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Methamphetamine can ferry other drugs across the blood-brain barrier

Methamphetamine can ferry other drugs across the blood-brain barrier

The brain is a champion of self isolation. In other parts of your body, drugs and nutrients enter through the lining of blood vessels. While the brain is full of blood vessels, specialized vessel walls tightly regulate what can get in. This “” is important for protecting the specialized environment of the brain, but it is also a problem when trying to treat conditions like brain cancer or neurodegeneration as drugs can't get in. We do know of some drugs that are really good at getting through this barrier, either by slipping in or by breaking the barrier down. A new has found that...

June 26, 2020
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Your language brain matters more for learning programming than your math brain

Your language brain matters more for learning programming than your math brain

When you think of learning another language, you probably think of French, Spanish, or Chinese. But what about Python or Java? The two processes might be more similar than you'd think. A recent  published from researchers at the University of Washington showed that language ability and problem solving skills best predict how quickly people learn Python, a popular programming language. Their research, published in Scientific Reports, used behavioral tests and measures of brain activity to see how they correlated with how fast and well participants learned programming. For the...

May 13, 2020
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