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This person suggests that mice may behave in accordance with their own social construct of gender.
Who is Dr. Jeffery Mogil?
These cells are the primary resident immune cells of the CNS.
What are microglia?
This dazed and uncomfortable feeling can occur soon after traveling across several time zones due to misalignment with local circadian timing.
What is jet lag?
This selective semi-permeable membrane protects the brain from harmful substances and pathogens.
What is the blood-brain barrier?
This is the part of the brain responsible for memory storage, and also the name of an alt-rock band.
What is the hippocampus?
These two researchers formed a collaborative lab in which lab members are known as the “McPoppers.”
Who are Drs. Dana McTigue & Phil Popovich?
This class of cells is named after glue.
What are glial cells?
This is the time of day our immune system is most active, and the best time for optimizing vaccine efficacy.
What is night (or morning)?
This neurodegenerative disease is known by a famous baseball player’s name.
What is Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)/Lou Gehrig’s Disease?
The part of the brain is responsible for processing written and spoken language.
What is Wernicke’s area in the temporal lobe?
This "Parent of Neuroscience" and Nobel Prize winner was the first to propose that neurons were distinct cells (rather than a syncitium).
Who is Ramon y Cajal?
This energy-intensive cell death can occur naturally or after damage.
What is apoptosis?
This area in the brain is considered the "primary oscillator" that helps synchronize all other body clocks.
What is the suprachiasmatic nucleus?
This notable parasympathetic nerve communicates inflammatory and sickness signals from the periphery to the brain.
What is the vagus nerve?
This process occurs in the brain and refines neural circuits and removes unnecessary synaptic connections.
What is synaptic pruning?
This glial cell expert remains the most renowned neuroscientist who was transgender.
Who is Ben Barres?
This infiltrating immune cell is often considered the "first responder" to tissue damage.
What is the neutrophil?
This clock gene is a transcriptional activator via the same DNA binding sites as repressor REV-ERB.
What is ROR?
The expansion of a lesion after an initial insult to the CNS.
What is secondary damage?
This nervous system structure contains thousands of sensory neurons with different modalities, anatomical features, and cell identities.
What is the dorsal root ganglion?
This neuroscientist won a Nobel Prize for his research using the sea slug Aplysia to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying memory storage.
Who is Eric Kandel?
An immune cell type that is implicated in chronic pain particularly in females.
What are T cells?
This specialized retinal cell responds to light and projects information directly to the primary circadian oscillator region.
What is the intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell?
This neuroimmune disease stems from damage to the gut lining, and causes neuroinflammation by allowing toxins and inflammatory molecules to enter the bloodstream.
What is leaky gut syndrome?
This nervous system disorder involves areas of focal demyelination and inflammation that can cause progressive loss of function.
What is multiple sclerosis?