progscrape: neuroscience

Inflammation leads to lower reward motivation by causing microglia to remove glutamate inputs from dopamine neurons in the brain’s reward center

22 days ago sciencedirect.com brain neuroscience

The brain's ability to form memories may rely on a 'chimera state', a strange physical state where some neurons sync up while others don't

22 days ago dailyneuron.com brain neuroscience

Children who “play like boys” in preschool show better spatial abilities a decade later: children with masculine-typical play styles at 3.5 years of age tend to perform better in a mental rotation task when they are 13 years old…

43 days ago psypost.org neuroscience

Aged rats who lived in socially enriched environments throughout life retained better memory and cognitive flexibility than those housed alone, and performed just as well as young adults in memory tasks

38 days ago aging-us.com neuroscience

Dementia linked to problems with brain’s waste clearance system: impaired movement of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) predicted risk of dementia later in life among 40,000 adults

26 days ago cam.ac.uk brain neuroscience

Cyberdelics: Virtual reality can replicate cognitive effects of psychedelics, new study finds

36 days ago psypost.org neuroscience

Levels of PFAS, or forever chemicals, in mothers’ blood during pregnancy are associated with many aspects of their children’s brain structure and function

36 days ago utu.fi brain neuroscience

A severed brain reveals the power to reroute communication

18 days ago psypost.org brain neuroscience

Men’s brains shrink faster than women’s: During ageing, men experience a greater reduction in volume across more regions of the brain than women do

35 days ago nature.com brain neuroscience

People on the far-right and far-left exhibit strikingly similar brain responses

38 days ago psypost.org brain neuroscience

Prenatal stress from natural disasters has lifelong negative effects on development, increasing fetal cortisol exposure, altering cortisol sensitivity, and glucocorticoid receptors (NR3C1)

45 days ago onlinelibrary.wiley.com neuroscience

Epigenetic switch to turn memories on and off created: Researchers used CRISPR tools to control the Arc gene in memory-storing engram cells in the brain

18 days ago neurosciencenews.com arc brain neuroscience

TV-viewing and gaming were associated with increased focus relative to baseline, whereas social media use was associated with decreased focus

32 days ago nature.com media neuroscience

Newly discovered brain cells linked to uncertainty and decision making in the orbitofrontal cortex of rats could pave the way for treatments for anxiety and substance use disorders

39 days ago newsroom.ucla.edu brain neuroscience

New research found older COVID-19 survivors more likely to develop new-onset dementia

45 days ago mcknights.com covid neuroscience

A fast-paced computerized cognitive training program restored acetylcholine levels in the brain, equivalent to reversing about a decade of age-related decline

34 days ago games.jmir.org brain neuroscience

A new study has pinpointed how the APOE4 gene variant sabotages the brain’s energy balance, blocking neurons from burning fat for fuel when glucose runs low in, a discovery using human brain tissue and genetically modified mice that could reveal new ways to prevent or slow Alzheimer’s disease.

23 days ago newatlas.com brain disease neuroscience

Stress triggers inflammation through molecular “switches” (GR, MR, FKBP5, SKA2)

46 days ago sciencedirect.com neuroscience

New study identifies a link between changes in brain shape and declines in cognitive functions, such as memory and reasoning.

37 days ago sciencealert.com brain neuroscience

Gum disease associated with changes in the brain: Adults with gum disease may be more likely to have signs of damage to brain’s white matter, called white matter hyperintensities

26 days ago eurekalert.org brain disease neuroscience

Scientists Discover Hidden Pulse in The Brain That May Warn of Dementia

33 days ago sciencealert.com brain neuroscience

Playing recordings of a mother’s voice to premature babies may help their brains mature faster, according to the first randomised-controlled trial of this simple intervention

35 days ago newscientist.com neuroscience trial

Correlations between social media addiction and anxiety, depression, FoMO, loneliness and self-esteem among students

38 days ago pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov media neuroscience

Scientists have achieved a “striking” reversal of Alzheimer’s disease in mice by restoring the normal function of the brain's vasculature—the network of blood vessels that supplies it with oxygen and nutrients

42 days ago newsweek.com brain disease neuroscience

A single dose of psilocybin shown to rewire brain circuits in mice, providing up to two weeks of relief from both chronic pain and depression-like symptoms, offering a potential non-addictive alternative to opioids

47 days ago nature.com brain neuroscience psilocybin

Study on mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease found that inhibiting the function of a key protein in the circadian system can decrease levels of harmful tau proteins and reduce neurodegeneration.

40 days ago source.washu.edu disease neuroscience

Study reveals that the brain’s social perception pathway is already active at birth or shortly thereafter, and Infants with stronger early connectivity paid greater attention to faces at four months and displayed fewer social difficulties by 18 months

44 days ago medicine.yale.edu brain neuroscience

A specific subset of children with autism may experience positive outcomes from taking memantine, a drug used to slow Alzheimer's disease, according to the results of a small clinical trial.

48 days ago sciencealert.com autism disease neuroscience trial

A new method can help scientists “see” the proteins that may trigger Parkinson’s disease (PD) in human brain tissue for the very first time.

48 days ago technologynetworks.com brain disease neuroscience

New study out of Japan reveals molecular basis of Long COVID brain fog: "Systemic increase of AMPA receptors associated with cognitive impairment of long COVID" - Brain Communications

47 days ago academic.oup.com brain covid japan neuroscience

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