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A lot of Alzheimer’s treatments focus on removing plaques in the brain. But could this be the wrong target?
Probes that can transmit electricity inside the skull raise questions about personal autonomy and responsibility.
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Where does responsibility lie if a person acts under the influence of their brain implant? As neurotechnologies advance, a neuroethicist and a legal expert write that now’s the time to hash it out.
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Researchers have identified which part of the brain helps us understand and respond to social interactions.
There are currently no effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, which causes may elders to live their last years without recognizing their loved ones, and unable to care for themselves.
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Study of the “memory centres” of the brain in adults offers hope for detecting Alzheimer’s disease earlier – before the onset of memory loss.
Could it be that a baby has all the brain cells she ever will?
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Neuroscience labs around the world may need to reevaluate some of their assumptions about whether what works in animals will really produce meaningful treatments for people.
A lone new neuron (green) in a 13-year-old’s hippocampus.
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The scientists behind a controversial new study were surprised by their own results. But they carefully did all they could to ‘prove a negative,’ and their neurogenesis study is shaking up the field.
Baroness Tessa Jowell speaking in the House of Lords.
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There are several things we can do to speed up the development of new drugs, without putting patients at risk.
The answer has long eluded scientists.
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Creative people seem to possess a unique connection between three brain networks that typically work separately.
Harmful tau protein spreads through networks.
Harmful proteins spread between connected neurons much like flu spreads through a social network. The finding may provide future opportunities for halting Alzheimer’s.
What’s going on in there when you decide?
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A new initiative called the International Brain Laboratory is tackling this fundamental mystery of neuroscience in an unusual way.
Brain damage linked to concussions in football can resemble that found in elderly and comatose patients but there may be ways to prevent it so the sport continues. Toronto Argonauts’ Jeffrey Finley, left, rushes to take down Calgary Stampeders’ quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell in this August file photo.
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Concussions in football and other contact sports correlate with severe, long-term brain damage — but science shows it doesn’t have to be that way.
All brain tumours are associated with significant sickness and death, even if they are benign.
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Why hasn’t there been an improvement in survival in the last 30 years for patients with brain cancers?
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New research is helping us understand exactly how Alzheimer’s works – and how to treat it.
Neuroscience can help incarcerated brains.
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Hollywood pushes a fantasy version of what neuroscience can do in the courtroom. But the field does have real benefits to offer, right now: solid evidence on what would improve prisons.
Did I just hear ‘danger’…or ‘container’?
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We can see at a finer resolution than the spacing between individual photo-receptors in the eye – and it’s all down to our brains.
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New research tries to suggest mothers’ responses are pre-programmed, but there’s a problem with the evidence.
Sleep is the time for our brain to reboot.
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Although it may appear you’re “switching off” when you fall asleep, the brain is far from inactive.
A pod of spinner dolphins in the Red Sea.
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Complex behaviour such as regional accents and cultural food preferences in whales and dolphins seems to be linked to brain size.
Oxycodone-acetaminophen pills.
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Drug addiction isn’t about bad habits, fear of withdrawal or a selfish search for pleasure. It’s about the brain.
Dr. Zahra Moussavi tests a device that stimulates the brain with magnetic pulses. The experimental technology can temporarily roll back effects of Alzheimer’s disease.
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When Zahra Moussavi’s mother developed Alzheimer’s, the scientist pursued a technology that directly stimulates the brain with electromagnets to mitigate the effects of the disease. It worked.