Your eyes say more than your lips ever could. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Can your eyes reveal how much your brain remembers? Jordana Wynn and a Canadian team saw the potential. They tracked how people – ranging from healthy young adults to amnesia
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Can we recharge our brains’ batteries? Literally?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Alzheimer’s seems to drain our brains. Some say the disease’s sticky plaques are what causes memory loss. How? Enter Bruce Yankner and team at Harvard. They wondered if the plaques are actually
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Declutter … your brain?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Our brains have tiny blood vessels that help drain out cellular waste. So do clogged brain vessels mean weaker learning and memory? Kyungdeok Kim and team at Washington University went down the brain drain. After blocking
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What if YOU’RE the problem? Dun dun dun! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Normally, our immune system fights infections – and we love that – BUT one of its molecules actually makes Alzheimer’s worse. What to do? Enter Shirin Schneeberger and team. They looked
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Remember being… A BABY?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science wondering… What memories remain from infancy? Enter Tristan Yates and team from Yale. To find out, they used functional MRI, a noninvasive imaging tool, on babies! The babies looked at pictures once and then a
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Can lidocaine… mess up your brain?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Lidocaine is a commonly used local anesthetic. BUT elderly patients who typically undergo more surgeries have long lasting memory issues after. Coincidence? Xiaohui Chen and colleagues from Fujian Medical University investigated! The team
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Welcome to the memory storage department – graveyard shift! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Your sleep is divided into different stages, each helping store memories from the day. But how does your brain sort through WHICH memories to keep? Enter Hongyu Chang and team
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Taxi! I can’t remember how to get home! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Guess what: Taxi Drivers have a lower death rate from Alzheimers. What gives? Meet Vishal Patel and team at Harvard Medical School. They analyzed U.S. deaths across over four hundred different
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How are your fat cells “weighing in”? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Why is it so hard to keep weight off? Your body has a “memory” fighting against weight loss. This memory isn’t just psychological—it’s biological. Huh…? Laura Hinte and team at E-T-H Zurich
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Can we save memories before they slip away? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Alzheimer’s kills brain cells, leading to memory loss and confusion. How can we stop this destruction? Marta Koper and the team at University Hospital Leuvenin Belgium may have found a hidden
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