Category: Science Writing
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New Promising Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease Arises
Focused Deep Brain Stimulation of Parkinson’s Disease Patients can improve motor symptoms Parkinson’s Disease (PD), characterized by the resting tremors, bradykinesia, rigidity and postural instability caused by the loss of dopamine cells, is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder due to aging and the most common movement disorder (Mhyre et al., 2012). Around 60,000 Americans…
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Hippocampus: A Narrative Bridge between Distant, Separate Events
Synopsis: A functional brain imaging study by Cohn-Sheehy and colleagues from the Center for Neuroscience at the University of California, Davis looked at people’s ability to learn and recall fictional stories with either a coherent narrative or overlapping yet unrelated narrative. Results showed that the hippocampus preferentially supports the integration of distant, separate events into…
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Did I hear you say Bobcats?
“And look at what I saw! A bobcat!” my St. Lawrence University professor said, excitedly showing a blurry photo of a bobcat camouflaged in heavy white snow as I turned my Zoom camera on for our discussion. Hmm a bobcat, I thought, a little perplexed. What is a bobcat? It should then come as no surprise…
Thao Nguyen 