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TL;DR: Old mice given nicotine in their drinking water for 3 months had more cells carrying two key markers of brake-like neurons in the hearing part of the brain, reaching young-adult levels. The study did not test hearing, and it is no reason for anyone to t…
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Astrocyte BMP Suppression Eased Fragile X Signals TL;DR: In a fragile X mouse model, suppressing BMP signaling specifically in astrocytes reduced sound-triggered seizure severity and partially restored synaptic activity in the auditory cortex, a sound-processi…
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TLDR: Patients with noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) exhibit significant changes in the white matter (WM) microstructure of their brains, particularly affecting the auditory and language pathways. Highlights: A study compared 122 patients with varying degrees…
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Researchers have reconstructed a recognizable version of the Pink Floyd song “Another Brick in the Wall” directly from recorded brain activity. Using advanced machine learning techniques, the team was able to extract enough acoustic information from listeners’…
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