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Chemists Find Breakthrough Treatment for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s That Protects Brain Cells From Amyloid Plaque

[ad_1] Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are brain diseases in which the gradual degeneration of neurons leads to loss of speech, memory, and thinking. Existing remedies are intended only to suppress symptoms, but they cannot stop the neurodegeneration process itself. Now, Russian scientists have synthesized chemical compounds that can stop the degeneration of neurons in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s,…

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Paralyzed Man’s Brain Waves Get Turned Into Sentences on Computer, Scientists ‘Thrilled’ Beyond Words

[ad_1] Researchers at UC San Francisco have successfully developed a “speech neuroprosthesis” that has allowed a man with severe paralysis to communicate in sentences, translating signals from his brain to the vocal tract directly into words that appear as text on a screen. The achievement builds on more than a decade of effort by UCSF…