The brain - basic studies
- Tel Aviv University
A pilot study published in the journal Brain Stimulation found that fMRI-based personalized TMS therapy, administered immediately after traumatic memory activation during the reconsolidation phase, reduced flashbacks and intrusive thoughts in ten participants.
- Avi Blizovsky
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An international team of researchers, including those from the Hebrew University, identified 331 genes critical for neuronal differentiation, and pointed to PEDS1 as a cause of a neurodevelopmental disorder.
- Avi Blizovsky
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The researchers showed that a deficiency in SIRT6 (which declines with age) diverts tryptophan into the neurotoxic kynurenine pathway at the expense of serotonin and melatonin production; inhibiting the enzyme TDO2 in fruit flies reduced brain damage and neuromotor deterioration. The findings were published in Nature
- Avi Blizovsky
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At the 2025 TSMC Europe OIP conference in Amsterdam, Prof. Christian Meyer from TU Dresden presented SpiNNaker-2 – a giant neuromorphic computer, based on event processing and thin-edge hardware, designed to run artificial intelligence models in real time.
- Avi Blizovsky
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Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum are investigating why consciousness evolved and why different species have developed it in different ways. By comparing humans to birds, they show that complex consciousness may arise through different neural structures.
- Weizmann Institute
Weizmann Institute and Ichilov Institute study reveals, using electrodes deep in the brain, how loss avoidance mechanisms affect learning, memory, and anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorders
- Science site The Conversation
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New research shows that the love hormone, oxytocin, not only strengthens social bonds between humans – but also deepens the connection with cats, with the key being gentle touch and mutual trust.
- Avi Blizovsky
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Diabetes affects the brain through energy utilization, blood vessels, and inflammation—and sometimes the same medications work on both systems. Recent studies suggest a mutual connection:
- Avi Blizovsky
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President Trump has declared that acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol (paracetamol), may increase the risk of autism in pregnancy, and has promoted the use of leucovorin as an experimental treatment. Researchers and medical associations emphasize: There is no evidence of causation, Tylenol is considered
- Avi Blizovsky
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A new imaging technique developed at Columbia University has identified areas of the cerebral cortex – just behind the forehead – that are most severely damaged by repeated impacts from hitting a ball, a well-known phenomenon in hitters.
- Weizmann Institute
Weizmann Institute of Science scientists have developed a new optogenetic technology that allows them to study the activity of the oxytocin system deep in the young brain. Their findings show that this protein, known as the "love hormone," influences the coping of mouse pups.
- Avi Blizovsky
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New collaboration establishes secure medical database in sovereign cloud in France, designed to improve diagnosis, research and treatment of psychiatric disorders – while meeting the highest standards for protecting sensitive information
- Weizmann Institute
Research at the Weizmann Institute of Science demonstrates how communication between the brain and the body's organs plays a critical role in health and disease
- Avi Blizovsky
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A new study based on brain scans of twins reveals that the brain's ability to maintain near-critical activity – essential for mental function – is influenced by genes, suggesting a direct link between heredity,
- Avi Blizovsky
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Collaboration between two researchers at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine reveals that local release of dopamine in the motor cortex is a key to acquiring new motor skills
- Avi Blizovsky
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The paradox is that sensory input processing is done at a speed 100 million times faster than the speed of thought * Principal Investigator: "At any given moment, we extract only 10 bits out of a trillion that our senses perceive and use."
- Avi Blizovsky
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Prof. Rafi Malach from the Weizmann Institute reveals how fast bursts and slow waves in the human brain are the basis for conscious and creative processes, and offers ways to utilize the brain's capabilities in the technological age
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
Researchers have discovered biological and psychological characteristics that increase the risk of suicidal behavior among teenagers and have developed an application that helps with mental coping
- The Technion
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- Avi Blizovsky
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New research in mice suggests that the brain creates multiple copies of memories, allowing it to regulate their change over time
- Avi Blizovsky
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Creativity is a unique brain function. Local damage to the brain as a result of a stroke can lead to changes in creative ability—both positive and negative. This discovery suggests that the neurological basis of creativity can be narrowed down.
- Avi Blizovsky
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Recent research shows that babies use their period of helplessness to develop cognitive models, similar to the early training of artificial intelligence (AI), challenging old theories about the immaturity of the infant brain and even
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
Researchers examined how personal and group emotion, combined with positive and negative emotions, affect attitudes
- Avi Blizovsky
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This was found in a new study conducted at the University of Haifa and published in the prestigious journal Molecular Psychiatry from NATURE
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
A new study reveals a significant increase in the rate of people with autism in the community in Israel, which requires appropriate preparation
- Weizmann Institute
Research in field mice under conditions simulating a natural environment reveals the different strategies used by females and males in creating social hierarchies
- Avi Blizovsky
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Dutch researchers found that this process happens all the time and damages all genes, but the longer the genes, the more likely they are to be damaged because they have more sites. Especially the big damage is
- The Technion
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Dr. Kathryn Vandorna from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion has developed a new method that allows the monitoring of the formation of immune blood cells in the bone marrow. For this purpose, she used tiny magnetic particles of iron oxide, which
- Avi Blizovsky
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Prof. Haim Sompolinski is the first Israeli researcher to win the prestigious award, he himself was born in Denmark whose father, Prof. David Sompolinski, was among the members of the underground who smuggled the Jews to Sweden by boat
- Dr.Roey Tsezana
Implanting a chip in the brain as recently done by Elon Musk's company Neurolink can, if done correctly, save patients with severe brain diseases, and that the patients no longer respond to drug treatment
- Avi Blizovsky
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Individual neurons could recognize, for example, when we are about to touch our tongue to our palate to say the letter D * This will enable the development of prostheses for those suffering from speech problems
- Weizmann Institute
Weizmann Institute scientists are challenging a 200-year-old doctrine about the formation of the gland from the secretion of hormones. Their findings may lead to new approaches in the treatment of various medical problems
- Avi Blizovsky
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The chip should provide a variety of health and scientific benefits, including the ability to measure brain activity and give people with physical or mental disabilities new abilities. However, Musk's company and Musk in general have a history
- Ben-Gurion University
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Krim suggests a close link between low levels of testosterone and anxiety disorder, although the exact nature of this relationship remains unclear. Clinical evidence suggests testosterone's potential in relief
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
Researchers have found that fulfilling a stereotype leads to a reward response in the brain and that people are even willing to give up money for it
- Weizmann Institute
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science discovered that tears activate human olfactory receptors, even though they are odorless, affecting the brain activity associated with aggression - and leading to more peaceful and less vengeful behavior
- Weizmann Institute
Weizmann Institute of Science scientists reveal in unprecedented detail how trauma in newborn mice shapes their brains and impairs their social functions in adulthood * A corresponding behavioral expression in humans may take the form of
- Haifa University
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One of the most common treatments for bipolar disorder today is the drug lithium - a drug to which only about a third of patients respond. The research aims to understand what causes this
- The Hebrew University
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This new measurement method, developed by the doctoral student Shir Filo and Prof. Metzer, will allow the extraction of precise biological values on the brain, so that it will be possible to derive from an MRI test similar indices to those obtained from a test
- Dr.Roey Tsezana
A new study, published in mid-August in the prestigious journal PLOS Biology, reveals a way to decipher the songs playing inside the brain. In doing so, he also provides an explanation about the way in which different areas of the brain differ
- Dr. Hanan Stein
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Chapter nine from the book: "The Free Man - Evolutionary Psychology, Brain Research and Understanding the Mind"
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
Following the oxytocin infusion, men's desire to compete increased more than women's desire to do so
- The Hebrew University
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Researchers at the Hebrew University and the University of Kentucky believe that a specific type of protein, which has not been studied before, substantially increases the molecular complexity in the brain and improves its function. "Such a discovery may have implications for the study of neurological diseases
- Avi Blizovsky
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Prof. Schwartz challenged the convention that nerve cells do not regenerate or recover, and discovered that the immune system also takes care of them. She also studied the blood-brain barrier and discovered that it is prevented
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
Perceptions of aging by elderly patients affect their health after hospitalization
- Avi Blizovsky
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The living brain project of Dassault Systèmes makes it possible to develop treatments for epilepsy patients who do not respond to drugs, says John McCarthy, head of life sciences and health at Dassault Systèmes in an interview with the science website at the CES conference
- Tel Aviv University
The new study contradicts the popular opinion that people with autism are apparently "indifferent to pain"
- The Technion
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In a study now published in Nature Electronics, Prof. Kutinsky demonstrates the effectiveness of said technology in neural networks. Dr. Wei Wang and Dr. Louis Daniel, who were members of the research group of Prof.
- Science site The Conversation
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Musk recently revealed this, and autism researchers seek to use it to advance understanding of the unique traits and different minds of people on the autistic stream
- Dr.Roey Tsezana
When the researchers played the subjects new stories, they found that their transcriber managed to produce sentences that described the stories "fairly well". The transcription is not perfect, but there is certainly a similarity