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Neuroscience
Study reveals how alcohol abuse damages cognition
Published April 2, 2025
Months after withdrawal, brain activity during decision-making remained impaired in rats
EEG wave in human brain, brain wave patterns on electroencephalogram
Biomedical engineering
New tool uses routine EEGs to cut epilepsy misdiagnoses
Published Jan 22, 2025
EpiScalp could significantly reduce false positives and spare patients from medication side effects, driving restrictions, and other quality-of-life challenges linked to misdiagnoses
A photograph of a tree that has knots that resemble a face
Neuroscience
We see faces, everywhere
Published Winter 2024
Humans see the face of an old man in the knots of a tree, the shape of an animal in the clouds, the man on the moon. There's a word for that phenomenon: pareidolia. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A little brown bat rests on a log
Animal behavior
Bats' Plan B for when they can't hear
Published Nov 25, 2024
New research by Johns Hopkins neuroscientists reveals instant compensation strategy that other animals might share
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Neuroscience
Brains can tune their navigation system without landmarks
Published June 27, 2024
Johns Hopkins team discovers visual motion clues alone help recalibrate your brain's internal GPS
Susan Courtney
In memoriam
Visionary cognitive neuroscientist Susan Courtney dies at 57
Published June 13, 2024
Courtney's research focused on understanding the neural basis of higher cognitive function, and she was especially interested in how brain structure was affected by aging or disease
Curious little white laboratory mouse looking out of a cage and a hand of a researcher
Animal cognition
'Surprisingly strategic' mice think like babies
Published April 26, 2024
Findings by Johns Hopkins neuroscientists deepen our understanding of animal cognition
A robotic surgical device demonstrates a brain operation technique on a clear mannekin head
Biomedical engineering
Navigational technology aids brain surgery visualization
Published Aug 31, 2023
Researchers demonstrate promise of 'augmented endoscopy,' a real-time neurosurgical guidance method that uses advanced computer vision
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The artful mind
Published Summer 2023
In their new book, authors Susan Magsamen, founder and director of the International Arts + Mind Lab, and Ivy Ross contend that making and experiencing art can help us flourish / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Neuroscience
Machine learning helps scientists see synapse changes
Published June 7, 2023
Visualizing connections in the brain could yield insights into how our brains change with learning, aging, injury, and disease