Could 'love hormone' oxytocin help treat Alzheimer's disease? Here's what researchers currently know

by Eleftheria Kodosaki,The ConversationCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainOxytocin is often called "the love hormone" because of its role in social bonding, reproduction and childbirth.

Updated on: March 13,2024

Could 'love hormone' oxytocin help treat Alzheimer's disease? Here's what researchers currently know

by Eleftheria Kodosaki,The ConversationCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainOxytocin is often called "the love hormone" because of its role in social bonding, reproduction and childbirth.

Updated on:March 13,2024

How antidepressants, ketamine and psychedelic drugs may make brains more flexible—new research

by Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian and Christelle Langley,The ConversationCredit: Juan Gaertner/ShutterstockThe first-line pharmacological treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD) are antidepres

Updated on: January 12,2024

How antidepressants, ketamine and psychedelic drugs may make brains more flexible—new research

by Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian and Christelle Langley,The ConversationCredit: Juan Gaertner/ShutterstockThe first-line pharmacological treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD) are antidepres

Updated on:January 12,2024

Blood oxygen levels could explain why memory loss is an early symptom of Alzheimer's

by University of SussexCredit: Fakurian DesignIn a world first, scientists from the University of Sussex have recorded blood oxygen levels in the hippocampus and provided experimental proof for w

Updated on: March 09,2024

Blood oxygen levels could explain why memory loss is an early symptom of Alzheimer's

by University of SussexCredit: Fakurian DesignIn a world first, scientists from the University of Sussex have recorded blood oxygen levels in the hippocampus and provided experimental proof for w

Updated on:March 09,2024

Brain plasticity promotes worsening of epileptic seizures

by Erin Digitale,Stanford University Medical CenterCredit: Monstera Production from PexelsEpileptic seizures worsen via the same mechanism by which practice makes perfect, a new study from the S

Updated on: February 21,2024

Brain plasticity promotes worsening of epileptic seizures

by Erin Digitale,Stanford University Medical CenterCredit: Monstera Production from PexelsEpileptic seizures worsen via the same mechanism by which practice makes perfect, a new study from the S

Updated on:February 21,2024

New tool provides researchers with improved understanding of stem cell aging in the brain

by University of Wisconsin-MadisonPatterns in the tiny amounts of light emitted by these neural stem cells helped researchers determine whether they were active or dormant without destructive tes

Updated on: March 30,2024

New tool provides researchers with improved understanding of stem cell aging in the brain

by University of Wisconsin-MadisonPatterns in the tiny amounts of light emitted by these neural stem cells helped researchers determine whether they were active or dormant without destructive tes

Updated on:March 30,2024

Scientists isolate genes that delay Alzheimer's

by Australian National UniversityAssociate Professor Arcos-Burgos (centre) with Dr Claudio Mastronardi and Dr Hardip Patel. Credit: Stuart Hay, ANUScientists have identified a network of nine gen

Updated on: February 27,2024

Scientists isolate genes that delay Alzheimer's

by Australian National UniversityAssociate Professor Arcos-Burgos (centre) with Dr Claudio Mastronardi and Dr Hardip Patel. Credit: Stuart Hay, ANUScientists have identified a network of nine gen

Updated on:February 27,2024

Dementia researchers call for urgent action to prevent setbacks in treatment search

by Alzheimer's Research UKCredit: CC0 Public DomainNearly 300 researchers have called for urgent government action to prevent a major setback to the search for new dementia treatments as a re

Updated on: May 11,2024

Dementia researchers call for urgent action to prevent setbacks in treatment search

by Alzheimer's Research UKCredit: CC0 Public DomainNearly 300 researchers have called for urgent government action to prevent a major setback to the search for new dementia treatments as a re

Updated on:May 11,2024

How are 'super agers' protected from Alzheimer's and mental decline?

by Alan Mozes Healthday Reporter(HealthDay)—Some older folks are still sharp as tacks and dementia-free well into their 80s and beyond. Now German researchers have uncovered a possible reason why: The

Updated on: March 13,2024

How are 'super agers' protected from Alzheimer's and mental decline?

by Alan Mozes Healthday Reporter(HealthDay)—Some older folks are still sharp as tacks and dementia-free well into their 80s and beyond. Now German researchers have uncovered a possible reason why: The

Updated on:March 13,2024

New drug targets for Alzheimer's identified from cerebrospinal fluid

by Mark Reynolds,Washington University School of MedicineCellular localization of immune and lysosomal proteins. Credit:Nature Genetics(2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-01972-8A multit

Updated on: November 22,2024

New drug targets for Alzheimer's identified from cerebrospinal fluid

by Mark Reynolds,Washington University School of MedicineCellular localization of immune and lysosomal proteins. Credit:Nature Genetics(2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-01972-8A multit

Updated on:November 22,2024

Opinion: New Alzheimer's drugs don't deserve the hype—here's why

by Sebastian Walsh,The ConversationCredit: AI-generated imageA prominent childhood memory is of my grandparents living with and then dying from dementia. As is universal with dementia, there was

Updated on: March 02,2024

Opinion: New Alzheimer's drugs don't deserve the hype—here's why

by Sebastian Walsh,The ConversationCredit: AI-generated imageA prominent childhood memory is of my grandparents living with and then dying from dementia. As is universal with dementia, there was

Updated on:March 02,2024

Researchers achieve success in allowing a patient to 'speak' using only the power of thought

byTel-Aviv UniversityAn image from the experiment of the speech neuroprosthesis (a.k.a speech brain-computer interface). It shows the participant who is completely silent, with his mouth closed,

Updated on: July 17,2024

Researchers achieve success in allowing a patient to 'speak' using only the power of thought

byTel-Aviv UniversityAn image from the experiment of the speech neuroprosthesis (a.k.a speech brain-computer interface). It shows the participant who is completely silent, with his mouth closed,

Updated on:July 17,2024

Machine learning gives nuanced view of Alzheimer's stages

by David Nutt,Cornell UniversityFeed-forward, fully-connected neural network architecture. Nonlinear models have rectified linear units (ReLU) between layers. Final layer implements a soft-max.

Updated on: June 14,2024

Machine learning gives nuanced view of Alzheimer's stages

by David Nutt,Cornell UniversityFeed-forward, fully-connected neural network architecture. Nonlinear models have rectified linear units (ReLU) between layers. Final layer implements a soft-max.

Updated on:June 14,2024