Adults who played Pokemon video games as children had preferential activation in the visual system for Pokemon character, researchers report. The finding shed light on the development of the visual system and categorization in the brain.
A diet rich in fermented foods, such as yogurt and kimchi, can help to improve gut microbiome diversity and reduce symptoms of chronic inflammation, a new study reports.
The newly developed HeadXNet deep learning system can accurately detect clinically significant aneurysms from patients' brain scans. The tool could improve diagnostics and care for those experiencing aneurysms.
A fatal brain stem tumor was cleared by injecting it with engineered T-cells that recognized cancer and targeted it for destruction in mouse models, researchers report.
According to researchers, under the right conditions, children as young as 4 can discern misleading, but technically accurate, information.
Researchers have created an artificial nervous system that may give prosthetics and robots reflexes and the ability to sense touch. The system is sensitive enough to identify letters in the Braille alphabet.
Reducing the excitation-inhibition ratio by diminishing excitability of pyramidal neurons or increasing excitability of PV neurons led mice to spend more time engaged in social encounters. Researchers believe the excitation-inhibition balance may play a key role in autism and normal social behavior.
A decade worth of data reveals people who multitask with different forms of media at once are worse at completing simple memory tasks.
Cutting calories and exercise alone are not enough to help shift excess weight, a new study reports. Researchers report your gut bacteria and the amount of specific proteins your body produces affects your ability to lose weight and sustain weight loss. Depending on personal biomarkers, so people lose more weight following a low carb diet, while some lose more weight while on a low fat diet.
Blocking VCAM1 increased neurogenesis, and reduced microglia reactivity in the hippocampus of older mice.
Blood from young adult, fit mice benefits the brain of sedentary mice of the same age. A single protein, clusterin, appears to be largely responsible for the benefit.
Researchers have developed what they have dubbed a 'brain stethoscope', a device capable of turning EEG brain wave data into sound. The device is able to detect epileptic seizures that do not result in convulsions.
