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“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature is one of the earliest ancestors of a group known as arthropods, which includes insects, crabs, and …

Scientists fed people a fat-filled milkshake – it disrupted blood flow to their brains within hours  PsyPost Neurologists Share The 1 Food They Never (Or Rarely) Eat  Yahoo Lifestyle Canada I’m a doctor – these are the worst foods for brain health and ‘drained energy’  HELLO! Magazine Potentially Harmful Types of Snacks For Your Brain, According to Neurologists: Breakfast Cereals, More  NewsBreak: Local News …

Scientists shocked to find a supposedly harmless virus hiding in brains of Parkinson’s patients  PsyPost Source link

This diet appears to protect aging brains from dementia-related degeneration  PsyPost Mediterranean diet offsets genetic risk for dementia, study finds  Harvard Gazette People with a family history of Alzheimer’s can reduce their risk with diet changes, scientists say. Here’s how to start.  Business Insider People carrying two copies of ‘Alzheimer’s gene’ lowered risk by 35% via diet changes  CNN Alzheimer’s: Could a Mediterranean diet …

It’s true that there is no single test that can diagnose Pans or Pandas, nor a biomarker that definitively signals their presence. Brain changes associated with these conditions are also so subtle that they don’t show up to the naked eye on imaging tests, Frankovich says. “When the radiologist reads the MRI, they’re looking with their eyeballs and they’re like, …

There are many ways to boost brain power, from exercising more often to learning new skills. But what about boosting the actual size of your brain? According to a new study, wearing the right kind of perfume or cologne can enlarge your brain’s gray matter. Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba in Japan asked 28 women to …

Big hands might mean big feet, but it seems long thumbs are linked to large brains – at least in primates. Researchers say the results suggest the brain co-evolved with manual dexterity in such mammals. “We imagine an evolutionary scenario in which a primate or human has become more intelligent, and with that comes the ability to think about action …

A single protein was found to fuel brain aging, and shutting it down reversed memory loss. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers at UC San Francisco have uncovered a surprising culprit in brain aging: a protein called FTL1. In aging mice, too much of this protein weakened memory and disrupted neural connections. But when scientists blocked FTL1, the mice’s brains regained youthful function, …

Scientists discover protein that turns young brains old  Boing Boing Aging brains could ‘become’ younger when key protein is decreased  Fox News Targeting iron-associated protein Ftl1 in the brain of old mice improves age-related cognitive impairment  Nature Scientists just found a protein that reverses brain aging  ScienceDaily This Protein Slows the Aging Brain, and We Know How to Counter It  UC San Francisco Source link

The brain’s map of the body in the primary somatosensory cortex remains unchanged after amputation.Credit: Zephyr/Science Photo Library A brain-imaging study of people with amputated arms has upended a long-standing belief: that the brain’s map of the body reorganizes itself to compensate for missing body parts. Previous research1 had suggested that neurons in the brain region holding this internal map, …