Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flows through your central nervous system, serving multiple roles: it protects your brain, takes out the cellular trash, and even ...

The Neuroscience of Reciprocity, we explored how altruistic behavior activates the brain’s reward system. In this continuation, we shift our focus to fairness and trust— deeply ingrained instincts ...

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

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, immune cells ...

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 ...

In conclusion, MEG is a neuroimaging technology widely used in research and for presurgical evaluations due to the detailed information it can provide, but is not used outside of these circumstances ...

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 ...

Check out this infographic describing the Golgi Complex and it's role in the brain!

Johanna Mayer will take you around the cell, from the endoplasmic reticulum to the golgi complex. Each infographic will cover a different organelle! Johanna Mayer is a PhD student at Karolinska ...

A Journey through the History of Psychiatry By Daniel Janko Have you ever pondered the journey leading to our contemporary comprehension and management of psychiatric disorders? If so, consider adding ...