Brain Basics
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Q&A About the BrainHow Does Exercise Affect the Brain?
Not only is exercise good for your muscles and bones, but it is also an important part of keeping your brain healthy.
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Q&A About the Brain
How Does the Brain Work?
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Fact SheetsGenetics
Nature and Nurture
A Dynamic InterplayBrain basics fact sheet on genetics
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Fact Sheets
Right Brain, Left Brain: A Misnomer
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Fact SheetsNeuroanatomy: The Basics
The brain and nervous system are a network of many specialized parts.
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Q&A About the Brain
How Does the Brain Develop?
Neuro News
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Scientist Q&AUnderstanding the Gut-Brain Connection
“It’s fascinating to me that the gut, literally, has a sweet tooth,” says Dana grantee Diego Bohórquez, Ph.D.
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Neuroethics ViewpointThe Marijuana Debate
There has been a huge increase in legalization and use of cannabis (marijuana) in recent years. Each step raises ethical issues for health care providers, patients, and government officials. Column by Philip M. Boffey
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NeuroethicsRedefining Death
Can brain cells be revived after death? Conventional wisdom says cells die quickly when deprived of oxygen, but researchers recently sparked cellular activity in brains of pigs killed hours earlier, raising new questions about our definitions of death.
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Adjusting Sleep Schedules for School
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BriefingsAlcohol and the Brain
A recent study throws water on the popular idea that a few drinks a week can’t hurt and might help your brain.
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Neuroethics
fMRI: Still Not a Mind Reader
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What Does it Mean When What Looks Like Alzheimer’s isn’t Alzheimer’s?
People with LATE have symptoms that match Alzheimer’s, but their brains do not show Alzheimer’s hallmarks.
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Sound Effects: The Link Between Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline
Q&A with Jonathan Peelle, Ph.D.
Cerebrum
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Podcast with Howard Hurtig, author of The Many Faces of Parkinson’s Disease
We chat with the founder of the of the Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center at the University of Pennsylvania and former chair of n...
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Rethinking Youth Sports
By Michael L. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.R.
Attitudes toward concussion and “collision sports” have changed dramatically in recent decades, but how have our understanding of head trauma and its adverse effects actually evolved? Can our expanding knowledge spell out a viable path forward?
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The Many Faces of Parkinson’s Disease
By Sarah Horn, M.D., and Howard Hurtig, M.D.
The more we know about PD’s non-motor symptoms—depression, dementia, fatigue, and others—the better we can treat, and perhaps find a cure, for this neurological disorder.
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Podcast with Susan Magsamen, author of Your Aesthetic Brain: A Growing Case for the Arts
On research aimed at the intersection of brain sciences and the arts—and how our response to aesthetic experience can amplify human potential.
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Your Aesthetic Brain: A Growing Case for the Arts
By Susan Magsamen
Neuroaesthetics is a rapidly expanding field of research that is aimed at the intersection of psychological aesthetics, biological mechanisms, and evolution.
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Mind Over Matter: Cognitive Neuroengineering
By Karen Moxon, Ph.D., Ignacio Saez, Ph.D., and Jochen Ditterich, Ph.D.
Brain-machine interface—once the stuff of science fiction novels—is coming to a computer near you. The only question is: How soon?
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Podcast with Karen Moxon, author of Mind Over Matter: Cognitive Neuroengineering
On the future of machine-brain interface, and the emerging technology’s privacy and other ethical concerns.
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Multicosts of Multitasking
By Kevin P. Madore, Ph.D., and Anthony D. Wagner, Ph.D.
Our authors provide the latest research on what happens to the brain when you try to handle more than one task at a time.
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