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Brain
The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrates and most invertebrate animals. It is the most complex organ of the vertebrate body that sits in the head. The brain exerts centralized control over other parts of the body. It controls thought, memory, feeling, touch, sight, breathing, temperature, appetite, and every process that regulates our body.
New drugs show promise in clearing HIV from the brain
A cancer drug tested at Tulane University might help clear HIV from brain cells. Researchers found it reduced SIV (the monkey version of HIV)...
Long-term high blood pressure? Stroke risk warning
A study by Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan found that having high systolic blood pressure (the top number in a reading) over...
Exploring the impact of oligodendrocytes in Alzheimer’s disease
Targeting oligodendrocytes could help reduce amyloid beta production.
New method targets aggressive brain tumor
Fighting brain cancer is challenging, but new research offers hope. In May, a team from Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech published a paper in...
Understanding the brain’s creativity origins
Electrophysiological dynamics of the default mode network and its role in creative thinking.
Exploring the Alzheimer’s brain
CryoET imaging of β-amyloid and tau in deceased Alzheimer's brains.
Understanding how the brain interprets other’s gazes
ERP analysis and task impact on the perception timing of gaze direction.
Discovering brain development sweet spot
How somatostatin interneurons manage early brain connections.
The importance of the human brain’s hypothalamus
fMRI scans to examine how the human hypothalamus controls hunting and escaping behaviors in a virtual survival game.
An ultra-energy efficient platform for brain-inspired computing
It can bring the energy requirements to about 100 times less than that of the human brain.