Summary: A newly developed artificial neural connection device allows new cortical sites, previously not associated with limb movements, to swiftly regain the control of a paralyzed hand.
Source: Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science
January 7, 2020
Summary: Dysfunction in a brain pathway that usually keeps compulsive drinking in check may play a critical role in alcohol use disorder.
Source: Santa Clarita University
December 18, 2019
https://neurosciencenews.com/alcohol-moderation-neuroscience-15324/
Summary:Study shows that people can boost attention by manipulating their own alpha brain waves.
Source:Anne Trafton, MIT News Office
December 4, 2019
http://news.mit.edu./2019/controlling-attention-brain-waves-1204
Summary:Rats that lose their zest for life after tough times show changes in a key brain area, but resilient rats do not.
Source: J. Neurosci. (2019), nature.com
02 December 2019
Summary:Model quickly generates brain scan templates that represent a given patient population.
Source:Rob Matheson, MIT News Office
November 26, 2019
http://news.mit.edu./2019/ai-model-atlas-patient-brain-analysis-1126
Summary:Microscopy has been a trade-off until now: the bigger the sample, the lower the resolution. But picking out cellular detail in mouse brains and more is becoming increasingly possible.
Source:Jeffrey M. Perkel, nature.com
26 November 2019
Summary: The bilateral claustrum, right inferior frontal gyrus, and left superior frontal gyrus remain active during activities involving social punishment.
Source: National Research University Higher School of Economics
November 22, 2019
Summary:In mice, nicotine seems to mess with the signalling pathway that links the brain to the pancreas. Plus: a second scientist has moved closer to creating gene-edited babies and we remember the first person to walk in space.
Source:Flora Graham, nature.com
18 October 2019
Summary: Examining postmortem brains of ASD patients, researchers discover an accumulation of immune cells surrounding blood vessels in the brain. They also found blebs accumulating around blood vessels that contained astrocyte debris. The findings suggest autism may be an autoimmune disorder.
October 17, 2019
Source: BIDMC
Summary:The neural cells called astrocytes feed the brain’s own fat to metastatic cancer cells.
Source:Cancer Discov. (2019)
10 October 2019