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Brain

A person pausing their exercise to hold an injured head.
Momentum 

Brain injuries: impact and prevention

May 2, 2022April 29, 2022Brain, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, traumatic brain injury

Dr. James McDeavitt outlines the possible physical, emotional and cognitive effects of traumatic brain injuries.

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Two people sit at a table while working on a newspaper crossword.
Momentum 

Maintaining a cognitively active lifestyle

March 23, 2022March 22, 2022Brain, Huffington Center on Aging

Whether you play the Wordle or Sudoku, keeping your brain engaged and active throughout your life is crucial, no matter your age.

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From The Labs 

The Most Viewed Image of the Month in 2021

December 3, 2021December 3, 2021animal model, Brain, Huntington’s disease, Research

Brain of a mouse model of Huntington’s disease.

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Policywise 

Rethinking the brain and the path forward

August 13, 2021August 13, 2021Brain, Brain Initiative, BRAINShare, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Neurological disorders

A closer look at how the BRAIN Initiative is helping researchers understand the brain, develop innovative technologies and share data.

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From The Labs 

Rap1 controls the body’s sugar levels from the brain, regulating it may help manage diabetes

June 22, 2021June 22, 2021Brain, Diabetes, high-fat diet, hypothalamus, Rap1, Research, VMH neurons

One day, people might be able to control diabetes from the brain.

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From The Labs 

Gene Rev-erb in the brain sets the rhythm of the liver’s response to insulin

June 15, 2021June 15, 2021Brain, Diabetes, GABA neurons, liver, Research, Rev-erb gene, suprachiasmatic nucleus

The findings support that an altered daily rhythm of expression of the Rev-erb gene in the brain may underlie dawn phenomenon in diabetes.

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From The Labs 

A new gut-brain connection that keeps weight off (or on) the scale

August 22, 2019August 22, 2019appetite, Brain, GIP, gut, high-fat diet, hypothalamus, leptin, Obesity, overnutrition, Research

Eating extra servings typically shows up on the scale later, but how this happens has not been clear. In his lab at Baylor College of

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Policywise 

What if someone could be ‘kind of’ alive?

April 24, 2019May 24, 2019Brain, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, consciousness, Death, Dr. Kristin Kostick, Life

When the executioner’s assistant held up the freshly guillotined head of assassin Charlotte Corday by her hair and slapped her face on both cheeks in

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From The Labs 

This brain circuit allows the feeding and memory centers to talk to each other

February 19, 2019February 19, 2019appetite, Brain, chromosome 17, hippocampus, hypothalamus, intellectual disability, Memory, NCOR1/2, neurodevelopmental defects, Research

It was not what the researchers were expecting to find when they set out to investigate how the protein complex NCOR1/2 regulates memory. “We knew

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From The Labs 

Making moves and memories, are they connected?

November 15, 2018November 15, 2018Brain, brain cortex, Cerebellum, cognitive function, Memory, muscle control, Research

It is known that certain areas of the brain are responsible for certain functions of the body. The cerebellum, a structure found in the back

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