Queensland Brain Institute’s Dr. Timothy Bredy and colleagues have discovered an experience-induced non-coding RNA, named ADRAM (activity-dependent lncRNA...
In a study involving 29,618 patients, prescription lithium use was associated with a lower risk of receiving a diagnosis of dementia and its subtypes,...
Vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) with a strong preference for ethanol that were given an analogue of FGF21 (fibroblast growth factor 21), a powerful...
A team of scientists from the University of Salzburg and the University of Basel has presented sleeping volunteers with their own names and unfamiliar...
Using a mouse model, a team of researchers at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science demonstrated that high-dietary sucrose consumption during...
Toxoplasma gondii develops a latent infection in the muscle and central nervous system that acts as a reservoir for acute-stage reactivation in vulnerable...
New research by scientists from Seoul National University, Korea Food Research Institute and Chungnam National University suggests that dark chocolate...
Paleontologists have used high-resolution micro-CT and synchrotron tomography to scan two well-preserved 3D specimens of the tetrapodomorph fish Cladarosymblema...
A new long-term study led by Edith Cowan University scientists further supports the hypothesis that coffee intake may be a protective factor against Alzheimer’s...
Human neurons have a much smaller number of channels that control the flow of ions (such as potassium and sodium) than expected, compared to the neurons...
An international team of paleoanthropologists has discovered a partial skull and teeth from an immature individual of Homo naledi, a recently-discovered...
Human brain size nearly quadrupled in 6 million years since Homo last shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees, but human brains are thought to have decreased...
Biologists at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich have developed a method that allows tadpoles of African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) to ‘breathe’...
New research by scientists from Germany and the United Kingdom shows that daily mental training for 3 to 6 months can buffer the long-term systemic stress...
Fenchol, a natural compound commonly present in some plants including basil (Ocimum basilicum), decreases Alzheimer’s disease pathology by activating...
According to a new study in mice, a probable cause of Alzheimer’s disease is the leakage from blood into the brain of fat-carrying particles transporting...
While mindfulness is typically geared towards improving mental health and wellbeing, it may also provide additional benefits to brain health, according...
In a study of 336,309 UK Biobank participants, researchers found that the increased body fat incrementally leads to the increased atrophy of gray matter...
