The core team of Knowing Neurons comprises a group of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, who specialize in different areas of neuroscience. We discuss and edit all content on the site, write ...

Your brain is very complicated and fascinating! Every week for one year we posted a new and interesting fact about that 3 lb organ in your skull and other parts of the nervous system. Share these 52 ...

Maria is a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies how neurons and astrocytes influence each other in regulating degradative pathways. She is passionate about the ...

Caitlin earned her Bachelor’s degree at The Ohio State University before joining the Neuroscience Interdepartmental PhD Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. In the lab of Dr. Laura ...

Areas of the central nervous system that consist primarily of glial cells and myelinated axons, which gives the tissue a white coloring. Compare to grey matter. Kate graduated from Scripps College in ...

Axon terminal; synaptic boutons are small swellings that are found at the terminal ends of axons. Synaptic boutons are typically the sites where synapses with other neurons are found, and ...

Thirteen years after the first Avatar movie came out in 2009, director James Cameron invites viewers to journey back to the faraway, lush exo-moon of Pandora with a sequel: Avatar: The Way of Water.

Those are the sounds that Professors David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel heard in the early 1950s when they recorded from neurons in the visual cortex of a cat, as they moved a bright line across its ...

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flows through your central nervous system, serving multiple roles: it protects your brain, takes out the cellular trash, and even acts as a highway for immune cells. Although ...

Imagine standing in line at a café when someone blatantly cuts ahead of you. A flash of indignation flares up – “Hey, that’s not fair!” On the other hand, think about how you would feel when a ...

Knowing Neurons is an award-winning neuroscience education and outreach website that was created by young neuroscientists. The global team members at Knowing Neurons explain complicated ideas about ...

By Keionna Newton Dopamine. You’ve probably heard about it before in passing or perhaps you’ve seen it in the headlines. Perhaps you’ve seen people on social media using buzzwords like… Read more ...