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Neurology & Neuroscience

Neuroscience

As Memories Fade, Can We Supercharge Them Back to Life?

April 9, 2019

Double Exposure image of a man wearing Oculus Rift virutal reality goggles with nightmarish visions of a dark figure walking towards him out of a fiery forest background inside his head

Psychiatry & Psychology

How Virtual Reality Might Help Fight Recurring Nightmares

January 30, 2019

Portrait of Jerry Chen, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences assistant professor of biology, leaning against windows outside a building so that his reflection can be seen to the left.

Accolades

NIH New Innovator Award Will Advance Brain Science

January 15, 2019

A female asian child enters an MRI machine.

Infectious Diseases

Mysterious Illness AFM Has Paralyzed More Than 100 Children

December 5, 2018

Wendy Coster (left) and Gael Orsmond (right)

Autism

Life after High School

December 3, 2018

Microscopic image of high accumulations of p-tau in the brain tissue of a deceased person with the "major" genetic variation of the TMEM106B protein.

CTE

Why Some People’s CTE Symptoms Are More Severe Than Others

November 3, 2018

Portrait of Jerry Chen, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences assistant professor of biology, leaning against windows outside a building so that his reflection can be seen to the left.

Accolades

Two NIH Awards Push BU’s Brain Research Forward

October 23, 2018

DNA sequence in blu color

Alzheimer’s Disease

New Findings May Link Genes to Alzheimer’s

September 28, 2018

Neurotechnology

NSF Grant Will Advance Study of the Cocktail Party Effect

September 28, 2018

Urban Health

Eggs of Urban Chickens Contaminated with Lead

September 14, 2018

Ann McKee’s pioneering research into the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has earned her a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alzheimer’s Association. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Accolades

Another Accolade for CTE Researcher Ann McKee

August 7, 2018

Two men wearing helmets boxing with one punching the other in a ring.

Neuroscience

Contact Sports Associated with Lewy Body Disease

July 31, 2018

Amyloid plaques

Alzheimer’s Disease

New Alzheimer’s Drug Has MED Prof Cautiously Optimistic

July 30, 2018

yanny vs laurel graphic

Hearing Sciences

Laurel or Yanny? BU Hearing Sciences Expert Explains Auditory Phenomenon

May 22, 2018

A couple sit together

Aging

Marital status associated with dementia risk

May 18, 2018

David Boas, neurophotonics and fNIRS pioneer, and director of the Boston University Neurophotonics Center

Engineering

Lighting Up the Brain

May 11, 2018

kids playing tackle football

CTE

MED Researchers: Youth Football Linked to Earlier Brain Problems

April 30, 2018

Michael Hasselmo

Neuroscience

American Academy of Arts & Sciences Elects Michael Hasselmo

April 23, 2018

Howard Eichenbaum

Neuroscience

Daylong Symposium Celebrates Legacy of Howard Eichenbaum

March 27, 2018

A medical exosuit designed to help stroke victims walk is displayed on a mannequin

Rehabilitation Sciences

Move Over, Iron Man

February 20, 2018

Move Over, Iron Man