Month: June 2023

New Criteria Outperforms Old in Diagnosing Multiple System Atrophy!

Imagine you have a car that’s been giving you trouble. The old mechanic’s diagnostic tools just aren’t cutting it, so you’re on the lookout for something better. Well, researchers have developed new criteria for diagnosing multiple system atrophy (MSA) that outperform the old methods used for over 10 years. It’s like trading in your clunky […]

Published on June 15, 2023

Unveiling the Brain’s Unique Plumbing System

Imagine your brain as a complex network of tiny underground pipes, delivering essential nutrients and substances, while simultaneously flushing away waste. This is similar to the glymphatic system, a newly discovered pathway in the brain. It functions like aquaporin-4, the guardian at the endfeet of astrocytes, to deliver nutrients through the cerebrospinal fluid influx pathway […]

Published on June 15, 2023

Multiple pathways to developmental continuity in infant cognition

In their provocative opinion piece, Blumberg and Adolph (B&A) [1] argue that inferences regarding cognitive development in infancy that are based on young infants’ motor behaviors are misleading. They assert that the motor behaviors, including eye movements and looking-time measures traditionally used to characterize cognition between birth and 4 months, are mediated by subcortical mechanisms […]

Published on June 14, 2023