The Official Page of the Neuroscience Program at Northern Michigan University Welcome to NMU's Neuroscience Program page!
The Neuroscience Program at NMU has highly accomplished faculty and wonderful facilities. Faculty are actively engaged in on-campus research with both undergraduate and graduate students. This page will serve to house information about upcoming events for the Neuroscience Program and to keep you informed about the exciting things happening with our faculty and students!
05/16/2017
Awesome update on the woman that worked with H.M.
Brenda Milner, Eminent Brain Scientist, Is ‘Still Nosy’ at 98 Seven decades after she began, Dr. Milner continues to explore the biology of memory and how the brain’s many parts function together.
05/14/2017
Baby brains!
Baby brain scans reveal trillions of neural connections Scientists release groundbreaking medical scans that reveal how the human brain develops.
04/05/2017
A TMS shout out.... very cool therapy that induces plastic changes in the brain.
'I don't have anything to hide': Passion Pit singer broadcasts live bipolar treatment. Michael Angelakos, Passion Pit's frontman who lives with bipolar disorder, live-streamed his transcranial magnetic stimulation procedure to fans.
02/23/2017
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02/19/2017
The arts are IMPORTANT! Show them some love....
Art, Music, and the Brain: How the Arts Influence Us from Youth to Maturity Recent studies in the field of neuroscience illustrate the importance of creativity across our life spans. Using examples such as ballet lessons before kindergarten, band practice in college, and music therapy following a stroke, among others, this Public Advocacy Forum panel explore how and why the...
Looking for some neuroscience research experience this summer?
blog.backyardbrains.com Do you have an interest in neuroscience? Do you like squids or dragonflies? Electrical, Mechanical or Computer engineering? Want to develop your own experiments and publish your results? Learn to communicate with the public? Maybe even all of the above? Then you’re in luck!
01/31/2017
Truth.
01/17/2017
And Another Opportunity!
01/17/2017
Check out this opportunity! Due Date Feb 1
12/22/2016
Pretty remarkable stuff
Hybrid EEG/EOG-based brain/neural hand exoskeleton restores fully independent daily living activities after quadriplegia Direct brain control of advanced robotic systems promises substantial improvements in health care, for example, to restore intuitive control of hand movements required for activities of daily living in quadriplegics, like holding a cup and drinking, eating with cutlery, or manipulating different obj...
10/20/2016
So. Good.
Enjoy!
10/03/2016
This study involves squirrels wearing fitbits. Needless to say, it's a must read.
APS Science Policy on Twitter “Fitbits for squirrels? in https://t.co/lRCYeOn61x”