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RT @PennStateBBH: Make 2023 the year you learn more about the brain! Marc Dingman, #PSUBBH Associate Teaching…
Book giveaway!! I'll be giving away a copy of my new book, Bizarre, on here every day this week (M-F). For a…
Advance copies are in, and publication date is less than 3 weeks away (2/7)!! Read the intro and first chapter…
Some cool neuro games if any instructors are looking for new things to do with your classes this fall…
It has been a little more than 2.5 years since Your Brain, Explained was published, and over that time it has…
COVID-19 is associated with a variety of neurological symptoms, but how does SARS-CoV-2 affect the brain? I cover…
2-Minute Neuroscience: COVID-19 & the brain
COVID-19 is associated with a wide range of neurological symptoms. In this video, I discuss current hypotheses that attempt to explain how SARS-CoV-2 (the…
The sodium-potassium pump sounds boring, but if it doesn't work right then neither do your neurons
Know Your Brain: Sodium-Potassium Pump
The sodium-potassium pump (also known as the Na+/K+ pump or Na+/K+-ATPase) is a protein pump found in the cell membrane of neurons (and other…
Know your brain: Hypothalamus
There are about 86 billion neurons in your brain, and they form hundreds of trillions of connections with one…
Know Your Brain
Explore the anatomy and cells behind the stories.
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…