A new study found that one in four children (25.3 percent) who have been discharged from the emergency room after a mild head injury are misdiagnosed and continue to suffer from persistent post-concussion syndrome for many years.
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Maternal socialization, not biology, shapes child brain activity
March 23, 2022 by NewsBot - No Comment
Children of mothers with clinical depression are at three times greater risk to develop depression themselves than are their low-risk peers. Researchers are working to understand the neural underpinnings of the risk, and some studies have shown altered…
Researchers control brain circuits from a distance using infrared light
March 22, 2022 by NewsBot - No Comment
Scientists have developed the first non-invasive technique for controlling targeted brain circuits in behaving animals from a distance. The tool has the potential to solve one of the biggest unmet needs in neuroscience: a way to flexibly test the funct…
Oleic acid — a key to activating the brain’s ‘fountain of youth’
March 22, 2022 by NewsBot - No Comment
A team of researchers reveals that oleic acid produced in the brain is an essential regulator of the process that enables learning and memory and supports proper mood regulation. The finding has paved the path to discovering potential new therapeutic s…
Shining a light on protein aggregation in Parkinson’s disease
March 22, 2022 by NewsBot - No Comment
A novel system to control protein aggregation in a model of Parkinson’s disease may answer longstanding questions about how the disease begins and spreads, according to a new study. Initial results suggest that aggregation of the protein alpha-synuclei…
Scientists hunt for neurons responsible for alcohol withdrawal
March 22, 2022 by NewsBot - No Comment
When a heavy alcohol drinker tries to take a night off, their body protests, with shaky hands, heart palpitations, anxiety and headaches. These acute symptoms of alcohol withdrawal — but even more so the enduring emotional distress that lingers into p…
Our sleep shows how risk-seeking we are
March 22, 2022 by NewsBot - No Comment
Each person has their own individual sleep profile which can be identified by the electrical brain activity during sleep. Researchers have now demonstrated that the brain waves during periods of deep sleep in a specific area of the brain can be used to…
Team identifies compound with potent antiseizure effects
March 22, 2022 by NewsBot - No Comment
Researchers studying epileptic seizures of the temporal lobe — the most common type of epilepsy — discovered a compound that reduces seizures in the hippocampus, a brain region where many such seizures originate. The compound, known as TC-2153, lesse…
Taste, temperature and pain sensations are neurologically linked
March 21, 2022 by NewsBot - No Comment
Biologists have found that the brain categorizes taste, temperature and pain-related sensations in a common region of the brain and that the brain also groups these sensations together as either pleasant or aversive, potentially offering new insights i…
Study shows that intranasal Rx halts memory decay in experimental Alzheimer’s model
March 21, 2022 by NewsBot - No Comment
A research collaboration has found that applying specialized pro-resolving lipid mediators intranasally arrested memory loss and brain degeneration in an experimental model of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD).
