TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER IMAGE: IN HIS MOST RECENT STUDY, TTUHSC’S VARDAN KARAMYAN, PH.D., LED A COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATION TO EVALUATE THE POTENTIAL OF NEUROLYSIN AS A THERAPEUTIC TARGET FOR STROKE. CREDIT: TTUHSC Ischemic stroke, the second leading cause of death worldwide, occurs when a vessel to the brain is blocked, reducing blood flow...
by University of California – San Diego Artistic visualization of the decreased modularity and increased synchronization between brain regions during psychostimulant withdrawal (left hemisphere) compared to control mice (right hemisphere). Credit: Lauren Smith, UC San Diego Health Sciences Addictive psychostimulants, from nicotine in cigarettes to illicit drugs like methamphetamine and cocaine, affect different regions of the...
by University of Southern California Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Brain metastasis occurs when cancer in one part of the body spreads to the brain. The lifetime incidence of such metastatic brain tumors in cancer patients is between 20%-45%, research shows. A new study from USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of Keck Medicine of USC, suggests that the...
by University of Birmingham Credit: CC0 Public Domain Humans read by ‘pre-processing’ written words to create a pipeline of meaning, according to new research at the University of Birmingham. A study, published in Nature Communications, shows that each pre-processing judgment can take place extremely rapidly—within just 100ms after the eye lands on the previous word. The neuronal activity...
by Rockefeller University An area (red-yellow) in the brain’s temporal pole specializes in familiar face recognition. Credit: Sofia Landi Scientists have long searched in vain for a class of brain cells that could explain the visceral flash of recognition that we feel when we see a very familiar face, like that of our grandmothers. But the...
by Kareem Clark, The Conversation Credit: CC0 Public Domain With COVID-19 vaccines working and restrictions lifting across the country, it’s finally time for those now vaccinated who’ve been hunkered down at home to ditch the sweatpants and reemerge from their Netflix caves. But your brain may not be so eager to dive back into your former social life....
By Ben Coxworth June 09, 2021 A simplified diagram of the Nose2Brain patch, loaded with biomaterial-based drug particlesN2B-patch Project. Getting traditionally administered drugs into the brain can be challenging, due to the body’s protective blood-brain barrier. There may be new hope, however, in the form of a patch that gets shoved up the patient’s nose....
Thomas Smith Image: Kyoto University/CC-BY 4.0 International license Ihave a photographic memory, and I’m a time-space synesthete. That means I can visualize, in photorealistic detail, basically any place I’ve ever been. I can also imagine nonexistent places and fly around them in my brain like I’m in a video game. It’s a cool thing to be...
ETH ZURICH IMAGE: LEFT: CONVENTIONAL FLUORESCENCE IMAGES OF A MOUSE BRAIN. RIGHT: AN IMAGE TAKEN WITH THE NEW DIFFUSE OPTICAL LOCALIZATION IMAGING (DOLI) METHOD. CREDIT: ETH ZURICH, UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH / DANIEL RAZANSKY The way the human brain works remains, to a great extent, a topic of controversy. One reason is our limited ability to...
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM While we sleep, the brain produces particular activation patterns. When two of these patterns – slow oscillations and sleep spindles – gear into each other, previous experiences are reactivated. The stronger the reactivation, the clearer will be our recall of past events, a new study reveals. Scientists have long known that slow...
