Detecting Brain Disease Using the Eye
Susha Cheriyedath, M.Sc. via News-Medical Net – The human eye shares several vascular and neural similarities to the brain, and hence, our eyes have been found to offer a direct…
Birth Control Pills Shrink Hypothalamus
Dr. Ananya Mandal, MD via News Medical-Net – Birth control pills have been found to reduce a part of the brain that is associated with controlling the sex drive finds…
Scientists Create Artificial Neurons that Help Cure Chronic Diseases
Angela Betsaida B. Laguipo, BSN via News Medical-Net – Artificial brain cells could now be implanted in the brain to repair the damage caused by chronic diseases, such as Alzheimer’s…
How the Brain Detects the Rhythms of Speech
University of California – San Francisco via EurekAlert – “What I find most exciting about this work is that it shows a simple neural coding principle for the sense of…
Movies Can Be Early Detection System for Autism
Daniel Ben Tal via Israel21c – Israeli researchers indicate that tracking gaze patterns is measurable, reliable and offers great clinical potential. Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have discovered…
Sleep Protects the Brain Against Alzheimer’s By Washing It
Dr. Ananya Mandal, MD via News Medical-Net – Researchers have found that when in deep sleep, the brain waves within can start off a cleaning system within the brain that…
Looking at the Way We Walk Can Help Predict Cognitive Decline
IOS Press via Newswise – Gait disorders, particularly slowing gait, should be considered a marker of future cognitive decline say scientists in this special supplement to the Journal of Alzheimer’s…
Scientists Discover Link Between Unique Brain Cells and OCD and Anxiety
University of Utah via Newswise – Mice with dysfunctional microglia exhibited OCD behaviors, and female sex hormones drove symptom severity and added anxiety. Newswise — According to the National Institute…
A New Discovery: How Our Memories Stabilize While We Sleep
CNRS via EurekAlert – The authors here looked more closely at what happens during delta waves themselves. They discovered, surprisingly, that the cortex is not entirely silent but that a…
Dementia Spreads Via Connected Brain Networks
University of California – San Francisco via EurekAlert – Brain maps allow individualized predictions of frontotemporal dementia progression. In a new study, UC San Francisco scientists used maps of brain…
Overcoming the Blood-Brain-Barrier: Delivering Therapeutics to the Brain
Newcastle University via EurekAlert – For the first time, scientists have identified a simple way that can effectively transport medication into the brain – which could lead to improved treatments…
Dealing a Therapeutic Counterblow to Traumatic Brain Injury
New Jersey Institute of Technology via EurekAlert – To date, there is no effective treatment for restoring damaged neurons. The body’s protective mechanisms also make it difficult to penetrate the…
Common Nutrient Supplementation May Hold the Answers to Combatting Alzheimer’s Disease
Arizona State University via EurekAlert – Results showed that when these mice are given high choline in their diet throughout life, they exhibit improvements in spatial memory, compared with those…
Cellular Aging is Linked to Structural Changes in the Brain
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences via EurekAlert – One key to staying younger longer therefore seems to be related to the question: How do we slow…
Research Shows Music Aids Memory Performance in Older Adults and Patients With Alzheimer’s Disease
Texas State University via News Wise – For this year’s World Alzheimers Day, Dr. Deason from Texas State University, reflects on how aging and disease affects the human mind, particularly…
