Brain health

The Human Advantage: The Neuroscience of Leadership in the Age of AI examines how brain health and cognitive skills influence leadership, judgment, performance and resilience. With routine cognitive tasks increasingly automated, the summit considers the neural and behavioral foundations of attention, trust, adaptability, creativity, empathy and moral agency. Keynotes and interdisciplinary panels connect neuroscience research with its practical implications for individuals and organizations. Named participants include Kalina Christoff Hadjiilieva, Oriel FeldmanHall and Earl K. Miller. The summ

…should explain mechanisms connecting brain and behavior, with relevance to mental or brain health. Relevant approaches include systems and circuit neuroscience, plasticity, psychopathology, and advanced neurobiological or computational methods. The role combines an independent research programme with undergraduate and graduate teaching and mentoring. The normal teaching load is four courses per year, with reductions available in specified circumstances. The advertised salary

Brain Health is a new global collaborative research initiative designed to accelerate understanding of human brain diseases through large-scale human tissue analysis, open science, AI-enabled disease modeling, and translational platform technologies. Building on foundational advances in human brain cell atlases, quantitative neuropathology, single-cell and spatial biology, multimodal molecular profiling, and AI-enabled analysis, Brain Health is developing a scalable framework for understanding disease progression directly in the human brain and identifying new opportunities for therapeutic dev

This public discussion examines the factors that help preserve brain health during aging. Researchers working on neuroscience, brain stimulation, the microbiome and brain health consider how stress, everyday behavior and social and environmental conditions can affect resilience over a lifetime. The panel discusses emerging evidence about early vulnerability, possible interventions through lifestyle changes and stress management, and more targeted approaches. It also addresses the limits of current knowledge and the uncertainties that remain when translating these findings into ways to protect

Mammalian sleep plays a crucial role in maintaining optimal brain health by facilitating the clearance of toxic proteins that accumulate during wakefulness. The glymphatic system, responsible for flushing cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) through the brain, is particularly active during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep in mice. In humans, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has revealed an increase in ventricular CSF flow during NREM sleep. However, the relationship between sleep and CSF flow remains unexplored in avian species.Our study breaks new ground by employing fMRI to observe nat

…BMI is consistently linked to various brain, cognitive, and personality measures, implicating executive, reward, and attentional systems. Moreover, the rise in

…requires consideration not only of the brain itself, but also the blood vessels supplying it. Atherosclerosis – the hardening of arteries as we age – may predispose to stroke by triggering the formation of blood clots that block the blood supply to the brain, but also involves inflammation that may cause chronic damage

…approaches to identify whole-brain time-varying connectivity and activity has revealed a number of interesting relevant variation in the data which, when ignored, can provide misleading information. In this lecture I will provide a comparative introduction of a range of data-driven approaches to estimating time-varying connectivity. I will also present detailed examples where studies of both brain health and disorder have been advance