From the Institute for Basic Science media release: The burgeoning field of optogenetics has seen another breakthrough with the creation of a new plant-human hybrid protein molecule called OptoSTIM1. In South Korea, a research team led…
From the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (LMU) media release: Alzheimer’s disease is associated with the appearance of characteristic neurotoxic protein aggregates in various regions in the brain. Chemical analysis of these insoluble deposits reveals that they are made…
From the VIB (Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology) media release: BACE1 is the major drug target for Alzheimer’s disease, but we know surprisingly little about its normal function in the CNS. Soraia Barão and Bart…
From the The Endocrine Society media release: People who have diabetes and experience high rates of complications are more likely to develop dementia as they age than people who have fewer diabetic complications, according to…
From the Oxford University Press USA media release: With the number of individuals affected by cognitive decline expected to rise over the next few decades, investigating its potential causes is of major public health interest.…
From the Northwestern University media release: Some stressful experiences — such as chronic childhood abuse — are so overwhelming and traumatic, the memories hide like a shadow in the brain. At first, hidden memories that can’t…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign media release: In the summer of 2012, Olga Kotelko, a 93-year-old Canadian track-and-field athlete with more than 30 world records in her age group, visited the Beckman Institute for…
From the VIB – Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology media release: Genetic analysis of human patients has shown that mutations in genes involved in synaptic communication can drive neuropsychiatric and neurological diseases such as autism spectrum…
From the UC Berkeley media release: Like Duke Ellington’s 1931 jazz standard, the human brain improvises while its rhythm section keeps up a steady beat. But when it comes to taking on intellectually challenging tasks,…
From the ETH ZURICH media release: The brains of more intelligent people are capable of solving tasks more efficiently, which is why these people have superior cognitive faculties, or as Elsbeth Stern, Professor for Research on…