The Brain Institute of America, LLC

10/19/2025

We don’t tolerate online bullying

10/18/2025

Update

10/18/2025

Open-label placebos (OLPs) were associated with reduced pain-related disability and improved overall well-being for patients with migraine, even though headache frequency remained unchanged, results from a new study showed. http://ms.spr.ly/6187sfztP

10/18/2025

Neurofilament light chain (NfL) measurement has emerged as a key biomarker for the diagnosis, monitoring, and prediction of neurologic disorders in recent years.

The Spanish Society of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome reported that NfL measurements help detect neuroaxonal injury in conditions such as multiple sclerosis (MS), Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and traumatic brain injury. http://ms.spr.ly/6187sNNIt

10/14/2025

Nature Reviews Immunology: Functional and metabolic properties of innate-like T cells differ from those of conventional T cells. This Review describes how metabolic pathways support innate-like T cell properties such as acquisition of effector capability in the thymus, rapid responsiveness, tissue persistence, antigen adaptation and functional flexibility.

Link to the Review in the comments.

10/14/2025

Last year's JAMA Summit joined together 50+ thought leaders with expertise on how is developed, evaluated, regulated, and implemented across clinical health care domains.

As a result of these in-person meetings, the JAMA Summit Report explores the state of AI in medicine, from research, clinical, and industry perspectives.

Read it today: https://ja.ma/46JX4QN

10/14/2025

10/14/2025

New comparisons of pelvic development in human and primate embryos reveal key steps in human evolution.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/47Qjocg

10/14/2025

Happy Birthday October Babies!
With Love From
The Brain Institute of America, LLC!

10/14/2025

Happy Birthday September Babies!
With Love From
The Brain Institute of America, LLC!

10/14/2025

Happy Birthday August Babies!
With Love From
The Brain Institute of America, LLC!

10/07/2025

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”

This year’s physics laureates’ experiments on a chip revealed quantum physics in action.

A major question in physics is the maximum size of a system that can demonstrate quantum mechanical effects. The 2025 physics laureates conducted experiments with an electrical circuit in which they demonstrated both quantum mechanical tunnelling and quantised energy levels in a system big enough to be held in the hand.

Quantum mechanics allows a particle to move straight through a barrier, using a process called tunnelling. As soon as large numbers of particles are involved, quantum mechanical effects usually become insignificant. The laureates’ experiments demonstrated that quantum mechanical properties can be made concrete on a macroscopic scale.

In 1984 and 1985, John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis conducted a series of experiments with an electronic circuit built of superconductors, components that can conduct a current with no electrical resistance. In the circuit, the superconducting components were separated by a thin layer of non-conductive material, a setup known as a Josephson junction. By refining and measuring all the various properties of their circuit, they were able to control and explore the phenomena that arose when they passed a current through it. Together, the charged particles moving through the superconductor comprised a system that behaved as if they were a single particle that filled the entire circuit.

This macroscopic particle-like system is initially in a state in which current flows without any voltage. The system is trapped in this state, as if behind a barrier that it cannot cross. In the experiment the system shows its quantum character by managing to escape the zero-voltage state through tunnelling. The system’s changed state is detected through the appearance of a voltage.

The laureates could also demonstrate that the system behaves in the manner predicted by quantum mechanics – it is quantised, meaning that it only absorbs or emits specific amounts of energy.

The transistors in computer microchips are one example of the established quantum technology that surrounds us. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has provided opportunities for developing the next generation of quantum technology, including quantum cryptography, quantum computers, and quantum sensors.

Learn more
Press release: https://bit.ly/42jAlZg
Popular information: https://bit.ly/4gKFvTX
Advanced information: https://bit.ly/48CSBjZ