A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of ...
The rhythm of an infant's brain activity seems to put them in constant learning mode, whereas that of an adult may allow them ...
Negative differential resistance, sometimes called negative dynamic resistance (NDR), occurs when an increase in voltage ...
Research indicates that men and women experience pain differently due to biological, hormonal, and neurological variations.
The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of ...
In Alzheimer’s disease, Hameroff says, scientists don’t know whether the microtubules disintegrate and release the tau or whether the tau falls off because of a malfunction that weakens the bond. The ...
Researchers at Lehigh University have received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to explore how ...
How do brains turn environmental inputs into motor outputs? This question, known as the “black box” problem, has left ...
Scientists have discovered that early smell loss in Alzheimer’s is caused by the brain’s immune system mistakenly destroying nerve fibers between the locus coeruleus and the olfactory bulb. The ...
With overlapping focuses on Biological Chemistry, Chemical Biology, and Molecular Pharmacology, our research group takes the reductionist approach when dissecting biological processes at the ...
Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons ...