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·March 23, 2020·1 min read

Lactation changes how mom’s neurons communicate, but it’s reversible

During lactation, the cell voltage of TIDA neurons in the hypothalamus oscillates more frequently, increasing firing. The change is reversible and returns to normal once the mother stops lactating.

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·March 16, 2020·2 min read

Scientists can see the bias in your brain

Your brain waves show how you will respond to your bias, even before you have a choice to make.

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·March 9, 2020·2 min read

Sensory information underpins abstract knowledge

Neuroimaging reveals our brains combine information from different categories of sensory information to drive abstract knowledge.

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·March 2, 2020·3 min read

Sleeping sheep may offer clues to human brain disease

Monitoring sleep spindles in sheep may one day translate to sleep based diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases in humans.

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·February 17, 2020·1 min read

Binaural beats synchronize brain activity, don’t affect mood

Binaural beats, a form of auditory illusion, caused far apart brain regions to synchronize with each other at a different frequency than the beat. The auditory illusion did not, however, alter mood.

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·February 3, 2020·3 min read

Birth timing may affect brain development

Early birth prompted apoptosis to begin a day early, but delaying the birth did not alter when cell death began to occur. The study suggests birth time has an important and previously unrecognized effect on brain development.

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·January 27, 2020·3 min read

The brain may need iron for healthy cognitive development

Iron levels in the basal ganglia steadily increase throughout development and, in two sub-regions, continue to increase into adulthood. Decreased levels of iron in the putamen was correlated with impaired cognitive performance involving reasoning and spatial processing. Findings suggest the brain requires iron for healthy cognitive development.

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·January 20, 2020·2 min read

A new role for neurogenesis

Dentate gyrus neurogenesis acts to replace lost neurons and restore function following massive neuron loss.

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·January 2, 2020·2 min read

Harnessing the microbiome to improve stroke recovery

Short-chain fatty acid supplementation improves stroke recovery in mouse models.

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·January 2, 2020·2 min read

Hearing through lip-reading

Lip reading causes brain activity to synchronize with sound waves, even when there is no audible sound.

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·December 26, 2019·3 min read

High fat diet impairs new neuron creation in female mice

Female mice exposed to a high-fat diet have limited hippocampal neurogenesis. The findings may explain why women are at higher risk of developing dementia than men.