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Hydroxychloroquine shows promise for reducing some of the debilitating systems associated with primary progressive multiple sclerosis, a new study reports.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Finding Creativity Through Movement
Researchers say the freedom to make self-determined movements may be key to flexible thinking and creativity.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Symptoms and Traits of Borderline Personality Disorder May Run In Families
Family members of people with borderline personality disorder share similarities in brain structure and personality traits as those diagnosed with the personality disorder. Findings may point toward a hereditary component to personality disorders.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: New Screening Tool Developed to Automatically Identify Older Appearing Brains Typical of Dementia
A new artificial intelligence algorithm analyses MRI data to accurately predict the age of a brain.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: The Free-Energy Principle Explains the Brain
The free-energy principle can explain how neural networks minimize energy costs and are optimized for efficiency.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Ozone Exposure Linked to Cognitive Decline in Older Adults
Study establishes a robust link between ozone exposure and an increase in cognitive impairment in older adults.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Link Between Brain Cell Development and Risk of Schizophrenia Discovered
The genetic disruption of specific cell processes crucial to brain development was linked to disease risk in a wide range of mental health disorders including schizophrenia.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: New Theory Proposes Forgetting Is Actually a Form of Learning
Researchers propose forgetting memories or things we have learned may be a functional feature in the brain and actually an additional form of learning.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Diving Deep Into the Different Effects of Morning and Evening Exercise
Study reveals how the body produces different health-promoting signaling molecules in an organ-specific manner following exercise at different points during the day.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Heart Disease Causes Early Brain Dysfunction and Can Treble Key Alzheimer’s Protein
Heart disease that causes brain dysfunction can lead to the development of Alzheimer’s disease and triples the amount of amyloid-beta in the brain.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Next-Generation Tissue Expansion Method Improves Neural Imaging
Researchers have developed a new method that vastly improves the imaging of the structures of neural connections using standard confocal microscopes.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Dried Goji Berries May Provide Protection Against Age-Related Vision Loss
Eating a handful of dried goji berries five times a week may help delay or even prevent the onset of age-related macular degeneration. Over a 90 day period, those who ate goji berries had an increase in protective pigments in their eyes.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Epstein-Barr Virus May Be Leading Cause of Multiple Sclerosis
The risk of developing mutliple sclerosis increases 32 fold following Epstein-Barr virus infection.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Inflammatory Markers Are Conspicuous During an Early Stage of Alzheimer’s
Proteins belonging to the TAM family receptors may be a new biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease. The elevated inflammatory markers are conspicuous, even before the onset of dementia.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Why We Feel Confident About Decisions We Make
A new computational model found decisions people are most likely to feel right about are a result of the attentional effort to consciously weigh up different options.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Remembering Faces and Names Can Be Improved During Sleep
Deep, uninterrupted sleep can help boost learning names and faces, a new study reports.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Learning Through Guided Play Can Be as Effective as Adult-Led Instruction up to at Least Age Eight
Study reports play-based learning may positively impact a young child’s acquisition of math skills compared to direct teaching.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Nature Helps Us Cope With Body Image Threats
Spending time in nature helps reduce negative feelings about body image and anxiety.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: BPA Exposure of the Placenta Could Affect Fetal Brain Development
Direct transmission of BPA from a pregnant woman to her child via the placenta may have a negative impact on fetal brain development, researchers report.
