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Regular naps linked to increased brain volume: Study
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
A new study done by academics at UCL and the University of the Republic in Uruguay reveals that daytime napping could help to protect brain function by reducing the pace at which our brains shrink as we age.
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Study shows how brain receptor patterns separate sensory, cognitive netwo
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Scientists have revealed that receptor patterns establish essential organising principles in the brain.
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Researchers 'see' how the brain adapts to different situations using machi
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have created a technique that uses artificial intelligence to visualise and monitor changes in the strength of synapses, the junctions that allow nerve cells in the brain to communicate with one another, in living animals. The method, which is detailed
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Researchers find walking improves brain connectivity, memory in older adul
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The study, which was published this month in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports, looked at the brains and story recollection abilities of older adults with normal brain function and those with mild cognitive impairment, which is a slight decline in mental abilities such as memory, re
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Researchers discover distinct patterns of pre-existing brain health charac
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Extensive research has helped identify risk factors for acute stroke, but there is still a lack of information of what stroke patients' brains look like on a population level, according to a study.
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New blood biomarker can predict if cognitively healthy elderly will develo
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Why do some people get Alzheimer's while others don't? Even more perplexing, why do many people with toxic amyloid aggregates in their brains--a clear marker of Alzheimer's brain pathology--never get Alzheimer's-related dementias?
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DRDO holds interaction with defence startups
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
A day-long industry interaction and brainstorming session was organised by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) at Research Centre Imarat in Hyderabad. Held on Saturday, it was aimed at bringing all defence industries, including MSMEs and start-ups, to one platform for unders
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"Cheap mindset", "charge them with treason", says BJP after RJD's 'coffin'
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
"What can be more unfortunate? They have no brains. The new parliament building was constructed using public money. Opposition party members, irrespective of their boycott of the inauguration, will be attending parliament proceedings there. Has the RJD decided to permanently boycott parli
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NITI Aayog to hold its 8th governing council meeting tomorrow
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
As the chairman of NITI Aayog, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over the meeting, according to a statement from NITI Aayog. Chief Ministers or lieutenant governors of all states and Union Territories, Union Ministers as ex-officio Members, and the vice-chairman and members of NITI A
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Two-day 'Shodh Prayas' (Researchers' Conclave) concludes at VGU
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 23: The two-day conclave of researchers (Shodh Prayas) concluded at the Vivekananda Global University with motivational and inspiring speeches by the top brains of the country and an exchange of ideas and thoughts among hundreds of researchers and scholars from acro
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Brain signatures for chronic pain identified in small group of individuals
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Researchers have recorded pain-related data from inside the brains of people suffering from chronic pain issues caused by stroke or amputation (phantom limb pain) for the first time. Understanding how pain is represented by brain activity and how to modify that activity to treat chronic pain
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Dementia study suggests how harmful proteins spread through brain
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
A recent study suggests that fresh insights into the spread of toxic proteins that collect in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients may hold the key to slowing the disease's progression.
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