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Vascular dementia — cognitive impairment caused by disease in the brain’s small blood vessels — is a widespread problem, but it has not been as thoroughly studied as Alzheimer’s disease, in which abnormal plaques and protein tangles are deposited in neural tissue. One researcher at The University of New Mexico hopes to change that. In a newly published paper featured …

After the mess, the mop-up. That’s one way to understand Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” on which music’s biggest star offers up a dozen precision-cut pop songs just 18 months removed from last year’s sprawling and emotionally unstable “The Tortured Poets Department.” That earlier LP, which contained 16 tracks before Swift expanded it with 15 more, …

This image shows a coronal section through the mouse brain after stroke and neural stem cell transplantation. The dashed circle indicates the stroke area. The neurite projections of the transplanted human cells are stained in dark brown. Neurites extend locally into the cortex (CX) but also via the corpus callosum (CC) into the other brain hemisphere. Credit: University of Zurich …

IN A NUTSHELL 🌍 Researchers reveal a disconnect between personal perceptions and the actual impact of carbon footprints. ✈️ High-impact actions like flying and pet ownership are often underestimated by the public. 🐕 Feeding pets meat-based diets contributes significantly to carbon emissions, comparable to millions of cars. 📢 Enhanced public education is necessary to align perceptions with impactful environmental actions. …

Summary: A new five-year study explores how dopamine may drive changes in brain myelin during social isolation. Researchers will track how dopamine interacts with oligodendrocytes, the cells responsible for producing myelin and supporting neuron function. The project aims to uncover whether dopamine regulates myelin plasticity, potentially linking isolation, addiction, schizophrenia, and other conditions. The findings could open doors to treatments …

Borderlands 4 is rife with overpowered builds that use what developer Gearbox has described as “unintended interactions” to cause massive damage, even to the game’s toughest bosses on the hardest difficulties. The most infamous of these is ‘the knife,’ which Gearbox has said it’s aware of but won’t nerf just yet. Now, there’s another new best boss melting build to …

Brain damage caused by blocked blood vessels may be treatable using injections of stem cells, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Zurich and the University of Southern California. The results could one day help patients who have experienced some forms of stroke recover lost functions. Using mice with stroke-induced brain damage, the researchers found that …

A bizarre therapy involving thin golden threads embedded in people’s bodies during acupuncture treatment has garnered significant attention after media exposure revealed X-ray images of South Korean patients showing hundreds of these thread strands. One patient, a 65-year-old woman diagnosed with osteoarthritis of the knee – a degenerative joint condition that causes pain and stiffness – shared her experience with …

The world’s most popular sport is reckoning with serious health concerns. The largest study of its kind has now found that repetitively heading a soccer ball can negatively impact the brain, even in amateur players who don’t report concussions. Among 352 amateur adult soccer players, those who took more than a thousand headers a year showed microscopic changes to the …

Many Minor Hits Can Damage an Athlete’s Brain, Studies Find  The New York Times Repeated head trauma causes neuron loss and inflammation in young athletes  Nature Repeated head impacts cause early neuron loss and inflammation in young athletes  National Institutes of Health (NIH) | (.gov) BU CTE study of young athletes could ‘significantly change how we view contact sports’  Boston Herald Study identifies microstructural …