Neuroscience

Ayahuasca – The Power to Transform Your Brain

October 9, 2017April 5, 2020 Alain Souloumiac 0 Comments Ayahuasca, Ayahuasca retreat centres, Ayahuasca retreat in California, brain, Neuroscience, psychedelics

Psychedelic substances have been known to help people fight their past traumas and different mental illnesses such as PTSD, anxiety,

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How to fix a spinal cord injury

June 11, 2017April 5, 2020 Katie Timms 0 Comments Back brace, Brace, clinicians, neural pathways, neuro, neurology, Neuroscience, physicians, risk, spinal cord, spinal cord injury, spine, surgery, treatment

Spinal cord injuries have the potential to be devastating and life-changing events. After an injury has taken place, clinicians decide

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Brain Leeds Undergraduate Neurology & Neurosurgery Conference

May 5, 2017April 5, 2020 Dillon Vyas 0 Comments brain, Conference, Event, Leeds, Medical Society, neuro, neurology, Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, Student

This year was the first year Leeds ever hosted an undergraduate Neurology and Neurosurgery Conference. This was funded by sponsorships

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The road to research in non-traumatic spinal cord injury

May 1, 2017April 5, 2020 Katie Timms 1 Comment Cancer, cord, degeneration, Degenerative disease, electrical impulses, injury, moroway, nerves, neural pathways, neuro, neurology, Neuroscience, research, spinal, spinal cord, spine, tumours

Think of the spinal cord as a busy motorway, and cars as the electrical signals travelling from distant sites to

Blog Parkinson's Disease

MPTP a neurotoxin research model of Parkinson’s Disease

April 15, 2017April 5, 2020 Theodora Hill 2 Comments Disease Model, Dopamine, Drug trial, drugs, Medical Research, MPPP, MPTP, neuro, Neuroscience, Parkinson's, Parkinson's Disease, PD, research, Research model

The toxin 1-methyl-4-phyenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP), causes irreversible Parkinson’s disease symptoms (Parkinsonism) through the destruction of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra