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Patients’ Brains May Adapt to ADHD Medication

Patients’ Brains May Adapt to ADHD Medication

New research reveals how the brain appears to adapt to compensate for the effects of long-term ADHD medication, suggesting why ADHD medication is more effective short-term than it is long-term. The study, from the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King’s College London is [Read More]

Same Genes Linked to Early- and Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

Same Genes Linked to Early- and Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

The same gene mutations linked to inherited, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease have been found in people with the more common late-onset form of the illness. The discovery by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may lead doctors and [Read More]

Scientists Decode Brain Waves to Eavesdrop on What We Hear

Scientists Decode Brain Waves to Eavesdrop on What We Hear

Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke or paralysis, according to University of California, Berkeley, researchers. These scientists have succeeded in decoding electrical activity in the brain’s temporal [Read More]

Short-term Memory is Based on Synchronized Brain Oscillations

Short-term Memory is Based on Synchronized Brain Oscillations

Scientists have now discovered how different brain regions cooperate during short-term memory. Holding information within one’s memory for a short while is a seemingly simple and everyday task. We use our short-term memory when remembering a new telephone number if there [Read More]

Mom’s Love Good for Child’s Brain

Mom’s Love Good for Child’s Brain

School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress. The new research, by child psychiatrists and neuroscientists at Washington University School of [Read More]

Researchers Rewrite Textbook on Location of Brain’s Speech Processing Center

Researchers Rewrite Textbook on Location of Brain’s Speech Processing Center

New location of critical area provides hints on origin of language. Scientists have long believed that human speech is processed towards the back of the brain’s cerebral cortex, behind auditory cortex where all sounds are received — a place famously known as [Read More]

Making Memories Last

Making Memories Last

Stowers researchers discovered that a prion-like protein plays a key role in storing long-term memories. Memories in our brains are maintained by connections between neurons called “synapses”. But how do these synapses stay strong and keep memories alive for decades? [Read More]

Researchers Induce Alzheimer’s Neurons from Pluripotent Stem Cells

Researchers Induce Alzheimer’s Neurons from Pluripotent Stem Cells

First-ever feat provides new method to understand cause of disease, develop drugs Led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, scientists have, for the first time, created stem cell-derived, in vitro models of sporadic and hereditary [Read More]

Magic Mushrooms’ Effects Illuminated in Brain Imaging Studies

Magic Mushrooms’ Effects Illuminated in Brain Imaging Studies

Brain scans of people under the influence of the psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, have given scientists the most detailed picture to date of how psychedelic drugs work. The findings of two studies being published in scientific journals this week [Read More]

Walk This Way: Scientists and MBL Physiology Course Students Describe How a Motor Protein “Steps Out”

Walk This Way: Scientists and MBL Physiology Course Students Describe How a Motor Protein “Steps Out”

Just like people, some proteins have characteristic ways of “walking,” which (also like human gaits) are not so easy to describe. But now scientists have discovered the unique “drunken sailor” gait of dynein, a protein that is critical for the function of every cell [Read More]

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DNA Test that Identifies Down Syndrome in Pregnancy Can Also Detect Trisomy 18 and Trisomy 13

DNA Test that Identifies Down Syndrome in Pregnancy Can Also Detect Trisomy 18 and Trisomy 13

A newly available DNA-based prenatal blood test that can identify a pregnancy with Down syndrome can also identify two [Read More]

Patients’ Brains May Adapt to ADHD Medication

Patients’ Brains May Adapt to ADHD Medication

New research reveals how the brain appears to adapt to compensate for the effects of long-term ADHD medication, [Read More]

Gene Regulator in Brain’s Executive Hub Tracked Across Lifespan

Gene Regulator in Brain’s Executive Hub Tracked Across Lifespan

Mental illness suspect genes are among the most environmentally responsive. For the first time, scientists have tracked [Read More]

Same Genes Linked to Early- and Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

Same Genes Linked to Early- and Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

The same gene mutations linked to inherited, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease have been found in people with the more [Read More]

Obesity Reduces the Size of Your Brain

Obesity Reduces the Size of Your Brain

New research from Uppsala University shows that a specific brain region linked to appetite regulation is reduced in [Read More]

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