4 stories tagged "neuroscience"
An OIST team caught the mouse brain firing acetylcholine the moment an expected reward failed to land. That surge is what lets the animal switch strategy. Close to half of community-dwelling older adults are on drugs that block the same receptors.
Brain & AgingAn ETH Zurich team spent nearly twenty years tracing why Alzheimer's nerve cells run out of energy, and the answer points to a protein the amyloid-clearing drugs never touched.
Metabolic & WeightA VA cohort of 606,000 diabetic veterans on GLP-1 drugs showed lower risks of new substance use disorders and large drops in overdose and drug-related death versus a peer diabetes drug. The mechanism story is where it gets interesting.
Brain & AgingHarvard used MERFISH to image roughly 1,100 odorant receptors across the mouse nose at once and found tidy stripes, not chaos. The clinical stakes for smell loss just got harder to wave off.