Astronauts' Brains Rewired During Long-Term Space Missions to Adapt to Extreme Cosmic Environment

MEDICINE & HEALTH 02.18.2022 22:40 PM

A new study suggests that brains of astronauts "rewire" to adapt on the space environment during long-term missions.

Brain Retrieves Irrelevant Information In Older Adults Due To Abundance Of Memories Resulting To Poorer Memory Performance

02.13.2022 23:21 PM

A psychological study explains how older adults tend to have problems when retrieving memories. People often forget as they get older due to the challenges in the neurological processes that retrieve memories.

How Does SARS-CoV-2 Attack the Body? Long COVID Also Affects the Brain, Heart, Other Vital Organs

02.13.2022 21:39 PM

SARS-CoV-2 targets not only the lungs, but as well as the brain, heart, and other organs causing more people to cope with Long COVID symptoms even after being treated with the infection.

Learning and Memory: New Study Shows the Role of FMRP Protein in How to Memorize Things, Events, and Activities

02.10.2022 07:04 AM

New research recently suggested that the role of Fragile X mental retardation protein or FMRP is more sophisticated compared to what was previously known. Essentially, looking at memory neurons in the mouse brain's hippocampus region, Rockefeller researchers discovered that the FMRP protein has two different tasks.

Ebola Virus Hiding in Brain? New Study Reveals It May Stay There Even Years After Treatment

02.10.2022 04:26 AM

Some outbreaks of the Ebola virus in Africa have been associated with persistent infection in patients who had survived past outbreaks, senior author of a recently published paper Xiankun "Kevin" Zeng said.

Man Discovers Black Mold Growing in His Brain Causing Severe Headaches, Facial Paralysis, and Other Symptoms

02.04.2022 23:35 PM

The man describes the growing black mold in his brain as "two little dark circles of doom" due to the abscesses and severe symptoms it has caused him for the past four years.

Cerebral Cortex Found Responsible for Speech to Ensure People Say The Right Words

02.04.2022 05:58 AM

A new study recently focused on the half-dozen sub-regions of the surface layer of the brain, also called the cerebral cortex, as they are known to regulate how people are moving their mouth, lips, and tongue to form words and to play a role in processing what they hear they, themselves are saying.

How Does Heartbreak Affect the Body? Here's the Science Behind A Broken Heart

02.02.2022 04:42 AM

Science writer Florence Williams consulted experts on how heartbreak could lead to physiological symptoms and investigates ways of how emotions can impact the body as a whole.

Are We Living In the Past? New Study Shows Brain Acts Like A Time Machine That Brings Us 15 Seconds Back

01.31.2022 03:38 AM

A new study suggests that people do not see the world in real-time as the brain keeps people seeing what happened 15 seconds ago to create the illusion of stability.

Physical Exercise Can Help Adults Fight Dementia-Related Conditions, Study Says

01.25.2022 02:03 AM

Older adults could maintain their brain and cognition healthy by physical exercise because it keeps the integrity of synapses intact, according to a new study.

Men vs. Women Brains: Study Finds 1,000 Genes Are More Active in One Gender Than the Other

01.24.2022 21:08 PM

A new study supports the hypothesis that the brains of men and women are different after finding genes that are more active in one gender than the other which increases risk of brain disorders.

Heightened Brain Activity While Asleep to Perceive Unfamiliar Voices Could Be An Evolutionary Trick Against Potential Threats

01.17.2022 23:51 PM

Scientists found that the brain pays more attention to unfamiliar voices during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, indicating that it can learn even while asleep although it could do more harm than help because it should be at rest.

People Who Have Developing Dementia Struggle to Identify Truth, Lies, and Sarcasm [STUDY]

01.17.2022 07:14 AM

A study confirms that patients of dementia are struggling to determine truths, lies, and even sarcasm during conversation.

How Are Memories Stored? Tailor-Made Microscope Shows How Brain Cells Create New Synapses in Groundbreaking Study

01.14.2022 04:43 AM

Researchers recorded how brain cells of a zebrafish light up when storing memories in which findings can help develop new treatments for PTSD and neurodegenerative disorders.

Why Forgetting Is Not Really a Bad Thing? Here's What Neuroscientists Say

01.14.2022 03:22 AM

A new study theorizes that forgetting memories is a form of learning, contrary to the general knowledge that it is only a dump system of our brain.

Olfactory Receptor Gene Involved in the Sense of Smell Helps Breast Cancer Spread to the Brain, Bones and Lung Study Reveals

01.04.2022 01:05 AM

A team of scientists found that an olfactory receptor gene responsible for the sense of smell helps with the metastasis of breast cancer to the brain and other parts of the body.

How Neurons Work? Neuroscience Model of Hebbian Theory Shows Neuronal Circuits Working Like Wires

12.31.2021 22:00 PM

About 70 years ago, the idea that "neurons that fire together wire together" gained popularity. Now, scientists try to explain the concept from the perspective of computational neuroscience.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: New Study Shows Potential Emergency Treatment Through Brain Stimulation

12.14.2021 23:10 PM

A new study could be an essential step in making an emergency treatment known as brain stimulation that's responsive to daily changes in obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms.

Ancient Big-Headed Fish May Be the Key to Evolution, Brain Scans Show They Left Water to Invade Land

12.14.2021 22:19 PM

Researchers from Flinders University found that the brain of an ancient big-headed fish had given insights on evolution, particularly on how the fish first left the waters and invaded the land.

Glowing Neurons: Genetically Modified Jellyfish Gives Light on How Human Minds Work

12.14.2021 00:12 AM

Scientists genetically modified a transparent jellyfish to make its neurons glow and they could study how it works to give new insights into human minds.

People Who Claim Seeing Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Have Something Unique In Their Brains, Analyses Show Signs

12.13.2021 01:02 AM

A lot of people are saying they've had an encounter with extraterrestrial life and now, reports are saying their brains are currently being analyzed and a professor said, there are signs seen in these individuals.