New Brain Atlases, Brain Rewiring During Pregnancy, and which Vaccines Reduce Alzheimer’s Disease

As usual I am having trouble deciding what to write for my subscribers. My mother always put my indecision down to being a libra — I put it down to the vast amount of interesting research being published and being curious about almost everything!

So up for your latest reading today some big news on brain Atlases that have been just published — very important for science; how the brain rewires in mothers’ during pregnancy, and how some vaccines seem to protect against Alzheimer’s, significantly.

Brain Atlas(es)… and how many types of brain cell you have

A brain atlas is good thing and ever more important as we increasingly find how complex the brain really is — we have known that the brain is complex all along but it does get more complex as more research is carried out! This research is often in pockets with few people taking the effort or rather having the resources or time to put all of this together into a more comprehensive atlas.

However, in the space of about a week three separate institutions have announced three different types of brain atlas all of which gives us more understanding and will help multiple streams of research across multiple disciplines.