Reducing tau can prevent abnormal brain activity associated with Alzheimer’s disease, autism, and epilepsy.
Maintaining Balance in the Brain
Reducing tau can prevent abnormal brain activity associated with Alzheimer’s disease, autism, and epilepsy.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Majority of 15 to 19 Year Olds Wanted COVID Vaccination for Altruistic Reasons
Many teens cite a desire to get a COVID vaccine in order to do their part and protect the health of those more vulnerable in their families and communities.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Termite Brains Can Grow in Anticipation of a Single Moment of Flight and Light
Study reveals why select members of a termite community experience brain changes in anticipation of cognitive demands.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How the Brain and Fat Tissue Communicate
A new study aims to generate a model of how the brain and body fat communication system controls the production and release of leptin. The study aims to discover how metabolism is regulated under different environmental challenges.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How to Nurture Creativity in Your Kids
Researches investigate the positive impact of nurturing creativity in children and evaluate methods for encouraging creativity.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Spending Time in Nature Promotes Early Childhood Development
Children who live in areas with easy access to greenspaces and natural vegetation showed better overall development than their peers who lived closer to fewer greenspaces.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Breastfeeding May Help Prevent Cognitive Decline
While the positive impact of breastfeeding on babies is well known, little is known about the positive benefits for the mother. A new study reveals women who breastfed their children performed better on cognitive tests at age 50 than those who fed thei…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Low Protein Diets Could Accelerate Dementia but Amino Acids Can Slow the Progress
While a low-protein diet can accelerate neurodegeneration, consuming Amino LP7, a combination of essential amino acids, could slow the progression or inhibit the development of dementia.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Fighting Multiple Sclerosis With Cold
Cold exposure therapies could help alleviate symptoms of multiple sclerosis by depriving the immune system of its energy.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Study Find Links to Genetic Disorders in Walking Patterns
Researchers have linked Fragile X and SHANK3 deletion syndrome, two disorders associated with autism, to specific microscopic walking patterns.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: When and Why Did Human Brains Decrease in Size 3,000 Years Ago?
A new study reports human brain size decreased in size approximately 3,000 years ago, and the brain shrinkage parallels the expansion of collective intelligence in human societies.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Common Antidepressant Should No Longer Be Used to Treat People With Dementia
Mirtazapine, an antidepressant commonly prescribed to treat dementia-associated agitation, is no more effective than a placebo and may increase mortality risks, researchers report.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: VR Experiment With Rats Offers New Insights About How Neurons Enable Learning
Studying rats in a virtual reality maze, researchers discover certain hippocampal neurons play a vital role in a specific mechanism of navigation.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Fat Cells Found to Play a Central Role in Cognitive Decline and Neurodegeneration
A new study reveals how adipocytes, or fat cells, play a role in cognitive decline and increased neurodegeneration risks. Using genetically modified mouse models, researchers found oxidative stress through exposure to a Western diet increased the produ…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Two-Handed Movements Require More Neural Effort as People Grow Older
Age-related declines in bilateral movement coordination are linked to differences in alpha and beta neural activity, a new study reports.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: People’s Eyes Reveal That Clichés Are Underrated
Eye-tracking reveals the brain pays more attention to conventional metaphors than it does to similar alternatives.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Mapping Neurons in the Brain Involved With Social Interactions With Others in Groups
The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex plays a critical role in mapping out personal actions and outcomes as well as responding to the actions of others.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Bat Study Reveals Secrets of the Social Brain
Wireless neural recordings of freely interacting bats provides new insight into how the brain processes group communication.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Practice Really Does Make Perfect
The old adage that practice makes perfect may very well be true, according to neuroscientists. Researchers found when a male zebra finch is in the presence of an attractive female and delivers its rehearsed mating call, a noradrenaline release in the b…
