Research Iron & the brain: Where and when neurodevelopmental disabilities may begin during pregnancy By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Mar. 6, 2023 The cells that make up the human brain begin developing long before the physical shape of the brain has formed. This early organizing of a network of cells plays a major role in brain health ...
Research Through the eye of the beholder: People with autism may process illusory shapes differently By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Feb. 28, 2023 Researchers are finding the process in our brain that allows us to see these visual distinctions may not be happening the same way in the brains of children with autism spectrum disorder. They may be ...
Research Small, involuntary eye movements help us see a stable world By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Feb. 24, 2023 Involuntary, fixational eye movements play a bigger role in vision than researchers previously thought.
Research Can hearing loss be reversed? Research reveals clues that could regrow the cells that help us hear By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Feb. 13, 2023 The most common cause of hearing loss is progressive because these hair cells—the primary cells to detect sound waves—cannot regenerate if damaged or lost. Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for ...
Research Wiggles & wings: The model systems transforming neuroscience By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jan. 27, 2023 Genetic model organisms are truly invaluable to the field of neuroscience. Many of the discoveries made using C. elegans and Drosophila apply throughout the animal kingdom, and this research has led ...
People Student Spotlight: Johanna Fritzinger By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jan. 27, 2023 Johanna Fritzinger is a fourth-year Neuroscience graduate student at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Fritzinger graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a BS in Electrical ...
People Faculty Q&A – Peter Shrager, PhD By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jan. 27, 2023 Peter Shrager, PhD, is a professor of Neuroscience and of Pharmacology & Physiology at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC). In 1971, Shrager came to URMC to work in what was then the ...
Research Researchers identify neurons that "learn" to smell a threat By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jan. 24, 2023 Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience have found new clues to how the olfactory sensory system aids in threat assessment and have found neurons that “learn” if a smell is a threat. ...
Research NINDS Delegation Tours Neurology Research and Education Programs in Zambia By Mark Michaud Jan. 18, 2023 U.S. and Zambian researchers and clinicians have building a decades-long partnership to address he neurological burden of diseases like cerebral malaria, HIV, and stroke in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Research Newly Discovered Anatomy Shields and Monitors Brain By Mark Michaud Jan. 5, 2023 The previously unknown component of brain anatomy, described in the journal Science, acts as both a protective barrier and platform from which immune cells scan the brain for infection and ...