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Race and health: One gene variant carried mostly by people with African ancestry quadruples risk of Parkinson’s disease

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A global effort to make genetic studies more diverse has led to a discovery about Parkinson's disease, a common brain ...
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Brain-computer implants restore some speaking ability to paralyzed patients

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Pat Bennett takes part in a research session, using a brain-computer interface that helps translate her thoughts into speech ...
Traumatic brain injuries can damage short-term memory. A potential solution? It’s shocking

Traumatic brain injuries can damage short-term memory. A potential solution? It’s shocking

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More than 1.5 million people in the U.S. sustain a TBI each year. Common causes include falls, motor vehicle accidents, ...
At 9 months, this girl had half her brain removed — and 15 years later, she is thriving.

At 9 months old, this girl had half her brain removed — and 15 years later, she is thriving.

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People like Mora represent the upper bounds of human brain plasticity because their brains were radically altered very early in ...
Ketamine may become the next in-demand' antidepressant

Video game therapy? Upbeat computer games boost ketamine’s power as an antidepressant

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Computer games designed to boost self-esteem appear to prolong the antidepressant benefits of the mind-bending anesthetic ketamine. A recent study ...
When does brain function peak? Scans show how brains grow and shrink

When does brain function peak? Scans show how brains grow and shrink

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The human brain starts with a bang and ends with a whimper. That's the conclusion of a project that used ...
Why art and music therapy appear to ease brain disorders, from Parkinson’s to PTSD

Why art and music therapy appear to ease brain disorders, from Parkinson’s to PTSD

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Arts therapies are increasingly being used to treat brain conditions including PTSD, depression, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. But most of these ...
Video: ‘Ultimately, I want to build a heart for sick kids’: Watch these robotic fish ‘swim’ using lab-grown cardiac muscle

Video: ‘Ultimately, I want to build a heart for sick kids’: Watch these robotic fish ‘swim’ using lab-grown cardiac muscle

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Scientists have built a school of robotic fish powered by human heart cells. The fish, which swim on their own, ...
The brain science behind thirst

The brain science behind thirst

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It feels so simple. When we're thirsty, we drink. But the brain science behind that decision is pretty complicated, a ...
‘Bleeding, blood clots, inflammation, oxygen deprivation and disruption of the protective blood-brain barrier’: For a sizable percentage of hospitalized COVID patients, the coronavirus targets the brain

‘Bleeding, blood clots, inflammation, oxygen deprivation and disruption of the protective blood-brain barrier’: For a sizable percentage of hospitalized COVID patients, the coronavirus targets the brain

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The current catalog of COVID-related threats to the brain includes bleeding, blood clots, inflammation, oxygen deprivation and disruption of the ...
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Alzheimer’s is almost impossible to treat. Now there are treatments drawing on brain waves and protein tangles in the pipeline beyond the focus on sticky amyloid plaques

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Immune cells, toxic protein tangles and brain waves are among the targets of future Alzheimer's treatments, scientists say. These approaches ...
Generous apes: What explains the evolution of human kindness?

Generous apes: What explains the evolution of human kindness?

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With chimpanzees, the prospect of food can lead to aggression.  But bonobos take a different approach, says Suzy Kwetuenda, a ...
Natural chefs? Chimps learn to use an oven, sparking debate on how humans learned to cook

Natural chefs? Chimps learn to use an oven, sparking debate on how humans learned to cook

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If you give a chimp an oven, he or she will learn to cook. That's what scientists concluded from a ...
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