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Neuroscience

Richard Huganir looks into a microscope
Brain science
New cross-university neuroscience department
Published Sept 15, 2025
Shared by the schools of Medicine and Arts and Sciences, the Department of Neuroscience aims to unify neuroscience research and education across the university
Resembling fluorescent flower petals, this image shows the blood vessels in a mouse retina, as seen using confocal microscopy.
Artifact
Vision in bloom
Published Summer 2025
Resembling fluorescent flower petals, this image shows the blood vessels in a mouse retina / Johns Hopkins Magazine
An illustration giving a glimpse inside two heads. One, along with a brain, has dollar signs, test tubes, syringes, and DNA strands. The other, which is upside down, just has X's and a cavity where the brains should be.
Essay
Research funding cuts: What's at stake
Published Summer 2025
Researchers like Richard Huganir are closing in on a cure for SYNGAP1-related disorders. But in the face of federal funding cuts, can they finish what they started? / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Closeup of MRI images of the brain
Neuroscience
Sweat science: A patch to detect TBI
Published Summer 2025 Video
In a basement laboratory in the School of Nursing, Jessica Gill leads a team at the frontier of TBI research / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Line drawing of a brain
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 Video
New research by Johns Hopkins neuroscientists reveals instant compensation strategy that other animals might share
Flat Map With Location Pointer Illustration
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