
The brain’s blueprint for aging is set early in life - Science News
2016年7月13日 · These slow-to-grow brain networks are the first to go in old age, neuroscientist Gwenaëlle Douaud of the University of Oxford and colleagues found. Networks of nerve cells (the gray matter) are ...
Young blood proven good for old brain - Science News
2014年5月5日 · Ingredients in old blood harm the young mouse’s brain, the researchers reported in 2011. This time around, he and his colleagues looked for benefits that young blood might confer on older mice.
Human brains found at archaeological sites are surprisingly well …
2024年3月19日 · This 1,000-year-old brain of an individual excavated from a 10th century Belgian churchyard is still soft and wet and stained orange with iron oxides. Alexandra L. Morton-Hayward.
With good timing, experiences can rewire old brains - Science News
2015年2月5日 · New experiences can rewire old brains — but the timing has to be just right. Scientists have found that when adult mice spend time in cages with toys, tunnels and running wheels, a part of their ...
Armenian cave yields ancient human brain - Science News
2009年1月12日 · A team of scientists has excavated 6,000-year-old artifacts and three human skulls, including one containing a preserved brain, from a cave bordering Armenia’s Arpa River.
Brain scans suggest the pandemic prematurely aged teens’ brains
2023年1月3日 · The brain scans revealed that this maturation process had moved more quickly in teens who had lived through the pandemic. Gotlib says that their brains appeared three to four years older than the ...
Human brains make new nerve cells — and lots of them — well …
2018年4月5日 · Your brain might make new nerve cells well into old age. Healthy people in their 70s have just as many young nerve cells, or neurons, in a memory-related part of the brain as do teenagers and ...
Monkey’s small brain shows surprising folds - Science News
2015年7月10日 · Thanks to modern technology, a 15-million-year-old monkey skull has added surprising new wrinkles to primate brain evolution. A digital analysis of the fossil finds that this ancient African ...
A ‘one-in-a-million’ fossilized horseshoe crab brain was discovered ...
2021年8月20日 · The brain structure of a modern horseshoe crab (shown in this confocal laser scan image) is strikingly similar to the brain of a recently discovered 310-million-year-old horseshoe crab. R ...
Older but Mellower: Aging brain shifts gears to emotional advantage
2006年6月21日 · NEURAL FEEL. As people age, from 12 to 79 years old, they respond to fear with greater and greater boosts in medial prefrontal activity (left) and to happiness with smaller and smaller boosts (right).