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·April 4, 2023·1 min read

Affective Computing: Computers Have Feelings Too

Researchers turn to affective computing, a branch of artificial intelligence that promotes emotional intelligence in algorithms, to recognize, process, interpret, and simulate human empathy.

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·April 4, 2023·5 min read

COVID-19 Infection Accelerates the Progression of Dementia

Following COVID-19 infection, all subtypes of dementia, irrespective of a person's previous dementia type, behave like rapidly progressive dementia.

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·April 4, 2023·6 min read

Traumatic Brain Injury Interferes With Immune System Cells’ Recycling Process in Brain Cells

Following TBI, the brain's immune cells' internal recycling functions slow significantly, allowing waste products to build up and interfere with injury recovery. Treatment with rapamycin helps lower neuroinflammation and promoted cellular recycling following TBI.

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·April 4, 2023·6 min read

Rodents Seem to Make the Same Logical Errors Humans Do

Like humans, rats fall prey to conjunction fallacies, or the incorrect assumption that if two events sometimes occur at the same time, they are more likely to occur together than either event is to occur alone.

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·April 4, 2023·4 min read

How Genes, Brain Characteristics and Intelligence Are Connected

Using a combination of intelligence tests, genetic analysis, and neuroimaging data, researchers found there are only a few areas of the frontal, parietal, and visual cortices where gene variations influence brain characteristics which simultaneously influence intelligence.

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·April 4, 2023·5 min read

How an Autism Gene Contributes to Infertility

FMR1, a gene mutation that causes Fragile X syndrome is also implicated in premature ovarian failure, resulting in infertility in females. The mutation alters neurons that regulate reproduction in the brain and ovaries.

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·April 4, 2023·4 min read

Tired of Being Alone: How Social Isolation Impacts on Our Energy

A new study found people who experienced social isolation for eight hours reported higher levels of tiredness. The findings suggest low energy may be a basic human response to a lack of social communication.

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·April 4, 2023·5 min read

Overwhelmed? Your Astrocytes Can Help With That

New research reveals a newly discovered brain circuit that involves astrocytes, a type of brain cell that tunes into and moderates the chatter between overactive neurons. This discovery could hold the key to treating attention disorders like ADHD, and sheds new light on how the brain processes information when overwhelmed.

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·April 4, 2023·4 min read

Dozens of Brain Proteins May Play a Critical Role in Body Weight Regulation

60 unique proteins expressed in the brain may be key to regulating body weight, a new study reveals.

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·April 3, 2023·3 min read

A Sensor That Might Someday Enable Mind-Controlled Robots

A newly designed dry sensor that can measure brain activity may someday enable mind control of robotic systems.

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·April 3, 2023·3 min read

Spike Protein Implicated in Post-COVID-19 Memory Loss

The spike protein that is responsible for COVID-19's entry into cells could be responsible for post-COVID memory loss. Researchers identified the TLR4 receptor as a potential target for treating COVID-related memory loss.