By Dr. Chinta Sidharthan Reviewed by Susha Cheriyedath, M.Sc. Jul 2 2024 In a recent study published in the journal Nature Aging, a team of researchers used a large dataset consisting of participants of European ancestry from the United Kingdom (U.K.) Biobank to explore the genetic underpinnings of the biological age gap or BAG, a...
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New view on the brain: It’s all in the connections
by Radboud University Nijmegen Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It’s not the individual brain regions but rather their connections that matter. Neuroscientists propose a new model of how the brain works. This new view enables us to understand better why and how our brains vary between individuals. The researchers have published their work in a special...
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Unraveling the connections between singing and Parkinson’s disease
In a small lab decorated with a poster of colorful MRI brain scans, Elizabeth Stegemoller hits a stopwatch to record how long a participant in her study can sustain the vowel sound “ah” before taking a breath. They run through this a few times before Stegemoller moves on to measure the participant’s range of pitch...
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New research suggests memories may be stored in the connections between your brain cells
by Don Arnold, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain All memory storage devices, from your brain to the RAM in your computer, store information by changing their physical qualities. Over 130 years ago, pioneering neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal first suggested that the brain stores information by rearranging the connections, or synapses, between neurons. Since...