Just the Sight of Food Gets the Liver Ready for Action
Anticipating something tasty can lead to a watering mouth and grumbling stomach, but these familiar responses aren’t the only ways the body prepares for nourishment.
Anticipating something tasty can lead to a watering mouth and grumbling stomach, but these familiar responses aren’t the only ways the body prepares for nourishment.
Two studies in mice published today (October 31) in Nature report the existence of several types of brain cells that had not been acknowledged before.
Getting your appendix removed may reduce the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, researchers report yesterday (October 31) in Science Translational Medicine. The team identified the
The first time Nico Dosenbach read his colleague’s study in 2013, “I knew that I’d been doing neuroscience wrong for a long time,” he says.
The activity in a cortical area involved in self-regulation was the best correlate of weight loss in a study published today (October 18) in Cell
Scientists from the Gladstone Institutes say they developed an antibody that blocks the inflammatory and oxidative activity of fibrin, which contributes to neurodegeneration in the
When you move only your right arm, there’s neural activity in both the left and right sides of the brain, researchers report today. Recent animal
Aggregation of the protein tau is implicated in neurodegenerative diseases in humans. It emerges that eliminating a type of damaged cell that no longer divides
Mice that model a severe form of Alzheimer’s disease tend to exhibit improved memory after exercise-induced neuron production, according to a report in Science today
Researchers have discovered a new type of inhibitory neuron present in human, but not mouse, brains. So-called rosehip neurons, described yesterday (August 27) in Nature
Ultrasound and microbubbles can safely open the blood-brain barrier in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, researchers reported yesterday (July 25) in Nature Communications and at the
An Alzheimer’s drug slows the rate of cognitive decline while reducing the amount of plaques in patients’ brains, according to the results of a clinical
Researchers at Caltech have designed a noninvasive method to control specific neural circuits in the mouse brain. The technique, published earlier this week (July 9)
Opioids—one of the most effective treatments for pain—come with a host of potential side effects: addiction, risk of overdose, and the development of tolerance that
The tuberal nucleus, an area of the hypothalamus, has not been studied in great detail.Luo et al. found that GABAergic somatostatin neurons in the tuberal
In a recent issue of Nature, Tsunemoto et al. (2018) perform a systematic screening to identify several transcription factor pairs able to generate a variety
If youngsters told their elders to be quiet, stress levels would surely rise. But, when it comes to brain cells, it seems the opposite is
A high-fat and low-carbohydrate, or ketogenic, diet is used to treat children with refractory epilepsy. Olson et al. show that the ketogenic diet enriches populations
Communication through body gestures permeates our daily life. Efficient perception of the message therein reflects one’s social cognitive competency. Here we report that such competency
Low-frequency electrical waves in the stomach seem to be synchronised with the activity of a newly discovered resting-state network in the human brain. Main text
An innovative approach for a rare disease Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A (CMT2A) is a rare, inherited neurodegenerative condition. Affected individuals develop severe progressive muscle weakness,
Mouse brains make nice homes for human brain organoids, researchers report today (April 16) in Nature Biotechnology. Brain organoids, also known as mini-brains, are tiny
Scientific evidence continues to mount in support of the hypothesis that reducing overall calorie intake, while still maintaining a balanced diet, leads to a significant
In 1898, Camillo Golgi, an eminent Italian physician and pathologist, published a landmark paper on the structure of “nervous cells.” In addition to the organelle
People with Alzheimer’s have a higher production rate of tau proteins than healthy individuals, according to a study published today (March 21) in Neuron. While
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