This is the second of two stories born out of an afternoon at UCSF’s Memory and Aging Center, where a team of scientists, led by Dr. Bruce Miller, is trying to tease out the differences between as many as 200 dementias that affect aging brains. …
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In a new studt out in Nature Neuroscience, scientists tinkered with a single gene in a mouse and made it less likely to get fat. Finally I can eat as many Double Stufs as I want without worrying about gaining weight. If scientists can turn what they’ve learned into…
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Being a neurologist in the era of fMRI scanners must feel like being a kid in a candy shop. What’s going in there while we’re, say, shopping? How about reading? Watching campaign ads? Now that we have a way to take real-time images of the brain at work, the scientific…
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A look into the science of skin.
In an article this week in the New York Times, brainpower was correlated with the complexity of nerve synapses. Leading researcher Dr. Grant, who has studied the interconnectedness of neurons, likened this connection to technology; “From the evolutionary perspective, the big brains of vertebrates not…
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Posted in Radio, KQED, Partners, Technology, TV, Chemistry, NPR, New York Times, brain, dr. jablonski, Dr. Nina Jablonski, kpfa, organ, pigmentation, rosecea, skin, Skin: a natural history, sweat, uv rays | Comments Off
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