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If melatonin makes you groggy, GABA could be a good alternative. Sleep is essential to all aspects of our well-being, from our mood and brain functions to our immune system , heart health and more. Despite how important a good night’s sleep is, many…
Single-neuron synapse tracking across day–night cycles reveals diverse dynamics. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07367-3 During sleep, the brain weakens the new connections between neurons that had been forged while awake—but only during the first half of a night’s sleep, according to a new study…
The major nodes of a human brain network that keeps us awake are shown color-coded in this MRI scan of a postmortem brain. (Image credit: Edlow et al., Sci. Trans. Med., 16 eadj4303 (2024). (Cropped by Live Science.)) Scientists have charted a comprehensive map…
The brain can direct the immune system to an unexpected degree, capable of detecting, ramping up and tamping down inflammation, shows a new study in mice from researchers at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute. “The brain is the center of our thoughts, emotions, memories and feelings,”…
During sleep, the brain weakens the new connections between neurons that had been forged while awake — but only during the first half of a night’s sleep, according to a new study in fish by UCL scientists. The researchers say their findings, published in…
People who still have very sharp memory into old age—known as “superagers”—may get their impressive powers from certain areas of the brain being preserved. Brain structures known as white matter usually decline in integrity with age, but in superagers, white matter remains structurally sound,…
hNSC transplantation alters microglial cell signaling in the brain of 5XFAD mice after 34 weeks. Circle plots of ligand-receptor pair interactions between cell types with hNSCs as (A) sender and (B) receiver in the brain of hNSC injected 5XFAD mice. Circle plots of differential…
A recent study conducted at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom has found that chemical additives within microplastics can infiltrate the human body through sweat . Microplastics, tiny particles measuring a millionth of a gram, are present in virtually everything humans consume…
0 TOPLINE: In patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have metastases to the brain only, definitive treatment to the primary site improved overall survival outcomes following stereotactic radiosurgery, a retrospective analysis found. METHODOLOGY: The American Society of Radiation Oncology guidelines strongly recommend…
A University of Massachusetts Amherst sleep scientist, funded with $6.7 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has launched two unprecedented studies that will track over time the brain development of infants and preschoolers to confirm the role of napping in…
Aya Takeoka at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan and colleagues have discovered the neural circuitry in the spinal cord that allows brain-independent motor learning. Published in Science on April 11, the study found two critical groups of spinal cord neurons,…
Two common habits could be putting you at an increased risk of Alzheimer’s and related dementias, neuroscientists have warned. Alzheimer’s disease affects roughly 5.8 million Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The progressive condition is the most common form of…
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A new study by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, suggests a common brain network exists between heart rate deceleration and depression. By evaluating data from 14 people with no depression symptoms, the team…
While I’ve been teaching the dining with diabetes classes this past month, I’ve been reminded just how beneficial eating a well balanced diet can be for our overall health. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, “Eating a heart-healthy diet benefits both your body and your…
Below shows a graphical representation of the synapse. The synapse consists of colloidal spheres with nano-channels between them. Credit: Utrecht University Theoretical physicists at Utrecht University, together with experimental physicists at Sogang University in South Korea, have succeeded in building an artificial synapse. This…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital suggests a common brain network exists between heart rate deceleration and depression. By evaluating data from 14 people with no depression symptoms, the team found that stimulating some parts of…
image: Summary image of the article. The upper part highlights neuronal cell cycle re-engagement is a stage proceeding neuronal senescence and that their full molecular profiles can now be identified by the bioinformatics pipeline we reported in the accepted manuscript. The bottom part is…
At the end of this month, new research will be presented at the Conference of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases showing that the artificial intelligence-driven ChatGPT program dispenses propaganda in promotion of vaccines that comes directly from official public health…
Thought emerges and is controlled in the brain via the rhythmically and spatially coordinated activity of millions of neurons, scientists argue in a new article. Understanding cognition and its disorders requires studying it at that level. It could be very informative to observe the…