Senior Spotlight: Freddy Cavallaro talks growth at Rice

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Channing Wang/Thresher Freddy Cavallaro reads a Bible verse daily. He has a 138-day streak on his Bible app, which he said would have been longer if not for a camping trip. He doesn’t take the Bible lightly, and yet his favorite Bible verse is from Romans 14:2, which goes, […]

How Exosomes Could Lead To Stroke Recovery

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Credit: iStock It’s been almost a quarter of a century since the first drug was approved for stroke. But what’s even more striking is that only a single drug remains approved today. In a publication appearing this month in the journal Translational Stroke Research , animal scientists, funded by […]

Neurocreativity Gives Brands an Emotional, Competitive Edge

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Sensational imagery has the power to move people and inspire brand devotion – especially when it has an emotional hook. Emotions travel five times faster than rational thought, according to a recent BBC interview with the marketing agency Lida. Ultimately, we feel first and then we think, which can […]

Singapore scientists part of ambitious project to map the human brain by 2024

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Prof Kurt Wütrich, Nobel laureate, ETH Zurich, speaks at the inauguration of the Synchrotron for Neuroscience – Asia Pacific Strategic Enterprise. SINGAPORE – Over 1,000 scientists in the Asia-Pacific region are harnessing particle accelerators to look deep into the human brain. The ambitious effort has far-reaching implications, including unlocking […]

A wearable device that changes your mood? Apollo Neuroscience offers a holistic alternative to prescription drugs.

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The wearable device from Apollo Neuroscience that is said to change moods. A Pittsburgh company is hoping to lead the charge for a new generation of wearable technology. By Jan. 31, the Uptown-based company, Apollo Neuroscience, will start shipping its flagship product. Worn around the wrist or ankle, the […]

Flame Retardants and Pesticides Are Biggest Environmental Contributors to Intellectual Disability

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Credit: Pixabay Adverse outcomes from childhood exposures to lead and mercury are on the decline in the United States, likely due to decades of restrictions on the use of heavy metals, a new study finds. Despite decreasing levels, exposure to these and other toxic chemicals, especially flame retardants and […]

Small Molecule Promises Treatment for Alzheimer’s and Dravet Syndrome

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Credit: iStock Gladstone researchers, in collaboration with Genentech, a member of the Roche group, have shown the therapeutic efficacy of a new experimental drug in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease and a rare genetic form of epilepsy known as Dravet syndrome. The small molecule increases the activity of a […]

New Programs: Latinx Studies, Health Science, Wines, Neuroscience, Montessori Teacher Ed

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Sonoma State University , in collaboration with Santa Rosa Junior College, is starting a bachelor’s degree in the wine business and production. St. John’s University , in New York, is starting a master’s program in neuroscience. Read more by Scott Jaschik Featured college pages Today’s News from Inside Higher […]

In mice, alcohol dependence results in brain-wide remodeling of functional architecture

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Employing advanced technologies that allow whole brain imaging at single-cell resolution, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that in an alcohol-dependent mouse model, the rodent brain’s functional architecture is substantially remodeled. But when deprived of alcohol, the mice displayed increased coordinated brain activity and […]

New centre to unravel the mysteries of our amazing brain

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Our understanding of the brain and its disorders will be boosted with the establishment of an international partnership. The University of Queensland and Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in China will jointly investigate how our brain functions and the activity of neurons in health and disease. Professor […]