How Fast You Walk Might Show How Fast You’re Aging

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HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Oct. 11, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Middle-aged folks who worry about healthy aging would do well to keep an eye on their walking speed. Turns out that the walking speed of 45-year-olds is a pretty solid marker of how their brains and bodies are aging, a […]

Doctoral student first from ISU invited to world-renowned neuroscience course

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Wolfgang Stein and Margaret DeMaegd working in Stein’s Crablab Doctoral student Margaret DeMaegd was the first Illinois State student to be invited to the internationally renowned Neural Systems and Behavior course (NS&B) at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. DeMaegd’s presentations during the course landed her an […]

African American Neuroscience Research Initiative Awarded Grant From Abell Foundation for Critical Program Support

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BALTIMORE, Oct. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The African American Neuroscience Research Initiative (AANRI) announced today the receipt of a $275,000 grant from the Abell Foundation, which will provide critical funds to support the development and growth of the collaboration between the African American Clergy Medical Research Initiative and the […]

Enhancing memory network via brain stimulation

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Magnetic stimulation of the posterior parietal cortex increases functional connectivity of a neural network implicated in memory, shows human research published in eNeuro. This finding confirms a previous study, validating further exploration of this technique for experimental and clinical applications. Five daily sessions of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation had […]

Male and female mice show decreased exploratory behavior with age, study finds

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Due to strain-specific behavioral idiosyncrasies, inbred mouse strains are suboptimal research models for behavioral aging studies. The researchers found that both males and females demonstrated decreased exploratory behavior with age, while memory and depressive-like behavior were maintained. Dr. Malin Hernebring from the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience […]

ISG neuroscience centre gets green light

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Hawkins Brown’s consented plans for the UCL neuroscience centre on Gray’s Inn Road – entrance with the listed building (right) and Alexandra Wing facade (left) Hawkins Brown’s consented plans for the UCL neuroscience centre on Gray’s Inn Road – walkway Hawkins Brown’s consented plans for the UCL neuroscience centre […]

New physician assistant and neuroscience programs added

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Photo courtesy of Flickr Elizabethtown College is adding new programs and majors to better support student needs and interests. The new neuroscience program is active this semester, and the physician assistant (PA) program will begin December 2020. The neuroscience major was approved last semester and is a collaboration between […]

Social isolation derails brain development in mice

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IMAGE: Social isolation in adolescence disrupts cortical development and goal-dependent decision making in adulthood, despite social reintegration. view more Credit: Hinton et al., eNeuro (2019) Female mice housed alone during adolescence show atypical development of the prefrontal cortex and resort to habitual behavior in adulthood, according to new research […]

‘Neuroscience and the Brain’s GPS’ at Lincolnville Community Library

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“Place Cells, Grid Cells, and Memory” published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. (Photo courtesy Lincolnville Community Library) LINCOLNVILLE — John Williams will give a free talk on “Neuroscience and the Brain’s GPS” on Wednesday, September 18, at 7 p.m., at the Lincolnville Community Library. Discussing the groundbreaking discoveries […]

How the brain repurposes unused regions

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IMAGE: Naturalistic auditory stories synchronize “visual ” cortices across congenitally blind but not sighted individuals. view more Credit: Loiotile et al., JNeurosci (2019) In adults that are born blind, the “visual” cortex is activated in a similar way during a listening task, according to new research in JNeurosci . […]