brains
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This Is A Brain Taken Over By Alzheimer’s
The effects of Alzheimer’s disease on the brain often go unnoticed for years, even decades. But researchers at Stanford University and the University of Oxford believe they’ve found a way to visualise how the disease slowly spreads and erodes the brain — a tool they hope can help other scientists better study the incurable, fatal…
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European Scientists Have Made An Intriguing Discovery In Alzheimer’s Drug Research
Scientists in the UK and Sweden believe they’ve come across an unprecedented advance in Alzheimer’s disease research: A method of developing new drugs that can target the roots of the fatal disease in a way that previous attempts couldn’t. But while the latest published work is genuinely intriguing, outside experts are worried that the researchers’…
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Study Claims White Noise Can Damage Your Brain, But Don’t Panic
A recent research review suggests that white noise, the soothing, fuzzy soundtrack so many of us rely on to sleep or block out distractions, could actually be dangerous. It argues that exposure to the random, unstructured sounds that make up white noise can alter the brain’s neural connections that help us perceive sound, leaving us…
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10-Year-Old Boy Recovers Impressively After One-Sixth Of His Brain Is Removed
A new case study from Pittsburgh highlights the resilience of the human brain. It details a boy who, despite losing one-third of the right hemisphere of his brain when he was six, is now a mostly ordinary 10-year-old. Though he can’t see past the left side of his face, his brain has compensated for the…