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Neuroscientists uncover possible basis of short-term memory

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Dec 27, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (17) | 0

Ben W. Strowbridge, PhD, associate professor of neuroscience and physiology/biophysics, and Phillip Larimer, PhD, a MD/PhD student in the neurosciences graduate program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, ...

Researchers find clues to why some continue to eat when full

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

19 hours ago | 4.7 / 5 (6) | 0

The premise that hunger makes food look more appealing is a widely held belief - just ask those who cruise grocery store aisles on an empty stomach, only to go home with a full basket and an empty wallet.

How amyloid beta reduces plasticity related to synaptic signaling

Medicine & Health / Research

7 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

The early stages of Alzheimer's disease are thought to occur at the synapse, since synapse loss is associated with memory dysfunction. Evidence suggests that amyloid beta (Aβ) plays an important role in early synaptic ...

Schizophrenia mouse model should improve understanding and treatment of the disorder

Medicine & Health / Research

6 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 1

Scientists have created what appears to be a schizophrenic mouse by reducing the inhibition of brain cells involved in complex reasoning and decisions about appropriate social behavior.

Small molecules found to protect cells in multiple models of Parkinson's disease

Medicine & Health / Research

7 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

Several structurally similar small molecules appear capable of protecting cells from alpha-synuclein toxicity in multiple models of Parkinson's disease, according to Whitehead Institute researchers. Misfolded copies of the ...

Scientists discover a controller of brain circuitry

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

5 hours ago | 5 / 5 (6) | 1

By combining a research technique that dates back 136 years with modern molecular genetics, a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist has been able to see how a mammal's brain shrewdly revisits and reuses the same molecular ...

Seeing without looking

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

13 hours ago | 4.8 / 5 (8) | 2

Like a spotlight that illuminates an otherwise dark scene, attention brings to mind specific details of our environment while shutting others out. A new study by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological ...

Glider robot a sleek ocean explorer

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 27, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (11) | 2

The sea was heaving, the skies gray. The captain of the research ship was worried about the weather. About 120 miles off the coast of Spain, three Rutgers University scientists had a narrow window of opportunity to find and ...

Newly Discovered Gene Mutation Linked to Nerve Diseases

Medicine & Health / Genetics

5 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have identified mutations in the gene for TRPV4 that cause two related degenerative motor nerve disorders, scapuloperoneal spinal muscular ...