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When an Amish patient arrived at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia with fatigue, a severe headache, and weakness on one side of her body, doctors scrambled to find a cause. All they could see was that she had brain inflammation. That’s usually caused by an infection, but her tests came back normal. High dose steroids, a standard treatment, weren’t effective. …

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Summary: A new study identifies a brain activity pattern that signals self-preoccupied thinking, a trait associated with anxiety and depression. In experiments, the pattern appeared during mental breaks and predicted when people would soon turn their thoughts inward. Analysis of more than 1,000 brain scans confirmed that those with high self-preoccupation showed stronger fluctuations in this neural activity at rest. …

Could humanoid robots get a lot more human? Nvidia may have made that possibility a bit realer today with a smarter robot brain that has less energy demands.  The tech giant’s latest robotics offering is Jetson Thor, a super computer built for real-time AI computation on humanoid robots and smart machines alike, Nvidia announced in a press release on Monday. …

For decades, scientists have debated how metformin, the world’s most widely prescribed type 2 diabetes drug, actually works. A new study from Baylor College of Medicine reveals a surprising player: the brain. Credit: Shutterstock Scientists found that metformin acts in the brain through Rap1 to control blood sugar. This insight could lead to more precise diabetes treatments. Metformin has been …

Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) negatively impacts the lives of millions of people worldwide, but more effective treatments could be on the way after researchers were able to identify specific neural biomarkers associated with the condition. These biomarkers are patterns of brain activity present in people with OCD when they’re acting compulsively, and which don’t show up the rest of the time. …

Eating Mediterranean-style could help guard against dementia, even for those most at genetic risk. Credit: Shutterstock A large-scale study found that following a Mediterranean-style diet significantly reduces the risk of dementia, particularly in people genetically predisposed to Alzheimer’s. Mediterranean Diet Linked to Dementia Risk Reduction A new study led by investigators from Mass General Brigham, Harvard T.H. Chan School of …

The brain controls the release of glucose in a wide range of stressful circumstances, including fasting and low blood sugar levels. However, less attention has been paid to its role in day-to-day situations. In a study published in Molecular Metabolism, University of Michigan researchers have shown that a specific population of neurons in the hypothalamus help the brain maintain blood …

Suffering a head injury could raise the risk of developing a brain tumour later in life, concerning research today suggested.  Age, being overweight or obese and exposure to certain types of radiation through x-rays and CT scans, have long been known risk factors of brain tumours. But, US researchers found adults were ‘significantly’ more likely to develop a malignant brain tumor, a …

Surgeons have transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain dead human recipient for the first time and found it functioned for nine days, researchers have revealed. The work is the latest development in a technique called xenotransplantation that is aimed at solving the organ shortage crisis: according to the World Health Organization, only up to 10% …