Postdoc position in the Visual Perception and Plasticity (VPP) lab at Georgetown University https://apply.interfolio.com/166277 #neuroplasticity, #brain #plasticity #neuroscience

Study links a child's early #social environment to the development of the #brain

#cognition #anthropology #lifehistory

https://www.science.org/content/article/early-experiences-shape-brain-s-communication-superhighways-affect-cognition

If you made a list of things that could advance the field of science, having a mouse watch “The Matrix” and “Star Wars” probably wouldn’t make it to the top. And yet, scientists recently were able to map and render into a 3D atlas a small portion of a mouse’s brain about the size of a grain of sand. The results were a revelation. “"A millimeter seems small, but within that millimeter there are kilometers of wiring," Jacob Reimer, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine said. Read more from @LiveScience, including the role those movies played:

https://flip.it/4uh0Lh

"They managed to do something that we haven’t done as a neuroscience community in basically all of our history, which is to be able to map the activity of neurons onto the wiring on a very large population of neurons."

Miryam Naddaf on high-resolution 3D map of more than 200,000 brain cells, 500 million synapses and 4km of neuronal wiring:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/biggest-brain-map-ever-shows-mouse-neurons-in-stunning-detail

I started researching this topic with unbridled (and apparently unfounded) optimism, hoping to highlight an example of a public health problem that we handled so well. Instead, I found a bit of a mixed bag: we made quite a bit of progress in handling lead pollution and still managed to fall short.

https://neurofrontiers.blog/why-lead-is-still-bad-for-your-brain/

This isn't a galaxy — it's a map of a mouse's brain
Scientists created a map of a mouse's brain while it watched clips of The Matrix. They say this research is a step toward discovering how human brains work.
#science #research #brain #technology #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/mouse-brain-map-1.7506699?cmp=rss

Exciting #research! "Human #brain #cells engineered to #evade #detection by the #immune #system are a step towards development of a ‘universal’ cell line that can be transplanted into anyone, to cure a raft of diseases without the need for anti-rejection drugs." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01080-5

https://www.europesays.com/uk/8703/ Neurologist Shares His Grocery List: Foods for Better Brain Health #BetterBrainHealth #brain #Food #GoodSource #GroceryList #GroceryStore #Health #HealthyFat #lord #meal #Nutrition #OliveOil #Research #risk #sauce #snack #sugar #UK #UnitedKingdom

Memory manipulation is the stuff of sci-fi. Someday it could be real.

From Science News: "Scientists are experimenting with strengthening or weakening memories."

Registration may be required: https://flip.it/v8QwAD

Mouse watches The Matrix, scientists map brain that looks like a ‘galaxy’
Thanks to a mouse watching clips from The Matrix, scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date, a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons.
#science #technology #brain #movie #Health #Mouse
https://globalnews.ca/news/11124950/mouse-watching-the-matrix-scientists-map-galaxy-brain/

200,000 brain cells in a volume of 1 cubic mm.

"Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a cubic millimetre of a mouse’s brain tissue. In a landmark achievement, the diagram also details the activity of individual neurons on a large scale ― a neuroscience first."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01088-x

Brainpower boosted by tapping out a specific rhythm, study finds

https://newatlas.com/learning-memory/tapping-finger-hearing-comprehension/

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The neurobiology of trauma: How childhood adversity alters brain development

https://www.psypost.org/the-neurobiology-of-trauma-how-childhood-adversity-alters-brain-development/

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Micromovements Reveal Hidden Emotional Cues in Autism

https://neurosciencenews.com/micromovement-emotion-asd-28575/

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I want to read the #book The #Ideological #Brain, by #neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod: https://tinyurl.com/2nxpbjkv. Here's an interview of her by The New York Times: https://tinyurl.com/4wc6xdyc

Blood tests are being heralded as a new, less invasive and time-consuming way to determine risk and aid in an earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer’s.

@CNN reports on the latest research: https://flip.it/1tupOT

It's all about balance: According to a study by #CharitéBerlin & @bih_charite, the #brain can only function optimally if the neurons work together in a way that is neither too orderly nor too disorderly. Read more in our Paper spotlight:

https://www.charite.de/en/research/paper_spotlight/new_findings_on_the_functioning_of_brain_networks

#research #studies show that we only use #ten #percent of our #brain #capacity. #imagine of we bumped it up to say, 25 percent.

Some people don't have an inner voice — and the idea is so new that a clinical name, anendophasia, was only proposed for it in a paper last year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/05/world/science-health/no-inner-monologue-study/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #brain #psychology #language