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Salk Institute receives additional $3 million Glenn Foundation gift to continue aging research

The Salk Institute has received a $3 million gift from the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research for the second time in 4 years, enabling the Institute to continue investigating the biology of normal human aging and age-related diseases.

10 Apr 2017

Study uncovers novel role for cortical interneurons in coding of spatial information

Researchers from King's College London have discovered a specific class of inhibitory neurons in the cerebral cortex which plays a key role in how the brain encodes spatial information. The findings are published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

10 Apr 2017

Intermountain Healthcare joins NPA’s QOD to improve quality of care

Intermountain Healthcare recently signed on as NeuroPoint Alliance's first health system. Intermountain is participating in all of the current Quality Outcomes Databases: Lumbar, Deformity, Cervical and Neurovascular and are awaiting the fifth QOD registry, Tumor, which NPA plans to have on line in 2018.

7 Apr 2017

Neurons derived from precursor cells may regulate innate reproductive and aggressive behaviors

Neurons derived from two different types of precursor cells that later develop into neurons in the medial amygdala - one of the interconnected structures in the brain involved in emotion, motivation and memory - help to program innate reproductive and aggressive behaviors into the brain, research led by Children's National Health System indicates.

7 Apr 2017

Study shows how prefrontal cortex may teach hippocampus to differentiate goal-related memories

Neurons in the prefrontal cortex "teach" neurons in the hippocampus to "learn" rules that distinguish memory-based predictions in otherwise identical situations, suggesting that learning in the present helps guide learning in the future, according to research conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published April 5 in the journal Neuron.

7 Apr 2017

Salk scientists discover chemical cocktail that enables stem cells to generate tissues

When scientists talk about laboratory stem cells being totipotent or pluripotent, they mean that the cells have the potential, like an embryo, to develop into any type of tissue in the body.

6 Apr 2017

Metabolic syndrome is the new 'silent killer', warn researchers

For decades, American waistlines have been expanding and there is increasing cause for alarm. Researchers from the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University make the case that metabolic syndrome -- a cluster of three of more risk factors that include abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, high blood pressure, abnormal lipids, and insulin resistance, a precursor of type 2 diabetes -- is the new "silent killer," analogous to hypertension in the 1970s.

6 Apr 2017

Study shows the aging brain has trouble generating brain waves required for deep sleep

Older people tend to experience less sleep, due to taking frequent trips to the bathroom, and losing the ability to create deep restorative sleep compared with young adults.

6 Apr 2017

Regular exercise, not body fat, may help predict person's recovery from stroke

A new study suggests it's the amount of regular exercise people get, not the amount of body fat they have, that may predict just how well they recover from a stroke.

6 Apr 2017

New initiative aims to study relationship between brain and obesity

The Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University Medical Center has launched an initiative to study the relationship between the brain and metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes.

5 Apr 2017

Deep, restorative sleep could ward off mental and physical disorders in old age

As we grow old, our nights are frequently plagued by bouts of wakefulness, bathroom trips and other nuisances as we lose our ability to generate the deep, restorative slumber we enjoyed in youth.

5 Apr 2017

Hebrew University announces launch of new Center for conducting research on cannabinoids

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has announced the launch of a Multidisciplinary Center on Cannabinoid Research.

5 Apr 2017

Artificial touch with finger prosthesis reveals how neurons cooperate inside healthy brain

In a collaboration between Swedish and Italian researchers, the aim was to analyse how the brain interprets information from a virtual experience of touch, created by a finger prosthesis with artificial sensation. The result was - completely unexpectedly - a new method for measuring brain health.

5 Apr 2017

Method based on genetic information predicts response to drugs in epileptic patients

Researchers affiliated with the University of Campinas in São Paulo State, Brazil, have shown that genetic information can be used to improve early prediction of the response to drugs in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE), one of the most severe forms of epilepsy.

5 Apr 2017

Study provides missing link for sex-dependent effects of mild brain blast injury

The brains of men and women are wired differently, and when it comes to traumatic brain injuries (TBI), women are more likely to develop subsequent neuropsychiatric disorders, like anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

4 Apr 2017

Traumatic brain injuries affect the body's stress axis differently in female and male mice, shows research

Traumatic brain injuries affect the body's stress axis differently in female and male mice, according to research presented at the Endocrine Society's 99th annual meeting, ENDO 2017, in Orlando, Fla.

4 Apr 2017

Rubber-like fibers may help combat spinal cord injuries

Implantable fibers have been an enormous boon to brain research, allowing scientists to stimulate specific targets in the brain and monitor electrical responses.

4 Apr 2017

Pitt scientists identify neural pathway that regulates coordinated hand movements

Picking up a slice of pizza or sending a text message: Scientists long believed that the brain signals for those and related movements originated from motor areas in the frontal lobe of brain, which control voluntary movement.

4 Apr 2017

UC study explores how low risk stress reduction treatments may benefit epilepsy patients

Patients with epilepsy face many challenges, but perhaps the most difficult of all is the unpredictability of seizure occurrence. One of the most commonly reported triggers for seizures is stress.

4 Apr 2017

Essen BioScience Launches the IncuCyte® S3 Live-Cell Analysis Platform

Essen BioScience, a pioneer and leader in the field of cell-based assays and instrumentation used for drug discovery and basic research, has launched the IncuCyte® S3 live-cell analysis platform for real-time, automated measurements of cell health, proliferation, movement and function directly inside a standard incubator.

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Neuroscience News and Research

Salk Institute receives additional $3 million Glenn Foundation gift to continue aging research

Study uncovers novel role for cortical interneurons in coding of spatial information

Intermountain Healthcare joins NPA’s QOD to improve quality of care

Neurons derived from precursor cells may regulate innate reproductive and aggressive behaviors

Study shows how prefrontal cortex may teach hippocampus to differentiate goal-related memories

Salk scientists discover chemical cocktail that enables stem cells to generate tissues

Metabolic syndrome is the new 'silent killer', warn researchers

Study shows the aging brain has trouble generating brain waves required for deep sleep

Regular exercise, not body fat, may help predict person's recovery from stroke

New initiative aims to study relationship between brain and obesity

Deep, restorative sleep could ward off mental and physical disorders in old age

Hebrew University announces launch of new Center for conducting research on cannabinoids

Artificial touch with finger prosthesis reveals how neurons cooperate inside healthy brain

Method based on genetic information predicts response to drugs in epileptic patients

Study provides missing link for sex-dependent effects of mild brain blast injury

Traumatic brain injuries affect the body's stress axis differently in female and male mice, shows research

Rubber-like fibers may help combat spinal cord injuries

Pitt scientists identify neural pathway that regulates coordinated hand movements

UC study explores how low risk stress reduction treatments may benefit epilepsy patients

Essen BioScience Launches the IncuCyte® S3 Live-Cell Analysis Platform

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