Brain Fair Gives Students Opportunity to Share Excitement over Neuroscience
On Saturday, March 3, forty-five student volunteers hosted a Brain Fair
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Drug may act like bad electrician, messing up wiring in brain and nervous system
Read More »$1.5 Million Grant for Brain Research
Northwestern selected to take part in national, cutting-edge neurological initiative
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Aging-related hearing loss is not set in stone, study finds
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Infant studies indicate ‘intuitive physics’ knowledge is present soon after birth
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Dr. Julius Dewald is trying to meld medicine, science and engineering in a path-breaking way to better understand…
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A second “bad” gene is linked to damaged cell buildup, paralysis in Lou Gehrig’s disease
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Research provides a new understanding of spinocerebella ataxia type 1.
Read More »2011 Northwestern Scientific Images Contest Winners
NUIN Graduate student Maya Srikanth places Fifth in the 2011 Northwestern Scientific Images Contest.
Read More »Sniffing Out the Brain’s Predictive Power
Researchers find that the brain smells what it expects rather than what it sniffs
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