the experience of loneliness is a determinative mechanism of immense value in the solitude that the frigid winter storm makes necessary.Loneliness does not...

Paranasal Sinuses. Credit: NIHThere is a recent article in WIRED, Conscious Machines May Never Be Possible, discussing the limits of recent large language models [LLMs] to actual consciousness. There is another...

Neurodegeneration via NIHThere is a lot that can be learned from areas with lesions from a brain donated to science, for research.There are structural changes in the brain, whose exploration can lead to new...

Credit: peterschreiber.media/iStock/Getty Images (Credit: peterschreiber.media/iStock/Getty Images)Depression can be a tricky mental illness to pin down. While therapy and pharmaceuticals help to tame some people’s...

Our reality is a framework in which the brain exists to harbor the mind and the biological body exists to move the brain. Essentially, the biological body is simply an avatar vehicle which is used by the ‘cognitive’...

Interventional Radiology via NIHThere is a recent piece in Scientific American, Some People Who Appear to Be in a Coma May Actually Be Conscious, explaining how those people have what is called covert consciousness,...

Brain Science — IQ Myths of Human IntelligenceNeurotransmitter via NIHIn a world where some fields are highly rewarded and there is a measure for the seeming factor, it is often said that some people are more...

Neuroscience findings align with thisPhoto by Muzammil Soorma on UnsplashWe all understand the importance of a good memory, think of all the research that goes into dementia, and other related conditions, and with the...

David Pohl/theispot.com Neuromarketing. Neuromanagement. Neurofinance. Attempts to inject brain science into the business world have been nothing short of comprehensive — and, quite possibly, oversold. Proponents...

Reading Time: 3 minutes Do we immediately forget information after it has been taught? The first academic reference to retrieval practice is by Hermann Ebbinghaus, a German psychologist (1850 – 1909) who pioneered...

MIT senior Teresa Gao has been named one of the 12 winners of the George J. Mitchell Scholarship’s Class of 2024. After graduating next spring with a double major in computer science and engineering as well as brain...

Humans aren’t the only animals known to move to a musical beat. For instance, parrots do it, too. And now rats have been observed bopping their heads in time with the music of Mozart, Lady Gaga, Queen and others,...

Brain Science: Psychopharmacology — Pathways of Experiences | Automatic, ControlledLab at the NIHWhat is the pathway of the experiences of psychotropic drugs? The question is vital because there are often...