NFL players 4 times more likely to die of brain disease, study finds — Harvard Gazette
A new study found that National Football League players are four times likelier to die due to neurodegenerative…
Weill Cornell Medicine receives federal grant to study new gene therapy for Alzheimer’s disease
The National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year grant initially worth…
New gene therapy strategy uses the brain’s own glymphatic transport system for drug delivery
A new study describes a gene therapy strategy that uses the brain’s own glymphatic transport system to distribute…
Infants begin moving to music within the first year of life
Researchers have discovered that music begins to shape how we move within the first year of life. Their…
Researchers identify brain circuits responsible for triggering OCD symptoms
Most of the time, the origin of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is unknown, but in some rare cases, it…
Study offers insight into how long-term inflammation may contribute to cognitive decline
The King’s College London study, published in Nature Communications, offers insight into how long-term inflammation may contribute to…
Bumblebees show emotions through facial expressions just like mammals – KTEN
Bumblebees show emotions through facial expressions just like mammals KTENDo bees have inner lives? Slow-motion video reveals bumblebee behaviour…
New viral insights lay foundation for treating infection with JC polyomaviruses
In people with severely compromised immune systems, the JC polyomavirus can trigger a currently untreatable, usually fatal brain…
Study compares different light therapies for treating Alzheimer’s disease
“We wanted to compare the two most common tPBM paradigms head‑to‑head in a well‑established AD mouse model,” explains…
BCG vaccine may remodel the human brain’s immune environment
New research led by Mass General Brigham investigators suggests that the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine – which is…
Engineered scaffold restores skull growth in craniosynostosis mouse models
An engineered triphasic biomaterial scaffold successfully recreated the cranial suture stem cell niche lost in craniosynostosis, a condition…
Experimental drug shields nerve cells from damage caused by ALS
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, received widespread awareness in the summer of 2014 thanks to an Ice Bucket…