New research mapping the typical bird brain showed how similar they are to the typical human brain. Regions of the brain that deal with high-level cognition (e.g. long-term memory and problem solving) are wired to other areas of the...
read moreThere’s a new metric called RWE (Risk Weighted Cumulative Exposure) that can determine a football player’s concussion risk. RWE measures the frequency and magnitude of all impacts. A recent study of high school football players found that impact frequency...
read moreDespite new rules regulating contact to the head, there hasn’t been a decrease in the number of concussions in the National Hockey League. In a recent study, researchers found that 64 percent of the concussions were caused by body-checking,...
read moreFollowing the direction of amyloid plaque build up in the brain may serve as a biomarker for the early detection of cognitive decline. In fact, the trajectory may be more accurate than the total amount of plaque. Plaque that...
read moreA neurologist was surprised to find that instead of just a few participants, almost half (43%) of the participants in his study of people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s also had impaired glucose tolerance or diabetes. And this was...
read moreIn a study by NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia), research may have found why FTD patients often can’t remember emotionally charged events, like weddings or funerals. It seems that the orbitofrontal cortex links emotional and memories, and if the front...
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