Food for thought: Obesity may affect the brain too
Calorie-filled meals with little nutrition are suspected of having an impact on decision-making and of causing an overweight trap.
Feb 15, 2024
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Calorie-filled meals with little nutrition are suspected of having an impact on decision-making and of causing an overweight trap.
Feb 15, 2024
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Many neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, are characterized by the accumulation of protein clumps, or aggregates, in the brain, which has led scientists to assume that the protein tangles ...
Feb 13, 2024
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Have you ever wondered what happens in the brain when we move to the right or left? Most people don't; they just do it without thinking about it. But this simple movement is actually controlled by a complex process.
Feb 12, 2024
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Improving the way scientists can see the microscopic structures of the brain can improve our understanding of a host of brain diseases, like Alzheimer's or multiple sclerosis. Studying these diseases is challenging and has ...
Feb 10, 2024
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Generative artificial intelligence (AI), utilizing deep learning to generate a patient's brain network from multimodal images, has a valuable application in brain network analysis. However, existing data-driven models face ...
Feb 7, 2024
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A protein that has been widely studied owing to its association with neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is also linked to medulloblastoma, a type of central nervous system cancer. Medulloblastoma ...
Feb 7, 2024
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In a recent study of the brain's waste drainage system, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis, collaborating with investigators at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) discovered ...
Feb 7, 2024
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Researchers at the University of Queensland have revealed the crucial role of saturated fatty acids in the brain's consolidation of memories.
Feb 6, 2024
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Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered why a gene, when mutated, is a common cause of two debilitating brain diseases: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia ...
Feb 6, 2024
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An article published this week in the journal Nature Medicine documents what is believed to be the first evidence that Alzheimer's disease can be transmitted from person to person.
Feb 4, 2024
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