by Pasteur Institute Decoding a direct dialog between the gut microbiota and the brain. Credit: Institut Pasteur / Pascal Marseaud Gut microbiota by-products circulate in the bloodstream, regulating host physiological processes including immunity, metabolism and brain functions. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur (a partner research organization of Université Paris Cité), Inserm and the CNRS have...
by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress Credit: Neuropsychologia (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108184 A team of researchers with members affiliated with MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, UCLA and Harvard University has found that a woman without a left temporal lobe developed a language network in the right side of her brain that allowed her to communicate normally. The group published their...
by Tulane University Tracy Fischer, PhD, lead investigator and associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the Tulane National Primate Research Center. Credit: Tulane University, Paula Burch-Celentano COVID-19 patients commonly report having headaches, confusion and other neurological symptoms, but doctors don’t fully understand how the disease targets the brain during infection. Now, researchers at Tulane...
SPIE–INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR OPTICS AND PHOTONICS IMAGE: OPTO–FMRI ALLOWS CORRELATION OF BEHAVIOR WITH SIMULTANEOUS MANIPULATION AND MONITORING LIVING BRAIN ACTIVITY IN RATS AT BOTH MICROSCOPIC AND MACROSCOPIC LEVELS. CREDIT: BELOATE AND ZHANG, DOI 10.1117/1.NPH.9.3.032208. To simultaneous manipulate and monitor living brain activity at both microscopic and macroscopic levels and identify the links to behavior is...
by University of Oslo Earlier research has shown that several of the same risk factors behind the development of cardiovascular disease also can lead to Alzheimer’s. Pictured left to right: Shreyas B. Rao, Reidun Torp and Gry H.E. Syverstad Skaaraas. Credit: Carina Knudsen, UiO If the blood supply to your brain decreases, it can trigger...
by Flinders University Credit: Pixabay How the ‘second brain’ – the enteric nervous system in our gut—communicates with our first brain has been one of the most challenging questions faced by enteric neuroscientists, until now. New research from Flinders University has discovered how specialized cells within the gut can communicate with both the brain and spinal...
by Molly Gluck, Boston University Social transmission of memory. Credit: The Ramirez Lab Has a song ever reminded you of the past, and unexpectedly surfaced emotions associated with that specific experience or person from your memory? Does walking into Staples remind you of back-to-school shopping, even years after graduating? Or, have you ever been introduced...
by Society of Nuclear Medicine Figure 1. 18F-FDG PET in COVID-19–related CNS disorders: Principal components analysis of spatial covariance pattern (first row) and statistical parametric mapping analysis of metabolic group differences (second to fifth rows) in patients with COVID-19–related encephalopathy, patients with post-COVID-19 syndrome, and patients with post-COVID-19 syndrome and hyposmia compared to healthy controls (n=13)....
by University Hospital Tübingen Credit: CC0 Public Domain Did math problems make you stressed at school? That’s what happened to participants in a study of the brain’s reaction to stress. For the first time, researchers looked at the entire duration of such a situation. They found not only changes in the communication of brain regions,...
DZNE – GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES Findings by researchers from Germany support the view that hyperactive immune cells in the brain can have a protective effect in the course of neurodegenerative diseases. Experts from Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and LMU Klinikum München report on this in the scientific magazine The EMBO...
