Neuroscience made simpler.
The brain, explained — reference entries and stories, written and reviewed by people who study it.
Look from one eye to the other in a mirror and the jump goes missing, an observation first described in 1898, and the accounts of what gets suppressed have since…
Twelve short lessons that start where you do — with what you see, feel, remember and forget — and show you the brain behind it. No background needed.
Explore the structures of the brain, one entry at a time.
Most of what we “know” about Phineas Gage was written after he died. The real story says more about how people recover from brain injuries.
Glial Cells
For much of the history of neuroscience, glial cells were treated like…
Sodium-Potassium Pump
The sodium-potassium pump (also known as the Na+/K+ pump or Na+/K+-ATPase) is…
In 17 volunteers, the size of the brain's response to each heartbeat before a faint grating appeared predicted whether they reported seeing it.
Conflict days still came with worse mood, hug or no hug. The study, built on calls made years earlier for two cold-virus experiments, could…
In a lab study of couples, women's average pain score from a heated probe was 52 with their partners in the next room and…
