Tiny Peptide Promotes Brain Repair After Traumatic Brain Injury
Summary: A tiny four–amino acid peptide called CAQK has shown strong neuroprotective effects in experimental models of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Given…
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Study Finds Calcium Supplements Don’t Raise Dementia Risk
Summary: A long-term follow-up of more than 1,400 older women found no evidence that calcium supplements increase the risk of dementia. Over…
How Social Brain Neurons Decide Dominance and Submission
Summary: Scientists have identified specific brain cells that determine how animals respond to social defeat, providing new insight into the biology of…
Hidden Early Signs of Diabetic Vision Loss
Summary: Researchers have created a powerful live-imaging technique that reveals how immune cells in the retina change their behavior well before the…
Brain Shape Could Reveal Earliest Alzheimer’s Symptoms
Summary: A new study finds that aging changes not only the size but also the overall shape of the human brain, with…
CBD Reduces Brain Inflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease
Summary: New research shows that cannabidiol (CBD) can substantially reduce neuroinflammation linked to Alzheimer’s disease. In experiments using a well-established Alzheimer’s mouse…
Neurons Use Fat for Energy: Discovery Could Reverse Brain Damage
Summary: New research shows that neurons are not exclusively dependent on glucose for energy; they can also generate and burn fats. When…
Rotating AI Images Reveal How Visual Perception Works
Summary: Researchers have created AI-generated “visual anagrams” — images that appear as one object in one orientation and transform into a different…
How AI Is Designing the Human Body’s Most Elusive Proteins
Summary: Researchers have developed a new machine learning approach capable of designing intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) — flexible, shape-shifting biomolecules that constitute…
Adult Head Injuries Raise Dementia Risk
Summary: A large population-based study from Canada shows that older adults who experience a traumatic brain injury (TBI) face substantially greater risks…
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