The New York Times
Keep Getting Lost? Maybe You Grew Up on the Grid.
7 min read · Mar 30th · Childhood environments shape people’s navigational skills, researchers reported. The findings one day may lead to better tests for early dementia.
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NPR
COVID and schizophrenia: Why this deadly mix can deepen understanding of the brain
4 min read · Mar 25th · People with schizophrenia are three times as likely to die from the virus, giving scientists an opportunity to study the potential relationship between the immune system and mental illness.
The New York Times
Brain Implant Allows Fully Paralyzed Patient to Communicate
8 min read · Mar 23rd · Letter by painstaking letter, a man in a completely locked-in state was able to formulate words and sentences using only his thoughts.
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NPR
This form of memory loss is common— but most Americans don't know about it
4 min read · Mar 18th · Mild cognitive impairment, a common brain condition, can be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease. But most people don't know the symptoms. And some may mistake it for normal aging.
The New York Times
Covid May Cause Changes in the Brain, New Study Finds
6 min read · Mar 7th · Brain scans before and after infection showed more loss of gray matter and tissue damage, mostly in areas related to smell, in people who had Covid than in those who did not.
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Quanta Magazine
Scientists Watch a Memory Form in a Living Brain
2 min read · Mar 3rd · While watching a fearful memory take shape in the brain of a living fish, neuroscientists see an unexpected level of rewiring occur in the synaptic connections.
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The Guardian
Study finds link between Alzheimer’s and circadian clock
2 min read · Feb 10th · Research raises hopes for new therapies that could help tackle disease and symptoms
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The Sydney Morning Herald
How exercise changes our brains
2 min read · Feb 7th · In a world that is today geared towards minimising the need for physical effort, it’s important to remember that our bodies and brains are hardwired to move every day.
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NPR
A brain circuit tied to emotion may lead to better treatments for Parkinson's disease
8 min read · Feb 7th · The symptoms of Parkinson's disease can vanish briefly in the face of stress or a strong emotion. Now scientists are searching for a treatment based on this phenomenon, a form of the placebo effect.
MIT Press
On Meditation and the Unconscious: A Buddhist Monk and a Neuroscientist in Conversation
~13 min read · Jan 24th · An excerpt from "Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience."
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Neuroscience News
Exercise May Reduce Brain Inflammation, Reducing the Risk of Alzheimer’s
4 min read · 2021-11-28 · Physical activity appears to reduce microglial activation and improve cognition in the aging human brain, researchers report.
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The New York Times
How Staying Physically Active May Protect the Aging Brain
5 min read · 2021-12-01 · Simple activities like walking boost immune cells in the brain that may help to keep memory sharp and even ward off Alzheimer’s disease.
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The New Yorker
The Science of Mind Reading
6 min read · 2021-11-29 · Researchers are pursuing age-old questions about the nature of thoughts—and learning how to read them.
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The Guardian
Covid-19 virus does not infect human brain cells, study suggests
3 min read · 2021-11-03 · Exclusive: study raises hopes that Covid-related damage to sense of smell may be more superficial than previously feared
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medicalxpress.com
Has a treatment for Alzheimer's been sitting on pharmacy shelves for decades? Scientists have two possible candidates
4 min read · 2021-11-02 · Two drugs approved decades ago not only counteract brain damage caused by Alzheimer's disease in animal models, the same therapeutic combination may also improve cognition.
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Stanford University
Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study
3 min read · 2021-10-30 · In a double-blind controlled study, high doses of magnetic brain stimulation, given on an accelerated timeline and individually targeted, caused remission in 79% of trial participants with severe…
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