Mechanism found to determine which memories last
Neuroscientists have established in recent decades the idea that some of each day's experiences are converted by the brain into permanent memories during sleep the same night. Now, a new study proposes a mechanism...
Serum high-sensitivity C-reactive protein and dementia in a community-dwelling Japanese older population (JPSC-AD)
Study populationThe JPSC-AD Study was a multisite, population-based, prospective, cohort study of dementia involving eight sites in Japan with a pre-specified protocol and standardized measurement methods across the research sites19,20,21,22. The study was conducted...
Making long-term memories requires nerve-cell damage
Just as you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have found that you can't make long-term memories without DNA damage and brain inflammation. Their surprising findings...
Obesity differentially effects the somatosensory cortex and striatum of TgF344-AD rats
GBD 2019 Dementia Forecasting Collaborators. Estimation of the global prevalence of dementia in 2019 and forecasted prevalence in 2050: An analysis for the global burden of disease study 2019. Lancet Public Health 7, e105–e125...
The effects of genetic and modifiable risk factors on brain regions vulnerable to ageing...
For the present work the imaging cohort of UK Biobank was used and we included 39,676 subjects who had been scanned and for whom the brain scans had been preprocessed at the time of...
Artificial nanofluidic synapses can store computational memory
Memory, or the ability to store information in a readily accessible way, is an essential operation in computers and human brains. A key difference is that while brain information processing involves performing computations directly...
The power of neighbors: Neighboring synapses shape learning and memory
A researcher at the University of Basel, in collaboration with a colleague in Austria, has developed a new model that provides a holistic view on how our brain manages to learn quickly and forms...
Early intervention after the first seizure may prevent long-term epilepsy and associated cognitive deficits
Only a very small percentage of neurons show changes after an epileptic seizure in mice, but these alterations can be permanent and trigger future seizures that can affect the whole brain and lead to...
Keto diet prevents early memory decline in mice
A new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis, shows a ketogenic diet significantly delays the early stages of Alzheimer's-related memory loss in mice. This early memory loss is comparable to mild...
MRI at Mount Zion: Refreshed to Improve Patient Care
With the refurbished Zone 3 room, UCSF is now able to better serve Mount Zion outpatients who need anesthesia for their imaging studies and patients with medical implants. In the...
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Take it from the rats: A junk food diet can cause long-term damage to...
A new USC-led study on rats that feasted on a high-fat, sugary diet raises the possibility that a junk food-filled diet in teens may...
Repurposing non-pharmacological interventions for Alzheimer’s disease through link prediction on biomedical literature
The complete workflow is depicted in Fig. 1. To investigate the association between NPIs and AD, we initially conducted preprocessing and integration of biomedical triples...
Degenerative Dementias and Their Medical Care in the Movies
Compared with other neurologic problems, few films have been dedicated to degenerative dementia. To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review about the...