Limbic system anatomy and physiology. It is involved in our behavioural and emotional responses.

By Epomedicine

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Mindmap – The Intricate Wiring of The Human Brain

By Sahar Ahmad, Ye Wu, and Pew-Thian Yap, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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“Three duels, an Oedipus, two phobias, two repressions, four neuroses … So today's fee comes to …”

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Stunning photography of sweet taste receptor neurons in the fruit fly proboscis.

Credits:

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“The neuroses exhibit on the one hand striking and far-reaching points of agreement with those great social institutions, art, religion and philosophy. But on the other hand they seem like distortions of them. It might be maintained that a case of hysteria is a caricature of ...

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Stunning photo of human neural stem cells.

Credits: Cynthia Levinthal

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This is the start to your week that you didn't know you needed: A tiny mongoose, dressed as a chilli pepper, showing you their butt 🌶️😛

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In 1861, French neurologist Pierre Broca identified a front lobe area of the brain associated with speech. Autopsies of two deceased patients who had lost speech ability revealed neurosyphilitic lesions; demonstrating the area of the brain used for voice muscles.

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a neuroscience primer and
Scarlett Johansson portraying the illness.

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ive decided i will allow myself to have ocs in public. heres my evil neurosurgeon who sucks

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Images depicting the potential effects of exposure to specific types of childhood maltreatment on gray matter volume or thickness and fiber tract integrity.

Source: Teicher et al. (2016)

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This week’s fanart cover is from a work by Wang et al. published in Science Advances this year!
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Astrocytes are a type of neuroglial cell that provide support functions in the central nervous tissue and spinal cord.

Credits: Dennis Kunkel Microscopy

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Splatoon fans doing neuroscience to try and explain why gear is the optimal choice for the Splatfest when they should be doing their algebra homework

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The sensory homunculus is a map along the cerebral cortex of where each part of the body is processed.

Source: Neurociencias de Cajal

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A coloured scanning electron micrograph of the retina of the human eye.

Credits: Louise Hughes

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