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New framework evaluates control costs in the brain

The brain performs various cognitive and behavioral functions in everyday life, flexibly transitioning to various states to carry out these functions.

11 Jan 2023

Protein Medin: A new treatment target for Alzheimer's

A recent study published in the journal Nature reported the co-aggregation of medin, a fragment of lactadherin, with vascular amyloid-β in Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

10 Jan 2023

What are the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol and marijuana on fetal development?

Researchers presented the effects of simultaneous alcohol and cannabinoid (SAC) usage during gestation on fetal brain development.

10 Jan 2023

Study opens a new view about the science of consciousness

What it means to be conscious is more than just a philosophical question. Researchers continue to investigate how conscious experience arises from the electrochemical activity of the human brain.

9 Jan 2023

The nature of general visual category representations for various object categories in 6- to 8-month-old infants

The scientists performed multivariate analysis on a multivariate classification framework and compared infant and adult EEG quantitative data and deep learning models.

9 Jan 2023

Study links epigenetic biological aging and aberrations in neural oscillatory activity in people with HIV

A new research paper was published in Aging (listed as "Aging (Albany NY)" by MEDLINE/PubMed and "Aging-US" by Web of Science) Volume 14, Issue 24, entitled, "Epigenetic aging is associated with aberrant neural oscillatory dynamics serving visuospatial processing in people with HIV."

6 Jan 2023

How does mindful attention change brain function to support self-regulation?

Researchers observed that mindful attention promoted control of brain network dynamics.

5 Jan 2023

Voice and face recognition are more closely linked than previously thought

To recognize a famous voice, human brains use the same center that lights up when the speaker's face is presented, finds a clever neuroscience study where participants were asked to identify U.S. presidents.

3 Jan 2023

New insights into how working memory information may be held in mind

Between the time you read the Wi-Fi password off the café's menu board and the time you can get back to your laptop to enter it, you have to hold it in mind.

29 Dec 2022

Human cortical organoids implanted in mice establish functional connectivity and respond to sensory stimuli

A team of engineers and neuroscientists has demonstrated for the first time that human brain organoids implanted in mice have established functional connectivity to the animals' cortex and responded to external sensory stimuli.

29 Dec 2022

Scientists find key reason for ongoing loss of smell in long-COVID

In a recent study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, researchers reported that long-term anosmia following coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) could be a result of persistent T-cell mediated inflammation occurring in the olfactory epithelium even after the elimination of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from the olfactory tissue.

27 Dec 2022

Neural electrical activity-based brain-computer interfaces for interacting with the human deep brain

Brain-Machine Interface (BMI, also known as Brain-Computer Interface) provides a new dimension for human to interact with machines and the environment.

27 Dec 2022

Mouse study unravels mechanisms by which the brain consolidates remote fear memories

A remote fear memory is a memory of traumatic events that occurred in the distant past - a few months to decades ago.

23 Dec 2022

Mice study sheds light on how the brain's primary motor cortex helps suppress neuropathic pain

A new study in mice has helped illuminate how the brain's primary motor cortex (M1) – a brain region most commonly associated with control of motor functions – helps suppress dimensions of neuropathic pain.

22 Dec 2022

Myelin influences energy management of inhibitory brain cells

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have discovered that the energy management of inhibitory brain cells is different compared to excitatory cells in our brain.

20 Dec 2022

Long-lived Chilean rodent is a useful model of natural sporadic Alzheimer's Disease

Led by researchers from the University of California at Irvine, a new study reveals that a long-lived Chilean rodent, called Octodon degus (degu), is a useful and practical model of natural sporadic Alzheimer's Disease.

20 Dec 2022

Researchers show how motor memory is consolidated during sleep

When the Golden State Warriors' Steph Curry makes a free throw, his brain draws on motor memory. Now researchers at UC San Francisco have shown how this type of memory is consolidated during sleep, when the brain processes the day's learning to make the physical act of doing something subconscious.

19 Dec 2022