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Neuroscience Daily for 11 June covers 3 neuroscience stories on psilocybin brain aging, cerebrolymph drainage, screen eye movements. It is a compact audio briefing on studies, mechanisms, and the discussion around them.
Neuroscience Daily for 11 June follows 3 stories from r/neuro and r/neuroscience, moving through psilocybin brain aging, cerebrolymph drainage, screen eye movements.
Berkeley News is reporting on a newly launched neuroimaging study that will test whether psilocybin can help protect the aging brain. The project is being framed as a first-of-its-kind effort to see whether psychedelic treatment might counter cognitive decline in older adults by promoting structural neuroplasticity and preserving synaptic connections.
This story is about a Springer study that reports lymphatic vessels at the boundary between the central and peripheral nervous systems in the cervical spine. The paper argues that these structures may represent a previously underdescribed route for brain-related fluid drainage, which the authors call the cerebrolymph hypothesis.
A discussion in the neuro community asked whether using a computer for things like web browsing and email mostly relies on saccades or smooth pursuit eye movements. The basic answer from commenters was that if the target is stationary, like words on a page or a button on a screen, the eyes usually jump with saccades rather than smoothly track.
That's it for today.
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