A drug currently being tested in cancer clinical trials appears to prevent dysfunction in an immune cell signaling pathway associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Blocking the pathway could prevent Alzheimer’s from developing and slow the progression of s…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Bionic Eye Study Paves the Way Toward Human Trials
A newly designed bionic eye is safe and stable for long-term implantation, researchers conclude following a three-month study in sheep. The discovery paves the way for human trials of the bionic device.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: MRI Reveals Altered Brain Structure in Fetuses Exposed to Alcohol
A neuroimaging study reveals significant structural differences in the brain of fetuses exposed to alcohol. Researchers found alcohol exposed fetuses had increased volume in the corpus callosum and decreased volume in the periventricular zone of the br…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Novel Immune Cell Population May Trigger Inflammation in Multiple Sclerosis and Other Brain Disorders
A unique subset of group 3 innate lymphoid cells spurs T cells to attack myelinated nerve fibers in mouse models of multiple sclerosis.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Caffeine Improves Reaction to Moving Targets
Caffeine improves visual acuity by increasing alertness and detection accuracy for moving objects, a new study reports.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Controlling Brain Circuits, Behavior, and Emotion Using Light
A newly developed system dubbed Opto-vTrap can temporarily trap vesicles from being released from brain cells.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Using AI to Successfully Detect Signs of Anxiety
A new AI algorithm can detect behavioral symptoms associated with anxiety with over 90% accuracy.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Xenobots: Team Builds First Living Robots That Can Reproduce
Researchers report Xenobots, a computer-designed, hand-assembled organism can find and gather single cells, and assemble “baby” Xenobots. After a few days, the immature Xanobots can also find cells and replicate themselves.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Certain Brain Waves Aren’t Just Background Noise
Findings shed new light on how brain states are regulated and how the brain can switch between them.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Hippocampal Replay: Reflection on the Past or Planning for the Future?
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Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: BRAIN issues notice of supplements to embed ethicists into BRAIN Initiative research
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Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Amateur Boxing to Increased Risk of Brain Impairment and Early Onset of Dementia
Amateur boxers, specifically those who boxed during their youth, are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than those who didn’t.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Why Some People Experience Early Onset Neurodegenerative Diseases
A new study sheds light on the genetic causes of a range of neurodegenerative disorders, including ALS, Parkinson’s disease, and Huntington’s disease, and determines factors that impact the age of onset as well as disease severity.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Study Reveals a Protein’s Key Contribution to Heterogeneity of Neurons
Just one protein situated on the synapse can profoundly alter how some neurons communicate and implement plasticity.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Researchers Develop Wireless Networks That Allow Brain Circuits to Be Controlled Remotely Through the Internet
A new system that combines neural implants with the internet of things can remotely control the brain circuits of numerous animals across the globe simultaneously and independently via the web.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Which Side Is Which? How the Brain Perceives Borders
Neurons in deep layers of the brain’s cortex are the first to decipher which side of a visual border is an object and which side is the background.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: AI Studies the Emotions Aroused by Music, and Our Way of Perceiving Them
A new AI algorithm recognizes the complex range of emotions invoked when people listen to pieces of music.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Potential Cause of Alzheimer’s Discovered
The form in which isomers take can increase the risk of developing dementia, researchers report. Drugs in development to improve autophagy may help prevents Alzheimer’s from developing.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: 'You're so mature for your age' isn't always a compliment
Mature behavior can be a side effect of a traumatic upbringing, and a child who lost a childhood.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How Black tech entrepreneurs are tackling health care's race gap
Black tech health startups across the United States want to change how people exercise, how they eat and also how they communicate with doctors.
