For the first time, a study on Thursday showed that ambient particulate matter air pollution is a top risk factor for subarachnoid haemorrhage -- a type of brain stroke -- at par with smoking.
US researchers have identified a protein responsible for causing fatigue in people with long Covid, Alzheimer's and other diseases.
According to the non-profit organisation Understood.org, about 63 per cent of adults with a learning or thinking difference wish they had been diagnosed earlier in life.
US researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that shows differences in how the brains of men and women are organised at a cellular level.
A small study of brain autopsies has provided evidence that prolonged exposure to air pollution may raise the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
"While the phenomenon of these modulators' influence has been studied at the level of the neocortex, where the brain's most complex computations occur, it has rarely been studied at the more fundamental levels of the brain," said study author R Michael Burger from the Lehigh University in the US.
The experts will study around 80,000 women recruited from three major hospitals in south India - the Bangalore Medical College, the Madras Medical College and the Calicut Medical College.
When complete, the SKA will enable astronomers to monitor the sky in unprecedented detail and survey the entire sky much faster than any system currently in existence, researchers said.
There is a fundamental difference between sensory encoding and perception.
Repeated binge drinking was found to significantly alter molecular pathways in the nucleus accumbens -- a region of the brain linked to addiction.
