Teen Obesity Linked to Brain Changes in Memory and Emotion Centers
Summary: A major new study shows that adolescents with abdominal obesity have significantly larger brain regions involved in…
Your Brain Maps Actions Like It Maps Space
Summary: A new study shows that the human brain organizes action-outcome associations in cognitive maps, much like how…
Heavy Social Media Use Linked to Believing and Spreading Fake News
Summary: Individuals who experience high levels of distress and functional impairment from excessive social media use are significantly…
AI Tool Reads Faces to Predict Health, Aging, and Cancer Outcomes
Summary: Researchers have developed an AI tool called FaceAge that uses facial photos to estimate biological age and…
AI Learns to Decode Neuron Types From Brain Signals With 95% Accuracy
Summary: Scientists have developed an AI algorithm that can identify different types of neurons from brain activity recordings…
Exercise Boosts Stem Cell Therapy for Parkinson’s
Summary: Exercise enhances the effectiveness of stem cell-derived neuron transplants in a Parkinson’s disease (PD) rat model. Transplanted…
Eye Movements Set the Speed Limit for What You Can See
Summary: The speed of your eye movements, called saccades, determines how fast an object can move before it…
One but not the same — the many genomes of the brain
The human brain exhibits enormous complexity, with many thousands of cell types performing specialized functions that provide the…
Map of Sugar Receptor Could Curb Our Cravings
Summary: For the first time, scientists have mapped the 3D structure of the human sweet taste receptor, offering…
How Memories Take Shape at the Synapse Level
Summary: A groundbreaking new technique called EPSILON allows researchers to map the proteins involved in memory formation with…