Do the peanut butter sniff test By using the peanut butter test it is possible to determine whether someone is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. This is the outcome of a study published in the Journal of the Neurological Sciences. Rebecca Joubert • November 06, 2013
Neuroscience in the classroom? Neuroscientific results are increasingly popular amongst teachers. But what does it mean if children with learning disabilities show less activity in a certain brain area, and can we really use this information in the classroom? Sabine Peters • October 30, 2013
Illuminate your mind: neuromodulation at the speed of light Optogenetics has been chosen as 'Method of the year 2010' by the journal Nature Methods. But what exactly is optogenetics? And how can we use this neuromodulation technique to better understand behaviour? Claudia Pama • May 27, 2013
Where on earth did the effect go? One replication is worth at least a thousand t-tests, indeed, but several replications (let’s say about twenty) and well-powered studies are worth at least a million t-tests. Marc Molendijk • March 19, 2013
Statistical errors in neuroscience: how a mouse turned into an elephant Analyzing a large corpus of the neuroscience literature we found that the same statistical error – comparing effect sizes by comparing their significance levels – is appearing throughout even the most prestigious journals in neuroscience. Sander Nieuwenhuis • January 27, 2013
