Infectious Disease

Toxins and Venoms
Simple curiosity about the sting of a scorpion or the toxicity of food poisoning has yielded unexpected results — novel research tools and drug targets.
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Brain Atlases
Like detailed driving maps produced from satellite images, the latest maps of the brain allow scientists to explore the nervous system in new ways.
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Mirror Neurons

The ability to instinctively and immediately understand what other people are experiencing has long baffled neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers alike. Research now suggests a fascinating explanation: brain cells called mirror neurons.

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Neurolaw: Neuroscience in the Courtroom
Neuroscience's influence is reaching beyond the research lab and clinic into the courtroom and beyond. It is clear that neuroscience will continue to influence U.S. legal proceedings.
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Aggression and the Brain
Violent behavior, like all behavior, has its origins in the brain. Now neuroscientists are searching for its causes in order to create new prevention therapies and treatments.
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Brain, Behavior, and Environmental Change
According to environmental scientists, the climate is changing due to the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. Research shows environmental change can affect the brain and behavior.
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Neuroscience: Informing the Next Generation of Computers
Neuroscience and technology have a symbiotic relationship. Learn how advances in neuroscience are advancing technologies and vice versa.
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The Bilingual Brain
As scientists unlock more of the neurological secrets of the bilingual brain, they're learning that speaking more than one language may have cognitive benefits that extend from childhood into old age.
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Glioma Brain Tumors
Lethal glioma tumors are one of the most devastating diseases because they are so difficult to treat, much less cure. But now scientists are on track to find potential treatments.
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Light Molecules
The discovery of light-activated molecules is enabling scientists to develop new tools to explore how specific types of nerve cells are interconnected and how they function in circuits in the brain.
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The Neural Regulation of Thirst
Everybody gets thirsty. The urge to drink fluids is a natural instinct regulated by a negative feedback loop between the brain and other organs in the body.
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Smoking and Schizophrenia

Thanks to research advances, scientists are learning how and why smoking and schizophrenia are so tightly linked. Now, enhanced knowledge is helping scientists develop drugs to treat this debilitating disorder.

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