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Neuroscience

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Racism & Cognitive Health

Experiencing Racism May Damage Memory, Cognition

July 23, 2020

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Adolescence & Autism

How Autistic Youth Navigate Alcohol Use and Peer Relationships

July 7, 2020

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Environmental Health

Do Air Pollution and Ambient Noise Raise Dementia Risk?

June 30, 2020

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Children & Coronavirus

Don’t Undersell the Facts: Why Kids Deserve Accurate Coronavirus Information

June 26, 2020

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Neuroscience

How a Memory Game Could Help Us Understand Brain Injury

June 23, 2020

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Network Statistics

Data Science Is Helping to Explain Epileptic Seizures

June 11, 2020

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Alzheimer’s and AI

Deep Learning Algorithm Outperforms Experts in Making Alzheimer’s Diagnosis

May 4, 2020

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CTE and Alzheimer's Disease

We Know Repeated Head Hits Contribute to CTE—but What about Alzheimer’s Disease?

April 29, 2020

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Memory

It’s True, Scent Really Does Have Power over Memory

March 16, 2020

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Fine Arts

Accurate Art

March 6, 2020

Kat j. McAlpine interviews Ann McKee in her research lab about CTE

CTE & Football

What Does Football Do to the Brain?

January 30, 2020

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Autonomous Vehicles

Aerial Drones Get Schooled in Navigation by Moths

January 16, 2020

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Rehabilitation Sciences

Making a Habit of Exercise

January 14, 2020

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Research that Rocks

12 Breakthroughs That Wowed Us in 2019

December 19, 2019

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Veterans

At BU and Beyond, Many Gulf War Veterans Still Suffer from Toxic Wounds

November 8, 2019

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CTE

CTE Risk More Than Doubles after Just Three Years of Playing Football

October 7, 2019

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Gulf War Illness

BU Researcher Makes Debut on Netflix’s New Show

September 23, 2019

Science & Technology

The Transformers

September 20, 2019

Neuroscience researcher Steve Ramirez holds a digital diagram of a brain.

Neuroscience

How Do You Manipulate a Memory?

September 11, 2019

Accolades

Two BU Researchers Honored by White House

August 23, 2019

Two BU Researchers Honored by White House