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Unlocking Memory: Neuroscientists Reveal How the Brain Decides What To Remember

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Wed, 22 May 2024 23:47:24 +0000

Recent research identifies “sharp wave-ripples” in the hippocampus as a brain mechanism that determines which daily experiences become permanent memories, with significant ripples during idle...

Fentanyl Pill Seizures Skyrocketed by Over 1,700% Since 2017

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Mon, 13 May 2024 09:00:31 +0000

U.S. fentanyl seizures skyrocketed by over 1,700% from 2017 to 2023, with nearly half of the seizures in pill form by 2023, indicating a major...

Scientists Identify Potential Cause of Sudden Unexplained Death in Children

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:45:15 +0000

In research aimed at gaining insights into the sudden, unexpected deaths of young children, often happening during sleep, scientists have pinpointed brief seizures that involve...

Unlocking Bacterial Secrets: The Revolutionary Tool Decoding Gene Behavior

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:00:11 +0000

Researchers discovered a method to expedite the study of bacterial gene regulation, which could help fight antibiotic resistance by analyzing DNA replication’s impact on gene...

How Mice’s Brains Are Wired To Dodge Danger and Avoid Bullies

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:00:11 +0000

Findings may offer insight into social disorders like autism. Like humans, mice live in complex social groups, fight over territory and mates, and learn when...

Death Redefined: Expert Urges Overhaul of the Controversial U.S. “Death Act”

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 15:21:47 +0000

After surveying the views expressed by 41 advocacy, medical, and transplant-focused organizations on the Uniform Determination of Death Act, a brain injury expert is calling...

“Ebb and Flow” Brain Mechanism Discovered – Study Challenges Traditional Views on Role of Dopamine in Learning

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 22:54:06 +0000

The findings could explain how memories form throughout the day. Scientists have long believed that rewards such as food or money stimulate learning by triggering...

The Dark Side of Motherhood: Brain Region Identified That Prompts Females To Kill Their Young

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:07:17 +0000

Researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine have discovered that a brain region in female mice, the principal nucleus of the bed nucleus of stria...

Restoring Key Brain Rhythm: A Novel Approach to Combat Depression

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Tue, 16 May 2023 13:54:26 +0000

Study proposes role for gamma oscillations in future treatment. Researchers have found that restoring gamma signals in the olfactory bulb, a brain region processing smells,...

Breathing Uneasy: Sleep Apnea Linked With Increased Long COVID Risks

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Thu, 11 May 2023 13:00:32 +0000

Study suggests physicians may need to follow patients with both conditions more closely. A study led by the National Institutes of Health’s RECOVER Initiative and...

Why Does Hair Turn Gray? Research Uncovers Role of “Stuck” Stem Cells

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:26:31 +0000

A study by NYU Grossman School of Medicine researchers found that melanocyte stem cells (McSCs) lose their ability to move between hair follicle compartments as...

Researchers Discover How Cannabidiol (CBD) Counters Epileptic Seizures

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 03:36:38 +0000

Study findings suggest specific targets for future drugs. A previously unknown way in which cannabidiol (CBD), a substance found in cannabis, reduces seizures in many...

Lucid Dying: Patients Recall Near-Death Experiences During CPR While They Were Seemingly Unconscious

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 20:00:41 +0000

Detection of rhythmic brain waves suggestive of near-death experiences. Around 20% of people who survive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after cardiac arrest may describe lucid experiences...

COVID-19 Virus Disrupts Normal Mix of Gut Bacteria, Increasing Risk for Other Infections

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 10:00:25 +0000

Infection with SARS-CoV-2, the COVID-19 pandemic virus, can decrease the number of bacterial species in a person’s gut. This reduced microbiome diversity creates space for...

Innovative Biotechnology Fuses Targeted and Immune Therapies To Kill Treatment-Resistant Cancer Cells

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 14:00:06 +0000

Targeted therapies specifically attach to and inhibit cancer-causing proteins, but cancer cells can swiftly evolve to counter their action. Immunotherapies, a second drug class, harnesses...

Crohn’s Mystery Solved? Common Stomach Bug May Help Cause Inflammatory Bowel Disease

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 09:44:35 +0000

New research may have solved a mystery surrounding Crohn’s disease, a type of inflammatory bowel disease where immune defenses meant to attack invading microbes mistakenly...

Brain Neurons Born Together Wire and Fire Together for Life

NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:00:32 +0000

A new study finds that brain cells with the same “birthdate” are more likely to wire together into cooperative signaling circuits that carry out many...

New Evidence for Alternate Origins of Alzheimer’s Disease Plaques

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 11:08:44 +0000

Results could explain why drugs designed to remove amyloid deposits have failed to stop disease. According to the National Institute on Aging, Alzheimer’s disease is...

Scientists Discover a Key Reason Why Running Boosts Brain Health

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine — Tue, 17 May 2022 11:20:26 +0000

Boost in nerve-growth protein helps explain why running supports brain health. Exercise increases levels of a chemical involved in brain cell growth, which bolsters the...

Successful Xenotransplantation Surgery: Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney Transplanted to Human Body

NYU Langone Health — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 21:54:50 +0000

Less than two months after the first breakthrough surgery, NYU Langone Health has performed its second successful investigational xenotransplantation procedure using a genetically engineered pig...

Blood Platelets Key to Deadly Organ Damage in COVID-19 Patients

NYU Langone Health — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 16:38:29 +0000

Abnormal crosstalk between blood platelets and cells lining blood vessels is one cause of deadly organ damage in patients with severe COVID-19, a new study...

“Experienced” Mouse Mothers Tutor Virgin Females To Parent, Helped by Hormone Oxytocin

NYU School of Medicine — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:00:02 +0000

Watching a mother mouse gather her pups into the family’s nest trains other female mice without pups to perform the same parenting task, a new...

New Cancer-Killing Virus Therapy Shows Promise Against Inoperable Skin Cancers

NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine — Mon, 24 May 2021 11:03:47 +0000

Early results show that a new combination drug therapy is safe and effective against advanced skin cancer in patients who were not able to have...

Artificial Intelligence Accurately Predicts if COVID-19 Patients Will Develop Life-Threatening Complications

NYU Langone Health — Fri, 14 May 2021 21:44:37 +0000

Trained to see patterns by analyzing thousands of chest X-rays, a computer program predicted with up to 80 percent accuracy which COVID-19 patients would develop...