News tagged with synaptic activity
Number of synapses shown to vary between night and day in zebrafish study
With the help of tiny, see-through fish, Stanford University School of Medicine researchers are homing in on what happens in the brain while you sleep. In a new study, they show how the circadian clock and sleep affect the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Newly discovered RNA steers brain development
How does the brain work? This question is one of the greatest scientific mysteries, and neurobiologists have only recently begun to piece together the molecular building blocks that enable human beings to be "thinking" animals.
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Apr 14, 2010 |
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Researchers find potential treatment for Huntington's disease (w/ Video)
Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, the University of British Columbia's Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics and the University of California, San Diego have found that normal synaptic activity ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 15, 2009 |
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Sleep loss linked to increase in Alzheimer's plaques
Chronic sleep deprivation in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease makes Alzheimer's brain plaques appear earlier and more often, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report online this week ...
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Sep 24, 2009 |
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New mechanism for amyloid beta protein's toxic impact on the Alzheimer's brain
Scientists have uncovered a novel mechanism linking soluble amyloid -- protein with the synaptic injury and memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The research, published by Cell Press in the June 25 issue ...
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Jun 24, 2009 |
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