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Scientists Tickle Rats and Discover Brain’s ‘Play Spot’
By inhibiting part of rats’ brain stem, scientists may have found the play center of the brain
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How Dangerous Are Soccer Concussions? They May Cause Lasting Damage
As the 2023 Women’s World Cup kicks off, repeated concussions and head injuries in the sport raise discussion about the lifelong consequences on the brain
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A Neurologist Answers Questions Patients Might Have about the New Alzheimer’s Drug Lecanemab
What a patient and family members can expect from the recently approved drug lecanemab—and what more is needed to help stop Alzheimer’s dementia
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The First Person to Be Diagnosed with Autism Has Died at 89
A 1943 paper highlighted “Donald T.” as “Case 1” of 11 children with “autistic disturbances of affective contact”
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How One Man’s Rare Alzheimer’s Mutation Delayed the Onset of Disease
Genetic resilience found in a person predisposed to early-onset dementia could potentially lead to new treatments
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Another New Alzheimer’s Drug: What Promising Trial Results Mean for Treatment
Findings suggest that the amyloid-targeting drug candidate slows cognitive decline in some people, but questions remain over its potential side effects
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New Research Points to Causes for Brain Disorders with No Obvious Injury
Functional neurological disorders are very real, and medical compassion is an important part of treatment
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Understanding Frontotemporal Dementia, the Leading Cause of Dementia in People under Age 60
There is no cure for FTD, the disease that actor Bruce Willis was recently diagnosed with, but new research suggests some future therapies
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Does Not Being Able to Picture Something in Your Mind Affect Your Creativity?
Researchers who study aphantasia, or the inability to visualize something in your “mind’s eye,” are starting to get a sense of how to accurately measure the condition and what it may mean for those who have it...
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Your Brain Could Be Controlling How Sick You Get—and How You Recover
Scientists are deciphering how the brain choreographs immune responses, hoping to find treatments for a range of diseases
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Here’s What We Know about Stuttering
Stuttering is a complex neurodevelopmental condition, and learning about its causes will hopefully reduce the stigma surrounding it
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Autism Treatment Shifts Away from ‘Fixing’ the Condition
There are different ways to be happy and function well, even if your brain is not typical
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Fatherhood Changes Men’s Brain, according to Before-and-After MRI Scans
The brain of a new father goes through transitions analogous to the neural changes experienced by a pregnant woman
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Is a Diagnostic Test to Blame for Why We Know So Little about Autism in Girls?
A standard diagnostic test may be one reason autism research includes so few female participants
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This Is How an Alzheimer’s Gene Ravages the Brain
Study in cells and mice suggests that the variant APOE4 affects the all-important insulation around nerve cells
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John Fetterman Shows How Well the Brain Recovers after Stroke
Following a stroke, the brain’s own repair processes can lead to a strong recovery in people such as Senate candidate John Fetterman
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A Supersmeller Can Detect the Scent of Parkinson’s, Leading to an Experimental Test for the Illness
This Scottish woman’s hypersensitive nose picked up a chemical signature of Parkinson’s disease that has been used to develop a skin-swab diagnostic
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Alzheimer’s Drug Slows Mental Decline in Trial—But Is It a Breakthrough?
Researchers are cautiously optimistic following companies’ announcement of positive results for lecanemab
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Dementia in Prison Is Turning into an Epidemic: The U.S. Penal System Is Badly Unprepared
Older prisoners will make up a third of the prison population in a decade, and many of them will develop dementia
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How Squishy Math Is Revealing Doughnuts in the Brain
Topology, sometimes called rubber sheet geometry, is finding patterns in the brain, drugs and evolution
