Research Articles
The Ups and Downs of Cerebellar Plasticity: How Your Brain Fine-Tunes Movement and Memory
Explore the fascinating mechanisms of cerebellar plasticity - the brain's ability to strengthen or weaken neural connections for fine-tuning movement and memory.
Unlocking the Brain's Braking System: The Story of Selective Neurosteroid Antagonism
Explore the fascinating science behind selective neurosteroid antagonism and how it's revolutionizing our understanding of brain function and neurological disorders.
A Brief History of Addiction: From Sin to Brain Disease
Explore the evolution of addiction understanding from ancient moral frameworks to modern neuroscience, revealing addiction as a chronic brain disease.
The Sneezing Sponge: How an Ancient Animal Coordinates Without Nerves
Discover how sponges coordinate complex whole-body contractions without neurons, muscles, or brains using chemical communication systems.
The Key and the Lock: How Scientists Decoded Our Body's Adrenergic Receptors
Discover how competitive displacement experiments revealed the secrets of alpha-adrenergic receptors and revolutionized pharmacology.
From Circuits to Cures: Translating the Science of Addiction into Lifesaving Practice
Exploring how neuroscience breakthroughs are transforming addiction treatment from moral failing to treatable brain disorder
The Receptor Revolution: Revisiting a 1982 Debate That Reshaped Pharmacology
Explore the groundbreaking 1982 debate about presynaptic receptors that transformed pharmacology and led to major therapeutic advances.
The Brain's Hidden Pain Switch: How a Tiny Peptide Could Revolutionize Pain Treatment
Discover how Neuropeptide Y (NPY) acts as the brain's natural pain off-switch and could revolutionize chronic pain treatment for millions.
Decoding Sound: How Mouse Brains Illuminate Human Hearing
Explore how Brainstem Evoked Response Audiometry in mice helps scientists understand human hearing disorders and neurological conditions.
Rewriting the Past: The Surprising Science of Improving Old Memories
Discover how neuroscience reveals that our oldest memories can be actively strengthened and refined through the process of memory reconsolidation.