Neuroscience
Scientists advance understanding of blood-brain barrier health
Hard skulls help protect our brains from physical injuries.
Sep 21, 2020
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Traumatic Brain Injury
Neuroscience
Concussion discovery reveals dire, unknown effect of even mild brain injuries
Even mild concussions cause severe and long-lasting impairments in the brain's ability to clean itself of toxins, and this may seed it for Alzheimer's disease, dementia and other neurodegenerative problems, new research from ...
Sep 10, 2020
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Medical research
Team identifies new biomarkers to diagnose and monitor brain injuries
A scientific team led by the University of Arizona and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, identified a robust set of biomarkers through proteomics and metabolomic analysis ...
Aug 3, 2020
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Medical research
Blood-based biomarker can detect, predict severity of traumatic brain injury
A study from the National Institutes of Health confirms that neurofilament light chain as a blood biomarker can detect brain injury and predict recovery in multiple groups, including professional hockey players with acute ...
Jul 8, 2020
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Neuroscience
Similar brain glitch found in slips of signing, speaking
When we speak, we give little thought to how the words form in our brain before we say them. It's similar for deaf people using sign language.
May 4, 2020
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Neuroscience
'Resetting' immune cells improves traumatic brain injury recovery in mice
Targeting overactive immune cells and dampening their chronic neurotoxic effects may offer new therapeutic strategies for traumatic brain injury (TBI), according to new preclinical research in mice, which has been published ...
Feb 24, 2020
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Neuroscience
In mice, alcohol dependence results in brain-wide remodeling of functional architecture
Employing advanced technologies that allow whole brain imaging at single-cell resolution, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that in an alcohol-dependent mouse model, the rodent brain's ...
Jan 15, 2020
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Neuroscience
Brain scans reveal how the human brain compensates when one hemisphere is removed
Researchers studying six adults who had one of their brain hemispheres removed during childhood to reduce epileptic seizures found that the remaining half of the brain formed unusually strong connections between different ...
Nov 19, 2019
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Medical research
Researchers discover potential new Rx target for AMD and Alzheimer's
Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, Ph.D., Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, found a new mechanism by which a class of molecules his lab discovered ...
Nov 11, 2019
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Neuroscience
Team publishes on highest resolution brain MRI scan
A new paper describes a breakthrough 100 micron resolution scan of the human brain that was created by a multidisciplinary team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers. The paper, which appeared in Scientific ...
Oct 30, 2019
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