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·September 18, 2020·5 min read

Primary Role of Sleep Changes From Learning Support to Brain Maintenance in Early Childhood

When a child reaches the age of two-and-a-half, the primary purpose of sleep changes from brain-building to brain maintenance and repair, a role it maintains for the rest of our lives.

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·September 9, 2020·5 min read

People With Anorexia and Body Dysmorphic Disorder Show Brain Similarities and Differences

Those with body dysmorphic disorder and anorexia have abnormalities in activity and connectivity in visual and parietal brain networks. People with anorexia and body dysmorphia process images with high, low, or normal levels of detail. The abnormalities for low level of detail have the most direct relationship with disorder symptom severity and body perception.

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·May 20, 2020·4 min read

Link between diesel exhaust and risk of Parkinson’s discovered

Researchers have uncovered the process by which air pollution can damage brain cells, leading to an increased risk of Parkinson's disease. Chemicals found in diesel fuel reduced autophagic flux, which is a major pathway implicated in neurodegeneration.

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·May 15, 2020·6 min read

The Potential of COVID-19 to Infect the Brain

From losing the sense of taste or smell to developing an increased risk of stroke, researchers investigate both the known and potential long-term implications of COVID-19 infection in the brain.

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·May 1, 2020·3 min read

Schizophrenia drug combined with radiation shows promise in treating deadly brain tumors

Trifluoperazine, a dopamine receptor antagonist commonly prescribed for schizophrenia, used in combination with radiation therapy delays the growth of glioblastoma brain tumors and prolongs survival for brain cancer.

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·April 8, 2020·4 min read

Bilingualism Delays the Onset of Alzheimer’s Symptoms

People who spoke two or more languages proficiently were, on average, four years older at the onset of Alzheimer's disease than those who were monolingual.

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·March 3, 2020·4 min read

How our brains create breathing rhythm is unique to every breath

Each breath begins with hundreds of individual neurons haphazardly firing at low levels, then quickly synchronizing. The synchronization prompts activity that signals diaphragm and chest muscles to contract, causing expansion and inhalation. As the signal subsides, exhalation occurs.

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·February 19, 2020·4 min read

Neuroimaging reveals empathy can be detected in people whose brains are at rest

Brain activity while in a resting state can predict how empathetic a person is. Researcher used a combination of neuroimaging data and machine learning to identify subtle patterns in brain activity associated with empathy.

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·February 14, 2020·4 min read

Acetaminophen and forgiveness may alleviate emotional and physical pain of exclusion

For those who face social rejection, researchers believe they have found a simple antidote. The study reports combining the over-the-counter pain killer acetaminophen with a dose of forgiveness can help alleviate both the physical and emotional pain of social rejection.

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·February 12, 2020·5 min read

Gene associated with autism also controls growth of the embryonic brain

In normally developing mice, the autism-associated Foxp1 gene was activated earlier than previously believed. This occurred during the period when apical radial glia was beginning to expand in numbers and generate a subset of neurons found deep in the developing brain. Mice lacking Foxp1 had fewer apical radial glia at the early stages of brain development.

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·February 4, 2020·5 min read

Blood test identifies risk of disease linked to stroke and dementia

Six proteins in the blood can be used to assess a person's risk of developing cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD). CSVD has been linked to an increased risk of stroke and Alzheimer's disease.

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·November 4, 2019·4 min read

How brain injury can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder

Traumatic brain injury caused five times as many neurons in the amygdala to be active during white noise exposure in rats. Altered sensory processing within subcortical sensory-emotional networks following TBI impacts the facilitation of traumatic memory and may contribute to the development of PTSD.