Skating on Thick Ice — how do we learn new motor skills?
Skating is something I learned to do by falling on the ice — a lot. When I was a junior in high school, I joined… Read More »Skating on Thick Ice — how do we learn new motor skills?
Neuroscience
Podcasting Through the Pandemic
Curious about how your brain is processing the experience of the pandemic? Johns Hopkins graduate student Emily Han launched a podcast to explore the neuroscience behind pandemic emotions.
The P-value of People
The prospect of helping patients is what attracted neuroscience graduate student Riley Bannon to the field of research, but this semester brought many humbling reminders that it is all too easy to lose sight of the bigger, human picture in translational research.
To Regrow Neurons, Fish Retinas Go Back in Time
Have you ever wondered why worms and fish can regenerate lost limbs while humans can’t? Read how Seth Blackshaw’s developmental neuroscience lab uses insights from zebrafish to regrow damaged eye neurons in mice.
A Blood Test for Alzheimer’s Disease? Breakthroughs and Limitations
Recently, researchers at Washington University, St. Louis made a significant breakthrough in developing a blood test for early indications of Alzheimer’s disease. But what exactly… Read More »A Blood Test for Alzheimer’s Disease? Breakthroughs and Limitations
Left- vs. Right-Brained: Why the Brain Laterality Myth Persists
You might have heard artists say they’re right-brained or mathematicians say they’re left-brained. Maybe when you were a kid someone noticed you were left-handed and… Read More »Left- vs. Right-Brained: Why the Brain Laterality Myth Persists
Why Do Students Pursue a Ph.D. in Neuroscience?
As a fourth-year neuroscience Ph.D. student, I appreciate the variety of topics that lie within the umbrella of the nervous system. Nowhere is this more… Read More »Why Do Students Pursue a Ph.D. in Neuroscience?
Drifting Through the Dark
I have never wanted to be an astronaut. The idea of hurtling upward in a rocket ship, crashing through the Earth’s atmosphere, and launching into… Read More »Drifting Through the Dark
Fuggetaboudit: Is Forgetfulness a Vice or a Virtue?
Where are my keys? What’s the name of that actor again? Did she say 3 or 4 o’clock? Forgetfulness is a part of life, albeit… Read More »Fuggetaboudit: Is Forgetfulness a Vice or a Virtue?
Discussing the NIH Mandate to Study Sex as a Biological Variable in Basic Biomedical Research
In one of my courses in the neuroscience Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins, we recently discussed the 2016 National Institutes of Health (NIH) mandate requiring… Read More »Discussing the NIH Mandate to Study Sex as a Biological Variable in Basic Biomedical Research