Neuroscience

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What Are Lysosomes and Why Your Cells Need Them Science

What Are Lysosomes and Why Your Cells Need Them

Lysosomes are membrane-bound organelles that serve as the cell's recycling centers, breaking down waste and damaged components. When they malfunction,...

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Ozempic: Unexpected Benefits Against Depression Health

Ozempic: Unexpected Benefits Against Depression

A large Swedish study published in The Lancet Psychiatry reveals that semaglutide (Ozempic) reduces the need for psychiatric care by 42%, opening a de...

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World's Tiniest Brain Implant Tracks Neural Signals for a Year Health

World's Tiniest Brain Implant Tracks Neural Signals for a Year

Engineers at Cornell and Nanyang Technological University have created the MOTE — a wireless neural implant smaller than a grain of salt that recorded...

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How Social Media Rewires the Teenage Brain Science

How Social Media Rewires the Teenage Brain

Social media exploits a window of extreme neurological vulnerability in adolescents, hijacking dopamine pathways and reshaping brain structures involv...

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How Metformin Works—and Why It Does More Than Expected Health

How Metformin Works—and Why It Does More Than Expected

Metformin is the world's most prescribed diabetes drug, taken by over 150 million people yearly. Scientists are still uncovering how it works, includi...

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How the Brainstem Controls Blood Pressure Science

How the Brainstem Controls Blood Pressure

Scientists have identified a brainstem region called the lateral parafacial area that drives high blood pressure by constricting blood vessels, openin...

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Scientists Disable Alzheimer's 'Death Switch' in Mice Health

Scientists Disable Alzheimer's 'Death Switch' in Mice

Heidelberg University neurobiologists identified a toxic protein complex driving Alzheimer's progression and used a novel compound to disrupt it in mi...

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How Sleep Brain Waves Predict Dementia Risk Science

How Sleep Brain Waves Predict Dementia Risk

Scientists can now estimate 'brain age' from electrical patterns recorded during sleep, and a gap between brain age and actual age may signal dementia...

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How Ravens Memorize Wolf Kill Sites to Find Food Science

How Ravens Memorize Wolf Kill Sites to Find Food

Ravens don't simply follow wolves to scavenge meals. New research reveals they memorize landscape-scale hunting hotspots and fly directly to likely ki...

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How the Endocannabinoid System Works—and Why Cannabis Hijacks It Health

How the Endocannabinoid System Works—and Why Cannabis Hijacks It

The endocannabinoid system is the body's master regulator of mood, pain, and appetite. Here's how it works, why cannabis mimics its signals, and what...

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Coffee and Tea Linked to 18% Lower Dementia Risk Health

Coffee and Tea Linked to 18% Lower Dementia Risk

A landmark 43-year study of over 131,000 people finds that drinking 2-3 cups of caffeinated coffee or 1-2 cups of tea daily is associated with signifi...

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What Is TDP-43 and How It Links ALS and Dementia Science

What Is TDP-43 and How It Links ALS and Dementia

TDP-43 is a protein found in nearly every human cell. When it misfolds and clumps, it drives ALS, frontotemporal dementia, and possibly cancer — makin...

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