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Usually not, Roman Giger explains. But new advances may one day help reattach destroyed regions of the brain and spinal cord. vist.ly/5dpuf
Can You Repair Brain Cells After They’re Severely Damaged?
Usually not, Roman Giger explains. But new advances may one day help reattach destroyed regions of the brain and spinal cord.
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Exercise and diet play a key role in brain health. Sandrine Thuret says studies suggest eating plant-based foods containing polyphenol and crunchy foods, like apples, can support the production of new neurons. #AskaNeuroscientist @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Can adults generate new neurons? Sandrine tells us whether adults can produce new neurons in their brains. #AskaNeuroscientist @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Adults who learn to regulate their own feelings can model emotions that improve communication with children — helping kids navigate their future emotions. #ParentsDay vist.ly/5cibg
How Parents can Model Emotional Regulation for Kids
Adults who learn to regulate their own feelings can model emotions that improve communication with children — helping kids navigate their future emotions.
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Elseline Hoekzema and her research team studied physical changes in (human) moms’ brain structure by scanning the brains of about 80 men and women. #ParentsDay vist.ly/5ci5m
Motherhood and the Brain
Elseline Hoekzema and her research team studied physical changes in (human) moms’ brain structure by scanning the brains of about 80 men and women
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Protecting brain health can often start with improving everyday habits. What have you done to rest and reset this #WorldBrainDay? Let us know in the comments below! Learn more about the benefits of resting in this article from @brainfacts.org: vist.ly/5c64v #neurosky #neuroskyence
Give Your Brain a Break
Discover the role sleep and rest play for your brain.
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Neurosurgeon Edward Chang aims to rebuild speech in people with paralysis by deciphering brain signals associated with speech. vist.ly/5cdea
Decoding Speech to Restore the Ability to Speak
Neurosurgeon Edward Chang aims to rebuild speech in people with paralysis by deciphering brain signals associated with speech.
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South Africa-based researcher Olivia Matshabane‘s work is dedicated to ensuring African values and knowledge meaningfully inform neuroethics principles on the continent and globally. vist.ly/5c86q
How African Perspectives on Neuroethics Benefit People and the Globe
South Africa-based researcher Olivia Matshabane‘s work is dedicated to ensuring African values and knowledge meaningfully inform neuroethics principles on the continent and globally.
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Happy #WorldBrainDay 🧠The activities we do matter: They change our brains. Sandrine shares her favorite brain fact, plus one thing she believes everyone should know about the brain. #AskaNeuroscientist
Want to put more of your neurons to work? 🧠 Check out this trivia session: Brain Trivia: Anatomy, Cells, and Molecules www.brainfacts.org/for-educator...
Brain Trivia: Anatomy, Cells, and Molecules
How many answers can you get correct? Put your neuro knowledge to the test in game one of Brain Trivia on-demand.
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Society for Neuroscience@sfn.org · 2w ago🧠 It's #WorldBrainDay! Brain health is essential to how we learn, work, connect, and thrive. Every discovery brings us closer to earlier diagnoses, better prevention, and care that reaches every community. Put your curiosity to the test with this quiz. 🔗 vist.ly/5c44s #neurosky
Do you think you’re a good multitasker? Test yourself in this mini cab driving game. vist.ly/5bxv7
Multitasking Myths: Test Your Skills with Distractown Driving Game
Do you think you’re a good multitasker? Test yourself in this mini cab driving game.
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ICYMI: Socioeconomics Strongly Influence Kids’ Brain Development And other neuroscience news you may have missed in June 2026. vist.ly/5bjnn
ICYMI: Socioeconomics Strongly Influence Kids’ Brain Development
And other neuroscience news you may have missed in June 2026.
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Meet Sandrine Thuret, head of the Adult Neurogenesis & Mental Health Laboratory at King’s College London. #AskaNeuroscientist @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Regardless of how much background knowledge you have on the subject, the act of tasting wine employs a broad network of neurological processes. vist.ly/5bg9p
What the Wine World Teaches Us About Taste (and Smell)
Regardless of how much background knowledge you have on the subject, the act of tasting wine employs a broad network of neurological processes.
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Learn about how we use distinct memory processes in our everyday lives in this interactive — fit with descriptions, examples, and brain anatomy depictions of how we store different kinds of information. vist.ly/5b6ew
Interactive: Our Different Types of Memory
Learn about how we use distinct memory processes in our everyday lives in this interactive — fit with descriptions, examples, and brain anatomy depictions of how we store different kinds of information.
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New research in mice shakes up previous assumptions over how olfactory receptors are organized in the nose. vist.ly/5ast3
Like Other Senses, Smell Receptors Map Onto Mouse Brain
New research in mice shakes up previous assumptions over how olfactory receptors are organized in the nose.
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The health benefits of exercise are well-established. Recent research makes a case for how high-intensity exercise repairs and boosts the brain and may even supercharge the fight against age-related neurodegenerative disease. #WorldCup #FIFA vist.ly/5amdd
Keeping the Brain Young with High Intensity Exercise
The health benefits of exercise are well-established. Recent research makes a case for how high-intensity exercise repairs and boosts the brain and may even supercharge the fight against age-related neurodegenerative disease.
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Every step you take, every move you make, motor neurons play a role. vist.ly/5ahr3
How Neurons Make Muscles Twitch
Every step you take, every move you make, motor neurons play a role.
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How does playing gridiron football affect the brain long term, and what does that mean for young athletes? vist.ly/5acm3
Is Playing Football Safe for Kids’ Brains?
How does playing gridiron football affect the brain long term, and what does that mean for young athletes?
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The transient hypofrontality hypothesis holds that activity in the prefrontal cortex dials down during some high-intensity activities. #WorldCup #FIFA vist.ly/5a8y7
Turning on Flow Means Turning Off Parts of the Brain
The transient hypofrontality hypothesis holds that activity in the prefrontal cortex dials down during some high-intensity activities.
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Built from thickets of glucose, galactose, mannose and more, the glycome plays key roles in cell communication, immunity and the blood-brain barrier. @knowablemag.bsky.social vist.ly/59yas
Sweet! The Cell’s Sugary Coating Comes Into View
Built from thickets of glucose, galactose, mannose and more, the glycome plays key roles in cell communication, immunity and the blood-brain barrier.
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Brain structures with direct access to your bloodstream monitor and manage the signs of dehydration, influencing when to quench your thirst. #WorldCup #FIFA vist.ly/59u3p
How Do You Know You’re Thirsty?
Brain structures with direct access to your bloodstream monitor and manage the signs of dehydration, influencing when to quench your thirst.
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Everyone experiences cramps. But we know less about their causes than you might expect. #WorldCup #FIFA vist.ly/59qqb
What Causes Muscle Cramps?
Everyone experiences cramps. But we know less about their causes than you might expect.
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Everyone experiences cramps. But we know less about their causes than you might expect. #WorldCup #FIFA vist.ly/59qqb
What Causes Muscle Cramps?
Everyone experiences cramps. But we know less about their causes than you might expect.
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Explora modelos 3D detallados del cerebro, con descripciones en español. (Explore detailed, 3D models of the brain featuring descriptions in Spanish.) vist.ly/59jkj
NEUROINMERSA: Visualizaciónes Neuroanatómica (Neuroanotomical Visualizations)
Explora modelos 3D detallados del cerebro, con descripciones en español. (Explore detailed, 3D models of the brain featuring descriptions in Spanish.)
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What can the flick of a rat’s tail tell us about opioid addiction? More than you might think. #PTSDAwarenessMonth vist.ly/59fpx
What the Rat Brain Can Tell Us About the Connection Between PTSD and Opioids
What can the flick of a rat’s tail tell us about opioid addiction? More than you might think.
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John Morrison has spent decades studying Alzheimer’s — now he sees real promise for protecting the brain’s circuits. vist.ly/597tt
Rewiring Hope: New Insights Into Alzheimer’s and Brain Aging
John Morrison has spent decades studying Alzheimer’s — now he sees real promise for protecting the brain’s circuits.
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Neurons form connections to create neural networks. Build your own neural network in this interactive. vist.ly/582rz
Build Your Neural Network Interactive
Neurons form connections to create neural networks. Build your own neural network in this interactive.
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🚨 EXTENSION NOTICE 🚨 The deadline for submissions to the Brain Awareness Video Contest has been extended to June 29, 2026, at 11:59 p.m., PST. vist.ly/58x5j
Brain Awareness Video Contest
The Society for Neuroscience holds an annual Brain Awareness Video Contest to showcase entertaining and educational neuroscience concepts and activities.
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Pairs of muscles working in opposition drive our movements, from dancing to running to smiling. #WorldCup #FIFA vist.ly/58wyi
Activating Voluntary Movements
Pairs of muscles working in opposition drive our movements, from dancing to running to smiling.
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