brains
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In The Wake Of Failed Alzheimer’s Drug Trials, Scientists Are Cautiously Finding Hope With A New Strategy
The field of Alzheimer’s research one filled with disappointment. Just last week, yet another drug failed its Phase 3 clinical trial, continuing the 15-year-long losing streak since a truly new Alzheimer’s treatment was approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
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How A Periodic Table Of Brains Could Revolutionise Neuroscience
Between your ears sits perhaps the most complex piece of biological machinery on the planet: an all-in-one computer, simulator, and creation device that operates out of a squishy, folded grey mass. And scientists aren’t quite sure how it works.
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Childhood Antibiotics Could Raise Risk Of Mental Illness, Study Finds
For all the good that antibiotics do, relying on them too much can have pretty drastic drawbacks. In particular, their overuse can help create bacterial superbugs resistant to future antibiotics. But a new study published this week in JAMA Psychiatry suggests there’s another, more subtle consequence of antibiotic use, at least in young people: a…
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A Man’s Love Of Squirrel Meat Might Have Given Him A Horrifying, Fatal Brain Disease
A Rochester, New York, resident might have caught one of the most frightening brain diseases around in one of the strangest ways possible — eating squirrel meat contaminated with zombie-like proteins.