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Process for Regenerating Neurons in the Eye and Brain Identified

Oct. 5, 2020 — A team of researchers has identified networks of genes that regulate the process responsible for determining whether neurons will regenerate in certain animals, such as ...

World First Study Links Obesity With Reduced Brain Plasticity

Sep. 24, 2020 — A world-first study has found that severely overweight people are less likely to be able to re-wire their brains and find new neural pathways, a discovery that has significant implications for people ...

Mosquito-Borne Viruses Linked to Stroke

Sep. 18, 2020 — A deadly combination of two mosquito-borne viruses may be a trigger for stroke, new research has ...

Concussion Discovery Reveals Dire, Unknown Effect of Even Mild Brain Injuries

Sep. 10, 2020 — Even mild concussions cause severe and long-lasting impairments in the brain's ability to clean itself, and this may seed it for Alzheimer's, ...

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Millimeter-Precision Drug Delivery to the Brain

Oct. 5, 2020 — Focused ultrasound waves help researchers to deliver drugs to the brain with pinpoint accuracy, in other words only to where their effect is desired. This method is set to enable treatment of ...

Stem Cells Can Repair Parkinson's-Damaged Circuits in Mouse Brains

Sep. 26, 2020 — Researchers demonstrated a proof-of-concept stem cell treatment in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease. They found that neurons derived from stem cells can integrate well into the correct regions of ...

Parkinson's Disease Is Not One, but Two Diseases

Sep. 22, 2020 — Researchers around the world have been puzzled by the different symptoms and varied disease pathways of Parkinson's patients. A major study has now identified that there are actually two types of the ...

Scientists Advance Understanding of Blood-Brain Barrier Health

Sep. 21, 2020 — In a study with potential impacts on a variety of neurological diseases, researchers have provided the first experimental evidence from a living organism to show that an abundant, star-shaped brain ...

Key Role of Immune Cells in Brain Infection

Sep. 15, 2020 — Researchers have identified the specific type of immune cell that induces brain inflammation in herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis. Crucially, they have also determined the signalling protein ...

Vitamin B1 Deficiency a Key Factor in the Development of Alcohol-Related Dementia

Sep. 9, 2020 — A research group has now developed a hypothesis whereby iron deposits in the brain -- resulting from alcohol-induced vitamin B1 deficiency -- can be ...

Brain's Immune Cells Promising Cellular Target for Therapeutics

Sep. 8, 2020 — Inspired by the need for new and better therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, researchers are exploring the link between uncontrolled inflammation within the brain and the brain's immune cells, ...

Children Use Both Brain Hemispheres to Understand Language, Unlike Adults

Sep. 7, 2020 — Infants and young children have brains with a superpower, of sorts, say neuroscientists. Whereas adults process most discrete neural tasks in specific areas in one or the other of their brain's two ...

What Is Cerebral Venous Thrombosis? Study Finds Blood Clot Condition on the Rise

Aug. 26, 2020 — Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) occurs when a blood clot forms in one of the veins in the brain, preventing blood from draining out of the brain. A ...