Summary: Study found a correlation between adolescents who reported high levels of family conflict while growing up and those who later identified socially undesirable traits as ideal leadership qualities. A […]

Summary: PET neuroimaging reveals super-agers and those whose cognitive skills are above the norm for an advanced age have an increased resistance to tau and amyloid proteins.

Source: SNMMI

Super-agers, or […]

Summary: Rotigotine, a drug that acts on dopamine transmission, improves cognitive function in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease. While the drug did not help improve memory, it did improve […]

Summary: Examining the impact of eight types of early life stress on the onset of youth-onset depression, researchers found some had little impact on the development of the psychological disorder. Emotional abuse […]

Summary: Psychological symptoms, such as depression and anxiety, may be a sign COVID-19 is affecting the central nervous system of patients, a new study reports.

Source: University of Cincinnati

Depressed […]

Summary: Our ability to pinpoint the exact size and location of objects varies from one person to the next, and even within our own individual field of vision.

Source: University of Cambridge

We humans may […]

Summary: Memories of specific events and experiences do not remain static in brain areas. Instead, patterns of brain activity that store information continually changes, even when we are not exposed to new […]

Summary: Quercetin, a protein found in pickled capers, modulates potassium ion channels in the KCNQ gene family. These channels are influential in human health, and their dysfunction is linked to diseases, […]

Summary: Artificially inducing peripheral inflammation in mice triggered the sudden onset of delirium-like cognitive dysfunction, and this was mediated by a disturbance in energy metabolism.

Source: […]

Summary: An oncogene believed to be responsible for glioblastoma brain cancer has been identified. AVIL, a gene that normally helps cells to maintain their shape and size, can shift into overdrive, causing cancer […]

Summary: Researchers have discovered a brain-based marker for new thoughts, reporting people experience more than 6,000 thoughts per day. The study reports a new method that can detect indirectly when one thought […]

Summary: Study reveals how two neural circuits dictate the choice between social approach and avoidance. The network connecting the infralimbic cortex to the basolateral amygdala (BLA) impairs social behavior if […]

Summary: Early developmental deficits in the formation of the brain’s blood vessels cause autistic traits in mouse models of ASD.

Source: Ottawa Hospital

A Canadian collaboration led by Dr. Baptiste Lacoste […]

Summary: Study reports people with symptoms of COVID-19 are more likely to be lonely and develop general mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety. The risks are higher for women and young […]

Summary: Older adults with higher baseline apathy, as well as those with increasing apathy over time, were at higher risk of developing dementia. Neither baseline depression nor developing depression symptoms […]

Summary: Findings suggest increased inflammation causes the aging process to accelerate, and there is a fine balance between maintaining immune system function and longevity.

Source: Max Planck Institute

As […]

Summary: Deactivation of the HERV-K gene may free stem cells to become neurons.

Source: NIH/NINDS

For every cell in the body there comes a time when it must decide what it wants to do for the rest of its […]

Summary: Using artificial intelligence and neuroimaging, researchers have identified a link between mental imagery and vision. The brain uses similar visual areas for mental imagery and vision but uses low-level […]

Summary: Study reveals the role the orbitofrontal cortex plays in individual differences to alcohol preference. The findings shed new light on how some are more prone to alcohol use disorder than […]

Summary: Hippocampal neurons that respond to fearful stimuli relay that information to the amygdala. These neurons synchronize when memories of the stimuli are later recalled. The synchrony is critical to […]