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While I was at school it was almost a dogma that you’d not get a neuron more than those you were born with. Later, at university we learned that actually there was a region in the human brain, namely the hippocampus (key region for memory formation) where there was indeed adult neurogenesis, that is, formation of new neurons.
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These days I start a new section on the blog. More than a year and a half ago I was asked to collaborate on an online project on AGING, for which I did provide quite some content, which never got to be published. Therefore, after more than enough changes to the personnel structure and to…
A reported case study in a colombian woman, member of a family carriers of a mutation in the presinilin 1 gene which leads to early onset Alzheimer’s, has shown that a certain mutation in the gene APOE3 can protect from the cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer’s disease. This woman was already aged 70 but not…
It happens often. We see someone who reminds us of someone else we know, or we have met but we cannot remember where, only the face is familiar. Whether there was a single cell in the brain responsible for familiar face recognition was a longstanding question in neuroscience. Now, it seems that those cells, which…
As a recent mom, I can attest to the fact that at least some humans don’t quite get enough sleep, but the thing is, independently of why my baby thinks sleep is for cowards, in a new article researchers Charles Nunn and David Charles, have shown by comparing sleep patterns of 30 species of primates…
Do not forget. Still half asleep and with bleary eyes got to read on the mirror. Yes. Do not forget. That’s what read the inscription labeled in red in the mirror as he saw his incredulous face look back at him from it. Do not forget. Bollocks! he thought, if I cannot even remember how…
If you’re like me and spent hours of your day sitting at a desk typing on a keyboard, I am sure you have imagined how cool it’d be to just have your thoughts translated into typed words just like that. Well, new research on brain implants recently published in the journal Nature has shown that…