Pre-clinical trials by University of Queensland researchers have found an injection of a specific blood factor can replicate the benefits
Tag: Brain
Certain sugars affect brain ‘plasticity,’ helping with learning, memory, recovery
Can you recognize someone you haven’t seen in years, but forget what you had for breakfast yesterday? Our brains constantly
Brain recordings capture musicality of speech — with help from Pink Floyd
As the chords of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1,” filled the surgery suite, neuroscientists at Albany
The anatomy of memory: New mnemonic networks discovered in the brain
How can the amazing abilities of our memory be explained on the basis of brain anatomy? It is known that
Parkinson’s disease: Essential role in neuroinflammation found for a subset of brain macrophages
In Parkinson’s disease, growing evidence targets neuroinflammation as essential for brain pathogenesis. But which group of immune cells that reside
Insulin-like hormones critical for brain plasticity
Research from the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience has identified a mechanism through which insulin-like growth factors facilitate brain
How the gut signals to the brain
The gut-brain connection is a complicated two-way signaling cascade that is responsible for keeping the digestive system working properly and
New study links brain waves directly to memory
Neurons produce rhythmic patterns of electrical activity in the brain. One of the unsettled questions in the field of neuroscience
Radiation breaks connections in the brain
One of the potentially life-altering side effects that patients experience after cranial radiotherapy for brain cancer is cognitive impairment. Researchers
The mystery of the super-ager
The subject, Peter Green was a white male in his late 80s, enrolled in longitudinal studies of the elderly at
