A Scientific Research Vault
Researchers at Zhejiang and Xiamen universities discovered how toxic tau protein clumps reactivate silent DNA to trigger neuron death, and found that blocking a single protein could slow cognitive decline.
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Scientists at the University of Utah have discovered that brain immune cells called microglia use calcium signals to trigger and respond to anxiety and compulsive grooming in mice.
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Robert Sapolsky is a neuroendocrinologist and primatologist at Stanford. He’s been studying baboons in Kenya for decades, and that gave him solid results to sprinkle across the book. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst is, in the simplest terms, an attempt to answer a single question: Why do we do what we do? Specifically, why do we sometimes harm each other, and why, in those other moments, do we show staggering kindness, courage, and sacrifice? It was first published in 2017.
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