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Researchers discover new neurodevelopmental disorder

Researchers have discovered a new neurodevelopmental disorder after uncovering its link to a tumor suppressor gene.

Brainstem atrophy is linked to extrapyramidal symptoms in frontotemporal dementia

Frontotemporal dementia patients with extrapyramidal symptoms have brainstem atrophy and reduced metabolism in certain areas of the brain significantly more often than patients without extrapyramidal symptoms, a new study shows. This observation can fa…

Some types of epilepsy may be associated with worse quality of life

A new study suggests that people with epilepsy associated with head injuries, especially the type not well controlled by medication, are more likely to have other health conditions like depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), back pain and h…

Scientists pinpoint what makes brain cells develop in a specific order

Researchers have identified the complete series of 10 factors that regulate the development of brain cell types in the visual system of fruit flies — including in what order these neurons develop. The findings open new avenues of research to understan…

Brain charts map the rapid growth and slow decline of the human brain over our lifetime

An international team of researchers has created a series of brain charts spanning our entire lifespan — from a 15 week old fetus to 100 year old adult — that show how our brains expand rapidly in early life and slowly shrink as we age. The charts ar…

Diagnosing sports-related concussions may be harder than thought

The tool being used to diagnose concussions might be overestimating the condition and wrongly identifying symptoms like fatigue and neck pain caused from intense exercise and not a brain injury, according to researchers. This new research raises new qu…

Genetic ‘hotspots’ that speed up and slow down brain aging could provide new targets for Alzheimer’s drugs

Researchers have discovered 15 ‘hotspots’ in the genome that either speed up brain aging or slow it down — a finding that could provide new drug targets to resist Alzheimer’s disease and other degenerative brain disorders, as well as developmental del…

The dark matter of the brain

They are part of the brain of almost every animal species, yet they remain usually invisible even under the electron microscope.

How left brain asymmetry is related to reading ability

Researchers report that two seemingly opposing theories of language processing are both correct. The study shows that greater left-brain asymmetry can predict both better performance and average performance on a foundational measure of reading ability,…

Women seen as happy and men as angry despite real emotions

Faces and voices are more likely to be judged as male when they are angry, and as female when they are happy, new research has revealed. The study found that how we understand the emotional expression of a face or voice is heavily influenced by perceiv…