Height in early adulthood is an indicator that integrates across different dimensions of sustainable human development with links to health and longevity, nutrition, education and economic productivity.
Jonathan Gilley, Oscar Jackson ... Michael P Coleman
Rare SARM1 alleles encoding SARM1 variants that have constitutively high NADase activity and sensitise cultured neurons to mild stress are risk alleles for ALS and other, related motor disorders.
The findings have a major impact in understanding the different reward systems involved in two types of addictive behavior, and these advances have implications for prevention and treatment.
Irene Cumplido-Mayoral, Marina García-Prat ... OASIS study
Brain-Age delta is a non-invasive marker of biological brain aging that is sensitive to the presence of risk factors and altered biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in non-demented individuals.
Trajectories of adolescent drinking behavior between age 14 and 19 years can be predicted from bilateral striatal and cerebellar grey matter at 14 years of age.
Routine and campaign vaccination disruption in 2020 may lead to measles outbreaks and yellow fever burden increases in some countries, but is unlikely to greatly increase meningococcal A burden.
Joshua L Lillvis, Hideo Otsuna ... Barry J Dickson
A new approach for fast, sparse neural circuit mapping allows circuit structure, physiology, and behavior to be quantified in the same animal and across many animals.