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5-Aug-2025

New technique uses focused sound waves and holograms to control brain circuits

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study provides the first visual evidence showing that brain circuits in living animals can be activated by ultrasound waves projected into specific patterns (holograms). 

Journal

Nature Biomedical Engineering

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health

5-Aug-2025

Just rise: Study finds frequent standing may boost heart health after menopause

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The simple daily habit of standing up more often may impact heart health for postmenopausal women, according to a new study from University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science.

Journal

Circulation

Funder

NIH/National Institute on Aging, NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

4-Aug-2025

Resource-poor neighborhood conditions may increase gestational diabetes risk

University of Arizona Health Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Socioeconomic factors play a role in the development of diabetes in pregnant women living in resource-poor neighborhoods, according to new study.

Journal

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Funder

NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

4-Aug-2025

Metabolism may unlock the secret to a deeper understanding of neurodegeneration

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Findings could create new opportunities to treat and study neurodegenerative diseases

Journal

Molecular Metabolism

Funder

U.S. National Science Foundation, Rita Allen Foundation, Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein Fund, NIH/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

4-Aug-2025

Brown University neuroscientists help identify a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease progression

Brown University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using a custom-built tool to analyze electrical activity from neurons, researchers at Brown University have identified a brain-based biomarker that could be used to predict whether mild cognitive impairment will develop into Alzheimer’s disease.The findings were published in Imaging Neuroscience.

Journal

Imaging Neuroscience

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health