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Category: #Brain
How Severe Illness During Pregnancy Alters Fetal Brain Development
Salk scientists discover how severe illness during pregnancy alters fetal epigenomes, increasing the risk for autism and neurodevelopmental […]
When expressive humanoid robots are awkward, people become wary – new brain study
Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash. By Hasan Ayaz, Drexel University; Ewart J. de Visser, United States Air […]
Aging Brains Maintain Robust Language Networks Despite Cognitive Decline
A new MIT study reveals that the brain’s language network remains robust and unchanged in older adults, even […]
Memories Mysteriously Survive After Brain Shutdown, And Scientists Don’t Know Why
Welcome back to the Abstract! We’re back to our regularly-scheduled programming this week, so here are the studies […]
Youth Protein TIMP2 Restores Immune Function in the Aging Brain
Researchers discovered that the youth-associated protein TIMP2 restores healthy immune function in the aging brain by rejuvenating microglia.
Study of Brain Immune Cells Reveals New Clues to Alzheimer’s Disease Progression
Researchers have mapped over 830,000 brain immune cells, revealing a protective subtype of microglia that increases with Alzheimer’s […]
