Tag: neuroscience
Brain Difference in Patients with ADHD
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
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 information is like snacks, money, and drugs — to your brain: Researchers demonstrate common neural code for information and money; both act on the brain’s dopamine-producing reward system
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
Trigger region found for absence epileptic seizures
How light triggers brain activity: Protein research
Creating blood vessels on demand
Reattaching to work is just as important as detaching from work, study finds
Like rats, you brain may contain ‘time cells’ that help form long-term memories: How the brain represents time when processing long-term memories
It’s not your fault — Your brain is self-centered: Short-term memory focuses on things we label as ‘ours,’ no matter how random they are
Neuroscientists discover neural mechanisms of developmental dyslexia
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
New model mimics persistent interneuron loss seen in prematurity
Simpler parts make for a more efficient system: Decentralized systems are more efficient at reaching a target when its components are not overly capable
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
Surprise discovery reveals second visual system in mouse cerebral cortex: Research challenges 75-year-old dogma of mammalian vision
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