Neuroscience

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What is neuroscience? Neuroscience is the scientific study of nervous systems. Neuroscience often involves research from numerous science genres including brain science, psychology, neurology, computer science, artificial intelligence, big data, statistics, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, linguistics, electrophysiology, biology, anatomy and neurobiology.

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·September 24, 2021·3 min read

Increased Risk of Depression for Young People if Their Mothers Experienced Depression During or After Pregnancy

By the age of 24, children born to mothers who suffered from depression during pregnancy or postpartum depression scored three points higher for depression scores than those whose mothers did not suffer from depression.

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·September 24, 2021·3 min read

Dysfunctional Synaptic Function Is Key to Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia itself is associated with loss of excitation, but hallucinations and other symptoms of the disorder are caused by a loss of synaptic inhibition.

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·September 22, 2021·4 min read

Sniffing Out How Associative Memories Are Formed

Dopamine-controlled fan cells in the lateral entorhinal cortex are required for the formation of associative memories.

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·September 22, 2021·3 min read

Nasal Drugs Show Promise for Slowing Parkinson’s Disease Progression

Two new intranasal drugs slow inflammation and stop the spread of alpha-synuclein in mouse models of Parkinson's disease. The drug also improved gait and balance in the animals. If the results are able to be replicated in humans, researchers say the drugs could be hailed as a "remarkable advance" in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.

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·September 22, 2021·2 min read

The Quality, Not Quantity, of Cardiovascular Fat Can Interfere With Memory Later in Life

Greater radiodensity of perivascular adipose tissue in women during midlife was associated with decreased working memory performance later in life.

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·September 22, 2021·4 min read

Immune Cells in the Brain Share the Work

Microglia immune cells can join together to form networks when needed, a new study reports. However, certain mutations associated with Parkinson's disease can impair this process.

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·September 22, 2021·3 min read

A Possible Connections Between Oxytocin and Instagram

Researchers discovered people with a specific variant of the oxytocin receptor gene OXTR follow more people on Instagram. However, there no evidence was found to suggest gene-environment interactions influence online sociability.