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Neurodegeneration (127 articles)
- Friendship Might Actually Shrink Tumors (We Have the Neural Circuit to Prove It)
- Disconnect Half a Brain and It Takes a Permanent Nap (While You're Awake)
- Brain Tumors Are Sneaky: They're Learning to Talk Like Neurons
- How Your Brain Learns New Smells Without Forgetting Old Ones
- Chronic Stress Breaks the Brain's Norepinephrine Control System
- A Gene Linked to Intellectual Disability Controls How Oligodendrocytes Shape Their Myelin
- Different Species Learn Eyeblink Conditioning Differently (Maybe Learning Isn't So Conserved)
- Attention, Memory, and Consciousness Are More Intertwined Than We Thought
- Brain Scans Predicting Kids' Behavior Sounds Great, But Here's Why It's Harder Than You Think
- Astrocytes Have a Secret Fuel Source (And It Changes How They React to Inflammation)
- Gene Therapy for Epilepsy and Autism Is Finally Getting Personal
- Cancer's Sneaky Pain Plot: How Tumors Hijack Your Nerves to Dodge the Immune System
- How Your Brain (and AI) Gets Good at Waiting for What Matters
- Finally, Scientists Let the Mice Walk Around While Recording Their Brains (You Won't Believe What Happened Next)
- Blood Proteins in Former Rugby Players Show Signs of Alzheimer's and CTE Pathology
- A Stress Hormone in the Brain Keeps Repair Cells from Growing Up Too Fast
- Growing Mini-Brains in a Dish to Finally Crack the Stroke Problem
- A Promising MS Drug Just Failed a Big Trial (And Publishing That Matters)
- Brain-Computer Interfaces Have Been Playing a Frustrating Game of Telephone. Now There's a Better Way.
- AI Kept Blurring Everything Together. Brain Rhythms Showed It How to Stop.
- Canada's 12-Year Experiment: Following Healthy People Whose Parents Had Alzheimer's
- ChatGPT Doesn't Remember You, and That's Actually a Huge Problem
- Engineers Built a Brain Probe You Can Steer With Magnets, and It Works Shockingly Well
- "Patchy" Neurons in the Striatum Control How Vigorously You Move Based on Context
- Adult ADHD Is Real, But It's Weirder and More Complicated Than You Think
- Baby Mouse Brains Wire Touch and Vision Circuits Differently (And It Makes Evolutionary Sense)
- Your Neurons Are Running Multiple Conversations at Once (And Noise Might Be Helping)
- Your Brain Has Two Separate Committees for "Will This Kill Me?" and "Will This Be Awesome?"
- Your Nervous System Has Been Helping Tumors Hide From Your Immune System This Whole Time
- Your Brain's Sugar Coating Is Tiny, Mysterious, and Probably More Important Than You Think
- Your Hearing Brain Actually Sees Things (And No, It's Not a Mistake)
- Your Busy Schedule Might Be a Dementia Risk Factor
- Scientists Figured Out How to Remote-Control Individual Cells in a Living Monkey's Eye
- Your Brain Wires Its Senses Before It Can Even Use Them, and Scientists Finally Know How
- Your Brain's Surface Is Like a Fingerprint, and AI Just Learned to Match Them
- Your Hippocampus Runs a Dual-Purpose Clock-and-Memory System
- Zebrafish Can Regrow Their Spinal Cords Because Their Fibroblasts Control Inflammation Just Right
- Your Brain Has a Beautiful Frequency Map for Hearing, But It Falls Apart When Signals Go Backward
- Your Gut Has Hundreds of Millions of Neurons and Nobody Can Agree How to Count Them
- Your Brain Treats Friendship Like a Stock Market (And Runs the Numbers Constantly)
- Male and Female Mice Have Different Musical Tastes (And It Rewires Their Brains Differently)
- When Part of Your Nerve Gets Hurt, the Healthy Part Says "Chill, I Got This"
- Your Brain's Sensory Bouncer Is Stuck Letting Everyone In, And That's a Problem
- Your Brain Makes New Cells, and They Use Blood Flow and Hunger Hormones as GPS
- Your Urethra Has Taste Buds, and They're Starting Fights
- Your Immune System Might Be Sabotaging Itself, and You'd Never Know Until It's Too Late
- You Can Measure Consciousness Without Zapping Anyone's Brain
- Your Brain Redraws Its Map When a Friend Walks In
- Your Brain Holds Onto Bad Expectations Way Longer Than Good Ones
- Your Gut Bacteria Apparently Want You to Skip Meals, and Your Brain Might Thank Them
- Your Prefrontal Cortex Isn't Just Bigger, It's Playing a Completely Different Game
- Your Dormant Memories Are Guarded by Specific Neurons (And Scientists Can Now Unlock Them)
- Why Losing One Brake Makes Your Body Clock Speed Up
- The Brain's "Support Staff" Were Running a Secret Operation (And It Matters for Down Syndrome)
- What You Saw Before Changes What You See Now (At Every Timescale)
- Those "What Kind of Eater Are You?" Questionnaires Might Be Full of It
- What's the Minimum Brain Required for Consciousness? (Scientists Are Still Fighting About It)
- The "Simple" Worm Everyone Studies Was Hiding Sophisticated Math All Along
- These Cancer Cells Figured Out How to Plug Into Your Brain's Electrical System
- Your Brain Doesn't Care That Scientists Like to Study One Variable at a Time
- Using Fake Brains to Simulate Real Brains 100 Times Faster
- When Synapses Get Too Quiet, Neurons Need a Specific Protein to Turn Up the Volume
- The Genetics of Chronic Pain Finally Points to Actual Cells (Including Ones in Your Back)
- The Morris Water Maze: Same Test, 1,000 Different Ways to Run It (And That's a Problem)
- Three Minutes of Brain Zapping Improved Long-Term Memory (No, Really)
- What Happens in Your Brain When You Mentally Check Out (Spoiler: It's Not Pretty)
- The Brain's Own Sedatives Explain Why Some New Mothers Get Severely Depressed
- Three Types of Inhibitory Neurons in the Amygdala Do Very Different Things During Fear Learning
- The Cells Running Your Emotional Memory System Aren't Even Neurons
- The Brain's Quiet Whisperers: How Neurons Talk Without Actually Firing
- Watching Words Disappear: Mapping How Dementia Erases Language
- Why Some Kids Get Diagnosed With Autism at 3 and Others at 13: Genetics Plays a Role
- This Random RNA Protein Turns Out to Be the Bouncer at Your Brain's Door
- What If Antidepressants Could Fight Cancer? (The Science Is Better Than It Sounds)
- Why Nerve Injuries Make Everything Hurt More: A Protein With a Demolition Habit
- Your Brain Has Been Sorting the World Into "Things" and "Stuff" Your Whole Life, and You Never Even Noticed
- Why Cancer Drugs That Work in a Dish Keep Failing in Patients (Hint: You Forgot the Nerves)
- Your Brain Has Separate Phone Lines for "Do It" and "Don't Do It"
- Your Brain Falls Asleep Like Water Turns to Ice, and Scientists Can Now Predict the Exact Moment
- This AI Stole the Brain's Homework (And It Works Brilliantly)
- When "Hangry" Gets Really Dark: Hungry Mice Attack Babies (But Only When the Hormones Line Up)
- The Thalamus and Cortex Are Basically Finishing Each Other's Sentences
- This Antibody Only Hunts the Bad Version of Tau, and It Actually Works
- Training Your Brain Changes Networks, Not Brain Structure (At Least for Navigation and Memory)
- Want to Live Longer? Let Your Neurons Panic About Oxygen (Just a Little)
- Your Body Clock Has a Secret Wiring Crew (And They're Not Even Neurons)
- Turns Out, Zapping the Brain Works Differently Depending on Whether Anyone's Home
- Why Some People Fall for Misinformation (It's Cognitive, Psychological, and Maybe Pharmacological)
- Teaching AI to Reason Like Brains Do (Using Prediction Errors)
- Scientists Found a Drug Cocktail That Hits Just One Brain Circuit (No Lasers or Gene Therapy Required)
- Scientists Were Only Using Part of Their Brain-Imaging Lenses. Here's How They Fixed It.
- Special Smell-Processing Units Have Their Own Unique Wiring Rules
- Telescope Tech Meets Microscopes: How Astronomers Accidentally Helped Neuroscientists See Deeper
- Scientists Figured Out Why Some Nerve Cells Die by Iron Poisoning (And How to Stop It)
- Scientists Can Now Watch Individual Viruses Sneak Into Cells in Real Time
- Neuroscience's Favorite Theory Has a Small Problem: The Data Doesn't Fit
- Plot Twist: Your Brain's Main Job Isn't Thinking
- Measuring Brain Excitability: Easy When Your Muscles Twitch, Hard When They Don't
- New AI Cleans Up Noisy Brain Recordings in Real Time (Over 1,000 Frames Per Second)
- STING Kills Neurons Directly (No Inflammation Required)
- Male and Female Mice Have Different Musical Tastes (And It Rewires Their Brains Differently)
- Meth Has a Secret Second Target, and It Changes Everything About Treatment
- Scientists Built a Tiny Hotel for Worms So They Could Watch Each One's Entire Life Story
- Scientists Built a Virtual Fish AND a Robot Fish to Understand Real Fish Brains
- Postpartum Psychosis Needs Its Own Diagnosis, Say Experts (And Here's Why It Belongs With Bipolar)
- Scientists Catch the Brain's Neurotransmitter Pump in Action (And See How Amphetamines Hijack It)
- Scientists Figured Out What Happens When Acupuncture Opens the Blood-Brain Barrier (Yes, Really)
- Scientists Took Brain-Implanted Bats to a Remote Island Because Lab Results Needed a Reality Check
- Scientists Found the Brain's "Chronic Pain Switch" - And It Might Be Hackable
- How the Fly Eye Keeps Its Shape: A Network of Tension Holds It Together
- Sleep Apnea: When Your Body Decides to Make Breathing a Team Sport
- How an Ion Channel Regulator Works - By Changing Membrane Cholesterol, Not By Binding the Channel
- Scientists Built a Tool to Make Sense of the Brain's Wiring Diagram (Because Staring at Terabytes Wasn't Working)
- Scientists Made Mice Glow (Slightly) to Get Better Movement Tracking
- Scientists Found a Molecular Off-Switch That Could Stop Nerve Damage in a Brutal Inherited Disease
- Scientists Finally Figured Out What This ALS Protein Does All Day (Spoiler: Takes Out the Trash)
- Just 1 Centimeter of Corpus Callosum Keeps Your Brain Hemispheres on Speaking Terms
- Neuroscientists Are Putting Animals Back in Nature (Sort of) - The Foraging Framework
- Ketamine Works for Depression in Hours, and We Still Don't Really Know Why
- Researchers Found the Exact Neurons Causing Seizures in a Devastating Genetic Disease
- If Your Pain Follows a Daily Rhythm, You Might Have Better Luck Avoiding Opioids
- How to Lie With Science: The Art of Cherry-Picking Studies to Scare People
- Scientists Caught Neurons Forming a Flash Mob the Moment a Mouse Enters a New Room
- Teenage Brains Hear Sounds Differently (And Learn About Them Differently Too)
- Scientists Map What Goes Wrong in Diabetic Nerve Damage - Cell by Cell
- Teaching AI to Read Brainwaves Without Telling It What to Look For
- Reading Arm Movements from Brain Signals Across the Whole Brain (Not Just Motor Cortex)