News tagged with gaba receptor
Getting on 'the GABA receptor shuttle' to treat anxiety disorders
There are increasingly precise molecular insights into ways that stress exposure leads to fear and through which fear extinction resolves these fear states. Extinction is generally regarded as new inhibitory learning, but ...
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Oct 22, 2009 |
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Tinnitus caused by too little inhibition of brain auditory circuits, study says
Tinnitus, a relentless and often life-changing ringing in the ears known to disable soldiers exposed to blasts, unwary listeners of too-loud music and millions of others, is the result of under-inhibition of key neural pathways ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 18, 2011 |
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New role for an old molecule: protecting the brain from epileptic seizures
For years brain scientists have puzzled over the shadowy role played by the molecule putrescine, which always seems to be present in the brain following an epileptic seizure, but without a clear indication whether it was ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 06, 2011 |
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Study identifies genes associated with binge drinking
University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers have identified two genes associated with binge drinking that may open doors to new, more effective treatments for excessive alcohol drinking. The scientists found that ...
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Scientists show in unprecedented detail how cortical nerve cells form synapses with neighbors
Newly published research led by Professor Z. Josh Huang, Ph.D., of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) sheds important new light on how neurons in the developing brain make connections with one another. This activity, called ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 21, 2010 |
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Gene therapy may be powerful new treatment for major depression
In a report published in the Oct. 20 issue of Science Translational Medicine, researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center say animal and human data suggest gene therapy to the brain may be abl ...
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Oct 20, 2010 |
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Sensitivity to alcohol odors may indicate a genetic predisposition to alcohol dependence
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are DNA sequence variations that occur when a single nucleotide in the genome sequence is altered. Prior research suggested an association between SNPs in a gene that encodes aspects ...
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Sep 01, 2010 |
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Memory's master switch
Neuroscientists have long wondered how individual connections between brain cells remain diverse and "fit" enough for storing new memories. Reported in the prestigious science journal Neuron, a new study led by Dr. Inna S ...
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Jul 29, 2010 |
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Understanding Balance in the Nervous System
(PhysOrg.com) -- A UConn neuroscientist is studying a signaling pathway in the brain that is the target of many anxiolytic medications.
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Jul 13, 2010 |
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Depressed mice could aid research on drug-resistant depression in humans
New research shows that a unique strain of laboratory mice characterized at Penn State University has behavioral, hormonal, and neurochemical characteristics that are similar to those of human patients with ...
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Jun 29, 2010 |
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Study overturns decade-old findings in neurobiology
In findings that should finally put to rest a decade of controversy in the field of neurobiology, a team at The Scripps Research Institute has found decisive evidence that a specific neurotransmitter system -- the endocannabinoid ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 12, 2010 |
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