Sugar-Coated Nanotherapy Dramatically Improves Neuron Survival in Alzheimer’s Model
Brain & Mind
Almaz Mesghina receives Daniel I. Linzer Award
The content and structure of her psychology classes promote belonging among all students Almaz Mesghina has received the 2025 Daniel I. Linzer Award for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Equity. Mesghina will be honored at a reception later this winter. Given annually by...
Synthetic Neurons Open the Door for More Intelligent Robots
An interdisciplinary collaboration between Northwestern University and Georgia Tech has created a novel high-performance organic electrochemical neuron that responds within the frequency range of human neurons. The researchers also built a complete perception system by designing other organic materials and...
Shedding New Light on Infants’ Ability to Learn From Nonlinguistic Signals
Children as young as six months can flexibly recruit non-language sounds and bend them to their communicative needs A new study by developmental scientists at Northwestern University provides new insight into a hallmark of human communication: our flexibility to use nonlinguistic...
The Secret to Our Big Brains Might Be In Our Gut
Microbes supporting the production of more metabolic energy could be key to the evolution of large brains Brain tissue is among the most energetically costly in the body. As a result, larger-brained mammals require more energy to support brain growth and...
New Huntington’s treatment prevents protein aggregation
Scientists at Northwestern and Case Western Reserve universities have developed the first polymer-based therapeutic for Huntington’s disease, an incurable, debilitating illness that causes nerve cells to break down in the brain. Patients with Huntington’s disease have a genetic mutation that triggers...
Leveraging the power of lucid dreams
If you’ve ever experienced a dream while knowing that you were dreaming, you’ve had a lucid dream. As interest has grown in optimizing sleep for self-improvement and better health, so, too, has interest in lucid dreaming, which early evidence has...
Northwestern receives $32.4 million to study healthy aging
Focus is on molecular biology and role of proteins in disease and life span Northwestern University has been awarded $32.4 million over five years from the Hevolution Foundation to study proteostasis — the processes by which cells maintain protein health for...
Brain’s structure hangs in ‘a delicate balance’
New finding appears to be universal across insects, mammals and humans When a magnet is heated up, it reaches a critical point where it loses magnetization. Called “criticality,” this point of high complexity is reached when a physical object is transitioning...
New study: When parents talk about racism with their children, negative biases toward Black people are reduce in both parent and child
Experts have long pointed out the need for white parents to have conversations that directly address racism with their children to reduce racial bias. But many parents fail to have these crucial discussions. Psychology researchers at Northwestern University have published the...
Neuroscientist William Klein’s purpose and perseverance continues inspiring a new wave of efforts to combat Alzheimer’s disease
Battling Alzheimer’s disease has become William Klein’s life work – even if he never saw it coming. A progressive disease impacting memory, thinking, behavior, and other mental functions, Alzheimer’s affects an estimated 6.7 million Americans, according to the Alzheimer’s Association, and...