Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flows through your central nervous system, serving multiple roles: it protects your brain, takes out the cellular trash, and even ...

Bu fikir sinirbilim alanında nispeten yeni olsa da, “son giren ilk çıkar” örüntüsü uzun süredir var olan bir biyolojik teoriyi temsil eder. 1881’de Fransız psikolog Théodule-Armand Ribot, retrograd ...

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 ...

Every fortress needs watchmen, sentinels who don’t just sound the alarm, but sense when danger is approaching. For decades, we believed the brain’s sentinels were microglia alone, immune cells ...

The world around us is beyond complicated. One theory of how the brain deals with this complexity is by creating cognitive maps. In part one, we discussed the underlying ideas behind cognitive maps ...

By Keionna NewtonBy 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 ...

Check out this infographic describing the Golgi Complex and it's role in the brain!

Divi is a high school student entering her Junior year. She always found an interest in science and art, and loves to find ways to bridge the two. In her free time, you can catch her reading, crafting ...

Drunken Frankenstein: How Neuroscientists Use Electrodes to Study the Effects of Alcohol on Living Brain Tissue By Stacy Pitcairn Neuroscience labs don’t often look like mad science labs. Typically, ...