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| Meningitis: Researchers find possible treatment strategy without antibiotics Posted: 18 Oct 2021 02:22 PM PDT Meningitis is a very serious brain infection with limited treatment options. In a new study performed in rats, researchers present an alternative treatment based on immune cells that helps rinse away toxins that accumulate during the infection. |
| Posted: 18 Oct 2021 02:22 PM PDT A new study has uncovered neuronal circuitry in the brain of rodents that may play an important role in mediating pain-induced anhedonia -- a decrease in motivation to perform reward-driven behaviors. Researchers were able to change the activity of this circuit and restore levels of motivation in a pre-clinical model of pain tested in rodents. |
| Neuroinflammation protein linked to worse survival in men with glioblastoma Posted: 18 Oct 2021 12:06 PM PDT Scientists have discovered a new link that could bring the scientific and medical community closer to understanding why glioblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumor, is deadlier in males than females. |
| People love the billionaire, but hate the billionaires’ club Posted: 18 Oct 2021 12:06 PM PDT Americans may respect and admire how individual billionaires -- think Oprah Winfrey or Bill Gates -- made their billions, even as they rage against the "top 1%" as a group, new research finds. |
| Posted: 18 Oct 2021 11:17 AM PDT A new study in mice has identified new treatment targets for glaucoma, including preventing a severe pediatric form of glaucoma, as well as uncovering a possible new class of therapy for the most common form of glaucoma in adults. |
| How the brain navigates cities Posted: 18 Oct 2021 08:25 AM PDT A study suggests our brains are not optimized to calculate the shortest possible route when navigating on foot. Instead, pedestrians use vector-based navigation, choosing 'pointiest' paths that point most directly toward their destination, even if the routes are longer. |
| Mammalian motivation circuits: Maybe they’re born with it Posted: 18 Oct 2021 08:24 AM PDT Are animals born to seek rewards or avoid punishment? Researchers found that mice have pre-programmed neurons and circuits that process 'positive' and 'negative' stimuli. Their findings may be useful for studying neurological and psychiatric disorders in humans. |
| Developing a treatment for vision loss through transplant of photoreceptor precursors Posted: 18 Oct 2021 07:59 AM PDT A recent study examining the therapeutic potential of photoreceptor precursors, derived from clinically compliant induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), has demonstrated the safety and therapeutic potential of clinically compliant iPSC-derived photoreceptor precursors as a cell replacement source for future clinical trials. |
| Our brains have a 'fingerprint' too Posted: 15 Oct 2021 03:42 PM PDT An EPFL scientist has pinpointed the signs of brain activity that make up our brain fingerprint, which -- like our regular fingerprint -- is unique. |
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