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(MedPage Today) -- Chronic alcoholism may result in a weakened relationship between the frontal lobe and cerebellar activity in those who are recently abstinent according to the results of a small study.

(University of California - Davis) The number of connections between nerve cells in the brain can be regulated by an immune system molecule, according to a new study from UC Davis.

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) In the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, patients typically suffer a major loss of the brain connections necessary for memory and information processing.

Now, a combination of nutrients that was developed at MIT has shown the potential to improve memory in Alzheimer's patients by stimulating growth of new brain connections.

(University of California - Santa Cruz) New connections begin to form between brain cells almost immediately as animals learn a new task, according to a study in which researchers observed the rewiring processes that take place in the brain during motor learning.