by University of California, Irvine The 90+ Study, one of the largest studies of its kind in the world, used cognitive assessment test scores from some of the more than 2,000 participants enrolled. The project has produced several significant findings regarding cognitive function, health and lifestyle habits in the oldest-old population information obtained during life. Credit:...
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Study finds how our brains turn into smarter disease fighters
Combating Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases by inserting healthy new immune cells into the brain has leaped reality. Neuroscientists at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Pennsylvania have found a way to safely thwart the brain’s resistance to them, vaulting a key hurdle in the quest. Their discovery about brain cells called microglia heralds...
Study shows how our brains can turn into smarter disease fighters
by University of California, Irvine Credit: CC0 Public Domain Combating Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases by inserting healthy new immune cells into the brain has taken a leap toward reality. Neuroscientists at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Pennsylvania have found a way to safely thwart the brain’s resistance to them, vaulting...
Mom’s dietary fat rewires male and female brains differently
by Duke University A microglia (in magenta) from a male mouse born to a mom on a high-fat diet, which sequesters more brain serotonin (in green) than males with mom’s eating a typical lab diet. The blue is the glia’s nucleus. Credit: Staci Bilbo Lab, Duke University More than half of all women in the...
Researchers call for new studies to learn how our brains change when we’re awake after midnight
by Massachusetts General Hospital Credit: CC0 Public Domain If you’ve ever stayed up late angrily commenting on Twitter posts, eating a whole pint of ice cream out of the container, finishing another bottle of wine, or just feeling miserable, you might identify with the Mind After Midnight hypothesis. The hypothesis, which was detailed in a...
Can we rejuvenate aging brains?
by Bruce Goldman, Stanford University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray, Ph.D., has spent 20 years unearthing and examining various molecules with neuroprotective and neurodegenerative properties. These molecules are found in or on different cell types in the brain and on the blood vessels abutting it, or floating in the blood and the cerebrospinal fluid...
Researchers reveal how our brains update memories when recollections are proven wrong
Researchers from the University of Toronto have confirmed the critical role played by the brain’s hippocampus in updating our memories when those recollections are shown to be inaccurate. The hippocampus is part of the brain’s limbic system – the amalgam of neurological components that, among other functions, creates and retrieves our memories. Previous research demonstrated that...
Steerable catheter for brains
By Nick Lavars August 19, 2021 Graphic of a newly developed steerable catheter depositing platinum coils to treat an aneurysm UC San Diego With its extremely narrow and delicate blood vessels, the brain poses a unique challenge for surgeons trying to get at its various nooks and crannies, and there are limitations to what current...
A new kind of visual illusion uncovers how our brains connect the dots
by New York University The “scintillating starburst” stimulus. This stimulus is made up of several concentric pairs of scaled star polygons. Most observers perceive fleeting rays, beams, or lines emanating from the center that appear to be brighter than the background. Credit: Michael Karlovich, Recursia LLC A new class of illusion, developed by a visual artist...
Scientists Drove Mice to Bond by Zapping Their Brains With Light
By Virginia Hughes Mice with tiny devices implanted in their brains showed a great affinity to one another in an experiment when the signals were synchronized. Credit: Northwestern University Late one evening last March, just before the coronavirus pandemic shut down the country, Mingzheng Wu, a graduate student at Northwestern University, plopped two male mice into...
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