A research team has, for the first time, identified at the cellular level why the olfactory system is the first to be damaged in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (dementia). The paper is published in the journal Alzheimer's ...
Apr 26, 2026
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Mice make use of rapid nerve cell interactions in the brain's smell center to distinguish one odor from another, a new study shows. Both mice and humans can rapidly identify odors, researchers say, in a small fraction of ...
Apr 14, 2026
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New research led by Gregory Pearson, a doctoral student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the College of Natural Sciences, reveals that the brain's immune defenses operate on a daily schedule, a finding ...
Apr 2, 2026
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Closely related subtypes of dopamine-releasing neurons may play entirely separate roles in processing sensory information, depending on their physical structure.
Dec 16, 2025
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In a magical scene towards the end of 2007 film "Ratatouille," notoriously harsh food critic Anton Ego is instantly transported back in time, his childhood memories revived by a spoonful of the film's eponymous dish. No pictures ...
Oct 2, 2025
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A fading sense of smell can be one of the earliest signs of Alzheimer's disease even before cognitive impairments manifest. Research by scientists at DZNE and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) sheds new light on ...
Aug 15, 2025
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No more hunger after cooking? A newly identified network of nerve cells is responsible, a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research has discovered in mice.
Jun 11, 2025
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered a fundamental mechanism that affects the size of the pupil, namely our breathing. The study, published in the Journal of Physiology, shows that the pupil is smallest ...
Feb 21, 2025
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Kaboom! The first time most of us hear the sound of an explosion is in the movies. Encountering the sound in the real world—even at a distance—has a profoundly different effect. Why? It's all about context. How we react to ...
Jan 30, 2025
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For the first time, scientists have detected microscopic microplastics lodged in the human brain. Researchers in Germany and Brazil say that 8 out of 15 autopsied adults had microplastics detected within their brain's smell ...
Sep 16, 2024
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