Using brain gene expression maps from the Allen Human Brain Atlas, the researchers tested the degree to which Alzheimer’s risk genes explain the patterns of both actual and residual tau. This allowed ...

It's been recognized for some time that Alzheimer's disease affects brain regions differently and that tau—a protein known to ...

A brain abscess is a rare but life-threatening infection. Learn how advances in imaging, surgery, and diagnostics are ...

One such brain teaser shared by @Brainy_Bits_Hub is now going viral on X (formerly Twitter). This brain teaser shows three cats that look almost the same. But if you look closely, you’ll see ...

MIT brain scans suggest that using GenAI tools reduces cognitive activity AI users displayed shorter memory and significantly fewer connections between regions of the brain ...

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Scary scan When doctors describe your brain scan as a “starry sky,” it’s not good TB is the deadliest infection in the world—but it doesn't often look like this.

A new study has set off alarm bells, attributing the overuse of computed tomography – or CT – scans to around 5% of new cancer diagnoses annually. Since 2007, this imaging technology has seen ...

The traumatic events that firefighters, first responders and law enforcement workers witness can lead to severe mental health struggles in their daily lives. A 2023 study by the National Highway ...

In 2018, the people around Daryl Ditz started to see signs that something wasn’t quite right. “My work colleagues noticed I was kind of slipping with the computer stuff — messing up a little ...

Participants were recruited from US level 1 trauma centers, presenting with acute TBI and undergoing a head CT scan between February 26, 2014, and August 8, 2018.

Despite the correlation between tangles and slow-wave activity, Pase noted that other factors, such as ApoE4, could be involved, both driving tau pathology and disrupting NREM sleep (Tranah et al., ...