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TL;DR: A new AI model that combines brain and muscle signals kept recognizing hand grips better than rival models when the muscle signals were artificially weakened to mimic fatigue. At the heaviest weakening, though, brain signals alone did better than any co…
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TL;DR: Mouse studies of spinal muscular atrophy have reported anywhere from no loss to 60% loss of motor neurons, and a German-American team found that which slice of spinal cord gets counted explains much of that spread. Counting the right segments with a rel…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Communications Medicine reported that artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-contrast MRI post-processing could reveal cortical lesions in multiple sclerosis trial scans that standard MRI review usually misses. Key Findings 80-person met…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Nature Communications used deep learning, yeast screening, and human brain organoids to identify talarozole and sertaconazole as preclinical candidates that rescued several SURF1-related Leigh syndrome cell and organoid phenotypes. Key F…
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Brain Age MRI Mapped Stroke Recovery in 501 Patients TL;DR: A Lancet Digital Health ENIGMA study found that larger stroke lesions made the damaged hemisphere look biologically older, while severe motor impairment was linked to younger-appearing contralesional…
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