Temperature perception seems to have special meaning in our social lives, says Emily Graczyk, a biomedical engineering professor at Case Western Reserve University who was not involved in this study. …
Typically, doctors look at several factors to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease: a patient’s medical history, cognitive and functional assessments, brain imaging scans, and spinal tap or blood tests. So a person …
As a physical therapist in Shanghai, Zheng Wang worked with people recovering from strokes after their brains had been damaged by oxygen deprivation. They usually followed a predictable recovery pattern, …
For that study, the team also engineered mice to have higher than normal levels of the protein—these mice performed better on maze tests than normal mice. In the current study, …
The tiny foragers are also “remarkable learners” that can remember something after a single exposure to it, Crossley said. In the new study, the researchers peered deep into the snails’ …