Calretinin (CALB2) is a calcium-binding protein found in particular nerve cells in the brain and nervous system....
Neuroscience
Neuroscience investigates how the brain and nervous system shape human experience. Explore the discoveries and changing theories that transformed scientific understanding of the mind and body.
Intelligence is best understood not as a fixed or isolated attribute but as a complex, evolving concept...
As neuroscience advances, the temptation will be to see each new map as definitive. Yet history counsels...
The ancient study of the brain was never purely scientific nor purely mystical. It arose from the...
Whether this technology remains a specialized medical tool or evolves into a broader social force will depend...
The earliest reference to the brain occurs in an ancient Egyptian papyrus. Introduction From the ancient Egyptian mummifications to 18th-century...
In antiquity, the search for knowledge of the brain anatomy was marked by several protagonists. By Dr....
Whether this controversial 1 billion-euro project achieved its aims is unclear. Introduction Recent years have seen both...
The magical moment when early brain pioneer Santiago Ramón y Cajal saw a brain cell for the...
Sometimes, your brain fails to keep up with the times. It can be very frustrating when you...
Exploring the ‘half-second delay’ between the reception of sensory material and conscious interpretation of it. By Dr....
One day we will have a science of consciousness, but it won’t be science as we know...
Exploring how neurologists and neuroscientists study and view the conscious mind. A Presentation by Closer to TruthYouTube...
Minimal unifying models characterize widely accepted, necessary properties of most conscious experiences. By Dr. Wanja WieseInstitute for...
Relativity by M.C. Escher, 1953 / Wikimedia Commons One of the most remarkable human capacities is to...
MIT neuroscientists have found evidence that the brain’s ability to control what it’s thinking about relies on...
Image: Chelsea Turner/MIT Study identifies neurons that fire at the beginning and end of a behavior as...
Photo by ores2k, Creative Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Introduction to Memory...
As many as 70 million Americans may not be getting enough sleep. Men get fewer hours of...
You heard it say what? Roman Stetsyk/Shutterstock.com Where you come down on the latest internet hullabaloo depends on...
Photo by stephentrepreneur, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Patrick McNamara / 03.09.2018 Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry Boston University...
MIT graduate student Hilary Richardson helps a child into an MRI scanner for a study of how...
Image via Corfina Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.09.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Introduction to...
Image from Life Science Databases via Wikimedia Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.06.2018 Historian Brewminate...
Image from event-horizon / Creative Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.25.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 –...
“I am fascinated by how people work, why we do what we do, and why we think...
The image shows the locus coeruleus, which drives neuronal circuits of the hippocampus and enables novel contextual...
All too much; Ikea shoppers overwhelmed in the showroom, 6 July 2014, Beijing, China. Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty...
By Dr. Christina Karns / 12.19.2017 Associate Researcher Brain Development Lab University of Oregon When you think...
Photo from Flickr, Creative Commons By Dr. Mark English / 11.26.2017 The neurologist treating my mother’s Parkinson’s...