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 ...

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, ...

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

the strength to which activity between a pair of brain regions covaries or correlates over time. That is, if two brain regions are consistently active at the same time, they are said to be ...

This sacrificial dilemma is known as the trolley problem, a thought experiment dreamed up by philosopher Philippa Foot in 1967.Perhaps most widely known as a meme today, the trolley problem and its ...

The core team of Knowing Neurons comprises a group of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, who specialize in different areas of neuroscience.We discuss and edit all content on the site, write ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.