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Fastball EEG tech could increase early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

A simple but revolutionary approach to early Alzheimer’s diagnosis is being pioneered by researchers through an initiative that could pave the way for improved outcomes for individuals who develop the disease in the future.

Study: Graphic cigarette warning labels are more effective with young adult smokers

A small study of young adults, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), found that graphic warning labels affected their motivation to quit smoking more than text-only warning message labels.

The human brain has a mechanism to encode individual location and people around us

Scientists know a lot about how rats navigate their social environment, but not much about the process of human spatial navigation.

YALE UNIVERSITY: Brain tissue yields clues to causes of PTSD

A post-mortem analysis of brain tissue from people who had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may help explain enduring mysteries about the disorder, such as why women are more susceptible to it and whether a dampened immune system response plays a role in dealing with stress, a team headed by Yale University and the VA’s National Center for PTSD (NCPTSD) researchers has found.

'Not science fiction anymore,' a body swap study reveals important clues about the concept of self

Pairs of friends were given the illusion of switching bodies as part of a new study and when individuals' personalities synced with their friend's, researchers concluded that beliefs about our personalities are flexible and perceptions of our physical and mental selves help encode our memories.

UC BERKELEY: Neuroscientists tap gamers to learn how people problem-solve

The game app hexxed may cast a spell on players who have to figure out the rules of the game and what the goal is. Neuroscientists hope to use player strategies to understand how people solve problems compared to how artificial intelligence solves problems.

Catalog of proteins encoded by human genome published

A special issue of the Journal of Proteome Research celebrates the 90% completion of the human proteome, a catalog of all the proteins encoded by the human genome.

Infant brains are prewired for reading, study finds

Researchers have discovered that infant brains have an innate structure prewired to read words and letters, connected closely to the brain's language region.

Cerebellum - the 'little brain' controlling thought and senses - not so little after all, research suggests

Neuroscientists have for decades thought that much of how humans experience movement, vision and thinking is operated by a very small portion of our brains, called the cerebellum.

National Academies of Sciences releases guide on molding behaviors for COVID-19

Putting ideas out there so everyone knows them is very different, in practice, from actually getting people to do what you want, and The National Academies recently looked at some of the ways social science can get people to follow the recommendations of the rest of the sciences.

YALE UNIVERSITY: Neurobiology of conversation: Brain activity depends on who you’re talking to

Our brains respond differently when talking to a person from a different socioeconomic group than during a conversation with someone of a similar background, a novel new imaging study shows.

UCLA-led research team finds REM sleep first builds, then maintains human brains

A University of California, Las Angeles (UCLA)-led team of scientists has been able to show that sleep takes on a significantly different function in the human brain around the age of 2.5 years, and Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep in that first stage is essential to brain development.

UC DAVIS HEALTH: New dopamine sensors could help unlock the mysteries of brain chemistry

Researchers develop a wider spectrum for dLight1 sensor, allowing multiplex imaging of neurotransmitters

YALE UNIVERSITY: Portable MRI can detect brain abnormalities at bedside

A new portable MRI device detected specific brain abnormalities in 29 of 30 patients taken to Yale New Haven Hospital’s neuroscience intensive care unit after presenting with symptoms of stroke and other neurological disorders, according to a new study published Sept. 8 in the journal JAMA Neurology.

UC BERKELEY: How we sleep today may forecast when Alzheimer’s disease begins

What would you do if you knew how long you had until Alzheimer’s disease set in?

NIH: Small set of genes may provide unique barcode for different types of brain cells in worms

NIH-funded study suggests specific combination of proteins determines neuron type.

BERKELEY: Vision scientists discover why humans literally don’t see eye to eye

Study finds that people literally don’t always see things the same way, which can impact activities that require visual precision.

MIT: A focused approach to imaging neural activity in the brain

New molecule for imaging calcium in neurons reduces crosstalk from neighboring neurons.