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  • Age-related brain changes in mice strike hypothalamus 'hot spot'
    Jan 16 2025

    Neuronal and non-neuronal cells throughout the brain also express genes—particularly those related to neuronal structure and immune function—differently in aged mice, according to a new atlas.

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    6 minutos
  • Males and females show different patterns of risk for brain-based conditions. Ignoring these differences does us all a disservice.
    Dec 18 2024

    Although studying sex differences in the brain is complex, technically awkward and socioculturally loaded, it is absolutely essential.

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    9 minutos
  • Immune cell interlopers breach-and repair-brain barrier in mice
    Nov 22 2024

    The choroid plexus, the protective network of blood vessels and epithelial cells that line the brain’s ventricles, recruits neutrophils and macrophages during inflammation, a new study shows.

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    6 minutos
  • NeuroAI: A field born from the symbiosis between neuroscience, AI
    Nov 15 2024

    As the history of this nascent discipline reveals, neuroscience has inspired advances in artificial intelligence, and AI has provided a testing ground for models in neuroscience, accelerating progress in both fields.

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    7 minutos
  • Timing tweak turns trashed fMRI scans into treasure
    Oct 30 2024

    Leveraging start-up “dummy scans,” which are typically discarded in imaging analyses, can shorten an experiment’s length and make data collection more efficient, a new study reveals.

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    6 minutos
  • Brains, biases and amyloid beta: Why the female brain deserves a closer look in Alzheimer's research
    Oct 25 2024

    New results suggest the disease progresses differently in women, but we need more basic science to unpack the mechanisms involved.

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    8 minutos
  • This paper changed my life: 'Spontaneous cortical activity reveals hallmarks of an optimal internal model of the environment,' from the Fiser Lab
    Oct 18 2024

    Fiser’s work taught me how to think about grounding computational models in biologically plausible implementations.

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    6 minutos
  • The S-index Challenge: Develop a metric to quantify data-sharing success
    Oct 11 2024

    The NIH-sponsored effort aims to help incentivize scientists to share data. But many barriers to the widespread adoption of useful data-sharing remain.

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    6 minutos