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Prof. Hermona Sorek (right). Photo: Yosef Edst, courtesy of the Hebrew University

Breakthrough in Alzheimer's research among women

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Professor Hermona Sorek, one of the world's leading researchers of gene expression in the brain, was able to find, in collaboration with her research colleagues, a molecular mechanism that occurs in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, which does not occur in men and which explains the acceleration of cognitive deterioration in Alzheimer's patients
Serious illness with corona damages the brain. Photo: depositphotos.com

Researchers in the United Kingdom: severe morbidity in Corona is equivalent to twenty years of aging

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More precisely a cognitive decline such as that which occurs between the ages of 50 and 70, which is also equivalent to ten IQ points
"Similar to humans, the ability of bats to place others in space is essential for them." Photo: Brooke Fenton.

Me and the Guys: How the Brain Maps Social Space

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Illustration: US Food and Drug Administration

People with fatty liver have an "older" brain

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Illustration: pixabay.

Research: Adults and infants likely use the same mechanism to improve their movement accuracy

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Decreased mitochondrial calcium uptake in cells where the MTCH2 gene has been neutralized. The photo on the left shows a nerve cell that has not been genetically modified. The photo on the right shows a transgenic nerve cell (without MTCH2). Fluorescent sensors were inserted into the cells in order to illuminate the absorption of calcium in the mitochondria, and calcium was added to the growth medium of the cells. As you can see, the sensors illuminate significantly less in the engineered cell (the color scale ranges from blue, indicating low calcium absorption, to yellow, indicating high calcium absorption), which indicates impaired calcium absorption in the mitochondria. Source: from the article.

calcium escape from the brain

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A new study shows that brief and incidental exposure to a stimulus that creates a sensory sensation or evokes associations related to cold (such as a picture of a winter landscape) can improve performance in a cognitive control task. Source: pixabay.

Can a cold temperature or a winter image affect cognitive control?

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Bottles of insulin for injection. Source: Alan Levine.

Research: Insulin resistance is associated with an accelerated decline in cognitive functions

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A man plays on the Playstation. Photo: Steven Andrew / flickr.

How computer games strengthen the brain

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Chimpanzees at Chester Zoo in the UK. Source: heatherlynneburrows / flickr.

Toddler's tool kit

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Stamp in memory of Jose Raul Capablanca issued by his homeland, Cuba. Kiev. Victor / Shutterstock.com

Secrets from the mind of an expert / Philip A. Ross

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Reading letters directly from the subject's mind. Photo: Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

The computer that reads letters directly from the brain

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A picture illustrating the perception of size. Illustration: Ben-Gurion University

Who knows how much?

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