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

Bu etki, beyindeki difüzyon özelliklerini karakterize etmek için kullanılır ve bilim insanlarının beyaz madde yollarının, yani ‘iletişim otoyollarımızın’ nerede bulunduğunu belirlemesine olanak tanır: ...

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, ...

ECT, like any other treatment, has side effects, for which researchers have been and continue to investigate modifications to mitigate them. Modifications already implemented include muscle relaxants, ...

Imagine if scientists could control specific brain functions with the ease of flipping a switch. This vision is closer than ever, thanks to chemogenetics—a tool that allows scientists to precisely ...

The world around us is beyond complicated. One theory of how the brain deals with this complexity is by creating cognitive maps. In part one, we discussed the underlying ideas behind cognitive maps ...

By Megan (not that kind of MEG!) Hall. 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, ...

Alvi is a second-year undergraduate student at Baruch College with a biology major and math minor. He is interested in the hippocampus's role in cognitive dysfunction, such as in neurological and ...

By Keionna Newton. Dopamine.You’ve probably heard about it before in passing or perhaps you’ve seen it in the headlines. Perhaps you’ve seen people on social media using buzzwords like “dopamine ...

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 ...