Neuroscience Resources

AbstractThe optic nerve (ON) is an important organ in the visual system of animals, which transfers electrical impulses towards the brain from the retina. High enrichment of glial cel...

We knew correct posture was healthy, but a new study reveals that it can serve as a tool to improve symptoms of mild depression. Perhaps this could be the link we were missing to he...

Abstract Distributed memory research suggests that memories are not all located in the head but are spread across heterogeneous resources including bodily, social, and computational...

Light affects animal physiology and behavior more than simply through classical visual, image-forming pathways. Nonvisual photoreception regulates numerous biological systems, includi...

Discuss the association between sleep/circadian disruptions and severe mental health disorders (such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) and how this might have implicat...

Choose a form of plasticity that occurs at a particular synapse. Describe its properties. Give arguments for and against this synaptic plasticity representing the cellular subs...

A crucial step in the development of the vertebrate visual system is the branching of retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axons within their target, the superior colliculus/tectum. A major pl...

AbstractCreatine supplementation has been found to improve cognitive functioning (McMorris et al., 2007 Rae et al., 2003 Hammett, Wall, Edwards & Smith, 2010). Most of previous st...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition caused by multiple aetiologies that affects more than 130,000 people per year (Thuret et al., 2006). It usually has overwhelming ...

Parkinson's disease is primarily a movement disorder with predilection for the nigral dopaminergic neurons and is often associated with widespread neurodegeneration and diffuse Lewy b...