March 23, 2021 by NewsBot - No Comment
It’s not just your legs and heart that get a workout when you walk briskly; exercise affects your brain as well. A new study shows that when older adults with mild memory loss followed an exercise program for a year, the blood flow to their brains incr…
March 23, 2021 by NewsBot - No Comment
Most people relate cholesterol to heart health, but it is also a critical component in the growth and spread of brain cancer. Researchers recently discovered how cholesterol becomes dysregulated in brain cancer cells and showed that the gene responsibl…
March 22, 2021 by NewsBot - No Comment
A new brain imaging application uses ultrasound to predict intended movements before they happen.
March 22, 2021 by NewsBot - No Comment
Psychologists suggest that the longer negativity lingers in your brain, the unhappier you may be.
March 22, 2021 by NewsBot - No Comment
As psychedelics gain ground as a potential therapy for mental health disorders, there remains a pressing concern that patients in clinical trials may have adverse effects to the drugs. New research identifies personality traits that have been associate…
March 22, 2021 by NewsBot - No Comment
Uncovering how neural circuits achieve a balance between excitation and inhibition.
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A study shows that harsh parenting practices in childhood have long-term repercussions for children’s brain development. Repeatedly getting angry, hitting, shaking or yelling at children is linked with smaller brain structures in adolescence, according…
March 19, 2021 by NewsBot - No Comment
Medical cannabis can reduce essential tremor in mice. By injecting a specific synthetic cannabinoid into the spinal cord of mice suffering from essential tremor, researchers have shown that the drug can reduce involuntary shaking – as the cannabinoid a…
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A combined brain-scanning and behavior study has explored dyslexia in 7 & 8-year-old children learning how to read. Dyslexic youngsters were shown to have different activation in the left hemisphere compared to the control group – the area of the brain…
March 18, 2021 by NewsBot - No Comment
One of the keys to having a healthy brain at any age is having a healthy blood-brain barrier, a complex interface of blood vessels that run through the brain. Researchers reviewed more than 150 articles to look at what happens to the blood-brain barrie…
