The use of prescribed steroids, including in inhalers, is linked to changes in the structure and volume of white and gray matter in the brain, suggests the findings of the largest study of its kind, published in the open ...
Aug 30, 2022
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How much alcohol is too much?
Aug 26, 2022
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Who has not contemplated how a memory is formed, a sentence generated, a sunset appreciated, a creative act performed or a heinous crime committed?
May 6, 2022
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Studies have shown that exercise helps protect brain cells. A new study looking at the mechanisms involved in this relationship suggests that the role exercise plays in maintaining insulin and body mass index levels may help ...
Apr 13, 2022
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Researchers have been steadily gathering important insights into the effects of COVID-19 on the body and brain. Two years into the pandemic, these findings are raising concerns about the long-term impacts the coronavirus ...
Mar 8, 2022
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The structural integrity of the brain's white matter as measured with an advanced MRI technique is lower in cognitively normal people who carry a genetic mutation associated with Alzheimer's disease than it is in non-carriers, ...
Oct 12, 2021
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With more than 18 months of the pandemic in the rearview mirror, researchers have been steadily gathering new and important insights into the effects of COVID-19 on the body and brain. These findings are raising concerns ...
Sep 27, 2021
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How neat is your handwriting? The accuracy of the answer to this question relies on metacognition, the introspective evaluation of the success of cognitive processing. Despite extensive investigation of the brain architectures ...
Jul 27, 2021
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It's long been known that people living with HIV experience a loss of white matter in their brains. As opposed to "gray matter," which is composed of the cell bodies of neurons, white matter is made up of a fatty substance ...
Jun 2, 2021
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Since 2008, researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and VA Boston Healthcare System have studied chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive brain disease associated with repetitive head impacts ...
May 24, 2021
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