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Exercise Can Boost Brain Health Even in People Who Already Have Signs of Dementia
New research adds to evidence that exercise can improve cognition, especially later in life. The study found that older people who regularly exercised had greater levels of proteins crucial to their brain’s health, compared to those who didn’t exercise. These differences were apparent even in people whose brains otherwise showed possible signs of dementia, suggesting…
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Like ‘A Part of Their Body’: People Adapt to an Extra Thumb in Fascinating Experiment
An experiment in which 36 people were fitted with a robotic third thumb has demonstrated the brain’s uncanny ability to adapt and leverage an entirely new body part, and in ways the researchers are still trying to understand.
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Tiny Tunnels Previously Unknown To Scientists Found Between The Skull And Brain
It isn’t every day that scientists find a completely new aspect of human anatomy, but a study published this week in Nature Neuroscience is providing exactly that, describing a previously unknown network of tunnels located between the skull and the brain.