News tagged with synaptic
Researchers describe secrets of 'magic' antidepressant
Yale researchers have discovered how a novel anti-depressant can take effect in hours, rather than the weeks or months usually required for most drugs currently on the market. The findings, described in the ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 19, 2010 |
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Why Sleep is Needed to Form Memories
If you ever argued with your mother when she told you to get some sleep after studying for an exam instead of pulling an all-nighter, you owe her an apology, because it turns out she's right. And now, scientists ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 11, 2009 |
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The brain: probing its deep mystery
(PhysOrg.com) -- We know more about the cosmos than we do about the human brain, but work by European researchers will now allow scientists to probe further into the mysteries of our grey matter.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 07, 2010 |
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An Inexhaustible Source of Neural Cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists in Bonn, Germany, have succeeded in deriving so-called brain stem cells from human embryonic stem cells. These can not only be conserved almost indefinitely in culture, but can also serve ...
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Feb 17, 2009 |
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New insight into Alzheimer’s disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new molecule important in a part of the memory that allows recognition of people has been identified by researchers at the University of Bristol. This type of memory is impaired at an early ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 24, 2008 |
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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.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 14, 2010 |
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New microscope decodes complex eye circuitry (w/ Video)
The sensory cells in the retina of the mammalian eye convert light stimuli into electrical signals and transmit them via downstream interneurons to the retinal ganglion cells which, in turn, forward them to ...
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Mar 09, 2011 |
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Understanding the brain's natural foil for over-excited neurons
Glutamate is to the brain like coffee is to our bodies. A cup of Joe in the morning can wake us, but overloading on caffeine causes the stimulant to work against us.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 19, 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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Neurons growing in line
In order to be able to understand complex organs such as the brain or the nervous system, simplified model systems are required. A group of German scientists led by the Frankfurt brain researcher Erin Schuman has successfully ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 15, 2010 |
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Mechanism of Alzheimer's suggests combination therapy needed
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have discovered a mode of action for mysterious but diagnostic protein snarls found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients that suggests a one-two punch ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 17, 2009 |
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How amyloid beta reduces plasticity related to synaptic signaling
The early stages of Alzheimer's disease are thought to occur at the synapse, since synapse loss is associated with memory dysfunction. Evidence suggests that amyloid beta (Aβ) plays an important role in early synaptic ...
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Dec 28, 2009 |
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Psychology professor studies structural basis for autism disorders
There is still much that is unknown about autism spectrum disorders, but a University of Nevada, Reno psychologist has added to the body of knowledge that researchers around the world are compiling to try to demystify, prevent ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 25, 2010 |
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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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How the pathology of Parkinson's disease spreads
(PhysOrg.com) -- Accumulation of the synaptic protein alpha-synuclein, resulting in the formation of aggregates called Lewy bodies in the brain, is a hallmark of Parkinson's and other related neurodegenerative ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 27, 2009 |
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