Nervous System – PossibleThreat Articles

Alcohol’s hidden shortcut lets gut bacteria wreck the liver

September 22, 2025 0 Comments Cold and Flu, Diseases and Conditions, Human Biology, Immune System, Mental Health Research, Nervous System, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology

Alcohol-associated liver disease is becoming a massive health and economic burden, but researchers at UC San Diego may have uncovered a new way forward. They discovered that chronic alcohol use blocks a crucial protein that normally helps keep gut bacteria from leaking into the liver, worsening damage. Restoring this protein’s function, using drugs already in development, could not only reduce liver disease but also have implications for treating alcohol addiction itself.

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Deep inside the brain: Unraveling the dense networks in the cerebral cortex

October 24, 2019 0 Comments Animal Learning and Intelligence, Biology, Brain Tumor, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Intelligence, mice, Nervous System, neuroscience, Psychology Research

Mammalian brains, with their unmatched number of nerve cells and density of communication, are the most complex networks known. While methods to analyze neuronal networks sparsely have been available for decades, the dense mapping of neuronal circuits is a major scientific challenge. Researchers have now succeeded in the dense connectomic mapping of brain tissue from the cerebral cortex, and quantify the possible imprint of learning in the circuit.

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Protein movement in cells hints at greater mysteries

October 23, 2019 0 Comments Biology, Cell Biology, Human Biology, Huntington's Disease, Molecular Biology, Nervous System, neuroscience, Psychology Research, Stress

A new imaging technique that makes it possible to match motor proteins with the cargo they carry within a cell is upending a standard view of how cellular traffic reaches the correct destination. The research focuses on neurons and sheds light on some neurodegenerative diseases.

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In Alzheimer's research, scientists reveal brain rhythm role

October 23, 2019 0 Comments Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's Research, Brain Tumor, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Dementia, Nervous System, neuroscience, Psychology Research

In the years since her lab discovered that exposing Alzheimer's disease model mice to light flickering at the frequency of a key brain rhythm could stem the disorder's pathology, a neuroscientist and her team have been working to understand what the phenomenon may mean both for fighting the disease and understanding of how the brain works.

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Polymerized estrogen shown to protect nervous system cells

October 23, 2019 0 Comments Addiction, Alzheimer's, Bone and Spine, Brain Injury, Disability, Nervous System, neuroscience, Today's Healthcare

Medical researchers have demonstrated how estrogen — a natural hormone produced in the body — can be polymerized into a slow-releasing biomaterial and applied to nervous system cells to protect those cells and even promote regeneration.

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Protein in blood protects against neuronal damage after brain hemorrhage

October 22, 2019 0 Comments Anemia, Brain Injury, Brain Tumor, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Intelligence, Nervous System, neuroscience, Today's Healthcare

Patients who survive a cerebral hemorrhage may suffer delayed severe brain damage caused by free hemoglobin, which comes from red blood cells and damages neurons. Researchers have now discovered a protective protein in the body called haptoglobin, which prevents this effect.

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Novel agent flips on garbage disposal in neurons, eliminating toxic brain proteins in mice

October 22, 2019 0 Comments Alzheimer's, Brain Injury, Brain Tumor, Diseases and Conditions, Disorders and Syndromes, Nervous System, neuroscience, Pharmacology

Neuroscientists say they have developed and tested an agent that reduces the buildup of toxic proteins in animal models of both Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, and improves cognitive and motor behavior.

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Q-suite motor assessment tool promising for evaluating Huntington's disease

October 22, 2019 0 Comments Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Child Psychology, Children's Health, Huntington's Disease, Nervous System, neuroscience, Psychology Research, Stress

In clinical trials of adults with Huntington's disease (HD) the Q-Suite Motor Assessment Tool (Q-Motor) has proven to be helpful to detect and quantitate subtle motor abnormalities. With the anticipated arrival of preventive gene therapies that will most likely be administered to young children known to be carriers of the HD mutation, it is crucial to have a means to evaluate motor abilities in children that is sensitive to the child's stage of development.

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Exposure to environmental PCBs impairs brain function in mice

October 22, 2019 0 Comments Brain Injury, Brain Tumor, Environmental Issues, Environmental Policy, Immune System, Intelligence, Nervous System, neuroscience, Sustainability

Human-made toxic chemicals that linger indefinitely in the environment disrupt the performance of critical helper cells in the mouse brain, leading to impaired function over long-term exposures.

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Much of the earth is still wild, but threatened by fragmentation

October 22, 2019 0 Comments Back and Neck Pain, Diet and Weight Loss, Human Biology, Joint Health, Nervous System, Obesity, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Workplace Health

Half of the Earth's land surface not covered with ice remains relatively wild — but many of these 'low human-impact' areas are broken into small, isolated pieces, threatening their future.

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