Tag: neurology

Controlling a single brain chemical may help expand window for learning language and music

From the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital press release: Learning language or music is usually a breeze for children, but as even young adults know, that capacity declines dramatically with age…. Read more »

Study suggests hippocampus underlies the link between slowed walking and mental decline

From the Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh press release: The connection between slowed walking speed and declining mental acuity appears to arise in the right hippocampus, a finger-shaped region… Read more »

Study examines the secret connection between anxiety, sleep

From the University of Tsukuba press release: You may have experienced sleepless nights when you were anxious, stressed or too excited. Such emotions are well-known to affect wakefulness and can even… Read more »

Alzheimer’s disease risk linked to a network of genes associated with myeloid cells

From The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine press release: Many genes linked to late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are expressed in myeloid cells and regulated by a single… Read more »