Medications including clomipramine and a veterinary version of Prozac known as fluoxetine have since been successfully prescribed to manage symptoms of PTSD and anxiety in canines (Chutter et al., ...

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 ...

By Tony Nguyen 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, ...

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

Lauren Wagner Lauren Wagner is a PhD candidate studying Neuroscience at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she uses magnetic resonance imaging and behavior to understand the neural bases ...

By Shiri Spitz SiddiqiThis 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 ...

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 ...

Kate graduated from Scripps College in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Neuroscience, completing the cellular and molecular track with honors. As an undergraduate, she studied long-term ...

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 ...

Weight trainers often espouse the “mind-muscle connection”. But what actually happens to the brain during strength training? Surprisingly, even a few weeks of weight training alter the nervous system, ...