by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Tuesday, August 27, 2024 | Neuroscience
We’ve all experienced it – reading some pages in a book when your mind starts to drift and then realizing that you missed a key point and have to go back and reread the same page. The experience of mind wandering appears throughout our daily lives, whether reading,...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, August 26, 2024 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 26 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01740-1Goodman et al. found that Tau is critical for ROS-induced lipid droplet formation in glia from flies and mammals. Too much or too little glial Tau disrupts lipid droplets, leaving the...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, August 26, 2024 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 26 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01737-wUsing human cerebrospinal fluid proteomics, the authors found that proteins associated with Aβ pathology in Alzheimer disease were mainly expressed in glial cells, whereas those...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Friday, August 23, 2024 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 23 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01736-xUnderstanding brain development and systems linked to behavioral change is a key goal in population neuroscience. The authors show the ventral attention network is key for brain...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Friday, August 23, 2024 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 23 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01723-2What follows is not a detailed biography of Jim Simons, whose diversity of talents and activities as a mathematician, educator, administrator, life scientist, philanthropist and...