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·January 13, 2025·6 min read

Brain Connectivity Patterns Link Vascular Disease to Cognitive Decline

Researchers have identified how cerebrovascular disease (CeVD) disrupts brain connectivity, contributing to cognitive decline and neurodegeneration alongside Alzheimer’s disease (AD). By studying brain networks and blood biomarkers in older adults, they discovered distinct but additive effects of CeVD and AD-related markers on cognition and brain atrophy.

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·March 13, 2024·2 min read

Brain Connectivity Breakthrough Sheds New Light on ADHD

Researchers have made a pivotal discovery in ADHD research, finding that the disorder's symptoms are connected to unusual interactions between the brain's frontal cortex and its deeper information processing centers. By analyzing an unprecedented dataset of over 10,000 functional brain images from youths with and without ADHD, the study uncovers heightened connectivity between key brain areas responsible for learning, emotion, and behavior control.

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·October 15, 2021·4 min read

Our Brains Have a Fingerprint Too

Each person has a specific brain "fingerprint", and that fingerprint changes over the course of our lives, a new study reports.

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·May 24, 2021·4 min read

Regular Physical Activity Linked to Better Organized Preteen Brains

Children who embark on regular exercise have marked differences in brain structure, flexibility, organization, and have more robust neural networks than those who exercise less frequently.

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·July 26, 2020·4 min read

Brain Thickness and Connectivity, Not Just Location, Correlates With Behavior

Cortical thickness and regional brain connectivity pay an equally important role in linking brain and behavior.

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·January 28, 2020·2 min read

Squid brains approach that of dogs

The first MRI-based mapping of the squid brain yields 145 new connections and pathways, 60% of which are linked to the motor and visual systems. The new brain map brings researchers one step closer to understanding how the squid can instantly camouflage itself.

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·January 23, 2020·3 min read

New insight into brain connectivity

Researchers have developed a new framework that sheds new light on changes in the brain's activity and connections.

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·January 22, 2020·5 min read

Google and Janelia researchers unveil biggest, most detailed map of the fly brain to date

FlyEM, a team of scientists from Google and the Janelia Research Campus at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has released the most complete map of the fly brain ever created. The map pinpoints millions of connections between 25,000 neurons. The researchers have made the data free online, along with all of the tools necessary to use it.

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·January 3, 2020·3 min read

Your Brain: Individual & Unique

Individual variations define a specific structural fingerprint with a direct impact on the functional organization of individual brains. The findings stress the importance of using individual models to understand brain function.

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·November 4, 2019·2 min read

The fetal brain possesses adult-like networks

Features of the functional connectome are present in the fetal brain during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy.

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·September 23, 2019·2 min read

Baby brain scans made available online to advance research

Researchers from the Developing Human Connectome Project have released over 500 brain scans from newborn babies as part of an open-source effort to allow other researchers to study human brain development.

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·August 30, 2019·4 min read

Blue Brain finds how neurons in the mouse neocortex form billions of synaptic connections

Scientists generated statistical instances of the micro-connectome, containing over 10 million neurons. The model spans five orders of magnitude and contains 88 billion synaptic connections.