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The future of Alzheimer’s treatment
Researchers have discovered that Alzheimer’s disease patients’ brain tissue shows swelling of neurons with swollen lysosomes spilling waste into the brain in both mice and brain tissue. Researchers said the bulging neurons are a sign that the cells’ lysosomal system is dysfunction, which causes waste to accumulate inside cells, ultimately killing them and spilling ready-made…
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A neural crest-like Cell is involved in the Injury Response
A comparison of references for decongestion within normal and tumour brain Visium samples from Spatial LIBD Project Resolve was made using a single-cell mouse dataset. An initial reference was constructed using major cell types denoted in Fig 1c. Two separate references for the tumours and normal regions were created to get more detailed decongestion of…
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People with traumatic head injury may be helped by brain implants
Researchers have designed an electrode implant that can help treat people with traumatic brain injury (TMBI) by improving their performance in the lateral side of the thalamus. Researchers used brain image data to design personalised treatments for five people who had experienced msTBI for at least two years. They also implanted electrodes near the lateral…
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The first human trial of Neuralink’s brain-computer interface is currently recruiting subjects
Elon Musk-owned startup Neuralink has said it will be conducting its first-ever in-human trial for its brain-computer interface (BCI) implant. The implant is a part of the brain that records neural activity using 1,024 electrodes distributed across 64 threads, each thinner than a human hair. It will be implanted into a part of the brain…
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Monkeys got a Brain boost after one Shot of aKidneyProtein
Scientists at California’s UCSF have discovered that the protein klotho, which circulates in the blood, enhances the brain’s memory. In the study, researchers studied more than 700 people. Those who had higher levels of the protein performed better on thinking and memory tests, such as drawing a recalled image and naming the colour of a…
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An overlooked brain system helps you plan your coffee
A century of experimental neurology testifies that a thin strip of motor cortex runs sideways down the outer surface of the brain voluntary actions into muscle movements. The brain’s higher regions act as puppeteers, orchestrating movements by creation of certain sequence of activity in the motor cortex map. They suggested there are two systems in…