When we think of animals that have advanced our understanding of the brain, a few usual suspects might come to mind: rats, mice, maybe even monkeys. But what if I told you that some of the most ...
It’s easy to figure out what your brain looks like, but what is it actually doing? What does your brain’s activity look like? While we have many tools, like MRI, to understand brain structure, ...
Functional and stereotactic neurosurgery is one of the many subspecialties of modern neurosurgery, which also includes neuro-oncology, skull base, spine, and endovascular subspecialties. Unlike the ...
One common recommendation made to patients who have suffered a concussion is to “shut the brain off” so it can heal, by limiting physical and cognitive activities. Similar to using crutches to avoid ...
Wir streben an Neurowissenschaften für alle zugänglich zu machen, die sich für das Gehirn interessieren. Hier kannst du anhand von Beiträgen, Infografiken, Interviews und vielem mehr in die Welt des ...
A menudo, cuando hablamos de prácticas médicas del pasado, lo hacemos con cierto nivel de desprecio, horror y repugnancia. Estas reacciones no son irracionales cuando se piensa en cosas como las ...
Maxemiliano Vargas y sus colegas de la UC Davis y el Medical College of Wisconsin publicaron recientemente un artículo en el que describen algunas de las formas interesantes en que los psicodélicos ...
Neurodegenerative disease where dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra deteriorate. Symptoms involve resting tremor, slowness of movement, shuffling gait, rigidity. Kate graduated from Scripps ...
Areas of the central nervous system that consist primarily of glial cells and myelinated axons, which gives the tissue a white coloring. Compare to grey matter. Kate graduated from Scripps College in ...