First evidence of immune response targeting brain cells in autism
Autism spectrum disorders affect one in 59 American children by age eight. With no known quantitative biological features, autism diagnoses are currently based on expert … Read more
Brain & Behavior
Treatment of metabolic dysfunction could be a potential therapy for Alzheimer’s disease
A team of researchers led by Yale-NUS College has found evidence that metabolic dysfunction is a primary cause of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is the … Read more
Could Near-Infrared Light Give Aging Brains a Boost?
A team of researchers from the University of Arizona and University of Florida are investigating whether near-infrared light could help enhance cognition and reduce Alzheimer’s … Read more
Caught in the Act: Study Catches Brain Circuits as They Rewire
In a technical feat with ramifications for our understanding of how experiences imprint themselves as lasting memories, and how faulty circuit wiring leads to neurological … Read more
Deaf infants more attuned to parent’s visual cues, study shows
Eye gaze helps infants communicate. Through everyday interactions, eye gaze establishes a social connection between parent and child and is linked to early word learning. … Read more
Investigating the full spectrum of suicide
A recent study published in Injury Prevention described a method for categorizing self-injury mortality (SIM) to help us better examine national trends for today’s epidemics … Read more
Hormone therapy associated with improved cognition
Estrogen has a significant role in overall brain health and cognitive function. That’s why so many studies focused on the prevention of cognitive decline consider … Read more
Neurosteroid can treat detrimental effects of marijuana
As a growing number of U.S. states legalize the medicinal and recreational use of marijuana, an increasing number of American women are using cannabis before … Read more
NIH study in mice explains how brain can turn pain signals up or down
A new study in mice uncovered a previously unknown role that the central amygdala can play in upgrading or downgrading pain signals in the brain’s … Read more
Microbleeds may worsen outcome after head injury
Using advanced imaging, researchers have uncovered new information regarding traumatic microbleeds, which appear as small, dark lesions on MRI scans after head injury but are … Read more
Dementia Spreads via Connected Brain Networks
In a new study, UC San Francisco scientists used maps of brain connections to predict how brain atrophy would spread in individual patients with frontotemporal … Read more
