Summary: Fermented foods such as kimchi and kombucha contain amino acids which are key to the production of serotonin and consuming these foods can have a positive impact on mood…
Category: Neuroscience
In Sync Brainwaves Predict Learning
Summary: Students have better learning outcomes when their brains are in sync with their fellow students and teachers, researchers discovered. Source: NYU Students whose brainwaves are more in sync with…
Father’s Alcohol Consumption Before Conception Linked to Brain and Facial Defects in Offspring
Summary: Researchers report paternal alcohol exposure prior to conception is associated with an increased risk of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and facial growth defects in their offspring. Source: Texas A&M…
How Creativity Is Possible Despite Frustration
Summary: People can unlock their creative potential and enhance their creativity by embracing frustration and using it as a tool to inspire new methods and ideas. Source: Jacobs University In…
Impaired Autophagic-Lysosomal Fusion in Parkinson’s Patient Midbrain Neurons Occurs through Loss of ykt6 and Is Rescued by Farnesyltransferase Inhibition
Abstract Macroautophagy is a catabolic process that coordinates with lysosomes to degrade aggregation-prone proteins and damaged organelles. Loss of macroautophagy preferentially affects neuron viability and is associated with age-related neurodegeneration.…
A Novel CCK Receptor GPR173 Mediates Potentiation of GABAergic Inhibition
Introduction Cholecystokinin (CCK), the most abundant and widely distributed neuropeptide in the CNS (Crawley and Corwin, 1994), colocalizes with glutamate (Morino et al., 1994), GABA (Somogyi et al., 1984; Markram…
Neural Substrates of Body Ownership and Agency during Voluntary Movement
Abstract Body ownership and the sense of agency are two central aspects of bodily self-consciousness. While multiple neuroimaging studies have investigated the neural correlates of body ownership and agency separately,…
Severely Attenuated Visual Feedback Processing in Children on the Autism Spectrum
Introduction Individuals on the autism spectrum demonstrate atypicality in sensory processing across multiple domains. Given that efficient integration of basic sensory information forms a foundation for more complex cognition and…
Sensory and Choice Responses in MT Distinct from Motion Encoding
Introduction Primate middle temporal (MT) area plays a critical role in the perception of visual motion. A long line of study has established that MT’s encoding of motion direction is…
