Review: Natural products show preclinical promise in vascular dementia
A 2026 review finds that natural products affect multiple neuroprotective and repair pathways in vascular dementia models, but mostly preclinical ...
Tag: synaptic plasticity
How a Richer Environment Rewires the Brain’s Chemistry: New Review Maps Environmental Enrichment Across Neurotransmitter Systems
The distinction between the well-characterized and poorly-characterized neurotransmitter effects of environmental enrichment deserves closer examination, because it reveals something important ...
Hippocampal GluN2A Knockdown Differentially Alters Spatial Exploration and Behavioral Performance in Male and Female Rats
A new study shows that selectively reducing the GluN2A subunit of NMDA receptors in the adult hippocampus disrupts spatial exploration ...
Machine Learning and Molecular Dynamics Reveal How the NMDA Receptor’s Channel Flickers Between Open and Closed
A 5.6-microsecond molecular dynamics study combined with machine learning has mapped the dynamic network of residues that control opening and ...
High-Frequency Brain Stimulation Selectively Fires Up Human Fast-Spiking Interneurons
Recordings from living human cortical tissue reveal that high-frequency electrical stimulation selectively activates fast-spiking interneurons while suppressing other cell types, ...
One Synapse, Many Memories: How the Brain Builds LTP in Different Ways
New evidence shows the hippocampus expresses multiple mechanistically distinct forms of long-term potentiation, shaped by sex, brain region, and induction ...
Silent Synapses Wake Up: How Dormant Brain Connections Could Reshape Treatment of Disease
A sweeping review reveals how dormant silent synapses are activated through coordinated molecular machinery, and how their failure or overactivation ...
Hebbian Learning Shows How Brains Could Spend Their Synaptic Budget Wisely
A new computational study shows that a constrained Hebbian learning rule achieves lower representational cost than backpropagation and target propagation ...
Desert Plant Compound Restores Sleep-Deprived Brains by Switching On a Key Antioxidant Pathway
A new rat study shows that glycosides from the desert plant Cistanche reverse sleep deprivation-induced cognitive decline by activating the ...
Prior Flu Infection Reshapes Brain Inflammation and Behavior in Alzheimer’s Mice
A new mouse study shows that a prior H1N1pdm influenza infection reshapes social, affective, and memory behavior and intensifies neuroinflammation ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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