The occipital cortex plays a causal role in piloting our attention to manage the intake of images.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Improving Treatment of Spinal Cord Injuries
A new osmotic transport device removes fluid from the spinal cord to reduce swelling in rat models of SCI.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: We ‘Mirror-Image’ Touch During Sexual Interactions and Treat Our Partner’s Body Like Our Own
Study reveals people touch the areas of their partner’s body that mirror the parts of their body they enjoy having touched. A strong correlation was also drawn between touch and gaze, suggesting the parts of the body people like to be touched on aligne…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: The Neuroscience of Getting and Staying Motivated
The key to performance and motivation lies within the ratio of glutamine and glutamate in the nucleus accumbens. The ratio of glutamine to glutamate relates specifically to stamina.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Exercise Makes Female Rats Hungrier and Sustains Weight Gain
Study in rats reveals sex differences may play a key role in the effectiveness of exercise as an appetite regulator. Exercising female rats ate more than those who did not partake in physical activity. The same effect was not seen in males.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Researchers Utilize Human-On-A-Chip Approach to Model ALS Pathology
Human-on-a-chip technology could provide a more valuable clinical-based model for ALS.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Smiling Can Trick Your Mind Into Being More Positive
The facial muscle activity it takes to smile helps to generate more positive emotions.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Scientists Replace Malfunctioning ‘Vacuum Cleaner’ Cells Linked to Neurological Disorders
Researchers have devised techniques that allowed them to successfully replace dysfunctional microglia.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Aging Memories May Not Be ‘Worse,’ Just ‘Different’
Aging may alter neural processes for remembering continuous real-world experiences and segmenting memories.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Right Under Your Nose: A More Convenient Way to Diagnose Alzheimer’s
Analyzing nasal discharge could be a new tool in diagnosing and monitoring the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers found certain Alzheimer’s related proteins can be detected in nasal discharge.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Cannabidiol Improves Blood Flow to Brain’s Hippocampus
Cannabidiol (CBD) increases cerebral blood flow to areas of the brain associated with memory processing, specifically the hippocampus. The findings identify a potential mechanism for the use of CBD to treat disorders associated with altered memory proc…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Biology Blurs Line Between Sexes and Behaviors
Researchers have identified a genetic switch in neurons that can toggle between sex-specific states when necessary.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Individual Differences in the Brain
Distinct personality traits emerge and manifest via both behavior and neural activity.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: GI Symptoms Linked to Behavioral Problems in Children, Especially Those With Autism
Preschool-aged children on the autism spectrum were 2.7 times more likely to experience gastrointestinal problems, including pain, diarrhea, constipation, and vomiting than their typically developing peers. Almost 50% of those with ASD reported frequen…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Math Shows How Brain Stays Stable Amid Internal Noise and a Widely Varying World
Neural networks involved in the same computation will repeatedly converge toward the same firing rates, even if they are perturbed by the natural noisiness of individual neurons or sensory environmental stimuli.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Inexpensive, Accessible Device Provides Visual Proof that Masks Block Droplets
An inexpensive tool allows researchers to demonstrate the effectiveness of facemasks and facial coverings to slow the spread of coronavirus transmission. Findings reveal N95 facemasks, and cotton face coverings provide the best protection from COVID-19.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Machine Learning Makes Drug Repurposing for Psychiatric Disorders More Effective
Focusing on genes associated with psychiatric and neurological disorders, and drugs approved for use in other diseases, a new AI system can increase the effectiveness of drug repurposing.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Experiences of Loneliness May Differ by Age
People experience loneliness differently in adult life, depending on their age. The strongest association with loneliness is feeling excluded from society.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Key to Dialogue Between Brain Cells to Protect Against Stroke Discovered
DHA treatment reduced the size of the damaged brain area and initiated a repair mechanism in animal models of stroke. DHA affected the levels of MANF and TREM2, two proteins critical for communication between brain cells.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: COVID-19 Should Be Treated as an Acute Inflammatory Disease
Researchers argue COVID-19 should be considered as an inflammatory disease as the severity of the infection is associated with a dysregulation of the inflammatory immune response.
