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Gut instincts: Researchers discover first clues on how gut health influences brain health

New cellular and molecular processes underlying communication between gut microbes and brain cells have been described for the first time.

High-salt diet promotes cognitive impairment through the Alzheimer-linked protein tau

Investigators sought to understand the series of events that occur between salt consumption and poor cognition and concluded that lowering salt intake and maintaining healthy blood vessels in the brain may ‘stave off’ dementia. Accumulation of tau depo…

Why, sometimes, we don’t see what we actually saw

Neuroscientists say they have identified how people can have a ‘crash in visual processing’ — a bottleneck of feed-forward and feedback signals that can cause us not to be consciously aware of stimuli that our brain recognized.

Greater understanding of Alzheimer’s disease

Scientists have made an important discovery in understanding the role a particular protein plays to impair memory in Alzheimer’s disease, which could lead to more effective treatment in future.

In Alzheimer’s research, scientists reveal brain rhythm role

In the years since her lab discovered that exposing Alzheimer’s disease model mice to light flickering at the frequency of a key brain rhythm could stem the disorder’s pathology, a neuroscientist and her team have been working to understand what the ph…

MRI may help doctors differentiate causes of memory loss

A new study finds that, with the use of MRI scans, it is possible to distinguish between memory loss caused by Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury.

Overall time on social media is not related to teen anxiety and depression

New research found that the amount of time spent on social media is not directly increasing anxiety or depression in teenagers.

Protein in blood protects against neuronal damage after brain hemorrhage

Patients who survive a cerebral hemorrhage may suffer delayed severe brain damage caused by free hemoglobin, which comes from red blood cells and damages neurons. Researchers have now discovered a protective protein in the body called haptoglobin, whic…

New insights into how the brain perceives and processes odors

New research makes advances in understanding how smells are perceived and represented in the brain.

Combination of more hospitalizations and brain pathologies linked to faster cognitive decline

Older people who experienced more hospitalizations and also had more Alzheimer’s pathology in their brain experienced the fastest rates of cognitive decline, according to a new study.