Far from being lofty abstract ideals, our sense of right and wrong is woven into our biology. Modern neuroscience reveals that our brains literally reward us for treating others fairly and for placing ...

This study overall shows there is an interplay between the BBB and CB1 receptors on perivascular astrocytes that influences chronic stress resilience.

For years, BAMs were hidden in plain sight, often mistaken for other immune cells. That changed with new tools like fate mapping (tracks a cell’s developmental origin) and single-cell RNA sequencing, ...

Snap! Crackle! Pop! 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 ...

Other researchers have used this technique to examine the effects of different drugs, such as opioids, on brain regions involved in substance use disorders. One study from the lab of Dr. Marvin Diaz ...

By Lauren Wagner. 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: ...

In Knowing Neuron’s March infographic, Sumana Shrestha goes over the types of Central Nervous System tumors. Click here to learn more! Sumana Shrestha is a PhD student at the Institute of Cancer ...

Johanna Mayer is a PhD student at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden working on autophagy-mediated secretory mechanisms in Alzheimer’s disease.Her PhD project is part of the EU-funded Marie ...

Evidence suggests that feeding your brain with the plant-based diet of the Mediterranean regions may reduce the risk of cognitive problems, effectively making you live a longer and healthier life.

Think humans have the best brains? Think again! Explore how other animals have adapted to their environments in this series of infographics by Kayleen Schreiber of the Knowing Neurons team about Weird ...

Astoundingly, weight training has been shown to protect subregions of the hippocampus—a brain region involved in cognition and long-term memory—from degeneration in populations at risk for Alzheimer’s ...

Because of its ability to visualize brain activity, PET imaging, like other neuroimaging technologies, has often captured the public’s attention as if it were harnessing some mysterious power to see ...