Category: Brain

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A new study led by UCLA Health scientists shows highly creative people’s brains appear to work differently from others’, with an atypical approach that makes distant connections more quickly by bypassing the “hubs” seen in non-creative brains.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Florida State University researchers have identified a new pathway in the brain that plays an important role in our response to fear.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Post-COVID syndrome, also known as long COVID-19, involves a wide range of health problems that occur many weeks, months and years after recovering from COVID-19 infection.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A new study by researchers at The University of California San Diego School of Medicine adds to the canon of research associating physical activity with cognitive performance,….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – MINNEAPOLIS – The use of medications and exercise is more beneficial in preventing a second stroke in people with intracranial atherosclerosis than placing a stent in the blood vessel

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A new target in the brain which underpins the eliciting of anxiety and fear behaviours such as ‘freezing’ has been identified by neuroscientists.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – New research may help scientists locate immature cells in the central nervous system that could shed light on the causes of neurodegenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Bilal Haider is studying how multiple areas of the brain work together for visual perception.  This could help researchers understand if neural activity “traffic jams” underlie all kinds of visual impairments:

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – There is a scientific reason that humans feel better walking through the woods than strolling down a city street

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Stress seems to have a negative effect on the learning of movements – at least in mice. This is the conclusion of a recent study at the University of Bonn.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – We all know we should exercise and eat healthy. But doing that isn’t just good for maintaining your figure as you age.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – University of Utah Health researchers are leading a five-year, $22-million nationwide clinical trial for NMDA receptor encephalitis––a type of autoimmune encephalitis that prompts the immune system to mistakenly attack the brain….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – More than 3 million adults in the U.S. are living with epilepsy. It’s a seizure disorder caused by abnormal brain activity. The seizures can lead to physical injury, emotional health issues or even death.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Repetitive headers and accidental head impacts in soccer are leading to changes in blood patterns, linked to brain signalling pathways and potential alterations

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – “Our findings suggest that being fit can protect against mild cognitive impairment in older people,” says Ekaterina Zotcheva.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – New York, NY (February 10, 2022) – Mount Sinai researchers conducting clinical trials of a drug targeting a cancer gene found that it increased metastatic cancer patients’ survival and was able to work within the brain

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – People predisposed to heavy drinking and alcohol problems may have lower functional connectivity — the patterns of signaling between brain areas — in regions that process emotions and social situations.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Using data from over 100,000 malignant and non-malignant cells from 15 human brain metastases, UCSF researchers have revealed two functional archetypes of metastatic cells across 7 different types of brain tumors….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – If close friends and family members who contracted COVID-19 had mild cases and recovered quickly, or if they had an adverse reaction to the vaccine, your brain might convince you that you’d have the same experience.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 3, 2022 — High blood pressure among younger adults, ages 20-40 years, appears to be linked to brain changes in midlife (average age 55) that may increase risk for later cognitive decline