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You may think that a good night’s sleep should be uninterrupted. But in fact, the neurotransmitter noradrenaline causes you to wake up more than 100 times a night, new research from the University of Copenhagen concludes. It is perfectly normal and may even indicate that you have slept well. You wake up. The alarm clock […]

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The Johns Hopkins Medicine Brain Science Institute’s mission is to solve fundamental questions about brain development, function and disease and to translate this knowledge into effective therapies to support brain health and healing. Launched in 2007, the Brain Science Institute unified the tremendous thought leadership across the Johns Hopkins community in the brain sciences and […]

This network had mostly been studied in English speakers. The brain’s language processing network is mostly located in the left hemisphere. (Image credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT; iStock image) Japanese, Italian, Ukrainian, Swahili, Tagalog and dozens of other spoken languages cause the same “universal language network” to light up in the brains of native speakers. This […]

APPLY NOW FOR THE OPENSCOPE PROGRAM OpenScope opens the Allen Brain Observatory pipeline to the community, enabling theoretical, computational, and experimental scientists to test sophisticated hypotheses on brain function in a process analogous to astronomical observatories that survey the night sky. OpenScope is accepting experimental proposals from scientists outside the Allen Institute, which will be […]

Dear Colleague, This is our final call for applications for the 2022 Next Generation Leaders Council. The application deadline has been extended to August 1, 2022. This council is affiliated with the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, and the MindScope Program, the three neuroscience divisions within the Allen Institute. […]

Experiencing a frightening event is likely something you’ll never forget. But why does it stay with you when other kinds of occurrences become increasingly difficult to recall with the passage of time? A team of neuroscientists from the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering and Tufts University School of Medicine have been studying the […]

Summary: Researchers report they have identified the first natural light-gated potassium channel-rhodopsins. Source: Baylor College of Medicine A key approach to understanding the brain is to observe the behavioral effects of turning on specific populations of neurons. One of the most popular approaches to controlling neuronal activity in model systems is called optogenetics and depends […]

When food has been in short supply for a long time and body weight falls below a critical threshold, the brain reduces its energy consumption by changing how it processes information. When our phones and computers run out of power, their glowing screens go dark and they die a sort of digital death. But switch […]

Is your brain like a computer? An old-timey telephone switchboard? A dense urban landscape? These are all common analogies for the brain, but most who use them know they are wholly imperfect comparisons. We humans thrive on metaphor and succinct stories, but our brains themselves can’t be summed up so easily. Many fields of science […]

Dear Colleague, We are writing to remind you that applications for our 2022 Next Generation Leaders Council cohort are now open. This council is affiliated with the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, and the MindScope Program, the three neuroscience divisions within the Allen Institute. Comprised of early career investigators […]

Scientists have known for centuries that the brain is the seat of human thought, but we’re still in the dark about how it works. For Brain Awareness Week 2022, Lab Notes asked four neuroscientists to get into the weeds with us about why the brain is so complicated and hard to understand. Do we have […]

Source: Using an advanced microscopy technique, researchers discovered the role adhesion molecules play in guiding neurons into their correct location. Source: Yale In a new study, Yale researchers used an advanced microscopy technique that allowed them to follow a single neuron in the embryo of a worm as it found its neurological home. The research […]

Summary: Neuroimaging reveals surprisingly few links between white matter structure and reading ability in children. Source: MIT When we read, information zips between language processing centers in different parts of the brain, traveling along neural highways in the white matter. This coordinated activity allows us to decipher words and comprehend their meaning. Many neuroscientists suspect […]

The MindScope program at the Allen Institute seeks to understand the transformations, sometimes called computations, in coding and decoding that lead from photons to behavior and conscious experience by observing, perturbing and modeling the physical transformations of signals in the cortical-thalamic visual system within a few perception-action cycles. We generate data and discoveries through the […]

Some neurons in the brain become active specifically in addition tasks, others in subtraction. Credit: Christian Burkert/Volkswagen-Stiftung/University of Bonn The brain has neurons that fire specifically during certain mathematical operations. This is shown by a recent study conducted by the Universities of Tübingen and Bonn. The findings indicate that some of the neurons detected are […]

For neuroscientists who study our own brains, the quest to understand the human brain contains many paradoxes. We still don’t understand the features that give human brains their unique cognitive abilities. The human brain is larger compared to our body size than that of many other animals, but it’s nowhere near the largest brain out […]

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Like you may noticed, we are very far from knowing every functions from the brain(s). Our knowledge in neurology is far from being complete.

Summary: A new system within the brain uses for information processing and memory storage has been discovered. The findings provide novel insight into how the brain functions. Source: NYU A team of scientists has uncovered a system in the brain used in the processing of information and in the storing of memories—akin to how railroad […]

A new experiment probed how the human brain encodes and processes the flow of time. When we recall past events in our lives, we can often mentally replay an experience in the exact sequential order that it happened. Revisiting these episodic memories may feel like a seamless and ordinary activity, but the ability for our […]

A commonly held view is that when brain cells die, it is an irreversible, final state. Within less than 40 seconds of oxygen deprivation, the human brain’s interneuronal activity ceases and becomes electrically inactive. The brain’s ion gradients begin to degrade within minutes, as depolarization proliferates as a surge of electrochemical energy is released as […]

The more we will attract neurologists/cryonicists in Cryonics, the best we will be. Neurologists that believe in Cryonics.

The Brain Modeling Toolkit is a Python-based open software package for building, simulating, and analyzing large-scale neural network models. It supports the building and simulation of models at various scales. The Brain Modeling Toolkit is linked to SONATA, a standardized data format for storing networks and simulations. These software tools together support the development and […]

The human gut harbors a dynamic and complex microbial ecosystem, consisting of approximately 1 kg of bacteria in the average adult, approximately the weight of the human brain. The evolutionary formation of a complex gut microbiota in mammals has played an important role in enabling brain development and perhaps sophisticated social interaction. Genes within the […]

Summary: Study reports a pervasive neuromodulation system strongly influences sound processing in a key auditory region of the brain. Findings suggest acetylcholine may assist in the brain’s ability to distinguish speech from other noise. Source: Lehigh University For the first time, researchers have provided physiological evidence that a pervasive neuromodulation system – a group of […]

October 21, 2020 Cognitive neuroscientists have long debated about whether people have visual-like “pictures in the brain” that we activate when we think of them, or whether representations are more semantically organized in sets of features. So, for example, if asked to think of a blond person, will someone conjure in their “mind’s eye,” a […]

Through the NIH-funded 4D Nucleome program, new efforts are underway to model the nucleus in human stem cells and capture 3D genome organization in mouse and human brain cells New research is underway to better understand the nucleus, the control center of our cells. Teams from two divisions of the Allen Institute, the Allen Institute […]

Using a technique that simultaneously captures different kinds of features from each cell, researchers lay groundwork for a “family tree” of the brain. A technique that captures information about a neuron’s 3D shape, electrical properties, and its genes is giving scientists a new way to look at cell types in the mouse brain and the […]

Human brain maps are a dime a dozen these days. Maps that detail neurons in a certain region. Maps that draw out functional connections between those cells. Maps that dive deeper into gene expression. Or even meta-maps that combine all of the above. But have you ever wondered: how well do those maps represent my […]