Tag: Brain
Risk for Intracerebral Hemorrhage May Be Transmissible Via Blood Transfusion
Risk was increased for those receiving transfusion from donors who later developed multiple spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhages
Shift Work Tied to Negative Impact on Cognitive Functioning
Exposure to night shift work associated with overall cognitive impairment compared with daytime work only
Duration of T2D Negatively Linked to Mean Cortical Thickness
Associations also seen for type 2 diabetes duration with reduced gray matter volume, increased white matter hyperintensity volume
Number of Teeth, Periodontitis in Older Adults Linked to Hippocampal Atrophy
Qualitative interaction seen between number of teeth present, mean periodontal probing depth for symmetric percentage change in left hippocampus
AI Model for Interpretation of EEGs Similar to Human Experts
SCORE-AI achieved high accuracy in a recent study
Effect of Testosterone Examined From Adolescence Into Adulthood
Effect of testosterone on anterior prefrontal cortex engagement decreases from middle-to-late adolescence, then shifts into activational role
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Says Brain-to-Computer Interface Has FDA Approval for Clinical Trial
Device would be surgically implanted into patients' brains, with the idea that it would connect with computers to decode brain activity
Less Slow-Wave Sleep, Severe OSA Linked to White Matter Abnormalities
Increase seen in white matter hyperintensities, decrease seen in fractional anisotropy of the genu of the corpus callosum
Fetal Embolization Feasible for Vein of Galen Malformation
Report describing first case shows transuterine ultrasound-guided fetal embolization eliminates postnatal pathology