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A new study has identified that one of the major factors of age-related brain deterioration is the loss of a substance called myelin. Myelin acts like the protective and insulating plastic casing around the electrical wires of the brain – called axons….

Researchers have long searched for genetic influences in schizophrenia, a neurodevelopmental disorder that disrupts brain activity producing hallucinations, delusions, and other cognitive disturbances. However the disease’s genetic mutations have been …

Researchers have developed materials that can interface with an injured spinal cord and provide a scaffolding to facilitate healing. To do this, scaffolding materials need to mimic the natural spinal cord tissue, so they can be readily populated by nat…

Researchers have found an explanation for why Alzheimer’s drugs have limited effectiveness and why patients get much worse after going off of them.

New research shows that a single head injury could lead to dementia later in life. This risk further increases as the number of head injuries sustained by an individual increases. The findings also suggest stronger associations of head injury with risk…

Using a computerized and completely remote training program, researchers have found a way to mitigate negative emotions in children. Results support the link between inhibitory control dysfunction and anxiety/depression. EEG results also provide eviden…

Researchers explored how preterm birth disrupts Purkinje cell function, resulting in locomotor learning deficits. The study brought together a cross-disciplinary team of neuroscientists and neonatologists to devise a unique and novel method of analyzin…

Odors evoke powerful memories, an experience enshrined in literature by Marcel Proust and his beloved Madeleine. A new article is the first to identify a neural basis for how the brain enables odors to so powerfully elicit those memories. The paper sho…

Understanding cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying brain ‘plasticity’ is crucial for explaining many illnesses and conditions. Neurocientists managed to repeatedly image synapses, tiny contact sites between neurons, in awake adult mice. They ar…

New research finds that specific regions of the brain respond to emotional stimuli related to loneliness and wisdom in opposing ways.