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At a university neuroscience institute in Portland, Oregon, Ritu Kapoor coordinated public brain-awareness programs before joining Biology Insights as a staff writer covering basic neuroscience. She organized science fairs and community events using real specimens to explain brain function to visitors. She holds a BS in neuroscience from the University of Vermont.

What Is a Neurotoxin and Its Effect on the Nervous System?
What Is the Role of Dendrites in a Neuron?
What Does Your Thalamus Do? Its Main Functions
When Is Myelination Complete? The Full Process Explained
Where Is the Nucleus Accumbens Located?
What Part of the Brain Does Methamphetamine Affect?
What Part of the Brain Controls Gross Motor Skills?
Do Neuron Cells Divide and Can They Regenerate?
Do Schwann Cells Produce Myelin? The Process & Function
What Does the Longitudinal Fissure Separate?
What Is the Cerebral Hemisphere and What Does It Do?
What Is the Auditory Cortex? Its Function and Location
What Is the Approximate Ratio of Glial Cells to Neurons?
What Is the Function of Choroid Plexus?
What and Where Pathways: How the Brain Processes Vision
Is the Insula Part of the Limbic System?
Can Dead Brain Tissue Regenerate? What the Science Says
What Is Cognitive Neuroscience? How the Brain Creates Thought
Can Brain Cells Die and Can They Be Replaced?
What Is the Globus Pallidus and What Does It Do?
What Is the Difference Between Afferent and Efferent Neurons?
What Part of the Brain Is Responsible for Spatial Awareness?
Does the Brain Float in the Skull and Why?
What Part of the Brain Is Also Referred to as the “Emotional Brain”?
What Is the Old Brain? Its Functions and Anatomy
What Is the All-or-None Principle?
What Is the Globus Pallidus? Its Function and Location
What Part of the Brain Controls Eye Movement?
What Part of the Brain Controls the Eyes?
Why Did Phineas Gage Not Feel Pain?