Convulsive therapies are an underappreciated treatment that can alleviate symptoms of severe psychiatric disorders through rapid cycles of muscle contraction ...

Neurodegenerative disease where dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra deteriorate. Symptoms involve resting tremor, slowness of movement, shuffling gait, rigidity. Kate graduated from Scripps ...

Arielle Hogan received a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in French from the University of Virginia. She is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in the NSIDP program at UCLA. Her research focuses on CNS ...

A barrier between the brain itself and the blood supply of the brain, which prevents most substances from moving from the blood to brain tissue. Substances like glucose that are important to brain ...

A neurodegenerative disease characterized by neuronal loss in brain areas like the hippocampus. The loss of neurons is associated with symptoms of dementia. Kate graduated from Scripps College in 2009 ...

Kate graduated from Scripps College in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Neuroscience, completing the cellular and molecular track with honors. As an undergraduate, she studied long-term ...

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 ...

Arielle Hogan recibió una licenciatura en Biología y otra en francés de la Universidad de Virginia. Ahora está cursando un doctorado en Neurociencia en el programa interdepartamental de neurociencias ...

Nerissa received her MSci in Neuroscience from The University of Nottingham where she studied the protective effects of hypothermia on brain physiology. During her placement year, she investigated the ...

Knowing Neurons is an award-winning neuroscience website, run entirely by a volunteer team of young neuroscientists. We strive to make neuroscience accessible to anyone interested in learning about ...

Cells in the hippocampus that signal the position of an agent in the environment. Each place cell is responsive to one (and only one) given subregion of the current space, in which its firing rate ...