How Cells Sync Their Internal Clocks: Mechanisms and Impact
Summary: Using a new imaging technique based on bioluminescence, researchers show that the cellular clocks within a single organ can remain synchronized…
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How the Brain Controls Writing: Neural Basis of Handwriting
Researchers studying stroke survivors who lost the ability to spell have identified the specific brain regions that support written word production. In…
Study Finds Memory Brainwaves Match in Sleep and Wake
Summary: New research identifies the same brain mechanisms that trigger memory reactivation during both wakefulness and sleep. Source: University of Birmingham Identical…
How Immune Cells Maintain the Blood-Brain Barrier
New research reveals that the brain’s immune cells, known as microglia, not only protect against infection and inflammation but also repair the…
Apathy, Not Depression, Predicts Dementia Risk
Summary: In older adults with cerebral small vessel disease (SVD), higher levels of apathy at baseline and increases in apathy over time…
How Self-Control Shapes Early Language Skills in Young Children
How Executive Function Supports Early Language Learning: New Findings from a Dutch Preschool Study Summary: New research finds that children’s executive function—the…
Where Brain Cells Get Input Could Shape Their Role in Disease
Summary: Researchers mapped the inputs to two rare types of striatal interneurons linked to psychiatric and movement disorders. The findings help clarify…
Study: Why People Prefer AI for Fairness Decisions
Summary: A new online experiment finds that more than 60% of participants in the UK and Germany preferred an algorithmic decision maker…
How the Brain Enters and Emerges from Anesthesia
Researchers have found that the brain uses different processes to enter and exit anesthetic-induced unconsciousness. The new study indicates that the pathways…
Nanocarrier Penetrates Blood-Brain Barrier for Drug Delivery
Summary: Researchers at Kumamoto University have identified a cyclic heptapeptide that significantly improves penetration of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), enabling nanoparticle carriers…
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