The UNC School of Medicine lab of Zoe McElligott, PhD, found that alcohol consumption is…
Browsing: Neuroscience
Neuroscience is the multidisciplinary study of the brain, spinal cord, and nervous system—exploring how billions of neurons interact to produce thoughts, emotions, memories, and behaviors. It bridges biology, psychology, physics, and computer science to uncover the mechanisms behind cognition, perception, and consciousness. From mapping brain circuits to understanding neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, neuroscience seeks to explain how neural activity gives rise to mind and behavior. Advances in neuroimaging, genetics, and artificial intelligence are revolutionizing this field, leading to breakthroughs in mental health, brain–computer interfaces, and the treatment of neurological disorders.
Brain imaging of veterans with Gulf War illness show varying abnormalities after moderate exercise that…
Scarring in their brain’s white matter does more harm than previously thought. It’s quite possible…
University of Maryland researchers showed sight deprivation changes how groups of neurons work together and…
Study shows that people can boost attention by manipulating their own alpha brain waves. Having…
Researchers studying the brain found that women taking oral contraceptives, commonly known as birth control…
More research into suicide needed ‘urgently,’ say international team. An international team of researchers has…
Lighting the Way: A new method to detect light in the brain sets the stage…
A new miniature NMR implant measures neuronal activity. A team of neuroscientists and electrical engineers…
Why do we freeze when startled? New study in flies points to serotonin. Columbia researchers…
How mantis shrimp make sense of the world: Researchers traced neural connections in a newly…
Do bad dreams serve a real purpose? To answer this question, researchers from the University…
Ayahuasca Compound Changes Brainwaves to Vivid ‘Waking-Dream’ State Scientists have peered inside the brain to…
The brain cortex, the outside layer of our brain often referred to as grey matter,…
Researchers studying six adults who had one of their brain hemispheres removed during childhood to…
When mice learn to do a new task, their brain activities change over time as…
Findings link healthy sleep to brain-wave bursts that mathematically mimic earthquakes. New research in rats…
Researchers from Russian corporation Neurobotics and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have found…