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BINGHAMTON, N.Y. New grants from the State University of New York could help researchers at Binghamton University create a new therapy to provide relief to Parkinson s patients and help locate abandoned oil and gas wells.
Binghamton University researchers Christopher Bishop and Timothy de Smet have each received grants from the SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund, which helps faculty inventors and scientists turn their research into market-ready technologies. The technologies that our researchers are developing have the potential to assist people in pain and to protect our environment, said Binghamton University President Harvey Stenger. I m proud of the accomplishments that our faculty have made so far and am pleased that this funding will help support such important, potentially life-changing initiatives.
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Older adults with more harmful than healthy bacteria in their gums are more likely to have evidence for amyloid beta a key biomarker for Alzheimer s disease in their cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), according to new research from NYU College of Dentistry and Weill Cornell Medicine. However, this imbalance in oral bacteria was not associated with another Alzheimer s biomarker called tau.
The study, published in the journal
Alzheimer s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, adds to the growing evidence of a connection between periodontal disease (gum disease) and Alzheimer s. Periodontal disease which affects 70 percent of adults 65 and older, according to CDC estimates is characterized by chronic and systemic inflammation, with pockets between the teeth and gums enlarging and harboring bacteria.
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A unique residential study has concluded that, contrary to perceived wisdom, people with eating disorders do not lose self-control - leading to binge-eating - in response to stress. The findings of the Cambridge-led research are published today in the
Journal of Neuroscience.
People who experience bulimia nervosa and a subset of those affected by anorexia nervosa share certain key symptoms, namely recurrent binge-eating and compensatory behaviours, such as vomiting. The two disorders are largely differentiated by body mass index (BMI): adults affected by anorexia nervosa tend to have BMI of less than 18.5 kg/m2. More than 1.6 million people in the UK are thought to have an eating disorder, three-quarters of whom are women.
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IMAGE: Impaired proactive inhibition in bulimia nervosa is associated with increased superior frontal gyrus activity. view more
Credit: Westwater et al., JNeurosci 2021
Stress alters brain activity in self-inhibition areas yet doesn t trigger binge-eating, according to new research published in
JNeurosci.
People who binge-eat, a hallmark symptom of several eating disorders, can feel out of control and unable to stop, and often binge after stressful events. This led scientists to theorize stress impairs the brain regions responsible for inhibitory control the ability to stop what you are about to do or currently doing and triggers binge-eating.
Westwater et al. tested this theory by using fMRI to measure the brain activity of women with anorexia, bulimia, or without an eating disorder as they completed an inhibitory control task, either while stressed or relaxed. The task entailed pushing a button to stop a moving bar when it reached a specific point on
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A shared set of systems in the brain may play an important role in controlling the retrieval of facts and personal memories utilised in everyday life, new research shows.
Scientists from the University of York say their findings may have relevance to memory disorders, including dementia, where problems remembering relevant information can impact on the daily life of patients.
Researchers say the findings may also have important implications for the development of a new generation of artificial intelligence systems, which use long-term memory in solving computational problems.
The brain s long-term memory stores are categorised into two: factual memory and memory of personal experiences.