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Neuroscience has transformed our understanding of the brain and promises treatments for devastating disorders that affect millions.

Charts map rapid growth and slow decline of brains

06 April 2022

An international team of researchers has created a series of brain charts spanning our entire lifespan 鈥 from a 15 week old fetus to 100 year old adult 鈥 that show how our brains expand rapidly in early life and slowly shrink as we age.聽

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Facebook updates could provide a window to understanding 鈥 and treating 鈥 mental health disorders

28 Oct 2016

Our Facebook status updates, 鈥榣ikes鈥 and even photos could help researchers better understand mental health disorders with the right ethical...

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Measurement of brain activity in a patient with phantom limb pain

Cause of phantom limb pain in amputees, and potential treatment, identified

27 Oct 2016

Researchers have identified the cause of chronic, and currently untreatable, pain in those with amputations and severe nerve damage, as well as a...

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Cambridge extends world leading role for medical imaging with powerful new brain and body scanners

24 Oct 2016

探花直播next generation of imaging technology, newly installed at the 探花直播 of Cambridge, will give researchers an unprecedented view of the human...

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Depressing fog

Anti-inflammatory drugs could help treat symptoms of depression, study suggests

18 Oct 2016

Anti-inflammatory drugs similar to those used to treat conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis could in future be used to treat some...

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Fruit fly model of deadly brain diseases could lead to blood test for vCJD

13 Oct 2016

A new model of fatal brain diseases is being developed in the fruit fly by a team led by Dr Raymond Bujdoso at the 探花直播 of Cambridge, and could...

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Brains

Opinion: 探花直播science, drugs and tech pushing our brains to new limits

06 Oct 2016

Rapid advances in neuroscience are driving a huge shift in our understanding of how the brain works and could improve both our cognitive abilities...

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Chicken korma, Eton mess and a genetic variant provide clues to our food choices

04 Oct 2016

People who carry variants in a particular gene have an increased preference for high fat food, but a decreased preference for sugary foods, according...

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Dementia: Catching the memory thief

21 Sep 2016

It's over a hundred years since the first case of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease was diagnosed. Since then we鈥檝e learned a great deal about the protein 鈥榯angles...

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Brain of a frog embryo.  探花直播coloured structures are cell nuclei (containing DNA), the white structure in the center corresponds to the optic tract, which contains the neuronal axons studied.

Neurons feel the force 鈥 physical interactions control brain development

19 Sep 2016

Researchers have identified a new mechanism controlling brain development: that neurons not only 鈥榮mell鈥 chemicals in their environment, but also 鈥...

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Parkinson鈥檚 Disease protein plays vital 鈥渕arshalling鈥 role in healthy brains

19 Sep 2016

Researchers have identified how alpha-synuclein, the protein associated with Parkinson鈥檚 Disease, enables communication between neurons in the brain...

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That was supposed to be going up, wasn't it?

鈥楪ut feelings鈥 help make more successful financial traders

19 Sep 2016

Financial traders are better at reading their 鈥榞ut feelings鈥 than the general population 鈥 and the better they are at this ability, the more...

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Image of 鈥渁myloid fibrils鈥; thread-like structures which form after the protein alpha-synuclein aggregates. Plaques (protein deposits) consisting of this protein have been found in the brains of Parkinson 鈥檚 Disease patients and linked to disease.

Tiny changes in Parkinson鈥檚 protein can have 鈥渄ramatic鈥 impact on processes that lead to the disease

30 Aug 2016

Specific mutations in the protein associated with Parkinson鈥檚 Disease, in which just one of its 140 building blocks is altered, can make a dramatic...

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