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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

New cures feel sudden, but the seeds were planted decades ago by basic scientists.

Which seeds will turn into cures? Unpredictable looking forward, a straight line looking back. 🧪🧬 🧵

25.09.2025 01:39 — 👍 140    🔁 52    💬 5    📌 5

Laurel–Yanny percept affects the speech-to-song illusion, but musical anhedonia does not - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Laurel–Yanny percept affects the speech-to-song illusion, but musical anhedonia does not

New paper 🚨! Our class project on Illusions of the Mind: Laurel vs. Yanny and Sometimes Behave So Strangely #speech2songillusion now out www.nature.com/articles/s41... with 3 undergrad, 2 postgrad, & 1 postdoc, & 3 PI authors #musicscience

25.08.2025 17:01 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

This paper is definitely going into this Fall's Genetics course when we discuss polygenic predictions!
www.cell.com/current-biol...

17.08.2025 12:28 — 👍 31    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

Is mental health 'awareness' backfiring? It's mental health awareness week, again. But the latest data shows that mental health stigma is increasing, not decreasing. What's going on there? And has mental health awareness gone 'too far'?

Is mental health 'awareness' backfiring?

theneuroscienceofeve...

An in-depth look at some of the less desirable consequences of increasing awareness of #MentalHealth and the resulting discourse.

#Awareness #SocialMedia #TherapySpeak

12.07.2025 19:17 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 2

Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.

A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”.

https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy

16.06.2025 23:24 — 👍 318    🔁 101    💬 2    📌 12

How Tourette’s and Tenacity Shaped Zachary Simon’s Path to a PhD » Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases » University of Florida By: Mallory Bachmann The Diagnosis and PhD Dream  Zachary Simon grew up in the sunny state of California with his mom, dad, and older sister. At five years old, Zach’s parents began noticing that he w...

Great story on a UF neuro grad student w/ Tourette Syndrome, highlighting challenges & successes of neurodiverse people. Zach has also been an outstanding 'near-peer' mentor for the undergrads that were recruited to the recently terminated R25 NEURON-AGING program. fixel.ufhealth.org/2025/06/07/h...

08.06.2025 11:43 — 👍 36    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

MBI researcher Dr. Carol Mathews co-led the largest study to date into the genetics of OCD, which identified multiple DNA variants that could help predict who is at greater risk of developing it and guide better ways to treat it. @nature.com

Learn more: bit.ly/43fAtIY

13.05.2025 14:10 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Group of people outside of the McKnight Brain Institute

Hello Bluesky!

We're the University of Florida McKnight Brain Institute, and our 250-plus investigators from across UF seek to enhance lives through neuroscience research and education. Follow us for updates on the latest discoveries, news, events and research highlights.

Learn more: mbi.ufl.edu

07.05.2025 16:23 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Yale Study: Music Mindfulness May Treat Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression Listening to music while performing mindfulness exercises targets neural and cardiac mechanisms in the brain that may treat symptoms of anxiety and depression,

This mindfulness #research project by #Yale University is small, but it creatively utilized heart rate and EEG monitors to track each participant's vitals signs as they engaged in #music #mindfulness exercises. #meditation

15.04.2025 11:24 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Enhanced Performance Monitoring as a Transdiagnostic Risk Marker of the Anxiety and Obsessive–Compulsive Spectrum: The Role of Disorder Category, Clinical Status, Family Risk, and Anxiety Dimensions In this preregistered study, we investigated the relationship between neural correlates of performance monitoring and disorders of the anxiety and obsessive–compulsive spectrum. Specifically, we aime...

A new paper on neural error signals in OCD & anxiety, by Kai Härpfer, @hpcrstn.bsky.social, Franzi Kausche & @anjariesel.bsky.social. We explore how disorder type, transdiagnostic dimensions, clinical status & familial risk influence error signatures. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

14.04.2025 08:27 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The FDA Approves A New, Non-Opioid Painkiller It’s the first FDA approval for a pain medication in 25 years. How does the drug work, and who is it for?

In January, the FDA approved a new pain medicine—the first in 25 years.

Dr. Sean Mackey joins us to discuss how this new non-opioid painkiller works, who should take it, and what its limitations are.

14.02.2025 20:07 — 👍 121    🔁 16    💬 4    📌 2

Illustration of one person holding papers observing students aiming for a target, with multiple arrows missing the bullseye. The text reads: Working Life, Why I teach my students about scientific failure.

"Research is messy. … Trying to protect students from that reality does them a disservice."

On #InternationalDayOfEducation, take a look back at this #ScienceWorkingLife on teaching students about scientific failure. https://scim.ag/3PLg8ER

24.01.2025 15:07 — 👍 154    🔁 32    💬 1    📌 2

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

04.12.2024 19:36 — 👍 37532    🔁 7111    💬 568    📌 787

the green owl has been threatening me for days 🤣

29.11.2024 22:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

lost my 518 day streak on duolingo. please respect my privacy at this time.

26.11.2024 13:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

missing home & thought it would be fitting to share some blue skies as my first post ☁️

24.11.2024 22:57 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0