Brain

Researchers identify a part of the brain that helps execute cooperative tasks.

Based on the principles of traditional Chinese tangram games, with this new method teachers and parents can easily identify children with early visual processing difficulties. This will enable the provision of suitable support and training to children in need, while also enhancing their learning outcomes.

The drugs aided retrieval of long-term object memories in both mice and humans.

HKUST signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) together with Boston Children’s Hospital – a Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital (Harvard), the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Stanford University School of Medicine (Stanford), and University College London (UCL) today.

A research team consisting of scientists from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (HKUST) and Beijing Tiantan Hospital have uncovered the mutational mechanism of how a rare and deadly brain cancer –secondary glioblastoma (sGBM) – progresses from its less lethal type.

An award-winning device employs nanotechnology to safely grow neural stem cells for replacement therapy research.

A multi-generational learning programme shows Hong Kong university students can learn much from older people in the community.

Study illustrates the links between brain energy metabolism and neuronal activity.

A team of researchers has discovered a key protein that serves as the basic element for the development of intracellular structure of nerve cells.

The mistletoe fig reduces toxic oxidative stress in diabetic rat brains, while also keeping the cortex wrinkly and improving cognition.

Korean researchers have identified the inhibition of autophagy in microglia, brain immune cells. It is expected to help develop treatments for Alzheimer’s diseases which occur due to the inhibition of autophagy.

Korean researchers have clarified the fundamentals of coiled toxin protein which causes neurodegenerative brain disorders. The result is expected to speed the development of treatment for neurodegenerative disorder.

This book presents the general neurosurgery problem-based learning that combines case studies and pathology illustration in a simple and easy to understand way. The book is currently published in Mandarin and is hoped to be translated to other languages in the near future.

New research documents how modifications to RNA keep nerve junctions flexible.

A new statistical tool for collectively analyzing large sets of brainwaves promises to accelerate neurofunctional research.