News tagged with neural plasticity
Simple bedside test improves diagnosis of chronic back pain, could guide treatment
Apr 07, 2009 |
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A simple and inexpensive method of assessing pain, developed by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers, is better than currently used techniques for distinguishing neuropathic pain - pain caused ...
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 ...
Lazy eye treatment times could be drastically reduced, new research shows
Dec 09, 2008 |
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Treatment times for amblyopia — more commonly known as 'lazy eye' — could be drastically reduced thanks to research carried out at The University of Nottingham.
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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 ...
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 ...
Schizophrenia gene's role may be broader, more potent, than thought
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UCSF scientists studying nerve cells in fruit flies have uncovered a new function for a gene whose human equivalent may play a critical role in schizophrenia.
Stem cells are good for the brain
Jul 15, 2008 |
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For some years, scientists have been speculating over why stem cells exist in the brain, as brain regeneration is limited. A German team of neuroscientists believe these stem cells help keep the brain healthy and active.
Brain processes written words as unique 'objects'
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 29, 2009 |
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A new study provides direct experimental evidence that a brain region important for reading and word recognition contains neurons that are highly selective for individual real words. The research, published by Cell Press ...
Novel mechanism for long-term learning identified by Carnegie Mellon researchers
Jan 03, 2008 |
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Practice makes perfect — or at least that’s what we’re told as we struggle through endless rounds of multiplication tables, goal kicks and piano scales — and it seems, based on the personal experience of many, to be true. ...
Creating ideal neural cells for clinical use
Apr 13, 2009 |
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Investigators at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have developed a protocol to rapidly differentiate human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) into neural progenitor cells that may be ideal for transplantation. ...
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, ...
Research shows how sensory-deprived brain compensates
Apr 17, 2007 |
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Whiskers provide a mouse with essential information to negotiate a burrow or detect movement that could signal a predator's presence. These stiff hairs relay sensory input to the brain, which shapes neuronal activity. In ...
Revealing the machinery underlying the 'plastic' juvenile brain
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Feb 28, 2007 |
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Among the central mysteries of neurobiology is what properties of the young brain enable it to so adeptly wire itself to adapt to experience—a quality known as plasticity. The extraordinary plasticity of the young brain occurs ...
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