All Posts: neuroscience
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This Type of Music Can Increase Your Concentration and Productivity
A new study published in the journal PLOS One found that a certain type of instrumental music can boost both listeners’ mood and productivity. After 10 minutes of listening, it also can help decrease anxiety, said Joan Orpella, a Georgetown assistant professor of neuroscience who led the study while in a previous role at New York University.
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A Brain Fingerprint: Study Uncovers Unique Brain Plasticity in People Born Blind
A study led by Georgetown University neuroscientists reveals that the part of the brain that receives and processes visual information in sighted people develops a unique connectivity pattern in people born blind.
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Pharmacology & Physiology Student is Georgetown’s First HHMI Gilliam Fellow
In July 2024, Pharmacology & Physiology doctoral student Lindsey Russ became Georgetown University’s first recipient of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Fellowship, which “invests in graduate trainees who are committed to advancing equity and inclusion in science and empowers them as future science leaders.”
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Perinatal Transmission of HIV Can Lead to Cognitive Deficits
Perinatal transmission of HIV to newborns is associated with serious cognitive deficits as children grow older, according to a detailed analysis of 35 studies conducted by Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists. The finding helps pinpoint the geographic regions and factors that may be important for brain development outcomes related to perinatal HIV infection: mother-to-child HIV transmission during pregnancy, labor and delivery, or breastfeeding.
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The Neuroscience of Love: What’s Going on in the Lovestruck Brain?
Love may not be a choice. It may just be your brain on autopilot intoxicated by the love potion, according to Tom Sherman, a neuroendocrinologist and professor in Georgetown’s School of Medicine who studies the endocrine system and how hormones shape human physiology and behavior.
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Amnesia Caused by Head Injury Reversed in Early Mouse Study
A mouse study designed to shed light on memory loss in people who experience repeated head impacts, such as athletes, suggests the condition could potentially be reversed. The research in mice finds that amnesia and poor memory following head injury is due to inadequate reactivation of neurons involved in forming memories.
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Researchers Pinpoint Brain Area Where People Who Are Blind Recognize Faces Identified by Sound
Using a specialized device that translates images into sound, Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists and colleagues showed that people who are blind recognized basic faces using the part of the brain known as the fusiform face area, a region that is crucial for the processing of faces in sighted people.
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Researchers Discuss Cognitive Function and Aging at 2nd Annual Healthy Aging Symposium
About 150 participants registered for this year’s Health Aging Symposium, which featured panel discussions on neuroscience, cancer, and healthy aging in the community, as well as poster presentations, a wine and cheese reception, a networking lunch and breakout sessions.
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The Curious Brain: Interdisciplinary Solutions for the Complex Problems of Neuroscience
Georgetown’s Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience offers doctoral students the ability to see neuroscience through the lens of multiple disciplines, not only allowing for the possibility of broadening or shifting their focus, but actively facilitating it.
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A New Understanding of How the Brain Processes and Stores Words We Hear
Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists say the brain’s auditory lexicon, a catalog of verbal language, is actually located in the front of the primary auditory cortex, not in back of it — a finding that upends a century-long understanding of this area of the brain. The new understanding matters because it may impact recovery and rehabilitation following a brain injury such as a stroke.
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