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Researchers discover cellular defects that underlie familial form of Parkinson's disease

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have introduced a genetic mutation found in some patients with early onset Parkinson's disease into mice, creating a new animal model of the disease.

14 Mar 2017

UCLA study provides new insights into how the brain works

A new UCLA study could change scientists' understanding of how the brain works — and could lead to new approaches for treating neurological disorders and for developing computers that "think" more like humans.

10 Mar 2017

Precise inactivation of neurotransmitter receptors using CALI technique erases fear memory in mice

The delivery of chemical messenger (neurotransmitter) receptors to the junctions between nerve cells (synapses) is crucial to cognitive processes such as memory.

23 Feb 2017

Vision scientists uncover reasons behind unusual perceptual properties of the eye's fovea

Vision scientists have uncovered some of the reasons behind the unusual perceptual properties of the eye's fovea. Only humans and other primates have this dimple-like structure in their retinas.

23 Feb 2017

Study provides new insights into molecular mechanisms behind short-term neuronal plasticity

In a study published in Cell Reports in February 2017, Matt Rowan, Ph.D., a Post-doctoral researcher in the lab of Dr. Jason Christie, sought to understand the molecular mechanisms behind a type of short-term neuronal plasticity that may have importance for motor control.

23 Feb 2017

Crowdsourcing effort helps develop mathematical model to forecast scent of molecule

You can anticipate a color before you see it, based solely on the length of light waves. Music can be interpreted from notes on a page without being heard. Not so with odor. The only way to tell if something will smell like roses or turpentine, sea breeze or gasoline, is to sniff it.

21 Feb 2017

Researchers identify new unexpected cause for hidden hearing loss

Patients who complain they can't hear their friends at a noisy restaurant, but pass a hearing test in their doctor's office, may be describing hidden hearing loss.

20 Feb 2017

UNIST researchers make breakthrough in search for potential root causes of bipolar disorder

A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has made a significant breakthrough in the search for the potential root causes of bipolar disorder.

15 Feb 2017

New study uncovers important links between glioblastoma and epileptic seizures

Detecting brain tumors at the earliest possible stage and eliminating them before seizures begin might be possible one day, according to research by scientists at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital.

7 Feb 2017

Sleep helps recalibrate brain cells responsible for learning and memory, mice study shows

Studying mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins have fortified evidence that a key purpose of sleep is to recalibrate the brain cells responsible for learning and memory so the animals can "solidify" lessons learned and use them when they awaken -- in the case of nocturnal mice, the next evening.

3 Feb 2017

UW study offers visual proof of how brain synapses shrink during sleep

Striking electron microscope pictures from inside the brains of mice suggest what happens in our own brain every day: Our synapses - the junctions between nerve cells - grow strong and large during the stimulation of daytime, then shrink by nearly 20 percent while we sleep, creating room for more growth and learning the next day.

3 Feb 2017

Mount Sinai study characterizes genetically modified rat model of autism and intellectual disability

Researchers at The Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at Mount Sinai have generated and characterized a genetically modified rat model of autism and intellectual disability, according to a study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published January 31 in the journal eLife.

31 Jan 2017

Penn researchers unravel missing steps involved in movement of cellular cargo

Every time a hormone is released from a cell, every time a neurotransmitter leaps across a synapse to relay a message from one neuron to another, the cell must undergo exocytosis.

24 Jan 2017

Hormonal fluctuations make women more sensitive to addictive properties of cocaine, study reveals

Hormonal fluctuations women undergo make them particularly sensitive, compared to men, to the addictive properties of cocaine, according to a study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published January 10 in the journal Nature Communications.

11 Jan 2017

Alcohol strengthens emotional memories linked to fearful experiences, study shows

Experiments in mice by researchers at Johns Hopkins suggest that if the goal is to ease or extinguish fearful emotional memories like those associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, alcohol may make things worse, not better.

10 Jan 2017

Study shows new role of zinc in optic nerve injury

For more than two decades, researchers have tried to regenerate the injured optic nerve using different growth factors and/or agents that overcome natural growth inhibition.

3 Jan 2017

Researchers identify mechanism that generates synchronous oscillation in the brain

Every time we learn something new, the memory does not only need to be acquired, it also needs to be stabilized in a process called memory consolidation.

30 Dec 2016

Research provides new insight into how diseases that disconnect brain and body occur

A huge colony of receptors must be optimally positioned and functioning on our muscle cells for our brains to talk with our bodies so we can walk and breathe.

29 Nov 2016

Neurons appear to retain partial communication despite serious structural aberrations, study finds

Neuroscientists have long known that brain cells communicate with each other through the release of tiny bubbles packed with neurotransmitters—a fleet of vessels docked along neuronal ends ready to launch when a trigger arrives.

24 Nov 2016

FUJIFILM to introduce next generation Dynamic Visualization II Image Processing at RSNA 2016

FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc., a leading provider of diagnostic imaging products and medical informatics solutions, will present the next generation of its cutting edge image processing technology, Dynamic Visualization II at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, from November 27 - December 2, 2016 at McCormick Center in Chicago, Illinois.

23 Nov 2016

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Researchers discover cellular defects that underlie familial form of Parkinson's disease

UCLA study provides new insights into how the brain works

Precise inactivation of neurotransmitter receptors using CALI technique erases fear memory in mice

Vision scientists uncover reasons behind unusual perceptual properties of the eye's fovea

Study provides new insights into molecular mechanisms behind short-term neuronal plasticity

Crowdsourcing effort helps develop mathematical model to forecast scent of molecule

Researchers identify new unexpected cause for hidden hearing loss

UNIST researchers make breakthrough in search for potential root causes of bipolar disorder

New study uncovers important links between glioblastoma and epileptic seizures

Sleep helps recalibrate brain cells responsible for learning and memory, mice study shows

UW study offers visual proof of how brain synapses shrink during sleep

Mount Sinai study characterizes genetically modified rat model of autism and intellectual disability

Penn researchers unravel missing steps involved in movement of cellular cargo

Hormonal fluctuations make women more sensitive to addictive properties of cocaine, study reveals

Alcohol strengthens emotional memories linked to fearful experiences, study shows

Study shows new role of zinc in optic nerve injury

Researchers identify mechanism that generates synchronous oscillation in the brain

Research provides new insight into how diseases that disconnect brain and body occur

Neurons appear to retain partial communication despite serious structural aberrations, study finds

FUJIFILM to introduce next generation Dynamic Visualization II Image Processing at RSNA 2016

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