Arielle Hogan received a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in French from the University of Virginia. She is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in the NSIDP program at UCLA. Her research focuses on CNS ...

Kate graduated from Scripps College in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Neuroscience, completing the cellular and molecular track with honors. As an undergraduate, she studied long-term ...

A neurodegenerative disease characterized by neuronal loss in brain areas like the hippocampus. The loss of neurons is associated with symptoms of dementia. Kate graduated from Scripps College in 2009 ...

One fascinating thing about neuroscience is that it is so interdisciplinary, inspiration can come from anywhere. Today’s story is one such example of the interdisciplinarity of the field; it is about ...

Arielle Hogan received a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in French from the University of Virginia. She is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in the NSIDP program at UCLA. Her research focuses on CNS ...

Neurodegenerative disease where dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra deteriorate. Symptoms involve resting tremor, slowness of movement, shuffling gait, rigidity. Kate graduated from Scripps ...

Your peripheral nervous system (PNS) is one of two main parts of your body’s nervous system. Your PNS feeds information into your brain from most of your senses. It carries signals that allow you to ...

Areas of the central nervous system that consist primarily of glial cells and myelinated axons, which gives the tissue a white coloring. Compare to grey matter. Kate graduated from Scripps College in ...

One of the processes that help with the adaptation is called remapping… the brain reevaluates what is the most important and informative landmark in the environment and builds its navigation system ...

A barrier between the brain itself and the blood supply of the brain, which prevents most substances from moving from the blood to brain tissue. Substances like glucose that are important to brain ...