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Four Genetic Variants ID’d for Risk for Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy

All four risk variants were predicted to be deleterious and were located in two immune pathways

Risk for Intracerebral Hemorrhage May Be Transmissible Via Blood Transfusion

Risk was increased for those receiving transfusion from donors who later developed multiple spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhages

Shift Work Tied to Negative Impact on Cognitive Functioning

Exposure to night shift work associated with overall cognitive impairment compared with daytime work only

Duration of T2D Negatively Linked to Mean Cortical Thickness

Associations also seen for type 2 diabetes duration with reduced gray matter volume, increased white matter hyperintensity volume

Number of Teeth, Periodontitis in Older Adults Linked to Hippocampal Atrophy

Qualitative interaction seen between number of teeth present, mean periodontal probing depth for symmetric percentage change in left hippocampus

AI Model for Interpretation of EEGs Similar to Human Experts

SCORE-AI achieved high accuracy in a recent study

Effect of Testosterone Examined From Adolescence Into Adulthood

Effect of testosterone on anterior prefrontal cortex engagement decreases from middle-to-late adolescence, then shifts into activational role

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Says Brain-to-Computer Interface Has FDA Approval for Clinical Trial

Device would be surgically implanted into patients' brains, with the idea that it would connect with computers to decode brain activity

Less Slow-Wave Sleep, Severe OSA Linked to White Matter Abnormalities

Increase seen in white matter hyperintensities, decrease seen in fractional anisotropy of the genu of the corpus callosum