Tag: Nervous System
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White matter affects how people respond to brain stimulation therapy
Exercise is good for the aging brain: Researchers find a single bout of exercise boosts cognition, memory performance in some older people
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
Alzheimer’s disease destroys neurons that keep us awake: Study suggests Tau tangles, not amyloid plaques, drive daytime napping that precedes dementia
Pain signaling in humans more rapid than previously known
Physical evidence in the brain for types of schizophrenia: Findings suggest a form of schizophrenia has more in common with neurodegenerative diseases than previously thought
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
Stem cells provide information about neuron resilience in ALS
Researchers ready B cells for novel cell therapy
Trigger region found for absence epileptic seizures
How light triggers brain activity: Protein research
Parkinson’s disease the focus of the research – Bonn scientists with puzzles
Like rats, you brain may contain ‘time cells’ that help form long-term memories: How the brain represents time when processing long-term memories
Robust and specific gene regulation tool developed for primary brain neurons
How a certain bacterium communicates and makes us sick
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
New model mimics persistent interneuron loss seen in prematurity
First model of mitochondrial epilepsy: Research gives hope to producing better therapies for this debilitating condition
Simple drug combination creates new neurons from neighboring cells
A new approach to peripheral nerve injury? Natural killer cells in the immune system could present a target
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
Discovery opens new opportunities to slow or reverse multiple sclerosis
Scientists solve century-old neuroscience mystery; answers may lead to epilepsy treatment
Some of retina’s light-sensing cells may have ancient roots
Novel mutation affecting YARS causes multisystem disease