Neuroscience
Thwarting a Protein Reverses Brain Decline in Aged Mice
Blocking an immune-related molecule lodged in blood vessels stops memory loss
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Mental Health
Infections and Drugs to Treat Them Tied to Eating Disorders in Teens
A new study adds to growing evidence that immune system dysfunction and altered gut microbes may contribute to the development of eating disorders
Biotech
AI Tool Could Help Diagnose Alzheimer’s
A new algorithm accurately identified more than 90 percent of people who would advance to an Alzheimer’s diagnosis in about six years
Neuroscience
The Roots of Human Aggression
Experiments in humans and animals have started to identify how violent behaviors begin in the brain
Neuroscience
Brain Activity Decoded to Produce Intelligible, Synthesized Speech
New device is a step toward translating thoughts into machine-spoken words
How Language Shapes the Brain
The ascent of Japan’s Emperor Naruhito offers a lesson in the neuroscientific power of words
Neuroscience
You’ve Got a Blind Spot at Nighttime
Recent research explains why you’ve never noticed before
Neuroscience
Scientists Take a Step Toward Decoding Speech from the Brain
New study gets closer to restoring natural communication for those who cannot speak
Cognition
Honeybees Can Put Two and Two Together
The tiny brain of a honeybee is apparently able to calculate small numbers' addition and subtraction. Annie Sneed reports.
Neuroscience
Brain Restoration System Explores Hazy Territory between Being Dead or Alive
An experiment that restored cellular function to pigs’ brains hours after death holds the potential for advancing neuroscience research
Neuroscience
What Chickens Can Teach Hearing Researchers
At an April 9th event sponsored by the Kavli Foundation and produced by Scientific American that honored Nobel and Kavli Prize winners, neuroscientists James Hudspeth and Robert Fettiplace talked about the physiology of hearing and the possibility of restoring hearing loss...
Neuroscience
Pig Experiment Challenges Assumptions around Brain Damage in People
The restoration of some structures and cellular functions in pig brains hours after death could intensify debates about when human organs should be removed for transplantation, warn Stuart Youngner and Insoo Hyun...
Mental Health
Nobel Laureate Paul Greengard Kept Churning Out Ideas for New Drugs after Turning 90
Do what you love: the nonagenarian showed no signs of slowing down from a nearly seven-day-a-week work schedule
Neuroscience
Behind the Buzz: How Ketamine Changes the Depressed Patient’s Brain
The anesthetic-cum-party drug restores the ability to make connections among brain cells
Biotech
A New Way to Detect Parkinson’s—by Smell
Discovery of odorous markers for neurodegenerative disease
Neuroscience
“Hyperscans” Show How Brains Sync as People Interact
Social neuroscientists ask what happens at the level of neurons when you tell someone a story or a group watches movies
Neuroscience
Building a Brain Implant for Smell
Researchers are developing a device that could restore olfaction, much as a cochlear implant restores hearing
Neuroscience
Machines That Translate Wants into Actions
A new generation of brain-machine interfaces can deduce what a person wants
Medicine
A Repurposed Drug Could Offer Hope after Many Alzheimer's Trial Failures
An experimental drug for hepatitis D triggers a cellular waste disposal system to rid mice brains of the tau protein, a major culprit in neurodegenerative disease
Neuroscience
Tech's Brain Effect: It's Complicated
We don't yet know what the immersion in technology does to our brains, but one neuroscientist says the answer is likely to be that there's good, there's bad, and it's complex.
