by Laura Sanders | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog
Ripples of nerve cell activity that lock in memories may have an unexpected job outside of the brain: dropping blood sugar levels in the body. Soon after a burst of ripples in a rat’s hippocampus, a brain structure that plays a key role in memory, sugar levels...
by WDDTY: Cell Stem Cell, 2021;doi: 10.1016/ j.stem.2021.05.001 | Aug 5, 2021 | Blog
Memory loss in Alzheimer’s patients could be reversed following the discovery of a molecule that can rejuvenate the brain. People with Alzheimer’s have low stores of the molecule, microRNA-132, especially in the brain’s hippocampus region, which is causing memory...