News tagged with journal of neuroscience

Findings could speed the development of drugs for Parkinson's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Nov 18, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Australian scientists have significantly advanced our understanding of dopamine release from nerve cells, findings that should speed the development of more effective drugs for treating Parkinson's Disease.

Researchers find explanation for rapid maturation of neurons at birth

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Nov 17, 2009 | 4 / 5 (5) | 1

At the moment a newborn switches from amniotic fluid to breathing air, another profound shift occurs: nerve cells in the brain convert from hyperexcitability to a calm frame against which outside signals can be detected.

Use of cannabinoids could help post-traumatic stress disorder patients

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Nov 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (7) | 1

Use of cannabinoids (marijuana) could assist in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder patients. This is exposed in a recent study carried out at the Learning and Memory Lab in the University of Haifa's Department ...

Researchers show efficacy of gene therapy in mouse models of Huntington's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Oct 30, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have shown that a highly specific intrabody (an antibody fragment that works against a target inside a cell) is capable of stalling the development of Huntington's ...

Seeing is relieving: New hope for chronic pain sufferers

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Oct 29, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

An f1000 evaluation examines how pain relief improves greatly when the sufferer can actually see the area where the pain is occurring.

Chocolate, water reduce pain response to heat

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Oct 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

People often eat food to feel better, but researchers have found that eating chocolate or drinking water can blunt pain, reducing a rat's response to a hot stimulus. This natural form of pain relief may help ...

Why one way of learning is better than another

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Oct 01, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0

A new study from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro) of McGill University reveals that different patterns of training and learning lead to different types of memory formation. The significance of ...

Researchers find a key mechanism in the development of nerve cells

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Sep 29, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Chaos brews in the brains of newborns: the nerve cells are still bound only loosely to each other. Under the leadership of Academy Research Fellow Sari Lauri, a team of researchers at the University of Helsinki has been studying ...

Mouse brain rewires its neural circuits to recuperate from damaged neural function after stroke

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Aug 21, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Japanese research group led by Professor Junichi Nabekura in National Institute for Physiological Sciences, NIPS, Japan, found that, after cerebral stroke in one side of the mouse brain, another side of the brain rewires ...

Adult gut can generate new neurons

Medicine & Health / Research

Aug 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (6) | 0

The adult lower digestive tract can be stimulated to add neurons to the intestinal system, according to new mouse research in the August 5 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The study shows that drugs similar to the ne ...

Experimental treatment halts hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in newborns

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Jul 29, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Inhibiting an enzyme in the brains of newborns suffering from oxygen and blood flow deprivation stops a type of brain damage that is a leading cause of cerebral palsy, mental retardation and death, according to researchers ...

Scientists shed new light on cause of inherited movement disorder

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Jul 22, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

University of Utah School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues at University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center have found strong evidence that abnormal calcium signaling in neurons may play an important role ...

Barrow researchers identify new brain receptor, possible target for Alzheimer's treatment

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Jul 16, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Barrow Neurological Institute researchers have identified a novel receptor in the brain that is extremely sensitive to beta-amyloid peptide (AB) and may play a key role in early stages of Alzheimer's disease.

Adult brain can change within seconds

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Jul 14, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (25) | 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- The human brain can adapt to changing demands even in adulthood, but MIT neuroscientists have now found evidence of it changing with unsuspected speed. Their findings suggest that the brain has a network ...

One-finger exercise reveals unexpected limits to dexterity

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Jul 08, 2009 | 3 / 5 (8) | 3

"Push your finger as hard as you can against the surface. Now as hard as you can but move it slowly - follow the ticking clock. Now faster. Now faster."