Mitochondrial Map Helps Detail Hearing Circuits

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Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience and University of Iowa The ability to hear relies on neurons to constantly transmit information at very rapid timescales. This rapid rate of information transmission results in intense energetic demands. Within our cells, microscopic power plants called mitochondria provide the main source […]

ISG’s £282m UCL neuroscience facility approved

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University College London has been granted planning permission for a new £281.6m neuroscience building, which will be delivered by ISG. The UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and UK Dementia Research Institute was approved by Camden Council last week and is due to be completed by 2024. It is […]

Amos versatility is just what the doctor ordered for Wales

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1 1 Hallam Amos will start on the wing for Wales (Adam Davy/PA) Hallam Amos has a neuroscience degree and he could be a junior doctor in three years’ time – but his immediate aim is prescribing World Cup success for Wales. And the Cardiff Blues back might have […]

Amos versatility is just what the doctor ordered for Wales

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Hallam Amos will start on the wing for Wales Hallam Amos has a neuroscience degree and he could be a junior doctor in three years’ time – but his immediate aim is prescribing World Cup success for Wales. And the Cardiff Blues back might have a double role to […]

Does Neuroscience Disprove Free Will?

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The idea that neuroscience disproves the existence of free will is prevalent in popular culture. At this point, it’s old news, something that you might hear in passing at a cocktail party or on a talk show. But has it? A closer examination of the literature shows that (1) […]

Amos versatility is just what the doctor ordered for Wales

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Hallam Amos will start on the wing for Wales (Adam Davy/PA) Hallam Amos has a neuroscience degree and he could be a junior doctor in three years’ time – but his immediate aim is prescribing World Cup success for Wales. And the Cardiff Blues back might have a double […]

New book​ explains how neuroscience can help us unstick our life and work

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Now I’m a bit of a book geek. Every time another one drops through the letterbox in its telltale brown cardboard packaging, my husband rolls his eyes, in a ‘how many more’ kinda way. I must agree that I have enough to keep me going for quite some time, […]

Tau-mediated RNA splicing errors linked to Alzheimer’s

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A sculpture of a cross-section of the human brain. Dr. Joshua Shulman, associate professor of neurology, neuroscience and molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine and investigator at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital. A collaborative study published today in the […]

Neuroscience startup NeuroLeap raises funding from Rajashree Birla, Sminu Jindal

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Photo Credit: Pixabay NeuroLeap, a brain enhancement and mental health startup based in Mumbai, has raised funding from philanthropist Rajashree Birla and Jindal SAW Ltd managing director Sminu Jindal. The startup said in a statement that the investments by Birla, the chairperson of the Aditya Birla Centre for community […]

Weekly pick of Neuroscience news from around the world

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Researchers based in Scotland have revealed details of their work towards a blood test that could be helpful in detecting brain tumours. Details of their study were published in the journal Nature Communications . The research team used infrared light to create a ‘bio-signature’ of people’s blood samples and […]