neuroscience
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ampk, Brain, brain metabolism, Brain Rap1, Diabetes, Drugs, glucose control, hypothalamus, metformin, mouse study, neuroscience, Rap1, SF1 neurons, ventromedial hypothalamus, VMHMetformin’s Brain Rap1 Pathway Controlled Glucose in Mouse Study
A 2025 Science Advances mouse study found a more brain-dependent metformin mechanism…
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3D FLAIR MRI, Alzheimer’s disease, Brain, brain aging, brain lymphatics, cerebrospinal fluid, cervical lymph nodes, cognition, glymphatic system, meningeal lymphatic vessels, Neurodegenerative Diseases, neuroimaging, neuroscience, parkinson’s diseaseBrain Lymphatic MRI Shows Aging-Linked Drainage Changes
A 2022 Nature Communications study used non-contrast 3D T2-FLAIR magnetic resonance imaging…
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Brain, brain age, cerebral small vessel disease, cognition, MoCA, MRI biomarkers, neuroscience, perivascular spaces, stroke, white matter hyperintensitiesSmall-Vessel Disease MRI Score Predicted 90-Day Cognition After Stroke
A 2026 medRxiv preprint involving 65 early subacute stroke survivors found that…
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alpha-synuclein, Brain, dopaminergic neurons, IL-6, mouse model, MPTP, Neurodegenerative Diseases, neuroinflammation, neuroscience, parkinson’s disease, sex differencesIL-6 Deficiency Worsened Parkinson’s Mouse Models, Especially in Females
A 2026 mouse study found that complete IL-6 deficiency worsened motor dysfunction…
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amygdala, BLA, Brain, calcium imaging, hypothalamus, medial prefrontal cortex, neuroscience, optogenetics, oxytocin, PVN, social behavior, StressStress Social Deficits Reversed by Amygdala-Oxytocin Circuit Suppression
A 2026 mouse circuit study found that restraint stress progressively reduced medial…
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aging, biological age, Brain, cognition, dna methylation, epigenetic clocks, ESTHER cohort, GrimAge, mortality, neuroscience, PhenoAge, Physical activity, smokingDNA Methylation Biological Age Slope Raised Mortality Risk 28%
A 2026 Clinical Epigenetics study tracked DNA methylation biological age in 894…
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Brain, brain aging, cerebellum, cognition, hippocampus, iron, multivariate analysis, myelin, neuroimaging, neuroscience, qMRI, quantitative MRI, water contentqMRI Brain Aging Maps Myelin, Iron, and Water in 138 Adults
A 2026 quantitative MRI preprint reanalyzed 138 healthy adults and found that…
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16S sequencing, Autism, autism-like traits, blautia, Brain, brain size, clostridium, gut microbiome, mouse model, neurofibromatosis type 1, neuroscience, NF1, social behaviorNF1 Mouse Study Links Gut Microbiome to Brain Size and Autism-Like Traits
A 2026 NF1 mouse-model study found a gut-brain signal that was strongest…
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autophagy, genetics, lysosomes, mitochondria, mitophagy, Neurodegenerative Diseases, neuroscience, Parkin, parkinson’s disease, PINK1, ubiquitinPINK1 and Parkin Link Parkinson’s Disease to Failed Mitochondrial Cleanup
A 2026 review ties the Parkinson’s disease genes PINK1 and parkin to…
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Brain, dopamine, feeding behavior, food cues, neuroscience, NTS A2 neurons, nucleus of the solitary tract, reward, Stress, VTAStress Suppressed Food-Cue Reward Through NTS A2 Dopamine Circuits
A 2026 rat study found that foot-shock stress transiently reduced food-cue approach…
