progscrape: neuroscience

Restoring a specific protein could rewire the brain in Down syndrome

38 days ago cell.com brain neuroscience

Calcium alpha-ketoglutarate (CaAKG), a naturally occurring molecule our body produces, restores key memory functions disrupted in Alzheimer’s disease, suggests new study in mice

40 days ago medicine.nus.edu.sg disease neuroscience

Tofersen, a new drug approved by the FDA for a genetic form of ALS, delays symptom progression and death and in about one-quarter of participants leads to stabilization or improvement

41 days ago medicine.washu.edu genetics neuroscience

Using the same math employed by string theorists, network scientists discover that surface optimization governs the brain’s architecture — not length minimization.

34 days ago news.northeastern.edu brain math neuroscience

Amusing neuroscience-inspired essay on time dilation and bad story-telling by a distressed brain

12 days ago 3quarksdaily.com brain neuroscience

Peer-reviewed by human experts: AI failed in key steps to generate a scoping review

40 days ago link.springer.com ai neuroscience

Researchers at UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) and the School of Biomedical Sciences have discovered a nanoscale molecular scaffold that exists in the tissue that surrounds the axon that protects sensory axons from degenerating.

29 days ago qbi.uq.edu.au brain neuroscience

Brain scan ‘caricatures’ could lead to better treatment outcomes by emphasizing individual differences

37 days ago news.northeastern.edu brain neuroscience

To flexibly organize thought, the brain makes use of space: « MIT researchers tested their theory of spatial computing, which holds that the brain recruits and controls ad hoc groups of neurons for cognitive tasks by applying brain waves to patches of the cortex

18 days ago news.mit.edu brain mit neuroscience

Long-term effects of 40-hertz auditory stimulation as a treatment of Alzheimer’s disease: New study provides the first primate evidence of 40-Hz auditory stimulation can sustainably modulate the Aβ metabolism in the brain, supporting its potential as a noninvasive Alzheimer’s treatment method.

35 days ago pnas.org brain disease neuroscience