Brandeis Neuroscience Club

08/17/2014

ALS is an extremely debilitating neurodegenerative disease characterized by muscle atrophy and eventual total paralysis. It's very difficult to live with for the patient and for his/her loved ones, as cognition is left in tact. Professor Eve Marder gives a powerful lecture on this topic in Principles of Neuroscience.

Brandeis Neuroscience Club would like to say that we LOVE the amount of awareness the Ice Bucket Challenge has created for ALS. We hope you will continue to spread the word and raise money for ALS research. Let's bring an end to it together!

08/15/2014

Hey Neuro lovers! We're getting ready for another neuro-filled semester, are you?

Check out this clip to see how our favorite late night drink affects our brains.

Take a look at the science behind the world's most popular drug, including why caffeine keeps us awake and just how much of the drug is too much.

04/03/2014

Thanks to everyone who came to hang out and eat lunch with us today in the science center! :)

04/03/2014

Just over an hour until our student-professor lunch! Be sure to cut through the science center on your way to class to say hi, learn more about Brandeis' neuro program, and grab some free thai food! :D

03/21/2014

Guesses have a strange way of disguising themselves as facts, and taking root in popular knowledge. Consider the claim that the human nose can distinguish between 10,000 different smells. The state...

03/20/2014

That's right all you science majors. Sleeping is, in fact, to your benefit!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaiken/2014/03/20/lack-of-sleep-kills-brain-cells-new-study-suggests/

Here is the actual paper: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/34/12/4418.short

Sleep-deprived? Beware. New research shows lack of sleep may cause irreversible brain damage.

02/12/2014

There are approximately 10 to the power of 60 atoms in the universe. The human brain laughs in the face of that figure - it can wire itself up in 10 to the power of 1,000,000 different ways.

11/29/2013

Relevant.

Who among us hasn’t come back from a shopping excursion, looked over the just-purchased haul, and wondered, What was I thinking? Often, our shopping decisions aren't the result of a completely logical thought process, but are instead affected by what we smell, hear, and touch, and what people arou.....

10/29/2013

Fun fact: Despite only accounting for about 2% of your overall body weight, the brain requires a whopping 20% of your total oxygen supply in order to function properly.

10/27/2013

Fun fact: While awake, the human brain is capable of generating enough energy to power a light bulb (up to 23 watts).

10/26/2013

Fun fact: The brain of an average 20-year-old man contains around 109,000 miles (or 176,000 km) of myelinated axons. That's enough to wrap around Earth, at the equator, 4.5 times.

10/24/2013

Fun fact(s): The first sense to develop in utero is touch. As the brain shuts down at death, hearing is the one you lose last.