neurific

Brain plasticity: why white matter matters

Heidi Johansen-Berg, director of the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (University of Oxford, UK) talks about her recent findings on brain plasticity, how transcranial direct-current stimulation can help stroke patients, and why changes in the white matter - especially in the myelin sheath - are important for learning.

Let´s explore multisensory decision making

Anne Churchland, neuroscientist from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, talks about her research on multisensory decision making. She explains why it is important to study the brain in the context of behavior, touches the issue of artificial neuronal networks, and presents ideas on how to propel neuroscience forward.

Why do you want to map an entire mouse brain?

An interview with neurophysicist Winfried Denk, inventor of the two-photon microscopy

What is so special about the grid cells?

An interview with neuroscientist Edvard Moser, winner of the nobel prize of medicine in 2014.









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