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Most Popular Of Computers and Brains Earlier this summer [1] , Gary Marcus – a New York University professor of neural science and psychology – wrote a very influential piece for the New York Times called Face It, Your
Neuroscience Decisions, Decisions… How did you get here? Every person who is reading this article made a different set of decisions that led them to this point in time. The path of cumulative
Neuroscience Alien Hand Syndrome It’s a disorder that makes you fling your cereal away, undress yourself in public, steal merchandise, and even look dangerous to the rest of the world. For over five
Neuroscience Grey Matters’ Clothing & Food Drive Donation collection: December 1st and the 3rd-5th from noon to 3:00 p.m. in Red Square. Look for the Grey Matters table. The time of winter is fast approaching,
Neuroscience SfN 2014’s Dialogues Between Neuroscience and Society Presentation With the holidays approaching, homes will soon be filled with foods to fit the season. The smells and tastes of traditional holiday cuisines have the power to conjure up memories
Featured Article Attention: How a Possible Function of SSRIs Could Be Staring Us in the Face When TV commercials sing the famous jingle, “Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea,” Pepto Bismol fans rejoice. There’s an appreciation out there when multiple problems have a single solution.
Featured Article Food for Thought: How Your Brain Controls What You Eat One of the most frequent decisions we make is what to eat, but just because it’s a common task doesn’t mean it’s a simple one—at least
Featured Article Tapeworms on the Brain For most people, the mere thought of a parasite setting up residence in their tissues is enough to induce a serious case of the creeps. There is something particularly horrifying
Neuroscience Grey Matters Welcome Meeting Grey Matters Journal is having a welcome party meeting. Come learn more about the journal, our work, and how you can get involved. We will meet Thursday, October 2 at 6:30 p.m. in Allen Library . Food and prizes to accompany brain geekery.
Featured Article Know Your Claustrum! Figure 1 A general schematic of the claustrum, as shown in the Crick and Koch paper “What is the function of the claustrum?” It seems like consciousness is always on
Neuroscience Spring Quarter Welcome Meeting Hello Neuroscience Enthusiasts, Spring is here! Let’s celebrate the sunshine and cherry blossoms by geeking out about the brain. Grey Matters is an undergraduate neuroscience journal whose mission is to enhance public understanding, grow the neuroscience community, and develop accomplished science communicators. You
Featured Article Love Actually (it’s neuroscience) Love is an insane neurochemical flood. For those of us lucky enough to have experienced it, this comes as no surprise. A wide variety of neurochemicals have been implicated in
Neuroscience SfN Day 4 | Mechanisms of Adult Neuroplasticity Image Credit: Tamily Weissman, Harvard Those who have been reading carefully these past few days may have noticed the emergence of a theme in my reports. After starting with the way the tissue in the midbrain responds to changes in cellular and molecular signals
Featured Article SfN Day 3 | Dr. Jeff Lichtman’s Presidential Lecture on Connectomics It is clear that not all wiring in our nervous system is genetic. People are not born with the capacity to cook a soufflé, play the piano, or ride a
Featured Article SfN, Day 2 Today’s topic of interest was Learning and Memory – particularly the ways in which memories are stored. For many years it was commonly accepted that a memory was physically represented
Issue 1 A Short History of Mind Control Image Copyright 2013 R.P.N. Rao and A. Stocco Research on remotely controlling the brain has been going on for awhile now, and has recently advanced to staggering heights. In 2002, a team at State University of New York implanted stimulating electrodes into
Issue 1 More Modularity Although it does not hold true for all circumstances, the theory of a brain that exhibits modular localization of functions has been demonstrated in many studies. MRI and PET imaging techniques have been used to identify patterns in how the brain responds to behavior,
Neuroscience Research Brief: The Bosma Lab The Bosma Lab focuses primarily on characterizing electrical events in the developing brainstem (specifically the hindbrain and midbrain), using the mouse as a model. With help from a fluorescent dye that binds to calcium (an ion implicated in neuronal firing), spontaneous, synchronized events can
