Published: April 11, 2023 8.05am EDT Author James Phillips Research Associate Professor of Head and Neck Surgery and Director of UW Medicine’s Dizziness and Balance Center, University of Washington My first experience with motion sickness was as a college student, standing on the back of a marine research vessel looking at interesting things dredged from...
by Matthieu P. Boisgontier and Boris Cheval, The Conversation A healthy mind in a healthy body? Here’s what the science says. Credit: Shutterstock The health benefits of physical activity are undeniable. Yet, a recent study based on data published over the past 30 years challenges the famous adage “Mens sana in corpore sano” (“a healthy mind...
by University of California, Los Angeles Researchers at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at UCLA and the National Institutes of Health have developed a zebrafish model that provides new insight into how the brain acquires essential omega-3 fatty acids, including docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and linolenic acid (ALA). Their findings,...
Heidi Ledford Illustration by María Corte When Naomi Rance first started studying menopause and the brain, she pretty much had the field to herself. And what she was discovering surprised her. In studies of post-mortem brains, she had found neurons in a region called the hypothalamus that roughly doubled in size in women after menopause1....
by Northwestern University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A major impediment to treating the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma has been that the most potent chemotherapy can’t permeate the blood-brain barrier to reach the aggressive brain tumor. But now Northwestern Medicine scientists report results of the first in-human clinical trial in which they used a novel, skull-implantable ultrasound...
by Albert Einstein College of Medicine Graphical abstract. Credit: Neuron (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.04.005 Helping your mother make pancakes when you were three…riding your bike without training wheels…your first romantic kiss: How do we retain vivid memories of long-ago events? As described in a paper published in Neuron, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have found the explanation. “The ability to...
by University College London Overlap map of resection cavities in the patients’ cohort. A map of all resection cavities normalized to the MNI space is shown, with a color bar showing voxel overlapping in a maximum of 20 patients. Credit: Brain (2023). DOI: 10.1093/brain/awad085 Researchers at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology have discovered a network of connections...
NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE – KNAW IMAGE: DIFFICULTIES IN DETECTING HIPPOCAMPAL REGENERATION CREDIT: NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE Is our brain able to regenerate? And can we harness this regenerative potential during aging or in neurodegenerative conditions? These questions sparked intense controversy within the field of neuroscience for many years. A new study from the Netherlands...
by University of Helsinki Endogenous CDNF affects the hemorrhagic lesion after ICH. A Photograph of representative films demonstrating temporal changes in CDNF protein in the naive striatum and ICH-affected striatum, at 3 h to 7 days post-ICH in SD rats, which were assessed using Western blotting. B Bar graph showing the relative levels of CDNF protein in the striatum of...
by Amy Walden, Florida State University Wen Li is a professor of psychology at Florida State University and is also an affiliate of the neuroscience program. Credit: Florida State University A Florida State University researcher’s work to understand exactly what part of the brain is involved in disorders such as anxiety, PTSD and other phobias...
