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Thousands of companies promising to unlock young children’s brain potential have opened in recent years, drawing in eager ...
Kiora Pharmaceuticals has granted Senju Pharmaceutical an exclusive option to exercise rights to an exclusive development and ...
But, it turns out that quiet isn’t passive at all. In fact, after just three days of intentional silence, the brain begins to physically and functionally rewire itself. A growing body of ...
A study of long-distance runners shows the brain’s remarkable ability to adapt—by burning its own fat. A marathon taxes more than just muscles—it pushes the brain to its metabolic limits.
A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney. A colorized computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain revealing blood ...
An Ohio music conductor is using deep brain stimulation to combat his Parkinson’s disease. Rand Laycock, 70, the director and conductor of a symphony orchestra, was diagnosed just before his ...
A Yale-led study shows that the senses stimulate a region of the brain that controls consciousness—a finding that might inform treatment for disorders related to attention, arousal, and more.
A pregnant woman declared brain-dead months ago is being kept on life support in Georgia until her baby can be delivered — a decision doctors made to obey the state’s strict abortion ban ...
Instead, it is well known that handedness is caused by the brain (Schmitz et al., 2019). Handedness represents one form of functional hemispheric asymmetries—e.g., left-right differences in the ...
Chronic brain inflammation, driven by microglial activation and interleukin-1β release, leads to overactivation of NMDA glutamate receptors, resulting in repetitive behaviors and anxiety in ...