Neurotransmitters
This neurotransmitter is best known for its role in pleasure and reward; Parkinson’s disease involves the loss of neurons that produce it.
What is dopamine?
This is Northeastern’s motto!
What is “Lux, Veritas, Virtus”?
This common neurodegenerative disease is marked by memory loss and amyloid plaques.
What is Alzheimer’s disease?
This person was our president last year.
Who is Brynn? (<3)
This year this major genetic neurodegenerative disease was treated for the first time!
What is Huntington’s Disease?
SSRIs primarily increase the levels of this neurotransmitter in the synaptic cleft.
What is Serotonin?
In 2018, this building was named the most beautiful in Boston!
What is ISEC?
This autoimmune disorder leads to demyelination in the CNS and often causes sensory disturbances and motor deficits.
What is multiple sclerosis?
These eboard members are from Massachusetts.
Who are Karine and Inesh?
The global brain project created the largest standardized data set of these animal brains.
What are mouse brains?
Often called the “calming” neurotransmitter, this inhibitory molecule helps reduce neuronal excitability throughout the CNS.
What is GABA?
In what building were Northeastern’s first classes held?
What is the Huntington Ave YMCA?
This movement disorder involves degradation of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra.
What is Parkinson’s disease?
These eboard members are graduating this spring.
Who are Karine, Anya W, and Yaz? :(
Nasal therapies for brain tumors use this type of technology.
What is nanotherapy?
This neurotransmitter is released by motor neurons at the neuromuscular junction to trigger muscle contraction.
What is acetylcholine?
The first ever Northeastern graduating class had this amount of people.
What is 12?
This is a traumatic injury that disrupts brain function, commonly caused by impact or rapid acceleration.
What is a concussion?
Which eboard member’s first words were “aw man!"?
Who is Neda?
In 2025, scientists for the first time grew this, allowing more realistic modeling of early human-brain development.
What are multi-region brain organoids (MRBOs)?
Produced mainly in the locus coeruleus, this neurotransmitter plays a major role in arousal, attention, and the fight-or-flight response.
What is norepinephrine?
A statue of Cy Young outside Churchill Hall marks the site where the inaugural game of this major American championship took place in 1903.
What is the MLB World Series?
(bonus points if you know who won!)
In this neurodevelopmental condition, mutations in MECP2 typically cause normal early development followed by severe regression, mostly in girls.
What is Rett syndrome?
This eboard member has gotten 6 concussions!
Who is Yaz?
In 2025, researchers introduced this multimodal “foundation model” that compresses structural and functional MRI data into unified representations, improving predictions of cognitive traits and disease.
What is BrainHarmonix?