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Worrying and the Aging Brain

Using a machine learning model, researchers describe how excessive worrying can accelerate brain aging and cognitive decline.
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Researchers Crack Mystery of Immune System’s Surveillance of the Brain

A new study describes how the immune system “covertly” monitors the brain via the glymphatic system, suggesting potential new avenues for treating neuroinflammatory diseases.
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Consequences of the Inflamed Brain

Report on Progress

New research suggests that inflammation may have important long term implications for the brain.
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Stress and Immunity

From Starving Cavemen to Stressed-Out Scientists

Scientists in Australia have recently discovered the first clear molecular process that helps to explain how stress suppresses our immune defenses and makes us more vulnerable to getting sick. Has a biological system that worked well for early humans faced with starvation turned against those of us living with the many new stresses of modern society?
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Climb Aboard! Neuroimmunology Is Leaving the Station

Neuroimmunology took off because two established disciplines began to find surprising connections where only disjunctions had been seen. Scientists began to realize that some of the same processes and substances were at work in both the nervous and immune systems—and the race was on. In a decade or less, the investigators interviewed by Asbury have made discoveries about immune activity in the brain, the role of inflammation in both systems, and the nature of disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.
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The Brain-Immunology Axis

Scientists are realizing that the new frontier in protecting human health may lie at the interface between the nervous system and the immune system.

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