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This is an interesting story, and I am trying to moderate my optimism. Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the major cause of dementia in humans, is a very complex disease. We have been studying it for decades, revealing numerous clues as to what kicks it off, what causes it to progress, and how to potentially treat it. […] The post Lithium and Alzheimer’s Disease first appeared on NeuroLogica Blog.
Did you know that the number of Google searches for cat memes correlates tightly (P-value < 0.01) with England’s performance in cricket World Cups? What’s going on here? Is interest in funny cat videos driven by the excitement created by cricket victories. Perhaps cat memes are especially inspiring to English cricket players. Or more likely, […] The post It’s Just A Correlation first appeared on NeuroLogica Blog.
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency reported earlier this year that is has developed and tested a battery with depleted uranium as the active material of the negative electrode. Why would they do this, and what role could such a battery play? First let’s look at the details (which are sparse). The battery uses depleted uranium […] The post Depleted Uranium Batteries first appeared on NeuroLogica Blog.
I wasn’t planning on doing a follow up to my recent post on AI so quickly, but a published commentary on the issue makes a good point of discussion. I know it can get tiring to see so much news and commentary about AI, but we are in the middle of a rapidly evolving and […] The post What To Do About AI Slop first appeared on NeuroLogica Blog.
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This is an interesting story, and I am trying to moderate my optimism. Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the major cause of dementia in humans, is a very complex disease. We have been studying it for decades, revealing numerous clues as to what kicks it off, what causes it to progress, and how to potentially treat it. […] The post Lithium and Alzheimer’s Disease first appeared on NeuroLogica Blog.
In “Amazon Tipping Point” — Third-Place Winner of the 2025 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — Brazilian filmmakers capture striking images of clear-cutting and explore how human activity is so damaging the world’s largest rainforest that it will not be able to recover. Read more on E360 →
The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of thirst. The post What Does It Mean To Be Thirsty? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
As ocean waters heat up, the Atlantic is increasingly seeing not just one, but two or more hurricanes spin up at the same time. That is the finding of a new study, which warns that warming is raising the risk that coastal cities may be battered by back-to-back storms. Read more on E360 →
