November 19, 2020
(Medical Xpress) – A study published today in JAMA Network Open/Emergency Medicine supports evidence that older persons admitted to emergency departments (ED), and subsequently diagnosed positive for COVID-19, often present with delirium when they show no other typical COVID-19 symptoms, … Read More
November 19, 2020
(Axios) – As the science of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and other neurotechnologies progresses, researchers are calling for ethical guidelines to be established now — before the technology fully matures. Why it matters: We’re still far away from technologies that fully … Read More
November 16, 2020
(Knowable Magazine) – What angers me most, though, are the months my dad and I were separated from each other. This might even be what killed him: Analyses from the UK and US have found a spike in deaths from … Read More
November 6, 2020
(Wired) – This mental fuzziness, often referred to as “brain fog,” has become one of a number of reported Covid-19 recovery symptoms. And while patients are often alarmed and frustrated that they can’t resume their normal lives, doctors say it … Read More
November 6, 2020
(Medscape) – One of the neurologic complications of COVID-19 may be the development of Parkinson’s disease, new data suggest. At least three case reports have been published of relatively young COVID-19 patients who developed clinical parkinsonism, either in isolation or … Read More
November 4, 2020
(BBC) – Oregon has become the first US state to decriminalise the possession of hard drugs, including cocaine and heroin. People caught with small amounts of drugs for personal use will now have to pay a $100 (£77) fine or … Read More
November 4, 2020
(Nature) – A video game that treats disease arrived on the market with a green light issued in June from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The product, developed by Akili Interactive Labs, is the first game-based therapeutic to … Read More
November 2, 2020
(The Scientist) – The first blood test designed to assist physicians in determining whether a patient has Alzheimer’s disease is now available in most US states, the company C2N Diagnostics announced October 29. The test measures biomarkers that frequently reflect … Read More
October 28, 2020
(Reuters) – People recovering from COVID-19 may suffer significant brain function impacts, with the worst cases of the infection linked to mental decline equivalent to the brain ageing by 10 years, researchers warned on Tuesday. A non-peer-reviewed study of more … Read More
October 27, 2020
(Nature) – But one experiment has drawn more scrutiny than the others. In August 2019, Muotri’s group published a paper in Cell Stem Cell reporting the creation of human brain organoids that produced coordinated waves of activity, resembling those seen … Read More
