The release of 2-AG, a natural endocannabinoid that is suggested to be the brain’s equivalent to THC, dampens down seizure activity but increases post-seizure oxygen deprivation in the brain.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation May Reduce Smoking
Non-invasive brain stimulation, such as rTMS, helps to reduce smoking frequency in nicotine-dependent people, a new study reports. Stimulating the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation significantly reduced sm…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How Sleep Loss Sabotages New Memory Storage in the Hippocampus
Sleep-deprived mice had increased activity in hippocampal inhibitory neurons, disrupting the processing and storage of new memories.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Fine Particulate Air Pollution Associated With Higher Risk of Dementia
A small increase in fine particular air pollution over a decade within certain areas of Seattle was associated with significantly increased dementia risks for those living in the areas.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Repair of Mitochondrial Recycling Defect Linked to Parkinson’s Disease
An experimental small molecule helped restore the removal of mitochondria from dopamine-producing neurons in the brain. The findings may help in the development of new therapies for Parkinson’s disease.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Users Banned From Social Platforms Go Elsewhere With Increased Toxicity
The prevailing theory is removing toxic social media users from accessing their accounts will prevent them from posting harmful content. Researchers say banned users increase their toxic postings via more lenient platforms when removed from top networks.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Innovative Gel Offers New Hope to Defeat Parkinson’s Disease
A new hydrogel that acts as a gateway to transfer stem cells into the brain and facilitate repair to damaged tissue may effectively treat neurological conditions like Parkinson’s disease and stroke.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: 15 Novel Biomarkers for Diseases Predisposing to Dementia Identified
15 protein biomarkers have been identified as being linked to late-onset dementias. The biomarkers can predict cognitive decline and risk for dementia up to 20 years before the onset of symptoms.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Thinking Impaired in 60% of COVID-19 Survivors
60% of 400 coronavirus survivors experienced lasting cognitive impairment, a new study reports. Cognitive problems were found in those who experienced mild-to-moderate COVID symptoms, as well as those who experienced more severe symptoms. One in three …
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Simlish Is Less Distracting Than English in Background Music During a Conversation
Background music in Slimish, an unintelligible language used in the popular game The Sims, allow people to better listen to and understand each other than when the songs are in English, researchers say.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Study Yields Tiny Targets for Healing Human Memory
Researchers believe they have found a cause of memory loss in epilepsy patients by recording single neurons in the brain.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Our Brains Perceive Our Environment Differently When We’re Lying Down
When we lie down, our brains decrease reliance on information related to the external world and increase reliance on internal perceptions generated by the sense of touch.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Brain Cortex May Regulate the Need for Sleep
Processes within the cerebral cortex may be responsible for elements of sleep control such as how long, and how deeply, we sleep.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: The Creation of Abstract Thoughts in the Brain
Combining artificial intelligence, mathematical modeling, and brain imaging data, researchers shed light on the neural processes that occur when people use mental abstraction.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Risk of Schizophrenia Using a Blood Test
Blood tests revealed specific epigenetic biomarkers for schizophrenia. Researchers applied machine learning to analyze the CoRSIVs region of the human genome to identify the schizophrenia biomarkers. Testing the model with an independent data set revea…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Food Choices at an ‘all-You-Can-Eat’ Buffet Tied to Likelihood for Weight Gain
Study reveals the types of foods you load your plates with at all you can eat buffets may predict your risk for obesity.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Retina Hardwired to Predict Path of Moving Objects
Neural circuits within the retina are able to generate the information required to predict the movement and path of an object before visual signals leave the eye, researchers report.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: 3-D ‘Heat Map’ Animation Shows How Seizures Spread in the Brains of Patients with Epilepsy
A new system translates EEG data into a 3D movie which shows activity in all recorded regions of the brain. The heat map shows where seizures start and spread throughout the patient’s brain, in addition to evaluating the speed of activity during a seiz…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Learning Foreign Languages Can Affect the Processing of Music in the Brain
Learning a new language can affect musical processing in children, researchers report. Findings support the theory that musical and linguistic functions are closely linked in the developing brain.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Exercise Improves Health Through Changes to DNA
Exercise rewires the enhancers in DNA regions associated with the risk of disease development.
