Tag: #Brain

2025-26, Health and Medicine

Your Skin as a Reflection of Your Behavior and Health

By: Judy Zhao, Class of 2029 Figure 1. A woman’s skin under the sun As one of the most vital organs of the human body, the skin serves as a protective barrier against environmental stressors. Research conducted under Dr. Lajos Kemény at Semmelweis University investigated neural pathways that link skin and hair color with the central nervous system (CNS). This link, referred to as the … Continue reading Your Skin as a Reflection of Your Behavior and Health

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2025-26, General Neuroscience

Brain Senescence and TFAP4 as Regulators of Parkinson’s Disease

By Kang Lai, Class of 2026 Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a prevalent neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, a crucial dopamine-producing region in the midbrain. Recent studies conducted by Markus Reissland and colleagues at Stony Brook University have investigated cellular senescence transcriptional regulators as potential drivers of senescence and Parkinson’s Disease progression.. Cellular senescence is defined by … Continue reading Brain Senescence and TFAP4 as Regulators of Parkinson’s Disease

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2025-26, General Neuroscience

The Pandemic on the Brain: How COVID-19 may be affecting the nervous system

By Katie Au, Class of 2029 COVID-19, a disease that notably affects the respiratory system, has also been shown to affect the nervous system. While some have initial experiences of insomnia and even stroke, others continue to have long-term neurocognitive changes like memory loss after the initial acute symptoms, which researchers have labeled as neurological post-acute sequelae (N-PASC). Xiaohua Yang and colleagues from the Renaissance … Continue reading The Pandemic on the Brain: How COVID-19 may be affecting the nervous system

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