Greater Wisdom, Lower Loneliness and Your Intestinal Multitude
It may take guts — or more precisely, a diverse gut microbiome — to achieve wisdom and fend off loneliness. Or perhaps it’s the other…
It may take guts — or more precisely, a diverse gut microbiome — to achieve wisdom and fend off loneliness. Or perhaps it’s the other…
Interaction between auditory and reward brain circuits underpins musical pleasure. Communication between the brain’s auditory and reward circuits is the reason why humans find music…
Octopuses are known to sleep and to change color while they do it. Now, a study published on March 25, 2021, in the journal iScience…
Post-mortem changes may shed light on important brain studies. In the hours after we die, certain cells in the human brain are still active. Some…
Heightened activity in the brain, caused by stressful events, is linked to the risk of developing a rare and sometimes fatal heart condition, according to…
A new study is the first to identify how human brains grow much larger, with three times as many neurons, compared with chimpanzee and gorilla…
Clinical trial participants saw memory-enhancing benefits and disease modifying activities when taking Sargramostim. A new study suggests that Sargramostim, a medication often used to boost…
A Less-Invasive Technique to Decode the Brain’s Intentions What is happening in your brain as you are scrolling through this page? In other words, which…
A pioneering study, published in Scientific Reports, found that the Parkinon’s gene PINK1 is important for the generation of dopamine-producing neurons throughout life, and is not…
Similar brain activity patterns to negative and subsequent neutral stimuli connected to increase in negative mood. How the amygdala responds to viewing negative and subsequent…
High ghrelin levels in healthy females predict more impulsive choices, researchers say. Higher levels of the stomach-derived hormone ghrelin, which stimulates appetite, predict a greater…
Novel Device Records, Senses and Manipulates ‘Mini-Brains’ A team of scientists, led by researchers at Northwestern University, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, and the University of Illinois…
For the first time, researchers have pinpointed what causes normal proteins to convert to a diseased form, causing conditions like CJD and Kuru. The research…
New genetic comparison technique developed at Stanford enables meticulous study of evolution of the human brain and face. In separate studies, researchers compared gene regulation…
Sensory neurons in the finger can detect touch on the scale of a single fingerprint ridge. Fingerprints may be more useful to us than helping…
Researchers uncovered for the first time what happens in animals’ brains when they learn from subconscious, visual stimuli. In time, this knowledge can lead to…
Results published on March 11, 2021, show it is possible to identify Parkinson’s Disease based on compounds found on the surface of skin. The findings…
Researchers design a new highly-selective tool to study “undruggable” proteins through the sugars they depend on. Sugar has been called “evil,” “toxic,” and “poison.” But…