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 Simlish, 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.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: More to Pictures Than Meets the Eye
People perceive pictures of individuals within photographs as less real and having “less mind”, a new study reports.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Imagined Music and Silence Trigger Similar Brain Activity
EEG study reveals when we imagine a song, similar brain activity occurs as when we experience moments of silence in music.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Treatment Lets Obese Mice Lose Weight by Sweating Fat
Obese mice treated with the TSLP cytokine showed a significant loss in abdominal fat and weight. The fat loss was not associated with reduced food intake or faster metabolism, instead the cytokine stimulated the immune system to release lipids via the …
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Seriously Funny: Humor Is a Character Strength
Researchers say the use and appreciation of humor is positive for overall wellbeing and psychological health.
