progscrape: neuroscience

83% of autistic children and adolescents suffer from life-disruptive sleep disorders including difficulty falling asleep, night walking, night terrors, movement during sleep…

30 days ago mdpi.com autism neuroscience

Dopamine neurons—the cells that drive reward & motivation while we’re awake—become surprisingly active during nonrapid eye movement sleep right after we learn something new

42 days ago news.umich.edu neuroscience

A new study shows psilocybin reshapes brain circuits linked to depression by weakening rigid cortico-cortical loops that trap people in negative thinking and strengthening sensory-motor pathways that help restore cognitive flexibility.

40 days ago cell.com brain neuroscience psilocybin

Harvard scientists: Red meat tied to increased dementia risk - Harvard Health

47 days ago health.harvard.edu neuroscience

New technology allows researchers to better understand how babies develop brain network patterns during their first two years of life

32 days ago news.northeastern.edu brain neuroscience

"Modeling the Spread of Misfolded Proteins in #Alzheimer’s Disease using Higher-Order Simplicial Complex Contagion"

40 days ago ieeexplore.ieee.org disease neuroscience

Circadian dysfunction correlates with disease severity in neurodegeneration, highlighting the molecular clock as a key biomarker and therapeutic target

35 days ago academic.oup.com disease neuroscience

A new study suggests that air pollution alters the structure of the adolescent brain, affecting frontal and temporal regions critical to decision-making, language, emotional regulation, and social behavior—even at pollution levels deemed “safe” by the Environmental Protection Agency.

27 days ago sciencedirect.com brain neuroscience

UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute researchers showed scanning ultrasound is safe and well-tolerated in a first-in-human pilot study—an important step toward Alzheimer’s disease treatments.

32 days ago news.uq.edu.au brain disease neuroscience

Cognition all the way down 2.0: neuroscience beyond neurons in the diverse intelligence era - Synthese

29 days ago link.springer.com biology