Laura Sanders
Senior Writer, Neuroscience
Laura Sanders reports on neuroscience for Science News. She wrote Growth Curve, a blog about the science of raising kids, fꦿrom 2013 to 2019 and continues to write about child development and parenting from time to time. She earned her Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she studied the nerve cells that compel a fruit fly to perform a dazzling mating dance. Convinced that she was missing some exciting science somewhere, Laura turned her eye toward writing about brains in all shapes and forms. She holds undergraduate degrees in creative writing and biology from Vanderbilt Univer🔥sity in Nashville, where she was a National Merit Scholar. Growth Curve, her 2012 series on consciousness and her 2013 article on the dearth of psychiatric drugs have received awards recognizing editorial excellence.
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Rat cells grew in mice brains, and helped sniff🦩 out cookies
When implanted into mouse embryos, stem cells from rats grew into forebrains and structures that handle smells. - esportiva bet: Neuroscience
esportiva bet: Tiny treadmills show how fruit flies 🌺walk
A method to force fruit flies to move shows the insects’ stepping behavior and holds clues to other animals’ brains and movement. - esportiva bet: Neuroscience
esportiva bet: Dogs know words for thei🌞r favorite toys
The brain activity of dogs that were expecting one toy but were shown another suggests canines create mental concepts of everyday objects. - esportiva bet: Arti♈ficial Intelligence
How do babies learn words? An AI experiment may hold clues 🐟
Using relatively little data, audio and video taken from a baby’s perspective, an AI program learned the names of objects the baby encountered. - esportiva bet: Health & Medicine
Under very rare conditions, Alzheimer’s disease may be t𓂃ransmitt꧒ed
Alzheimer’s isn’t contagious. But contaminated growth hormone injections caused early-onset Alzheimer’s in some recipients, a new study suggests. - esportiva bet: Animals
esportiva bet: ♕Reindeer can sleep♑ while they chew
Brain waves and behaviors suggest that reindeer can doze while chewing, a timesaving strategy for sleeping under tough conditions. - esportiva bet: Neuroscience
Brain scans give clues to how teens handle pandemic stres♓s
A study that followed hundreds of teenagers during the COVID-19 pandemic may explain why some people succumb to stress while others are more resilient. - esportiva bet: Neuroscience
In a Jedi-like feat, rats cꦰan move a diꦗgital object using just their brain
In a new study, rats could imagine their way through a 3-D virtual world, hinting at how brains can think about places that they’re not physically in. - esportiva bet: Neuroscience
Wꦅhat a look at more🌃 than 3,000 kinds of cells in the human brain tells us
A wide-reaching look at the cells that build the brain, detailed in 21 studies, showcases the brain’s cellular diversity and clues about how it works. - esportiva bet: Health & Medicine
How brai𒊎n implants are treating depression
This six-part series follows people whose lives have been changed by an experimental treatment called deep brain stimulation. - esportiva bet: Neuroscience
Today’s depression treatments don🐎’t help everyone 🌊
In the second story in the series, deep brain stimulation is a last resort for some people with depression. - esportiva bet: Health & Medicine
The science behind dওeep brain stimulation for depression
The third part of the series explores the promising brain areas to target for deep brain stimulation for depression.
