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Brain Mapping
Brain Mapping: is a set of neuroscience techniques predicated on the mapping of quantities or properties onto spatial representations of the brain resulting in maps.
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FEB 02, 2016Neuroscience
Approximately 65 million people worldwide live with epilepsy, 3 million of those in the United States. Statistics from t ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimDEC 15, 2015Neuroscience
Starting your day usually involves a pretty regular routine. A morning commute through traffic or the necessary coffee r ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 22, 2015Neuroscience
Another myth busted by science. Most people have probably heard that different parts of the tongue can sense different t ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 02, 2015Neuroscience
When we watch television or use a computer, so much of what goes on in that machine is unseen. Tiny transistors, compute ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 29, 2015Neuroscience
The saying “You are what you eat” is proving pretty accurate in regards to diet and brain health. Two studie ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 25, 2015Neuroscience
A new study done at Sweden’s Lund University, which the researchers claimed to be “the most thorough and ext ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 08, 2015Neuroscience
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Germany’s Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim an ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 14, 2015Neuroscience
A potential marker for schizophrenia manifests itself in key brain areas well before the debilitating disease that affli ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 01, 2015Videos
A group of scientists from Harvard University recently reported in the journal Cell an interesting study on how neurons ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUL 07, 2015Neuroscience
What is it about our brain wiring that makes it easy to pick up a pen or remember the lyrics of a song, each at the appr ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 01, 2015Neuroscience
There are a few essential ways to understand the neural workings of the human brain. One is to painstakingly map the cir ...Written By: Will HectorAPR 17, 2015Neuroscience
Learning, it is widely believed, is based on changes in the connections between nerve cells. Knowing which nerve cells a ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 16, 2015Neuroscience
Neuroscientists at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered how the powerful brain hormone oxytocin acts on individual ...Written By: Will HectorAPR 13, 2015Neuroscience
By directly recording electrical activity from the human brain, neuroscientists at the Stanford University School of Med ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 13, 2015Neuroscience
Is visual input essential to how the topographical map of the visual cortex develops in the human brain?
In n ...Written By: Will HectorAPR 08, 2015Neuroscience
A color-coded flat map of 1,923 rat cortical association macroconnections ("Architecture of the cerebral cortical associ ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 27, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Using a novel approach that homes in on rare families severely affected by autism, a Johns Hopkins-led team of researche ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 25, 2015Technology
Typing text messages, scrolling web pages, and checking your email on your smartphone could be changing the way your thu ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 18, 2015Immunology
Rodents infected with a common parasite lose their fear of cats, resulting in easy meals for the felines. Now, Indiana U ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 16, 2015Neuroscience
Researchers at MIT have developed a method to stimulate brain tissue using external magnetic fields and injected magneti ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 14, 2015Neuroscience
If extroverts needed another reason to talk about their behavior, a study identifying two types of extroverts gives them ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 11, 2015Cell & Molecular Biology
The human connectome can be described as a map of the millions of connections between all of the neurons in the brain. M ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 10, 2015Neuroscience
Lindsay Borthwick, Yale
Thousands of genetic "dimmer" switches, regions of DNA known as regulatory elements, ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 09, 2015Neuroscience
Conventional wisdom suggests that part of the reason it can be difficult to make decisions is because of the number of c ...Written By: Jennifer Ellis
FEB 02, 2016
Neuroscience
Approximately 65 million people worldwide live with epilepsy, 3 million of those in the United States. Statistics from t
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 15, 2015
Neuroscience
Starting your day usually involves a pretty regular routine. A morning commute through traffic or the necessary coffee r
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 22, 2015
Neuroscience
Another myth busted by science. Most people have probably heard that different parts of the tongue can sense different t
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 02, 2015
Neuroscience
When we watch television or use a computer, so much of what goes on in that machine is unseen. Tiny transistors, compute
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 29, 2015
Neuroscience
The saying “You are what you eat” is proving pretty accurate in regards to diet and brain health. Two studie
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 25, 2015
Neuroscience
A new study done at Sweden’s Lund University, which the researchers claimed to be “the most thorough and ext
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 08, 2015
Neuroscience
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Germany’s Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim an
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 14, 2015
Neuroscience
A potential marker for schizophrenia manifests itself in key brain areas well before the debilitating disease that affli
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 01, 2015
Videos
A group of scientists from Harvard University recently reported in the journal Cell an interesting study on how neurons
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 07, 2015
Neuroscience
What is it about our brain wiring that makes it easy to pick up a pen or remember the lyrics of a song, each at the appr
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 01, 2015
Neuroscience
There are a few essential ways to understand the neural workings of the human brain. One is to painstakingly map the cir
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 17, 2015
Neuroscience
Learning, it is widely believed, is based on changes in the connections between nerve cells. Knowing which nerve cells a
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 16, 2015
Neuroscience
Neuroscientists at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered how the powerful brain hormone oxytocin acts on individual
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 13, 2015
Neuroscience
By directly recording electrical activity from the human brain, neuroscientists at the Stanford University School of Med
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 13, 2015
Neuroscience
Is visual input essential to how the topographical map of the visual cortex develops in the human brain?
In n ...
In n ...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 08, 2015
Neuroscience
A color-coded flat map of 1,923 rat cortical association macroconnections ("Architecture of the cerebral cortical associ
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 27, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Using a novel approach that homes in on rare families severely affected by autism, a Johns Hopkins-led team of researche
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 25, 2015
Technology
Typing text messages, scrolling web pages, and checking your email on your smartphone could be changing the way your thu
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 18, 2015
Immunology
Rodents infected with a common parasite lose their fear of cats, resulting in easy meals for the felines. Now, Indiana U
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 16, 2015
Neuroscience
Researchers at MIT have developed a method to stimulate brain tissue using external magnetic fields and injected magneti
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 14, 2015
Neuroscience
If extroverts needed another reason to talk about their behavior, a study identifying two types of extroverts gives them
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 11, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
The human connectome can be described as a map of the millions of connections between all of the neurons in the brain. M
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 10, 2015
Neuroscience
Lindsay Borthwick, Yale
Thousands of genetic "dimmer" switches, regions of DNA known as regulatory elements, ...
Thousands of genetic "dimmer" switches, regions of DNA known as regulatory elements, ...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 09, 2015
Neuroscience
Conventional wisdom suggests that part of the reason it can be difficult to make decisions is because of the number of c
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis