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| | | | | Blast from the past Nuclear bomb tests carried out during the cold war have had an unexpected benefit. A radioactive carbon isotope expelled by the blasts has been used to date the age of adult human brain cells, providing the first definitive evidence that we generate new brain cells throughout our lives . The study ... | |
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| | | | | My colleagues and I have been working through this intriguing paper [1] from a few weeks ago: Yan, G., Vértes, P.E., Towlson, E.K., Chew, Y.L., Walker, D.S., Schafer, W.R., and Barabási, A.-L. (2017). Network control principles predict neuron function in the Caenorhabditis elegans connectome. Nature advance online publication. This seems like a very important contribution.... | |
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| | | | | Did you know that the brain has its own immune system? In this post, writer @taylorandnerds describes how your brain's immune cells keep it healthy and what happens when they stop working properly. | |
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| | | After patients took comprehensive training courses about their medical diagnosis, they emerged with greater condition-specific knowledge than many of the health care professionals they encountered. But here's the downside reported in this study: the in-depth knowledge of their condition meant problems when their expertise was later seen as "inappropriate" in standard healthcare interactions with their... | ||