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Soft and Sweet Brain Implants

Sugar needle brain implant
“A softer implant would help to reduce tissue irritation, but poses challenges in terms of manufacturing and [MORE]

Neuromagnetic Brain Wave Analysis

SQUID magnetometer and Josephson Junctions
Both Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy involve aberrations in brain wave activity which have eluded non-invasive monitoring [MORE]

mRNA Therapy for Neuronal Death

mRNA to treat neuronal death
“Ischemic neuronal death causes serious lifelong neurological deficits; however, there is no proven effective treatment that [MORE]

Biomarker Test for Bipolar and Depression Disorders

Mood disorders and BDNF
“Australian scientists have developed and validated a world-first test that is claimed to accurately measure levels of [MORE]

Regenerating Motor Neurons

Designer protein helps paralyzed mice walk again
“In a new study, German scientists have restored the ability to walk in mice [MORE]

Deep Learning (DL) vs. Standard Machine Learning (SML) in Psychiatric Imaging

Machine learning vs. deep learning
From researchers at Georgia State University: “We conduct[ed] a large-scale systematic comparison profiled in multiple classification [MORE]

tRNA Role in Stroke Cases

RNA
Transfer RNA has a crucial role in regulating immune response related to stroke.  Researchers at Goethe University in Frankfurt conclude:  [MORE]

The Gene Expression of Empathy

Empathy
“Many studies have confirmed that oxytocin affects empathy, but the epigenetic background of oxytocin in maternal empathy has not yet [MORE]

Genetic Screening of Organoids

CRISPR-LIGHT tool for genetic screening tool for organoids
CRIPSR-Lineage Tracing at Cellular resolution in Heterogeneous Tissue (CRISPR-LICHT) is the term researchers [MORE]

Stranger than Fiction–Brain Organoids that “Think”

Human brain organoids
A neuroscience lab at University of California-San Diego “. . . has connected organoids to walking robots, modified [MORE]

Flow Monitor for Hydrocephalus Shunts

 
Flow sense hydrocephalus monitor
Rhaeos (Evanston, IL), a spinout from Northwestern University, specializes in addressing hydrocephalus, and this piece describes its [MORE]

Micro-Electrode Chip for Determining Nerve Transmission

Dual-mode microelectrode array (DM-MEA) system
From bioengineers in Basel and Zurich, Switzerland: “We report on a dual-mode high-density microelectrode array, which [MORE]

Newly Discovered Taste Cell

New type of tastebud
Researchers at the University of Buffalo report this: “Currently, it is thought that taste cells are primarily [MORE]

 Mr. RFS’s Brain

Visual agnosia in patient RFS
You may remember Oliver Sacks’ 1985 book “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” [MORE]