The science behind your sense of intuition - podcast
Cognitive neuroscientist professorJoel Pearson tellsJane Lee when to trust your gut (and when not to)You can support the Guardian attheguardian.com/fullstorysupportRead more:Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 31, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Jane Lee with Joel Pearson. Produced by Allison Chan sound design and mix by Camilla Hannan Executive producer is Hannah Parkes Tags: Science Psychology Source Type: news
The science behind your sense of intuition – podcast
Cognitive neuroscientist professorJoel Pearson tellsJane Lee when to trust your gut (and when not to)You can support the Guardian attheguardian.com/fullstorysupportRead more:Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 31, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Jane Lee with Joel Pearson. Produced by Allison Chan sound design and mix by Camilla Hannan Executive producer is Hannah Parkes Tags: Science Psychology Source Type: news
New imaging method shows oxygen movement in the brain
A new bioluminescence imaging technique appears to show movement of oxygen in the brain, according to research at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
The imaging technique studied in mice involves using a virus to deliver instructions to neurological cells called astrocytes and injecting a substrate called furimazine into the brain to generate light. While existing oxygen monitoring techniques provide information about a very small area of the brain, the researchers were able to observe, in real-time, a large section of the cortex of the mice.
The research is important because it opens doors for studying diseases...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 29, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Advanced Visualization Industry News Source Type: news
Speeding Up Neuroscience with Stem Cells
Accelerating the production of induced pluripotent stem cell-derived models accelerates publishable neuroscience research. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - March 27, 2024 Category: Science Tags: The Marketplace Source Type: news
Biasing microglia to help, not hurt | Science Signaling
Blocking complement signaling biases microglia to destroy amyloid aggregates, not neuronal synapses. (Source: Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment)
Source: Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment - March 26, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Glucosylceramide accumulation in microglia triggers STING-dependent neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in mice | Science Signaling
Blocking lipid-induced STING signaling in microglia may slow Gaucher disease –associated neuronal loss. (Source: Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment)
Source: Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment - March 26, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
The rise of theranostics: Part 1 -- Gaining momentum
Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approvals of radiopharmaceuticals for neuroendocrine tumors and then for prostate cancer, theranostics has picked up momentum in clinical practice, propelled by encouraging research.Theranostics pairs diagnostic biomarkers that can be visualized on nuclear medicine imaging with therapeutic agents that share a specific target in diseased cells or tissues. After the therapeutic agent binds to the cancer cells, the tumors are treated in such a way that aims to prevent collateral damage to healthy cells and improve overall outcomes.Theranostics isn’t new; nuclear medicine d...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 26, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Liz Carey Tags: Practice Management Molecular Imaging Radiation Oncology/Therapy Nuclear Medicine Source Type: news
Are Personality Tests Actually Useful?
Ask Erin Mantz why she loves personality tests, and she’ll tell you she’s a Pisces, an only child, and an introvert prone to self-reflection. “I’m constantly craving and searching for insights into why I do what I do, and what makes me tick,” she says. Since discovering them at her college career center, she’s taken many different kinds, but the most transformative was the one she took with her coworkers at AOL in her 30s. A new manager instructed Mantz and her colleagues to take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test, which revealed she’s an INFJ: intuitive, enthusiastic, impulsive,...
Source: TIME: Health - March 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Angela Haupt Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
The fight to cure South Sudan ’s mysterious neurological disorder
Nodding syndrome is a distressing disease that stunts growth, harms brains and sparks convulsions. Though its cause is still unknown, there is now hope that epilepsy drugs can help afflicted childrenThe other children move away, frightened, when the convulsions start. Tabo takes a long, guttural breath before slumping on to the ground unconscious, her entire body shaking. The 17-year-old ’s mother, Penina Monyo Gulu Biro, gently holds the girl while the attack lasts.A minute or two later, Tabo (pictured above) sits up again, tears rolling down her cheeks. “She cries because she’s sad to be like this,” says Biro.An ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 25, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Florence Miettaux in Mvolo and Maridi Tags: Global development Global health South Sudan Africa World news Rivers Environment Infectious diseases Medical research Science Children Society Blindness and visual impairment Disability Source Type: news
Vernor Vinge, first author to describe cyberspace and ‘The Singularity’, passes at 79
Obituary Science fiction author and academic Vernor Vinge has passed away, aged 79. Vinge is credited as the first author to describe an immersive cyberspace, which he outlined in his 1979 novella True Names – five years before William Gibson’s Neuromancer brought the idea to the mainstream.…#vernorvinge #williamgibsons #neuromancer #vinge #otherplane #warlocks #suffice #scifi #compsci #singularity (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Havana syndrome: will we ever understand what happened? – podcast
In late 2016, US officials in Cuba ’s capital began experiencing a mysterious and often debilitating set of symptoms that came to be known as Havana syndrome. As two new studies into the condition are published, Ian Sample speaks to the Guardian’s world affairs editor, Julian Borger, who has been following the story, and to the c onsultant neurologist Prof Jon Stone, about what could be behind the conditionFollow all of Julian Borger ’s reporting hereContinue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 21, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Ian Sample, with Julian Borger; produced by Holly Fisher; sound design by Tony Onuchukwu; the executive producer is Ellie Bury Tags: Science US news Cuba US healthcare US foreign policy Americas World news Source Type: news
The Scientist’s Journal Club: Neuroscience and Cell Biology
Scientists discuss their latest findings on cell secretory states, synapse formation, and neurodegenerative disease. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - March 20, 2024 Category: Science Tags: The Scientist University Sponsored Webinars Source Type: news
Pressure grows to ditch controversial forced swim test in rodent studies of depression
For the past few decades, scientists studying candidate antidepressant drugs have had a convenient animal test: how long a rodent dropped in water keeps swimming.
Invented in 1977
, the forced swim test (FST) hinged on the idea that a depressed animal would give up quickly. It seemed to work: Antidepressants and electroconvulsive therapy often made the animal try harder. The test remains popular,
appearing in about 600 papers per year
.
But researchers have recently begun to question the assumption that the test really gauges depression and is a good predictor of human responses to drugs. Oppositi...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 20, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Craving snacks after a meal? It might be food-seeking neurons, not an overactive appetite
Key takeawaysA new study from UCLA researchers is the first to discover food-seeking cells in a part of a mouse ’s brain usually associated with panic – but not with feeding.Activating a selective cluster of these cells kicked mice into “hot pursuit” of live and non-prey food, and showed a craving for fatty foods intense enough that the mice endured foot shocks to get them, something full mice normally would not do.If true in humans, who also carry these cells, the findings could help address the circuit that can circumvent the normal hunger pressures of “how, what and when to eat.”People who find themselves ru...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - March 19, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
How the Brain Hits the Brakes on Aging
Neurons linked to metabolic processes slow aging in mice. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - March 18, 2024 Category: Science Tags: News News & Opinion Source Type: news
