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Quick brackdrop. this was ongoing before the pandemic. they were looking at adolescent brains before the pandemic scanning these kids every couple years when the pandemic happened they continued the study. so now they have scans before the pandemic and then at least a year into the pandemic. and let me show you quickly, if i can, a few things that really jumped out in this study. one is there was sort of a thinning of the cortex, this area of the brain, think of that as like the bark on a tree, ...

Well. i want to show you what some of the changes were. what was happening is there was a study that was ongoing even before the pandemic, they were imaging adolescent brains from time to time. then when the pandemic happens, they continued the study. they had brains images before the pandemic and in the pandemic. what they saw was pretty stunning. if you look at the brain overall the cortex, which is sort of the bark-like outer layer of the brain, that was greatly thinned in these children who ...

Have had. i have three teenagers at home. we have lived with this. the symptoms of anxiety and depression going up even before the pandemic and accelerated significantly. this is the study that looked at the first year of the pandemic. they found there were definitive changes in the brain but the study was going on even before the pandemic started. they were scanning adolescent brains every couple years and when the pandemic happened they continued the study. before the pandemic, in the pandemic...

A longstanding question in neuroscience is how mammalian brains (including ours) adapt to external environments, information, and experiences.

HBP researchers have trained a large-scale model of the primary visual cortex of the mouse to solve visual tasks in a highly robust way.

. and now to play the victim card is deeply cynical. but letd iss get the record straight. yeah, theyre making the claim that this is a processing problem. probinauditory problem is . >> excuse me. youre a doctor, right? yes. okay, he had a he had a stroke, which means that part of his brain is gone. he has in a phase thats called an aphasia. >> and in addition to speech,ee there are cognitivthe disordersi associated with him. >> its a serious brain damage. he will compensate, but he will never ...

Boys and men being left behind really in the pursuit of equality, it sounds like. >> it is really unfortunate confirmation. you know, i worked in the obama white house on my brothers keeper, and at the time there was a big debate of, should we be even having a program focused on black men and boys? i think that we absolutely should. that doesnt mean that it is to the exclusion of anyone else, but if you dig into the data of the biological signs of brain development, boys and girls have different...

Week, eight weeks. >> is it going to translate into you being able to do your taxes? are you going to be able to be organize? are you going to be able to be driving? and when you stop the game do all those benefits stop? and thats a good question. i think the literature and the science that has emerged is you dont need to be playing the game for the rest of your life to accrue the benefit, but that is certainly something that critics have raised. >> reporter: the question is can it help heal the...

Huntington’s disease (HD) is a genetic, neurodegenerative illness that onsets in late adulthood as a series of progressive and terminal cognitive, motor, and psychiatric deficits. The disease is caused by a polyQ mutation in the Huntingtin gene (HTT), producing a polyglutamine expansion in the Huntingtin protein (HTT). HTT interacts with phospholipids in vitro; however, its interactions are changed when the protein is mutated in HD. Emerging evidence suggests that the susceptibility of brain r...

Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine have mapped the surface of the cortex of the young human brain with unprecedented resolution, revealing the development of key functional regions from two months before birth to two years after.