Study reveals a direct link between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and improved cognitive function.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Psychosis Risk Linked to Cats
Toxoplasma exposure can increase the likelihood of developing psychosis in those with risk factors for mental health disorders, a new study reports.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Two-Hour Glucose Tolerance Test Predicts Decline in Episodic Memory
Higher glucose levels detected by a two-hour glucose test were an accurate predictor of poorer performance in tests of episodic memory ten years later.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How Scents Take On Meaning
The olfactory system works in combination with the brain’s reward and aversion systems in both learning and memory formation.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Converting Glioma Cells Into Neurons May Treat Glioblastoma
Cellular reprogramming of glioma cells into neural cells may be a promising treatment for glioblastoma brain cancer.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Time Until Dementia Symptoms Appear Can Be Estimated via Brain Scan
A new algorithm uses neuroimaging data of amyloid levels in the brain and takes into account a person’s age to determine when a person with genetic Alzheimer’s risk factors, and with no signs of cognitive decline, will develop the disease.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Consuming Fruit and Vegetables and Exercising Can Make You Happier
First of a kind study reveals the causal relationship between fruit and vegetable consumption, exercise, and happiness, rather than a generalized correlation.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Complexity in Language Is Driven by the Needs of the Speakers
When faced with having to distinguish similar pairs of meanings, speakers adjust their colexification preference to maintain efficient communication.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: New Technique Provides Insights Into the Evolution of the Brain
H3 acetylation of basal neural precursor cells may have been an important factor in the evolution of the human neocortex.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Drug Targets for Memory Enhancement
Researchers identified specific receptors for acetylcholine that reroute information flow through memory circuits in the hippocampus. The findings could have implications for the development of drugs to help enhance or protect memory from diseases asso…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: True Behavior of Dopamine Will Reshape How We Treat Psychiatric Diseases and Addiction
A new study finds dopamine increases responses to stressful stimuli, not just pleasurable ones. The findings could have implications for the treatment of mental health disorders and addiction.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: New Gene Therapy Pathway Could Protect Us From Cancer and Dementia
A newly identified gene therapy pathway has the potential to protect us against dementia and cancer, researchers report.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Can Cocoa Consumption Help Us Age Better?
Cocoa consumption could reduce inflammation and epigenetic aging, ultimately reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease and other diseases associated with aging.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: New Microscopy Technique Reveals Activity of One Million Neurons Across the Mouse Brain
A new technique dubbed light beads microscopy allowed researchers to generate a vivid functional movie of the near-simultaneous activity of almost a million neurons in the mouse brain.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Primate Mothers May Carry Infants After Death as a Way of Grieving
Studying 50 species of primates, researchers found 80% of the species studied performed corpse carrying behaviors as a way to process grief. Following the loss of an infant, some primate mothers carried the body for up to four months following death.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Study Pinpoints the Uncertainty of Our Working Memory
Brain areas associated with working memory also gauge the quality and uncertainty of memories. Researchers reveal details about the neural mechanisms of working memory that allow us to make decisions based on our certainty of memories.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: No, Stress Isn’t Always Bad. Here’s How to Harness It
Reinterpreting stress response as performance-enhancing makes people less anxious and improves general wellbeing, researchers report.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Stem Cells Model Genetic Risk for Developing Alzheimer’s Disease
Stem cell study reveals astrocytes carrying the Alzheimer’s associated APOE4 gene release more cholesterol than those carrying the APOE3 gene. Findings shed light on how different versions of the APOE gene in astrocytes influence amyloid-beta productio…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Body Clock Off-Schedule? Prebiotics May Help
Prebiotics can help stabilize sleep/wake patterns following circadian rhythm disruptions.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: People Synchronize Heart Rates While Listening Attentively to Stories
Heart rate synchronization occurs, even when people listen to a story alone, when paying attention to certain points of a story.
