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The missing community in the link between hearing loss and dementia
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Use it or lose it: How a lifetime of challenging our brains may slow the onset of dementia symptoms
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All roads lead to Rome: How neurons use different strategies for the same result
Have you ever wondered why, in some cases, people respond differently to the same thing? The answer might lie in crabs! Scientists studying crabs found that neurons doing the same job can be wired differently from animal to animal, like people solving the same puzzle in different ways. Usually it doesn’t matter. But when the environment changes, like a sudden temperature shift, or taking a new medication, those hidden differences start to matter.
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Gyrification: How the brain gets groovy
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Trust you gut: How your favorite protein source may contribute to Parkinson’s disease
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This is your brain on drugs, but at different doses
Why does the same drug act so differently depending on the dose? The brain does not always respond in a simple “more drug, stronger effect” way. Neuroscientists have recently begun to explore that a micro-dose of a drug, in comparison to a high dose of the same drug, can produce a different but not necessarily milder effect on the brain. Understanding these distinct dose-dependent effects is a new approach to help shape strategies for treating psychiatric and neurological disorders.
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The neuroscience of nostalgia
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Lights-out in your brain: Sleeping one region at a time
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Ahem, ahem… Let me tell you about coughing
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