Tag: Brain Injury
White matter affects how people respond to brain stimulation therapy
Protein-transport discovery may help define new strategies for treating eye disease: Study reveals how proteins from the eye’s nerve cells relay visual cues to different parts of the brain
Pain signaling in humans more rapid than previously known
Study finds electronic cigarettes damage brain stem cells: UC Riverside research on mouse neural stem cells has implications for nicotine use
Mood neurons mature during adolescence: Late-maturing amygdala neurons may play role in emotional development, mood disorders
How electrical stimulation reorganizes the brain: Approach could inform efforts to improve brain stimulation treatments for depression, other psychiatric disorders
Insulin under the influence of light
Stem cells provide information about neuron resilience in ALS
Scientists unlock new role for nervous system in regeneration: Researchers were able to explain, predict, and even manipulate regeneration of the flatworm body
More evidence that blood tests can detect the risk of Alzheimer’s
Like rats, you brain may contain ‘time cells’ that help form long-term memories: How the brain represents time when processing long-term memories
ADHD drug Ritalin has no effect on primate prefrontal cortex
Robust and specific gene regulation tool developed for primary brain neurons
Mapping brain circuits in newborns may aid early detection of autism: Novel, whole-brain, noninvasive MRI techniques will produce 4-D brain atlas as reference tool
Simple drug combination creates new neurons from neighboring cells
Brain hand ‘map’ is maintained in amputees with and without phantom limb sensations
A new approach to peripheral nerve injury? Natural killer cells in the immune system could present a target
Mental health disorders common following mild head injury: Risk factors for neuropsychiatric conditions after concussion
Men and women remember pain differently: Strength of finding confirmed by replication of results in mice and men
Classifying brain microglia: Which are good and which are bad? New study is perhaps the most comprehensive survey of brain microglia ever conducted
Discovering neurons that rapidly catch our mistakes
Being yelled at: Our brain on alert in a flash
Scientists solve century-old neuroscience mystery; answers may lead to epilepsy treatment
Time-traveling illusion tricks the brain: How the brain retroactively makes sense of rapid auditory and visual sensory stimulation
Critical differences in clots that cause a stroke: Findings will help inform physicians which treatment will work best for patients
Improving cell replacement therapy for Parkinson’s disease: New cell surface markers
Drug makes rats less likely to imbibe alcohol
Study of 21 retired NFL and NHL players doesn’t find evidence of early onset dementia: UB researchers compared retired Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres players to non-contact sport athletes