Improving Communication Between Radiologists and Surgeons for the Care of Transgender Women
National surveys estimate a growing U.S. transgender population size along with increased recognition of transgenderism in the U.S. Gender affirming surgery is a treatment option for gender dysphoria along with...
Advancing Focused Ultrasound Technology for Musculoskeletal Applications and Cancer Treatment
Matthew Bucknor, MD's interest in focused ultrasound developed during his radiology residency at UCSF when Fergus Coakley, MD (former faculty and current chair of radiology at Oregon Health Sciences University)...
Protein key for learning, memory behaves differently in males than females — ScienceDaily
New CU Boulder research, published in the journal eLIfe, sheds light on one reason those individual differences may exist. Turns out a key protein in the brain called AKT may function differently in males...
Predictors of Dementia in the Oldest Old: A Novel Machine Learning Approach
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Incidence of dementia increases exponentially with age; little is known about its risk factors in the ninth and 10th decades of life. We identified predictors of dementia with onset after age 85 years...
Integrating human brain proteomes with genome-wide association data implicates new proteins in Alzheimer’s disease...
1.Jansen, I. E. et al. Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies new loci and functional pathways influencing Alzheimer’s disease risk. Nat. Genet. 51, 404–413 (2019).CAS
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‘Transient forgetting’ mechanism revealed; pauses thought without abolishing long-term memories — ScienceDaily
In a landmark neurobiology study, scientists from Scripps Research have discovered a memory gating system that employs the neurotransmitter dopamine to direct transient forgetting, a temporary lapse of memory which spontaneously returns.
The study adds...
Associated with better locational awareness, verbal fluency, and working memory — ScienceDaily
Taking a regular afternoon nap may be linked to better mental agility, suggests research published in the online journal General Psychiatry.
It seems to be associated with better locational awareness, verbal fluency, and working memory,...
Stimulating brain pathways shows origins of human language and memory — ScienceDaily
Scientists have identified that the evolutionary development of human and primate brains may have been similar for communication and memory.
Although speech and language are unique to humans, experts have found that the brain's pathway...
Smartphone Dependence, Brain Connectivity and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents
In 2018 a large nationally representative survey study alerted readers to the potential link between use of smartphones and increases in depressive and suicide-related symptoms among U.S. adolescents. To help...
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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...