Brain
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alpha-synuclein, Alzheimer’s disease, blood brain barrier, Brain, microplastics, Neurodegenerative Diseases, neuroinflammation, neuroscience, oxidative stress, parkinson’s diseaseMicroplastics and Parkinson’s Disease: 6 Plausible Brain-Risk Pathways
A 2026 mechanistic review linked microplastics to 6 proposed Alzheimer’s disease pathways…
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auditory brainstem response, Brain, central sensitization, cochlea, early life stress, gut-inner ear axis, IBS, neuroscience, proteomics, rat model, sensory processing, Stress, visceral stressEarly-Life Visceral Stress Sensitized Auditory Brainstem Responses in Rats
A 40-rat early-life visceral stress study found auditory pathway sensitization without hearing-threshold…
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Brain, cerebral microbleeds, cerebral small vessel disease, cognition, enlarged perivascular spaces, false belief task, neuroscience, post-stroke aphasia, preprint, social cognition, stroke recovery, theory of mind, vascular cognitive impairmentPost-Stroke Aphasia Theory of Mind Linked to Cerebral Microbleeds
A 2026 medRxiv preprint involving 44 people with chronic post-stroke aphasia found…
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Autism, Brain, gaba, juvenile rats, neuroscience, Neurotransmitters, nucleus accumbens, reward circuitry, social motivation, social play, ventral pallidumNucleus Accumbens-to-Ventral Pallidum Pathway Regulates Social Play in Rats
A 2026 juvenile rat study found that inactivating the ventral pallidum or…
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Alzheimer’s disease, amyloid beta, blood brain barrier, Brain, cerebral blood flow, dementia biomarkers, Neurodegenerative Diseases, neuroscience, neurovascular unit, pericytesAlzheimer’s Neurovascular Unit Dysfunction May Start Before Amyloid
A 2026 review argues that neurovascular-unit dysfunction may precede amyloid-beta generation in…
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anterior insula, Brain, decision making, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, fMRI, group identity, ingroup bias, neuroscience, outgroup prosocial behavior, prosocial behavior, Psychology, refugee policy, social mindfulnessSocial Mindfulness Favored Ingroup Members in Refugee-Policy fMRI Study
A 2026 fMRI study of 45 adults with strong pro- or anti-refugee…
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action units, Brain, cognition, dementia screening, digital biomarkers, facial expression, mild cognitive impairment, MoCA, Neurodegenerative Diseases, neuroscience, older adults, OpenFaceFacial Markers Differed in 31 Older Adults With MCI-Level MoCA Scores
A 2026 medRxiv preprint found that older adults with mild-cognitive-impairment-level MoCA-J scores…
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autonomic dysfunction, Brain, brain-heart coupling, cognitive screening, ECG, eeg, freezing of gait, heart rate variability, MMSE, Neurodegenerative Diseases, neuroscience, parkinson’s diseaseParkinson’s Brain-Heart Coupling Signals MMSE and Freezing of Gait
A 2026 EEG-ECG preprint reported that beta efficiency-sympathetic coupling differed across healthy…
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Brain, cognition, concept cells, context neurons, declarative memory, entorhinal cortex, epilepsy patients, hippocampus, human memory, item-context memory, medial temporal lobe, neuroscience, single-neuron recordingHuman Memory Context Neurons: 3,109-Cell Study in Epilepsy Patients
A 2026 Nature single-neuron study recorded 3,109 medial temporal lobe neurons from…
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acetylcholine, appetite, Brain, enterochromaffin cells, gut brain axis, neuroscience, Neurotransmitters, Serotonin, tuft cells, vagus nerveParasite Gut-Brain Study Links Tuft Cells to Serotonin Appetite Signal
A 2026 Nature study found that parasite-sensing tuft cells can release acetylcholine,…
