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Altered Treatments Can Still Help Long-Term Parkinson's Patients

New research has illustrated that altered treatments after treatment options are considered exhausted can still benefit Parkinson's patients.
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Activating This Brain Area Produces a Strong Sense of Discomfort

Researchers have identified a new neural circuit in the brain that produces a strong sense of discomfort when activated, leading to new insights into Parkinson's and depression.
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Elevated Biological Age Linked to Greater Dementia and Stroke Risk

People who have a higher biological age than their actual chronological age have a significantly increased risk of stroke and dementia, especially vascular dementia.
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Blood Test Reveals MS Progression Years in Advance

A blood test that detects elevated NfL, a biomarker of nerve damage, could be used to predict multiple sclerosis progression one to two years before worsening symptoms.
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Cause of Tau Tangles in Alzheimer’s Disease Identified

An experimental drug can reduce the toxic changes in tau proteins known to damage neurons in brains with Alzheimer’s disease, researchers report.
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Cannabis Use Associated With Brain Immune Cell Changes Vital to Development

Johns Hopkins researchers found that high levels of THC in adolescent mice caused brain immune cell changes linked to increased risk of psychiatric disorders and learning problems.
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Brain Implant Can Enable Communication Through Thoughts Alone

A speech prosthetic developed by a collaborative team of Duke neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and engineers can translate a person’s brain signals into what they’re trying to say.
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Trust Nature, Not Technology, to Fight Climate Change, Says Social Media

People feel more positive about planting trees and protecting rainforests as a means of combating climate change than they do about employing technological solutions, according to a new research paper in Global Environmental Change.
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Reprogrammed Cells Could Tackle Autoimmune Brain Condition

A novel treatment based on CAR-T cells could help tackle encephalitis, a common autoimmune disease, by targeting and eliminating disease-causing cells.
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Rats Have Imaginations, Suggests New Study

As humans, we live in our thoughts: from pondering what to make for dinner to daydreaming about our last beach vacation. Now, new research from scientists at Janelia suggests that animals also possess an imagination.
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