High Blood Pressure in Middle Age Can Harm Your Brain
TUESDAY, Dec. 15, 2020 — High blood pressure can begin to take a toll on memory and thinking skills as …
Gut microbiota plays a role in brain function and mood regulation
Depression is a mental disorder that affects more than 264 million people of all ages worldwide. Understanding its mechanisms is …
Persistence of Zika virus in the brain causes long-term problems in mice
The Zika virus can remain in mouse brain for extended periods, leading to long-term neurological and behavioral consequences, according to …
Woman with rare brain disease who was wrongly sectioned is now a model
Four years ago, Lucy Dawson was a student at the University of Leicester, studying criminology, with dreams of joining the …
Lethal brain infections in mice thwarted by decoy molecule
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a molecule that protects mice from brain infections …
Astrocytes identified as master ‘conductors’ of the brain
In the orchestra of the brain, the firing of each neuron is controlled by two notes—excitatory and inhibitory—that come from …
Personalized drug screens could guide treatment for children with brain cancer
Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Hopp Children’s Cancer …
Brain imaging of tau protein in patients with various forms of dementia
A new imaging-based method could enable the early detection and differentiation of a wide variety of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by …
Optical imaging techniques could offer non-invasive method to measure swelling within the brain, new study finds
Imaging techniques ordinarily used by eye doctors to monitor the optic nerve could offer a non-invasive method of measuring and …
Global MRI data offers hope for improving treatment of brain injuries
Traumatic brain injury is a major cause of disability and can have major consequences for patients and their loved ones. …
Social novelty has a special place in the brain
In a study published in the journal Nature, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan report …
Why working out your brain is just as important as your body
It’s not just your body you need to train to keep in peak physical condition. Your brain is a muscle, …
Research team discovers cell in zebrafish critical to brain assembly, function
New research from Oregon Health & Science University for the first time documents the presence of astrocytes in zebrafish, a …
Study suggests new potential approach against fatal childhood brain cancer
Progress against DIPG, a fatal childhood brain tumor, is usually a game of inches. Studies that hint at even small …
Baby boomers ‘risk dementia more than previous generations’
They warned this could lead to a sharp increase in dementia rates, reversing recent improvements. Professor Hui Zheng, a sociologist …
Drug stimulation of neural stem cell repair leads to promising impact on treatment of childhood brain injury
Through a cross-species study of metformin, a common drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes, a team of researchers and …
Expanding treatment options for severe brain trauma
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized room or tube, and is commonly used to treat decompression …
Brain builds and uses maps of social networks, physical space, in the same way
Even in these social-distanced days, we keep in our heads a map of our relationships with other people: family, friends, …