Stepping Up for Alzheimer’s Research
Family history and professional experiences encouraged an Oregonian to volunteer for the AHEAD clinical trial Volunteering for the AHEAD clinical trial has given Jennifer Weiss more than one way to...
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The connection between the brain, sleep and dementia
Last week, I talked about ongoing research on how sleep "deep cleans" your brain, as well as my participation in the National Geographic Channel's documentary Sleepless in America. Meanwhile, our...
May 12 Brain Awareness Lecture: Cancer and the brain
Several years ago, U.S. scientists launched a hugely ambitious project called the Cancer Genome Atlas. It is a comprehensive and coordinated effort to increase our understanding of the molecular...
Scientists ‘create’ a tiny brain
For the first time, scientists have grown a brain in a dish. In a study published in the journal Nature last month, Austrian researchers used human induced pluripotent stem cells or embryonic stem...
What causes a migraine?
“I have a pounding headache!” We’ve all heard that lament – from a friend or family member, and very likely felt one ourselves. That throbbing, pounding head pain that makes it hard to...
Violence in the brain? And beer …
Physicians and researchers have some pretty amazing ways of peering inside the human brain. And some of those methods — and what they might show us — have been in the news a lot lately. A...