Links to material on neurology, neuroscience, and psychology.
- Largest brain study of 62,454 scans identifies drivers of brain aging
- Largest Brain Study of 62,454 Scans Identifies Drivers of Brain Aging
- Aging Your Brain
- https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-08-largest-brain-scans-drivers-aging.html
- Research report:
Patterns of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow as a Function of Age Throughout the Lifespan - Depression | Alzheimer’s Association
- Alzheimer’s or depression: Could it be both?
- New Therapies Help Patients With Dementia Cope With Depression
- Cognitive behavior therapy for anxiety in people with dementia: a clinician guideline for a person-centered approach.
- Research articles:
Problem Adaptation Therapy for Older Adults With Major Depression and Cognitive Impairment - Problem Adaptation Therapy (PATH) for Older Adults with Major Depression and Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Clinical Trial
- Home-Delivered Problem Adaptation Therapy (PATH) for Depressed, Cognitively Impaired, Disabled Elders: A Preliminary Study
- How Deep Sleep May Help The Brain Clear Alzheimer’s Toxins
- Scientists Now Know How Sleep Cleans Toxins From the Brain
- Sleep may trigger rhythmic power washing in the brain
- Research study:
Coupled electrophysiological, hemodynamic, and cerebrospinal fluid oscillations in human sleep - Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying.
- Alzheimer’s disease destroys neurons that keep us awake
- Alzheimer’s Appears to Attack The Neurons That Keep Us Awake
- Alzheimer’s disease destroys neurons that keep us awake
- Alzheimer’s Disease Destroys Neurons that Keep Us Awake
- Research publication [paywall]:
Profound degeneration of wake-promoting neurons in Alzheimer’s disease - Zapping elderly brains with electricity improves short-term memory—for almost an hour
- Scientists reverse memory decline using electrical pulses
- Could Transcranial Brain Stimulation Help Sharpen Memory?
- Brain zaps boost memory in people over 60
- Boston University press release on the work:
As Memories Fade, Can We Supercharge Them Back to Life? - Link to the research article:
Working memory revived in older adults by synchronizing rhythmic brain circuits - Newly discovered Alzheimer’s genes further hope for future treatments
- Alzheimer’s Disease Meta-Analysis Identifies Five New Risk Genes
- NIH press release:
Data sharing uncovers five new risk genes for Alzheimer’s disease - Research publication:
Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing - How an outsider in Alzheimer’s research bucked the prevailing theory — and clawed for validation
- Periodontitis is associated with cognitive impairment among older adults: analysis of NHANES-III
- Inflammation and Alzheimer’s disease: Possible role of periodontal diseases
- We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s – and how to stop it
- DEMENTIA AND GUM DISEASE: ALZHEIMER’S LINKED TO GINGIVITIS
- Gum Disease Bacteria Found in Alzheimer’s Brains
- How gum disease could lead to Alzheimer’s
- Research report:
Porphyromonas gingivalis in Alzheimer’s disease brains: Evidence for disease causation and treatment with small-molecule inhibitors - New biological research framework for Alzheimer’s seeks to spur discovery
- Alzheimer’s disease redefined: New research framework defines Alzheimer’s by brain changes, not symptoms
- New Definition of Alzheimer’s Hinges on Biology, Not Symptoms
- Formal publications of the framework:
NIA-AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer’s disease
NIA-AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer’s disease - Do Older Brains Make New Neurons or Not?
- hippocampus
- Your brain stopped making new cells at age 13, study claims
- Human hippocampal neurogenesis drops sharply in children to undetectable levels in adults
- Surprise! Scientists find signs of new brain cells in adults as old as 79
- Human Hippocampal Neurogenesis Persists throughout Aging
- Physical exercise increases adult hippocampal neurogenesis in male rats provided it is aerobic and sustained.
- Sustained aerobic exercise increases adult neurogenesis in brain
- Excitement as trial shows Huntington’s drug could slow progress of disease
- Drug trial shows promising results to fight Huntington’s disease
- Drug lowers deadly Huntington’s disease protein
- First trials of Huntington’s drug show it could slow disease
- Neurons reprogrammed in animals
- Neurons Can Be Changed from One Type Into Another from Within the Brain
- Published research:
Instructing Prismatic Inhibition by Direct Lineage Reprogramming of Neocortical Projection Neurons - Sound waves used to activate brain cells in a worm
- Published research:
Sonogenetics is a non-invasive approach to activating neurons in Caenorhabditis elegant - How the brain controls sleep
- Important Link between the Brain and Immune System Found
- The Benefits of Nature Experience: Improved Affect and Cognition
- Nature experience reduces rumination and subgenual prefrontal cortex activation
- The Brain: Our Strange, Important, Subconscious Light Detectors
- ‘I’m bad with names’ is a real thing
- Blood turned into nerve cells by Canadian researchers
- The Man Who Saw Time Stand Still
- How to Use Light to Control the Brain
- Memories Lost From Amnesia Or Dementia Can Now Be Retrieved
- Researchers Find Missing Link Between the Brain and Immune System
- The Human Brain is Sensitive to Light, Breakthrough Findings From…
- Picking Out Specific Sounds In A Complex Scene: Researchers Study ‘Cocktail Party Effect’, Measure Auditory Dynamics Of Selective Attention
- Rewiring a damaged brain
- Can meditation change your brain? Contemplative neuroscientists believe it can
- Research discovers how the deaf have super vision
- Drug Treatment Could Sharpen Adult Brains
- Birdbrain Breakthrough
- Even Without Dementia, Mental Skills Decline Years Before Death
- Variety makes you (mentally) fit
- For a Better Brain, Learn Another Language
- Being bilingual may be secret to delaying brain aging
- When Brain Damage Unlocks The Genius Within
- Portable Brain-Scan Headsets: 4 Incredible Applications
- ‘Master Gene’ Makes Mouse Brain Look More Human
- Brain Area Dedicated to Recognizing Numbers Pinpointed by Researchers
- Visual test linked to high IQ
- Transparent brain using hydrogel process
- A Brain Wave Worth a Thousand Words
- Magnetoencephalography – Wikipedia
- Brain Map (Berkely) organizing visual experience
- High-fat diet ‘injures brain’
- Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget
- Genes May Guide Intelligence Throughout Life
- Study: High-fat foods cause brain scarring
- The story of the self
- Spinal tap may predict Alzheimer’s years ahead
- Understanding the brain on dance
- Memory, mental function begin slipping as early as age 45
- More evidence that deep brain stimulation may help treat mental illness
- Walking through doorways causes forgetting: Further explorations
- How to cut your risk of memory loss
- Is the Brain Good at What It Does?
- Brain ‘rejects negative thoughts’
- Brain memory finding may help schizophrenia research
- How Meditation Benefits The Brain
- Depressed brains may hate differently
- Super Scrabble players push brain ability beyond what was thought possible
- Stimulating brain with electricity aids learning speed
- The Bilingual Advantage
- Phys Ed: Exercise as a Memory Booster
- CPR for your brain
- Big brains evolved due to capacity for exercise
- My concussion: Be nice to your brain
- Unhealthy living may age your brain
- Allen Brain Atlas
- Images capture moment brain goes unconscious
- Making temporary changes to brain could speed up learning
- Health Buzz: Meditation Is Effective at Relieving Pain
- Demystifying meditation — brain imaging illustrates how meditation reduces pain
- It’s the most wonderful time of the year
- Your Brain on Computers – Overuse of Digital Devices May Lead to Brain Fatigue
- Mindfulness as good as antidepressant drugs, study says
- Can Tibion’s Bionic Leg Rewire Stroke Victims’ Brains?
- Neuroscientists Say Brain Scans Can Spot PTSD
- The Brain: “Ringing in the Ears” Actually Goes Much Deeper Than That
- The Brain: The “Router” in Your Head’a Bottleneck of Processing
- Hearing loss may be an early sign of dementia
- Mind & Brain News, Articles, Information
- For the Brain, Remembering Is Like Reliving
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Linked to Dementia
- Colorful Images to Help Illuminate the Brain
- Body dysmorphic disorder patients see details, not whole face
- Memory Decline Accompanies Earlier Retirement, Study Finds
- On the brain: More about mixed-up senses
- ‘Brain’ Exhibit at American Museum of Natural History – Review
- Two minutes to diagnose memory problems?
- How friends matter to your brain
- From brain to language to accent
- Personality shows up in brain structure
- In gambling, brain explains attraction of near-misses
- Why it’s harder to multitask as you get older
- MS damage washed away by stream of young blood
- Alzheimer’s Treatment: Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Brain Cells
- The aging brain: Why getting older just might be awesome
- Transcranial Stimulation
- What They Say, and What You Hear, Can Differ
- How Air Pollution Causes Stroke and Shrinks Brain, Revealed/a>
- Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory
- Physical decline caused by slow decay of brain’s myelin
- Developing Intelligence : 10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers
- Memory: Forgetting Is the New Normal
- That heavy snorer next to you may be killing brain cells
- Dyslexia affects brain according to language
- Trans Fats Affect Memory Not only Waistline
- Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system
- Brain’s taste secrets uncovered
- Parkinson’s stem cell ‘breakthrough’
- Chocolate component reverses memory loss in older people, claims study
- Science Graphic of the Week: How Magic Mushrooms Rearrange Your Brain
- How to keep your brain healthy
- Nobel Prize for brain research may help Alzheimer’s
- Curiosity improves memory by tapping into the brain’s reward system
- Sleep ‘boosts brain cell numbers’
- Lack of sleep may shrink your brain
- Visual processes ‘critical for sharp mind’
- A Nobel Prize with help from sea slugs
- Scratching an itch through the scalp to the brain
- The split brain: A tale of two halves
- Similar memories benefit from ‘extra space’ in brain
- Brain’s Consciousness ‘Sleep Switch’ Found By Accident?
- Secrets of the Creative Brain
- The link between memory and stress
- Mental Health and Heart Health
- Blood Pressure History May Affect Brain Function in Old Age
- Impairment from solvents might last decades
- What Happens When a Neurosurgeon Removes Your Hippocampus
- How we all could benefit from synaesthesia
- Spinal cord research offers unexpected hope to people with paralysis
- New maps may hold clues to brain mysteries
- Shift workers: Sleep loss may cause brain damage, new research says
- An Antidote for Mindlessness
- Inactivity and the Brain
- Does reading actually change the brain?
- Toddler brain scan gives language insight
- Brain Shaking Technique Offers Measure of Consciousness
- Scientists create first 3D digital brain
- Evil Brains: Can Science Understand Them?
- Anti-Cancer Drug Reverses Alzheimer’s Disease In Mice
- The drugs do work: my life on brain enhancers
- May-Britt and Edvard Moser Explore the Brain’s GPS
- Brain Stimulation Can Boost Math Skills
- New TV show plays tricks on your brain
- This is your brain on music
- Sounds can Help Strengthen Memory during Sleep
- The Brain, in Exquisite Detail
- US Joins Google, Microsoft In “Brain Race”
- Living with a ‘borrowed brain’
- Our brains, and how they’re not as simple as we think
- Brain map seeks to unlock mysteries of the mind
- The Next Frontier Is in Your Brain
- Brain Scans Show how Evolution Shaped Human Brain into Being Unique
- Scientists construct first map of how the brain organizes everything we see
- Study Finds Genetic Risk Factors Shared by 5 Psychiatric Disorders
- Mind over matter: Soccer’s bid to train the brain
- Brain cells made from urine
- Exercise may preserve brain better than games
- What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience
- Smoking tied to declines in memory, cognitive abilities
- Hope for hearing: Cochlear implants
- Why Listening Is So Much More Than Hearing
- Simulated brain scores top test marks
- What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience
- Tuning a piano ‘moulds the mind’
- Memory Alert: Even Slightly High Blood Pressure May Age Your Brain – And Even If You’re Under 40
- Human brain gene map shows striking similarities
- How a Head Cold Affects Your Brain Function
- Your brain on food: Obesity, fasting and addiction
- Your Brain on a Magic Trick
- Scientists identify senior ‘super’ brains
- Fish oil helped save our son
- Training the brain to stress less
- Your memory is like a game of telephone
- Sleepy? Your memory may be impaired
- Why top sport stars might have ‘more time’ on the ball
- Stress may harm brain ‘ but it recovers
- The aging brain: Why getting older just might be awesome
- BiLingualism strengthens the Brain
- Best evidence yet that a single gene can affect IQ/a>
- How Exercise Can Jog the Memory
- Learn something new ‘ your brain will thank you
- Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes
- The Neuroscience of Your Brain On Fiction
- Computer game helps kids with depression
- Computer Game Designed To Treat Depression As Effective As Traditional Treatment
- Music: It’s in your head, changing your brain
- Can You Make Yourself Smarter?
- Majid Fotuhi Offers a New Framework for Dementia
- The Benefits of Bilingualism
- Changing perspectives regarding late-life dementia
- The Neuroscience of Your Brain On Fiction
- Beauty & Brains: The Best of the Art of Neuroscience
- Researchers may have discovered how memories are encoded in the brain
- Hospitalization may speed cognitive decline in seniors
- Love key to brain development in children
- Avoiding dementia similar to heart disease: lifestyle changes important
- A Heart Helper May Come at a Price for the Brain
- Slow walking ‘predicts dementia’
- Deep Brain Stimulation Strengthens Memory
- Spaghetti western reveals differences between human and monkey brains
- Mapping out a new era in brain research
- Cocktail of Popular Drugs May Cloud Brain
- Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex
- Brain changes seen in cabbies who take ‘The Knowledge’
- How Exercise Benefits the Brain
- Gary Marcus, Professor at N.Y.U., Picks Up a Guitar
- Doctor: ‘The Vow’ shows our brains are stranger than fiction