Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Research Exploring the relationship between the brain and behaviour.
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Dear caregivers,
Taking care of your loved one is one of the most important roles you’ll play. However, talking to people who really understand what you’re going through – other caregivers – is also important. It usually feels good and often helps in surprising ways!
We’ve partnered with AARP to create 12 conversation cards designed to spark meaningful, reflective discussions between care partners.
View or download these conversations starters for Caregivers Month and find your care connection: Parkinson.org/CareToTalk
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New Research: Ultraviolet radiation and neurodegeneration: molecular mechanisms underlying dual neuroprotective and neurotoxic effects www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncel.2026.1909393 #FrontiersIn #CellularNeuroscience
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Using mouse models validated against human preterm tissue, Sanidas et al. show that hypoxia and maternal immune activation disrupt cerebellar development in different ways, leading to distinct motor and social difficulties. shorturl.at/QO7dr
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Support our vision of world in which spinal cord injury does not result in paralysis and paralysis does not result in diminished quality of life.
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Looking for the research that matters most to you?
Every abstract scheduled for presentation at #SfN26 is searchable in the 2026 Neuroscience Meeting Planner.
Search by topic, author, or keyword, & add what you find straight to your itinerary.
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New Research: Spinal cord stimulation for concurrent improvement of consciousness and spasticity following severe traumatic brain injury: a case study www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1866882 #FrontiersIn #Neuroscience
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📑 JAMA Neurology #Review: Neurological manifestations of #Hantavirus infection include encephalopathy, pituitary apoplexy, hemorrhage, and neuropathy; most are secondary to systemic illness but can be severe. ja.ma/4ylxxIq
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The Brain Is Two Separate Organs Joined by Evolution - Neuroscience News
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Rather than originating from a single ancestral progenitor cell, the brain forms via two parallel lineages: an Otx2-expressing lineage destined for the forebrain and midbrain, and a separate Gbx2-expressing lineage that builds the hindbrain.
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In a 2025 @SciImmunology Review, researchers discussed how interactions between the nervous and immune systems could impact neurological disorders and allergy-related behaviors like food avoidance.
Learn more: scim.ag/44GIuZK #ScienceMagArchives
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New Research: Integrated PET/MRI for the evaluation of gray matter atrophy and metabolic changes in idiopathic Parkinson’s disease frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #FrontiersIn #AgingNeuroscience
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New Research: Freezing of gait and the effects of vibrotactile cueing in Parkinson’s disease–a study protocol of a cross-sectional multimodal brain imaging approach in virtual walking scenarios frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #FrontiersIn #Neuroscience
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New Research: Cerebrospinal fluid mechanics across CNS barriers: from production, circulation, and clearance to mechanomedicine frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #FrontiersIn #Neuroscience
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A new @SciRobotics study highlights a reinforcement learning-based, zero-shot approach that uses motion capture and animation to train humanoid and four-legged robots to perform acrobatics. scim.ag/4A9kWdk
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New Research: Correction: Prognostic accuracy of transcranial magnetic stimulation-induced motor evoked potentials on recovery of upper limb: a systematic review frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #FrontiersIn #Neurology
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At a minimum, nearly a quarter of all former NFL players who died during 2016-21 had CTE neuropathology at death, finds study.
Among NFL player brain donors, dementia diagnosed based on records before death was common @braindrdan
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Like a stadium full of sports fans doing the wave, neurons coordinate their electrical signals in rhythmic patterns that sweep across the cortex, the brain’s outermost layer.
Recent studies in humans and animals have shown these patterns, called traveling waves, can take on complex shapes, among them a rotating spiral that has been observed during deep sleep, memory retrieval, and other brain processes.
Now, a study has captured the fast-spinning waves spanning whole brains, offering clues to how they’re organized and what they might do.
Learn more: scim.ag/4uItTq0
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An artificial neural network built into a computer memory chip reconstructs the human cortex with high accuracy in real time.
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/3TYzDPA
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Fergus was told he had just a 5% chance of walking again after hisSCI. Now, he's preparing to walk 3,000 miles across the United States to raise awareness for the SCI community.
Support Fergus here: ChristopherReeve.org/Fergus
@onnewjersey @SpinalIreland
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Liu et al. identify a mechanochemical pathway in which reperfusion after ischaemic stroke activates endothelial Piezo1, triggering astrocyte signalling that drives neurovascular injury. shorturl.at/vsimE
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New Research: The neuroscience education readiness checklist for digital tools and methods frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #FrontiersIn #ComputationalNeuroscience