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Neuroscience News & Research

Neuroscience News & Research

An Introduction to Five Psychedelics: Psilocybin, DMT, LSD, MDMA and Ketamine

An Introduction to Five Psychedelics: Psilocybin, DMT, LSD, MDMA and Ketamine

Interest in the therapeutic potential of psychedelics, having lain relatively dormant in the face of stigma and heavy regulations for decades, has reignited in the last ten years. Landmark studies showing these compounds’ effectiveness in treating some mood disorders have kickstarted a wave of clinical research, with well over 100 separate trials now investigating psychedelics’ health applications.

Why the Meat Paradox Causes Cognitive Dissonance for Millions of People

Why the Meat Paradox Causes Cognitive Dissonance for Millions of People

A recent review paper has revealed the reasons behind a piece of cognitive dissonance that many of us perform daily, called the meat paradox. At the heart of the paradox is this conflict: most of us like animals, but will happily eat animals housed in cruel conditions.

Magic Mushroom Compound Reduces Excessive Drinking in Rat Study

Magic Mushroom Compound Reduces Excessive Drinking in Rat Study

A pre-clinical study in rats suggests that the psychedelic compound psilocybin might reverse excessive consumption of alcohol and genetic markers of altered brain chemistry seen in alcohol use disorder (AUD).

Ketamine as an Antidepressant With Dr. Lisa Monteggia

Ketamine as an Antidepressant With Dr. Lisa Monteggia

The Monteggia laboratory at Vanderbilt University has been investigating the molecular mechanisms that underly this rapid action. In this Teach Me in 10, Dr. Monteggia outlines some of the key discoveries that her team have made, particularly in relation to ketamine, neuroplasticity and neuroreceptors.

Ketamine as an Antidepressant With Dr. Lisa Monteggia

Ketamine as an Antidepressant With Dr. Lisa Monteggia

The Monteggia laboratory at Vanderbilt University has been investigating the molecular mechanisms that underly this rapid action. In this Teach Me in 10, Dr. Monteggia outlines some of the key discoveries that her team have made, particularly in relation to ketamine, neuroplasticity and neuroreceptors.

The Neuroscience of... Creativity

The Neuroscience of... Creativity

Given the scale of human ingenuity, it has been no mean feat for science to define and study the neural basis of the creative process. In this article, the latest in our “The Neuroscience of…” series, we investigate the research that has attempted to understand where creativity emerges in the brain and why it exists in the first place.

News

Microbiome Likely Not a Causal Factor for Autism, Suggests Largest Study

Microbiome Likely Not a Causal Factor for Autism, Suggests Largest Study

A new study challenges the idea that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be causally influenced by childhood gut microbiota.

New Scaffold Helps Regenerating Neurons Grow

Across the world, several million people every year suffer from spinal cord injury. Now, researchers have used a new technique to create 3D scaffolds that can guide regenerating neurons in the right direction.

Circadian Clock Neurons Modeled in a Day-Active Animal for the First Time

Researchers have recorded and modeled the electrical activity of circadian clock neurons in a day-active animal for the first time.

Caffeine Shown To Enhance Visual Alertness and Reaction Times

In the first study of its kind to explore caffeine’s effects on dynamic visual skills, researchers concluded that caffeine increases alertness and detection accuracy for moving targets. Caffeine also improved participants’ reaction times.

Why Basketball Prowess Is About Mind Over Fitness

A new study reveals why coaches believe ‘game intelligence’, work ethic and competitiveness – traits that Jordan possesses in spades – are far more important than physical fitness in determining success on the basketball court.

Articles

Towards Improved Data Reproducibility

Towards Improved Data Reproducibility

In this article, we look at some of the measures we can take as individual scientists and as a global community to improve the reproducibility and rigor of scientific endeavor.

The Role of DNA Methylation in Human Disease

DNA methylation is one of the earliest epigenetic modifications to be discovered in human beings. Here we highlight some of the diseases caused by aberrant DNA methylation.

Amplifying the Voices of PhD Students

Technology Networks spoke with PhD Voice to discuss why doing a PhD can be so challenging, the use of Twitter by the PhD community, and tips and future changes it would like to see in the academic field.

Team Reverses the Clinical Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease in Mice

In a study published in Genome Medicine, Dr. Patrick Aloy, head of the structural bioinformatics and network biology laboratory at IRB Barcelona and colleagues report that they have successfully reversed the clinical signs of Alzheimer's disease in mice by repurposing four existing drugs that are currently approved to treat high blood pressure and inflammation.

Identifying Novel Drug Targets for Neurodegeneration

During this year’s ELRIG Drug Discovery Meeting, Prof. Paul Brennan from the University of Oxford, discussed recent progress to develop drug compounds against novel targets in neuroinflammatory and sub-cellular organelle dysfunction pathways.

Infographics

Beyond the Genome: Advances in Sequencing the Brain

Beyond the Genome: Advances in Sequencing the Brain

What Are the Key Psychedelic Drugs?

What Are the Key Psychedelic Drugs?

Your Successful Grant-Writing Journey

Your Successful Grant-Writing Journey

Videos

Why Do Some People Snore So Loudly?

Why Do Some People Snore So Loudly?

Dopamine Isn’t Just a Happy Chemical

Dopamine Isn’t Just a Happy Chemical

Antihistamines for Everything?

Antihistamines for Everything?

How To Guides

Achieving Data Compliance: What Not To Do

Achieving Data Compliance: What Not To Do

Download this guide to learn how to avoid remediations for citations such as loss of electronic records, uncontrolled and unvalidated spreadsheets and conflict of interest.

Flow Cytometry Capabilities Guide

Flow cytometry enables the simultaneous analysis of multiple proteins, gene expression, and cell functions from an individual cell. This technology makes it possible to obtain a statistically relevant amount of data.

Best Practices for Returning to the Lab

Download this free how to guide to learn more about the tips and best practices for returning to the lab after an unexpected shutdown.

How To Implement a LIMS Successfully

Download this guide to learn about designing and building the LIMS IT platform, interfacing core analytical instruments, training the LIMS project team and LIMS implementation do's and don'ts.

Immunofluorescence Guide

Download this guide to discover how to select the most appropriate labelling and detection strategy for your research as well as mounting media options and a variety of accessory reagents.

Webinars

Revealing the Developing Brain With Single-Cell Multiomic Profiling of Human Cerebral Organoids

Revealing the Developing Brain With Single-Cell Multiomic Profiling of Human Cerebral Organoids

Leveraging Extended Reality (XR) Technology To Drive Laboratory Productivity

Leveraging Extended Reality (XR) Technology To Drive Laboratory Productivity

Advances in Drug Discovery and Development

Advances in Drug Discovery and Development

Listicles

Advances in Cell Models: An Expansive Menu of Choices

Advances in Cell Models: An Expansive Menu of Choices

Ketamine, MDMA, DMT and Psilocybin: A Closer Look at Four Psychedelics

Three Advances in Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnostics

Antibodies in Neuroscience

Gut Feeling: How the Gut–Brain Axis Affects Our Mood

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