Neuroscience

Neuroscience

Year in review: Alzheimer’s drug may clarify disease’s origins

Researchers will now test whether a treatment that swept away amyloid brain plaques also improves cognitive performance.

Neuroscience

Health official calls on neuroscience to fight mental illness

When it comes to mental health, all countries are developing countries, WHO official says, appealing to neuroscience for help.

Neuroscience

Brain waves show promise against Alzheimer’s protein in mice

Flickers of light induce brain waves that wash amyloid-beta out of the brain, mouse study suggests.

Neuroscience

Gut microbe mix may spark Parkinson’s

Parkinson’s disease symptoms might be driven by gut microbes

Animals

Animals give clues to the origins of human number crunching

Guppies, dogs, chickens, crows, spiders — lots of animals have number sense without knowing numbers.

Animals

Dogs form memories of experiences

New experiments suggest that dogs have some version of episodic memory, allowing them to recall specific experiences.

Neuroscience

Despite Alzheimer’s plaques, some seniors remain mentally sharp

Plaques and tangles riddle the brains of some very old and very healthy people.

Neuroscience

Protein linked to Parkinson’s travels from gut to brain

Parkinson’s protein can travel from gut to brain, mouse study suggests.

Neuroscience

Sounds and glowing screens impair mouse brains

Too much light and noise screws up developing mice’s brains.

Neuroscience

Infant brains have powerful reactions to fear

Babies can recognize facial emotions, especially fear, as early as 5 months old.

Neuroscience

Zap to the head leads to fat loss

Stimulating the vestibular nerve led people to shed fat in a small trial.

Neuroscience

Giggling rats help reveal how brain creates joy

Rats relish a good tickle, which activates nerve cells in a part of the brain that detects touch.