Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

A participant in Dailey and Bergelson’s study dons a dual-camera headset to capture video and audio once a month. Credit - Elika Bergelson, Duke

December 1, 2022

Parents Talk More To Toddlers Who Talk Back

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A microglia (in magenta) from a male mouse born to a mom on a high-fat diet, which sequesters more brain serotonin (in green) than males with mom’s eating a typical lab diet. (Bilbo Lab)

November 28, 2022

Mom’s Dietary Fat Rewires Male And Female Brains Differently

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Tagging and illuminating only the inhibitory “brake” cells (green) in human brain tissue is just one of many things the new tool, CellREADR, can do. Credit – Derek Southwell, Duke University

October 5, 2022

New RNA-Based Tool Can Illuminate Brain Circuits, Edit Specific Cells

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Kafui Dzirasa (left) and Amanda Randles have each been awarded a $3.5 million NIH grant.

October 3, 2022

Two Duke Faculty Have Won the NIH’s Prestigious Pioneer Award

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Young girls around age six persisted longer on a challenging physics game when they assumed the role of a successful scientist. (Monstera via Pexels)

September 27, 2022

First-Grade Girls Stick With Science After Pretending to be Marie Curie

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A Flint, Mich., water plant. Photo by George Thomas via Creative Commons.

September 20, 2022

High Rates of Depression and PTSD Found in Flint 5 Years After Water Crisis

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stock image of child in a research study

September 7, 2022

Duke Awarded $12M Research Grant to Use Artificial Intelligence to Detect Autism

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Summer neuroscience student Dillon presented his findings in a scientific poster session.

August 8, 2022

Young Minds Study the Brain at Duke

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A timeline prepared by the researchers shows how life events affected people who reported that they were more resistant to vaccination at age 49. (Caroline Pate, Duke)

April 4, 2022

Vaccine Resistance Comes From Childhood Legacy of Mistrust

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March 20, 2022

Alzheimer's Research: Unlocking the Secrets of the Brain

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In his nearly four decades on the Duke faculty, Blake Wilson has guided breakthrough research which has helped more than a million people improve their hearing. Photo by Stephen Schramm.

February 21, 2022

Blue Devil of the Week: Behind a Hearing Breakthrough

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A section of mouse intestines shows in green the relatively scarce neuropod cells in the epithelium that are responsible for communicating conditions inside the gut to the nervous system outside. (Borhoquez Lab, Duke)

January 13, 2022

Your Gut Senses the Difference Between Real Sugar and Artificial Sweetener

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January 5, 2022

An Element of Surprise is the Recipe for Creating False Memories

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Neurobiologist Eva Naumann with zebrafish

September 30, 2021

A Small Fish Is Key to a Big Question About the Brain

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A photomicrograph of a chick retina shows the ganglion cell bodies in an orderly layer at the top and then the tangled layer of root-like dendrites in the blue and yellow layer below, which is where mosaics of different visual sensitivities are laid out.

September 28, 2021

Living Retina Achieves Sensitivity and Efficiency Engineers Can Only Dream About

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Cagla Eroglu (left) and Kafui Dzirasa are Duke's two newest Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators.

September 17, 2021

Two Duke Brain Scientists Named Howard Hughes Investigators

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