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As they age, many individuals can struggle to remember recent events or what they meant to say next during a conversation, while also frequently losing or misplacing objects. In some cases, cognitive tests detect these memory ...
Hospitalized older adults can suddenly become disoriented and struggle to make sense of their surroundings. This condition, known as delirium, disrupts attention, awareness and clear thinking. The confusion can set in abruptly ...
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In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, as Diana Bautista and others in her UC Berkeley lab suffered sneezing and coughing fits and achy bodies, she asked an interesting scientific question: How, exactly, do viruses cause ...
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Monash University researchers have identified a protein that drives age-related damage in vital organs, opening a potential new avenue for treatments that could help people stay healthier as they get older. Published in Immunity, ...
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Scientists have long known that many developing brain cells originate in one region and migrate to another as they mature. But tracing the molecular changes that occur along that journey has been difficult, in part because ...
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Researchers have built a high-resolution brain-cell atlas that could do for neuroscience what the Human Genome Project did for genetics. By charting over 25 million individual brain cells across humans, macaques and marmosets, ...
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Salk Institute researchers have contributed to a landmark accomplishment in neuroscience: a 3D atlas of the human basal ganglia with single-cell genetic and epigenetic detail, published as a collection of 28 papers across ...
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