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The tiny tweaks that age-proof your BRAIN: From changing radio stations to avoiding tubby friends, a neuroscientist reveals the small life changes that create new grey matter The brain is constantly changing, sculpted by our behaviours and experiences This neuroplasticity is a fundamental feature, meaning learning can shape it Here, Dr Sabina Brennan, from Trinity […]
Results from a pioneering clinical trials programme that delivered an experimental treatment directly to the brain offer hope that it may be possible to restore the cells damaged in Parkinson’s. The multimillion-pound study, funded by Parkinson’s UK with support from The Cure Parkinson’s Trust and in association with the North Bristol NHS Trust, aimed to […]
In a lab dish, Yale researchers modeled two brain structures and their interactions to shed light on the origins of neuropsychiatric diseases. In-Hyun Park, associate professor of genetics, and his team created an organoid of the thalamus, a major hub that integrates sensory information and relays it to different areas of the brain. Organoids are […]
The tell-tale tremors of Parkinson’s disease emerge from abnormal activity in a brain region crucial for voluntary movement. Using a mouse model of the disease, researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) identified unusual patterns of brain activity that appear to underlie its signature symptoms. Parkinson’s disrupts the basal ganglia, […]
Depression ages the brain, first human trials suggest: Damage appears 10 years early in people with the mental health condition – but it could be treated with ketamine Synapses (the connections between neurons) start thinning earlier in people with depression, study finds The small study of 10 people is the first to test the theory […]
How misguided saturation of the cranial nerves plunge into a crisis The global Obesity crisis today is at a record high, and rising. Research groups are desperately in search of new insights and therapeutic possibilities of intervention, in order to counteract this development. German Researchers have found a type of switch in the brain, the […]
Pathological changes in brain volume due to increased blood pressure People between the ages of 20 and 40 years, already slightly elevated blood pressure values, have a higher risk for brain damage. A recent study to result in an elevated blood pressure is associated from 140/90 mmHg with the decrease of gray matter in the […]
Researchers from Singapore and South Korea have uncovered new details of a brain pathway that can cause impulsive behaviours. Using mice, the research team led by Professor George Augustine from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), discovered that impulsive behaviour is triggered when the brain signalling chemical dopamine is passed to an unexpected area of […]
NHS documentary reveals the tragic stories of a woman, 22, unable to breathe on her own and the 18-year-old who FORGETS he has brain damage The BBC programme this week looks at life in Liverpool’s Walton Centre It’s Liverpool’s only spine, brain and pain management specialist unit Neither Sophie nor Tom, featured in tomorrow’s episode, […]
Smoking pot just once might be linked to changes in young brains, a new study suggests. Adolescents who smoked marijuana one or two times had increased amounts of gray matter — a combination of neuron bodies and cells that feed them — in their brains compared with those who hadn't, according to a new study […]