Scientists have recently discovered that the temporal pole region of the brain surface has critical functions in word comprehension, face recognition and the regulation of behavior. It is interesting to note that researchers struggled to link a specific function to this region of the brain for the first 100 years of research on the cortex.

Researchers have developed a new technique – Nano-Quic (Nanoparticle-enhanced Quaking-Induced Conversion) which helps to reduce detection times significantly from about 14 hours to only four hours and increases the sensitivity by a factor of 10 as compared to the existing advanced protein-misfolding detection methods used for neurodegenerative diseases.

Once adults reach age 65, the threshold age for the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, the extent of their genetic risk may outweigh age as a predictor of whether they will develop the fatal brain disorder, a new study suggests.

A second major study from the Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study has concluded that a daily intake of multivitamin supplements can help improve memory as well as slow cognitive aging in older adults.

An international team of scientists have conducted a path-breaking research study in which artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to identify a molecular machine, which plays an essential ‘cargo’ role in controlling the delivery of proteins to the surface of human cells, and is implicated in several diseases.

The human brain has a sweet tooth, burning through nearly one quarter of the body’s sugar energy, or glucose, each day. Now, researchers at Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco (UCSF) have shed new light on exactly how neurons — the cells that send electrical signals through the brain — consume and metabolize glucose, as well as how these cells adapt to glucose shortages

A study, in mice, found that gut bacteria — partly by producing compounds such as short chain fatty acids — affect the behavior of immune cells throughout the body, including ones in the brain that can damage brain tissue and exacerbate neurodegeneration in conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.

A study has revealed that the cerebrospinal fluid immune system in our brain and spinal fluid becomes dysregulated as we age and that people suffering from cognitive impairment such as Alzheimer’s disease have a drastically altered CSF immune system as compared to healthy individuals.

By culturing human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons on coatings with ‘dancing molecules,’ researchers created mature neurons. These neurons could be transplanted into patients with spinal cord injuries or neurodegenerative diseases to replace lost or damaged neurons.

A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has developed a laboratory test that can measure levels of amyloid beta oligomers in blood samples. This toxic protein is an indicator for the development Alzheimer’s disease.