Neuroscience

Insulin-like hormones critical for brain plasticity, research suggests

Research from the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience has identified a mechanism through which insulin-like growth factors facilitate brain plasticity. The insulin superfamily of hormones, including insulin, insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1), and insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2), play a crucial role not only in regulating blood sugar, metabolism, and growth, but also in […]

Neuroscience

Machine learning can be a modern approach in subjective brain health appraisal

Around the world, around 44 million individuals are living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or a related type of dementia. Despite the fact that 82 percent of seniors in the United States state it’s essential to have their thinking or memory checked, just 16 percent state they get customary psychological appraisals. Numerous conventional memory appraisal tools […]