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Severe smoking related to atrophy in Alzheimer’s brain regions

Severe smoking related to atrophy in Alzheimer’s brain regions

Last study in He studied the relationship between smoking and brain atrophy and whether the body mass indicator (BMI) affects this connection. The study showed that smokers had much lower gray and white brain volume than non -smokers. When BMI was included in statistical models, the relationship between the year of smoking and the loss […]

Study discovers brain regions that help distinguish imagination from reality

Study discovers brain regions that help distinguish imagination from reality

Areas of the brain that help a person distinguish between what is true, and what imagined was discovered in a new study conducted by UCL researchers. Studies, published, have shown that the region in the brain known as a spindle corner – located behind the temples, on the bottom of the temporal lobe of the […]