Novel e-skin achieves self-powered hippocampal neural stimulation
Credit: ZHAN Yang Chinese scientists recently developed a flexible electronic skin (e-skin) capable of self-powered neural stimulation and inducing a ...
Tag: neurobiology
University of Iowa receives major grant to continue work on Huntington’s disease
$18 million NIH grant for research to understand brain development in children at risk for HDCredit: University of Iowa Health ...
Your genes aren’t the only factor dictating Alzheimer’s risk, says Baycrest-U of T study
The colour of our eyes or the straightness of our hair is linked to our DNA, but the development of ...
Artificial intelligence boosts MRI detection of ADHD
Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - Deep learning, a type of artificial intelligence, can boost the ...
Scientists eager to explain brain rhythm boost’s broad impact in Alzheimer’s models
Credit: Picower Institute at MIT The sweeping extent to which increasing 40Hz "gamma" rhythm power in the brain can affect ...
Blood pressure drug could help problem drinkers: QUT research
Credit: QUT A drug used to treat high blood pressure may alleviate anxiety induced by long-term heavy alcohol use, and ...
Illinois team develops first of a kind in-vitro 3D neural tissue model
Credit: University of Illinois Department of Bioengineering Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have successfully used stem cells ...
Lily and Yuh-Nung Jan named 20th Perl-UNC neuroscience prize recipients
The husband-and-wife scientists from UC San Francisco will be honored at a spring event at UNC-Chapel Hill for their seminal ...
ERC Consolidator Grant for research on spatial navigation
The results will also be relevant for Alzheimer's researchCredit: RUB, Marquard Professor Nikolai Axmacher from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) has received ...
New grant will fund clinical trial of a novel approach to treating Alzheimer’s
Credit: David DelPoio/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With a new grant from the Alzheimer's Association, a team of researchers from ...
LSU Health discovers role of 2 proteins in sight and preventing blinding eye diseases
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, Ph.D., Boyd Professor and Director ...
Justified and unjustified movie violence evokes different brain responses, study finds
Justified violence in PG-13 films is seen as more acceptableCredit: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience/Annenberg Public Policy Center The gun violence ...
Scientist awarded 2 million to investigate how the brain ‘learns on its feet’
Credit: Alexandre Azinheira You don't usually notice it, but you are, in fact, continuously learning how to walk. It happens ...
Me, me, me! How narcissism changes throughout life
There's hope for today's teensCredit: Photo by Taylor Smith on Unsplash For parents worried that their teenager's narcissism is out ...
Muscle weakness after sepsis linked to mitochondrial dysfunction
New findings may explain why humans experience muscle weakness after sepsis recovery, and suggest the need for novel treatments to ...
Common genetic link between autism and Tourette’s impairs brain communication
Credit: Lancaster University Lancaster University researchers have discovered, for the first time, how a genetic alteration that increases the risk ...
How playing the drums changes the brain
Many years of playing the instrument leave clear tracesCredit: RUB, Marquard People who play drums regularly for years differ from ...
Rhythmic perception in humans has strong evolutionary roots
So suggests a study that compares the behaviour of rodents and humans with respect to the detection rhythm, by Alexandre ...
Emerging role of adenosine in brain disorders and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 6, 2019 -The role of adenosine in neurodegeneration and neuroregeneration ...
New ultra-miniaturized scope less invasive, produces higher quality images
Credit: Mark Foster Johns Hopkins engineers have created a new lens-free ultra-miniaturized endoscope, the size of a few human hairs ...
