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 ...

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 ...

Written and Illustrated by Vidya Saravanapandian Edited by Gil Torten, Katie Cooke, and Mary Bullock… Read more ...

Divi is a high school student entering her Junior year. She always found an interest in science and art, and loves to find ways to bridge the two. In her free time, you can catch her reading, crafting ...

An infographic on chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Gil Torten is currently in his 2nd year of his Ph.D. at UCLA. His research is particularly interested in vision, specifically in the maintenance and ...

Other researchers have used this technique to examine the effects of different drugs, such as opioids, on brain regions involved in substance use disorders. One study from the lab of Dr. Marvin Diaz ...

The principle of electrophysiology is to study communication via electrical activity in tissues and organs within our body (such as muscles and brain). To better understand that communication, ...

While being chased by these monsters, a glimmer of hope arises from their slow and disjointed movement. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter responsible for many functions in the brain, including reward, ...

Think humans have the best brains? Think again! Explore how other animals have adapted to their environments in this series of infographics by Kayleen Schreiber of the Knowing Neurons team about Weird ...

Several steps are involved in any GWAS experiment (Uffelmann et al., 2021). First, the scientists need to collect DNA and phenotypic information from a group of individuals, noting their disease ...

Artículo original: PET Imaging: The Real Positronic Brain?, Joel Frohlich Traducido por Dalí Jiménez ~~~ En la colección de relatos cortos llamada I, Robot (Yo, Robot), escrita por Isaac Asimov en ...