Month: July 2022

Unraveling the Impact of Age on Brain Activity and Fatigue

Imagine your brain is like a car engine, revving up over the years. Well, researchers have been analyzing the relationship between motor imagery and age-related fatigue to figure out how our brains change as we get older. Using electroencephalogram (EEG) data, they compared young and elderly individuals during a motor imagery experiment. They found that […]

Published on July 14, 2022

Extraversion Is Associated With Lower Brain Beta-Amyloid Deposition in Cognitively Normal Older Adults

Emerging evidence suggests that some personality traits may link to the vulnerability to or protection for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). A causal mechanism underlying this relationship, however, remains largely unknown. Using 18F-Florbetaben positron emission tomography (PET) binding to beta-amyloid (Aβ) plaques, a pathological feature of AD, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we investigated pathological and […]

Published on July 13, 2022

Study: Anxiety Passed From Parent to Child

Imagine anxiety as a frenzied relay race, with parents and children constantly handing off the baton of worry. In this study, scientists have found that a parent’s anxiety can be passed down to their child, just like a runner passing the baton to their teammate. The ongoing pandemic, monkeypox outbreak, and charged political landscape have […]

Published on July 13, 2022