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Recovering from traumatic brain and spinal cord injury: generation of new...
Caused by a damaging blow to the brain or spinal cord, traumatic injury to the central nervous system is - as the name suggests - a traumatic experience for individuals. Currently, there are 200,000...
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The Neuroscience Behind Your Mood: Neurotransmitter Switching in the Adult Brain
For many of us, our mood changes with the outside environment. When it rains, we tend to feel “sad”, and perhaps somewhat lonely. When it is sunny, we feel happier and more jubilant inside. Some people...
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Going back in time with the microRNA neural time machine: from old neurons to...
Ageing is an inevitable biological process. Unable to resist against the test of time, all normal cells will eventually cease reproduction and break down. In the past, age-related disorders were not...
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The nervous prostate cancer: from neuron to neoplasm
The nervous system is the control center for many of our daily activities. While we are the boss of many parts of the body, such as our legs, we have autopilots for essential functions such as...
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What do thoughts look like? A fireworks show of neurons in action
The human brain is composed of 86 billion cells ((Azevedo, Carvalho, Grinberg, Farfel, Ferreti, & Herculano-Houzel. (2009). Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an...
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The chicken or the egg question in a floppy infant syndrome: do motoneurons...
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? It is an old riddle that has puzzled countless generations. Yet, scientists are now faced with another similar dilemma in Spinal Muscular Atrophy: which came...
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How To Implant Truly False Memory
On July 26, 2013, the 341st volume of the world renowned journal Science delivered news that seemingly took the neuroscience field by storm. From page 387 to 391, Steve Ramirez and colleagues reported...
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