Stronger People Have Healthier Brains
A new study reports a strong hand grip is correlated with better visual memory and reaction times in people with psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia.... Read More...
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Stimulating a Brain Pathway Reduces Depressive Behavior: Mouse Study
Stimulating the Ent circuit helped improve depressive behaviors in mouse models of major depressive disorder, researchers report.... Read More...
Brain Activity Study Offers Potential Insight into Alzheimer’s Disease
A new study may provide key insights into the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Researchers report people with higher levels of amyloid beta showed less activity in brain areas associated with working memory when engaged in cognitively demanding tasks.... Read More...
Hippocampus May Hold Clues For Anxiety and Depression
Researchers reveal specific parts of the hippocampus may play a key role in emotional regulation.... Read More...
Does Physical Activity Influence the Health of Future Offspring?
Researchers report both physical and mental exercise can affect the learning ability of future offspring, at least in mice. ... Read More...
Does Age at Menopause Affect Memory?
Researchers report the later a women enters into natural menopause, the better, on average, her verbal memory is later in life.... Read More...
Sitting is Bad for Your Brain, Not Just Your Heart or Metabolism
A new study reports people who sit down too much during middle to older age show signs of thinning in the medial temporal cortex, an area of the brain associated with the formation of new memories.... Read More...
Overlapping Mechanisms in HIV Cognitive Disorders and Alzheimer’s
A new Journal of Neuroscience study reports elevated levels of BACE1, an enzyme associated with neuronal damage in Alzheimer's disease, were identified in postmortem brain samples of those with HIV.... Read More...
Study Confirms Inflammation During Pregnancy is Linked to Baby’s Brain Development
A new study confirms previous findings that link inflammation during pregnancy to altered brain development in children. Researchers have created a machine learning algorithm that can predict the long term neurodevelopmental impact of MIA.... Read More...
New Blood Test Useful to Detect Those at Risk of Developing Alzheimer’s
Researchers have developed a new blood test capable of detecting biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease long before the first symptoms appear.... Read More...
Older Adults Grow Just As Many New Brain Cells As Young People
A new study reveals older adults can generate just as many new hippocampal neurons from progentior cells as young people. The findings confirm neurogenesis does occur in older individuals.... Read More...
Researchers Identify Area of the Amygdala Involved in Taste Aversion
A new study implicates the basolateral amygdala in conditioned taste aversion. The study could pave the way for treatments to curb taste aversions associated with chemotherapy and eating disorders.... Read More...