How individual neurons respond to brain rhythms is crucial to uncovering how the brain supports real-time navigation. New research shows that hippocampal neurons can process information from multiple brain rhythms simultaneously, revealing how the brain organizes thoughts, memory and behavior. This discovery offers a new understanding of how the brain organizes thoughts for navigation, memories and behaviors and may have important significance for neurological conditions implicated to spatial memory and learning like epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia.

A patch containing tens of millions of microscopic nanoneedles could soon replace traditional biopsies, scientists have found. The patch offers a painless and less invasive alternative for millions of patients worldwide who undergo biopsies each year to detect and monitor diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s.

In a study that holds significance for individuals with cerebrovascular disease, scientists from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have found proteins in the blood that predict future cognitive decline and dementia.