Cheerful Music Could Help People Get Over Car Sickness, New Study Shows
by the Brain Inflammation Collaborative @BrainInflCollab on Twitter:
"Long COVID is more prevalent in women.
Could this new study explain why? "
Full thread:
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#Covid #Brain #LongCovid #Women
How ‘brain cleaning’ while we sleep may lower our risk of dementia
https://theconversation.com/how-brain-cleaning-while-we-sleep-may-lower-our-risk-of-dementia-259979
First episode of my podcast is out! I spoke with Professor James Marshall
at University of Sheffield about his research on modelling the #brain of #bees and implications for #ai. Take a listen! #neuroscience #sciencecommunication
New landmark study “A #brain-wide map of #NeuralActivity during complex #behaviour” by the #InternationalBrainLaboratory (Angelaki et al., 2025): >600,000 #neurons across 279 regions in 139 mice, unified across 12 labs with #Neuropixels probes.
#DecisionMaking isn’t confined to single hubs but distributed across the brain, incl. #sensory, #motor & #reward areas, showing how #cognitive processes emerge from brain-wide #dynamics.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
Pastorelli et al. (2025) present a "simplified two-compartment #neuron with #CalciumDynamics capturing #brain-state-specific apical-amplification, -isolation and -drive". This Ca-#AdEx model replicates distinct #dendritic mechanisms across wakefulness, #NREM & #REM sleep using a compact ThetaPlanes transfer function. Cool implementation using the #NESTsimulator 
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Wow. Clear, complete, engaging overview of the wondrous world of the brain, brainstem, and nerves. With plenty of insights into their fragility, too, from early development to complex emotional and cognitive phenomena. Why not five stars? A little note concerning invasive animal experiments. The professor made a good job presenting every topic with the utmost respect, also showing awareness of criticisms, and he made a little reference to animal welfare standards and regulations in his workplace. But I personally prefer paths towards the substitution of invasive animal tests. Anyway, in the framework of learning, it's important to know what others have done, even if you choose different paths. And the course offers an excellent foundation in medical neuroscience. Thank you, Professor White!
This is interesting. A consortium of 22 research labs in the EU & US has analysed how brains make decisions. To add a cuteness factor, they monitored mice as they played little computer games.
"A decision, it turns out, is not hatched in a single cortical enclave, but emerges from a grand orchestration of regions spread across the brain, including those once understood to be the preserve of movement rather than thought."
A "grand orchestration" sounds delicious. I'd love to see an animation of 600,000 neurons firing in waves.
The insight that our bodies are controlled by delicate electro-chemical computing machines, with Free Will hiding nowhere, is quite liberating. #Brain #Behavior
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09235-0
Mediterranean diet offsets genetic risk for dementia, study finds — Harvard Gazette
New research suggests that following a Mediterranean-style diet may help offset a person’s genetic risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease. The study, published in Nature Medici…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanDiet #aging #BRAIN #foodnutrition #healthcare #Mediterranean #Research
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2265602/mediterranean-diet-offsets-genetic-risk-for-dementia-study-finds-harvard-gazette/
Mediterranean diet offsets genetic risk for dementia, study finds — Harvard Gazette
New research suggests that following a Mediterranean-style diet may help offset a person’s genetic risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease. The…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #aging #BRAIN #foodnutrition #healthcare #Mediterranean #Research
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2265602/mediterranean-diet-offsets-genetic-risk-for-dementia-study-finds-harvard-gazette/
Mediterranean diet offsets genetic risk for dementia, study finds — Harvard Gazette https://www.diningandcooking.com/2265602/mediterranean-diet-offsets-genetic-risk-for-dementia-study-finds-harvard-gazette/ #aging #BRAIN #FoodNutrition #HealthCare #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #Research
You cannot improve when scared
"The more primitive parts of the brain take over the activity of the prefrontal cortex, the brain’s “control centre”, when we’re in a state of fear.
"This means planning, making sound decisions and using our existing knowledge becomes very difficult if we feel threatened or afraid."
Deborah Pino Pasternak: https://theconversation.com/how-effective-is-fear-as-a-teaching-tool-how-and-what-do-we-learn-when-we-are-scared-213540
Today I learned that addressing yourself in the third person can help in times of stress. Internal dialogue matters, and can, I hope, be retrained.
Mickey Mellon puts out some great stuff, well worth a follow. #mentalHealth #stress #psychology #brain #til
https://www.mickmel.com/address-yourself-in-the-third-person/
How does olive oil affect gut health? https://www.diningandcooking.com/2260445/how-does-olive-oil-affect-gut-health/ ##inflammation #AntiInflammatory #antioxidant #bacteria #Bile #BRAIN #compound #diet #FattyAcids #food #Fruit #Gene #GeneExpression #heat #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanOliveOil #Metabolites #Nutraceutical #nutrition #Olive #OliveOil #prebiotics #ShortChainFattyAcids
Wow 
For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible
For decades, neuroengineers have dreamed of helping people who have been cut off from the world of language.
A disease like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or A.L.S., weakens the muscles in the airway. A stroke can kill neurons that normally relay commands for speaking.
Perhaps, by implanting electrodes, scientists could instead record the brain’s electric activity and translate that into spoken words
Why Beethoven (and other music) is good for your brain
A somewhat discursive and wandering but all the same fascinating article
