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Many hypotheses surround the question and observation about why you can’t remember being a baby, new study finds
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 21, 2025 Source:You can’t remember being a baby for a reason, new study finds Reference:Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants
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Microplastic accumulation in the brain noted in dementia patients. Causality uncertain but source of said plastics can come from microwaving food in plastic containers.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 10, 2025 Source:Doctor’s warning to microwave users after dementia discovery Reference:Human microplastic removal: what does the evidence tell us?Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains
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Researchers trying to determine if sleep dysfunction is related to tinnitus and its degree of expression.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 7, 2025 Source:Tinnitus Seems to Be Somehow Connected to a Crucial Bodily Function Reference: Tinnitus: at a crossroad between phantom perception and sleep
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New animal-model insights into how the brain distinguishes itch from pain and how this may lead to better treatments for the former.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 6, 2025 Source:How the brain distinguishes between pain and itch Reference: Processing of pain and itch information by modality-specific neurons within the anterior cingulate cortex in mice
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Scientists hypothesize that an oral microbe might be responsible for the mechanism that leads to Alzheimer’s.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 24, 2025 Source:The Cause of Alzheimer’s Might Be Coming From Inside Your Mouth Reference:Porphyromonas gingivalis in Alzheimer’s disease brains: Evidence for disease causation and treatment with small-molecule inhibitors
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Can cytomegalovirus infection lead to the development of Alzheimer’s later in life? Study suggests that there may be a link in a subset of people.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 8, 2025 Source:Scientists Discover Common Virus Could Be Causing a Type of Alzheimer’s Reference:Alzheimer’s disease-associated CD83(+) microglia are linked with increased immunoglobulin G4 and human cytomegalovirus in the gut, vagal nerve, and brain
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A challenge to the hypothesis explaining the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 11, 2024 Source:Neuroscientists just turned a major Alzheimer’s theory on its head Reference:Increases in amyloid-β42 slow cognitive and clinical decline in Alzheimer’s disease trials
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“Exercise-in-a-pill” headlines are somewhat premature. Might be good for the mice in the study but earliest of the early days to muse if there are potential benefits down the road for people.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 19, 2024 Source:“Exercise-In-A-Pill” Could Bring Dementia-Fighting Benefits To People Who Can’t Work Out Reference:Activation of the muscle-to-brain axis ameliorates neurocognitive deficits in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model via enhancing neurotrophic and synaptic signaling