Drugs that increase signaling of Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) can help suppress the involuntary movements associated with dopamine replacement therapy for those with Parkinson’s disease.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Researchers Study Recurrent Neural Network Structure in the Brain
Recurrent neural networks within the human frontal cortex may be responsible for decision making, language, and movement, researchers report.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Unusual Visual Examination of Objects May Indicate Later Autism Diagnosis in Infants
The way in which an infant visually examines an object may predict a later autism diagnosis, researchers say. Unusual visual inspection of items at 9 months was a strong predictor of an ASD diagnosis later in childhood.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Increased Risk of Depression for Young People if Their Mothers Experienced Depression During or After Pregnancy
By the age of 24, children born to mothers who suffered from depression during pregnancy or postpartum depression scored three points higher for depression scores than those whose mothers did not suffer from depression.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Dysfunctional Synaptic Function Is Key to Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia itself is associated with loss of excitation, but hallucinations and other symptoms of the disorder are caused by a loss of synaptic inhibition.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Sniffing Out How Associative Memories Are Formed
Dopamine-controlled fan cells in the lateral entorhinal cortex are required for the formation of associative memories.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Nasal Drugs Show Promise for Slowing Parkinson’s Disease Progression
Two new intranasal drugs slow inflammation and stop the spread of alpha-synuclein in mouse models of Parkinson’s disease. The drug also improved gait and balance in the animals. If the results are able to be replicated in humans, researchers say the dr…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: The Quality, Not Quantity, of Cardiovascular Fat Can Interfere With Memory Later in Life
Greater radiodensity of perivascular adipose tissue in women during midlife was associated with decreased working memory performance later in life.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Immune Cells in the Brain Share the Work
Microglia immune cells can join together to form networks when needed, a new study reports. However, certain mutations associated with Parkinson’s disease can impair this process.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: A Possible Connections Between Oxytocin and Instagram
Researchers discovered people with a specific variant of the oxytocin receptor gene OXTR follow more people on Instagram. However, there no evidence was found to suggest gene-environment interactions influence online sociability.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Second-Hand Psychological Stress Can Lead to Depression
Mouse study reveals chronic stress affects neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Which Types of Brain Activity Support Conscious Experiences?
Brain activity during conscious wakefulness presents large integrated and dynamic network modules which fragment during sleep.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: MIND Diet Linked to Better Cognitive Performance
Study reports the MIND diet may help reduce a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and help maintain cognition in older adults.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: The Mediterranean Diet Leads to Better Cognitive Functions and Memory
Study reveals a direct link between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and improved cognitive function.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Psychosis Risk Linked to Cats
Toxoplasma exposure can increase the likelihood of developing psychosis in those with risk factors for mental health disorders, a new study reports.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Two-Hour Glucose Tolerance Test Predicts Decline in Episodic Memory
Higher glucose levels detected by a two-hour glucose test were an accurate predictor of poorer performance in tests of episodic memory ten years later.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How Scents Take On Meaning
The olfactory system works in combination with the brain’s reward and aversion systems in both learning and memory formation.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Converting Glioma Cells Into Neurons May Treat Glioblastoma
Cellular reprogramming of glioma cells into neural cells may be a promising treatment for glioblastoma brain cancer.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Time Until Dementia Symptoms Appear Can Be Estimated via Brain Scan
A new algorithm uses neuroimaging data of amyloid levels in the brain and takes into account a person’s age to determine when a person with genetic Alzheimer’s risk factors, and with no signs of cognitive decline, will develop the disease.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Consuming Fruit and Vegetables and Exercising Can Make You Happier
First of a kind study reveals the causal relationship between fruit and vegetable consumption, exercise, and happiness, rather than a generalized correlation.
