How Dendrites Shape Neuronal Signaling and Responses
Summary: Researchers have made a significant advance in understanding neuronal variability by showing how dendrites—the antenna-like extensions of neurons—actively regulate the variability…
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New Neuroimaging Method Reveals Individual Brain Differences
Summary: A newly published Science study maps DNA methylation in individual neurons, revealing fine-grained neuronal subtypes and offering a powerful new tool…
How Loneliness and Sadness Improve Reading Social Cues
Summary: People who feel lonely or sad may be better at accurately recognizing social patterns and behaviors, a new study suggests. Source:…
Multiple Sclerosis Linked to Higher Cancer Risk
Summary: New long-term data suggest that people living with multiple sclerosis (MS) may face a higher overall risk of developing cancer compared…
New Alzheimer’s Risk Gene Found in Icelanders
Summary: Researchers identified a rare genetic variant in TM2D3 that is significantly enriched in Icelanders and is associated with a markedly increased…
Snail Research Sheds Light on Chemo Brain
As many as half of patients treated with chemotherapy report a decline in mental sharpness. Despite many theories, the exact cause of…
How Tone of Voice Affects Communication
Scientists discover neural communication pathways for prosody Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig have…
How AI Mimics Human Decision-Making to Improve Accuracy
Summary: Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a neural network that models human decision-making by integrating uncertainty and evidence accumulation. Trained on…
Study: Enzyme Protects Brain Cells in Parkinson’s Model
Researchers at the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have identified how the enzyme serum glucocorticoid kinase 1 (SGK1) protects…
How Long Does Coronavirus Live on Surfaces?
Summary: SARS-CoV-2 remains detectable in aerosols for up to three hours, up to four hours on copper, up to 24 hours on…
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