Cassandra Pierce, Author at Science

Nine European Parkinson's specialists have issued consensus recommendations for using the newly approved dual-release levodopa formulation IPX203 in patients with...

AI Spots the Earliest Whisper of Alzheimer’s Disease in Routine Brain Scans

A hybrid deep learning and radiomics framework can detect subjective cognitive decline, the earliest preclinical stage of Alzheimer's disease, from...

Lifelong Learning and Emotional Skills Keep the Ageing Brain Sharp, Twin Studies Find

Two SISSA studies show that lifetime cognitive reserve and emotional intelligence work together to preserve language and working memory in...

A New Scaling Law Tracks How the Aging Brain Rewires Its Rhythms

Researchers generalized Taylor's law from ecology to neural data and found that a single scaling exponent tracks how synchronized brain...

Moral Choices Run on Different Brain Wiring Than Everyday Perceptual Decisions

New research shows that moral and perceptual decisions share the same computational logic but are carried out by distinct, specialized...

Neural Networks Hit a Fundamental Wall When Sensing Through Sub-THz Signals

When 6G wireless networks finally arrive, they will do more than carry data at staggering speeds. Operating in the sub-terahertz...

Deep breathing reshapes brain networks to trigger psychedelic-like states

A new brain-imaging study presented at the ECNP Congress shows that intensive breathwork reduces cerebral blood flow by up to...

Timing Is Everything: Switching an Immune Switch On and Off Repairs Spinal Cord Injury in Mice

A new mouse study shows that activating the cGAS-STING immune pathway early after spinal cord injury and inhibiting it later...

How Six Nations Diverge on the Road From Health to Stroke