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How the Brain Handles Cognitive Tasks While Walking

New research turns the old idiom about not being able to walk and chew gum on its head. Scientists have shown that the healthy brain is able to multitask while walking without sacrificing how either activity is accomplished.
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Breathing Is the Master Clock of the Sleeping Brain

Neuroscientists have shown that breathing coordinates neuronal activity throughout the brain during sleep and quiet.

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Focused Ultrasound Investigated for Alzheimer's Disease

Scientists have demonstrated that there might be a way to combat Alzheimer’s disease by using a technique that involves syncing up a person’s brain waves above 30 Hz with an external oscillation of a given frequency.
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13 Risk Factors To Redefine Alcohol Use Disorder

Researchers have developed a new framework that they believe will help identify people previously overlooked for alcohol use disorder.
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Experimental Drug for Rare Type of ALS Begins Clinical Testing

An experimental drug called ION363 is being investigated in ALS patients in a global, Phase 3 clinical trial taking place in the United States, Europe and Asia.
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Gene Expression Levels Explain Differences Between Male and Female Mouse Brains

Scientists have found more than 1,000 gene-activation differences between female and male mice’s brains, plus more than 600 between females in different stages of their reproductive cycle.
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Rethinking the Brain's Body Map

Our brain maps out our body to facilitate accurate motor control. Scientists have begun to query how the body map operates when executing different motor actions, such as moving your eyes and hands together.
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Cell-Level Complexity Explains Why a Cure for Alzheimer's Has Proved Elusive

A new paper explains why understanding the progression of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease, and its eventual treatment, is much more complex than researchers have previously thought.
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Reveals Clues About Post-COVID ‘Brain Fog’

A new study has found that some patients who develop new cognitive symptoms after a mild bout of COVID-19 have abnormalities in their cerebrospinal fluid similar to those found in people with other infectious diseases.
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Size Matters for Visual Memory

A new study shows for the first time that in natural vision, visual memory of images is affected by the size of the image on the retina.
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