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Why Sleep is Needed to Form Memories
Feb 11, 2009 |
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If you ever argued with your mother when she told you to get some sleep after studying for an exam instead of pulling an all-nighter, you owe her an apology, because it turns out she's right. And now, scientists ...
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The fancier the cortex, the smarter the brain?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Why are some people smarter than others? In a new article in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, Eduardo Mercado III from the University at Buffalo, The St ...
Study suggests caution on a new anti-obesity drug in children
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 07, 2008 |
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A new class of anti-obesity drugs that suppresses appetite by blocking cannabinoid receptors in the brain could also suppress the adaptive rewiring of the brain necessary for neural development in children, studies with mice ...
Antidepressants enhance neuronal plasticity in the visual system
Apr 17, 2008 |
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In the April 18 issue of Science, scientists from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy and the Neuroscience Centre at the University of Helsinki, Finland, provide new information about the mechanism of action of ant ...
Growth factors and environment combine to increase brain maturation
May 30, 2007 |
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A new study showing that growth factors and the environment combine to increase brain maturation appears in the May 30th issue of the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE. The study was conducted by Francesca Ciucci, Elena ...
Brain plasticity: Changes and resets in homeostasis
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 25, 2009 |
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In an article published in the June 25th edition of the journal Neuron, researchers at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, have found that synaptic plasticity, long implicated as a device for 'change' in the ...
Adult brain neurons can remodel connections
Nov 24, 2008 |
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Overturning a century of prevailing thought, scientists are finding that neurons in the adult brain can remodel their connections. In work reported in the Nov. 24 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
New Discovery Could Rejuvenate the Brain
Dec 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of British Columbia have discovered why the brain loses its capacity to re-grow connections and repair itself, knowledge that could lead to therapeutics that “rejuvenate” the ...
Fragile X syndrome -- A stimulating environment restores neuronal function in mice
May 23, 2007 |
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Fragile X syndrome is the most common form of inherited mental retardation, occurring in 1 in 3600 males and 1 in 4000 to 6000 females.
What drives brain changes in macular degeneration?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 03, 2009 |
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In macular degeneration, the most common form of adult blindness, patients progressively lose vision in the center of their visual field, thereby depriving the corresponding part of the visual cortex of input. Previously, ...
Migraine mice exhibit enhanced excitatory transmission at cortical synapses
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 11, 2009 |
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New research is unraveling the complex brain mechanisms associated with disabling migraine headaches. The study, published by Cell Press in the March 12th issue of the journal Neuron, reveals that perturbation of the delica ...
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