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Electrophysiology Featured Articles Neurology Neuroscience

·February 5, 2021·5 min read

A New Method to Predict Individual Risk of Cognitive Decline

Specific patterns of frontal brainwaves during everyday memory tasks help researchers to predict a patient's risk for developing mild cognitive impairment within five years.

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Autism Featured Neuroscience

·March 28, 2018·5 min read

How Brain Circuits are Affected by Infections in Mothers and Newborns

A new study backs up existing evidence that maternal immune activation can impact brain development in children. Researchers report immune activation during pregnancy or soon after birth can cause alterations to brain networks associated with social behavior, resulting in autism-like symptoms in the offspring.

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·September 1, 2017·5 min read

Mind Wandering Is Common While Driving

During simulated driving, people's minds tend to wander upwards of 70% of the time, researchers report.

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·January 12, 2017·3 min read

New System For Forming Memories

According to researchers, the entorhinal cortex can replay memories of movement without hippocampal input.

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Featured Genetics Neurology

·November 4, 2015·4 min read

Repairing Alzheimer’s Related Nerve Cell Damage

Researchers explain how a novel gene therapy approach could help treat Alzheimer's disease.

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Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·August 26, 2014·3 min read

Focus on Naturally Occurring Protein to Tackle Dementia

Researchers provide evidence that an absence of MK2/3 is linked to early signs of dementia.

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·January 9, 2014·3 min read

Sleep is the Price the Brain Pays for Learning

Researchers believe their synaptic homeostasis hypothesis of sleep challenges the theory that sleep strengthens brain connections.