News tagged with neuron activity
Video camera that records at the speed of thought
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers who created an ultra-fast, extremely high-resolution video camera have enabled dozens of medical applications, including one scenario that can record 'thought' processes travelling along ...
Researchers generate functional neurons from somatic cells
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Feb 24, 2009 |
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In a new study, researchers were able to generate functionally mature motor neurons from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which are engineered from adult somatic cells and can differentiate into most other cell types. ...
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Decreased levels of binding gene affect memory and behavior
Dec 10, 2008 |
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Reducing the activity of a gene called FKBP12 in the brains of mice affected neuron-to-neuron communication (synapse) and increased both fearful memory and obsessive behavior, indicating the gene could provide a target for ...
Brain encodes complex plumes of odors with a simple code
Feb 25, 2009 |
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In the real world, odors don't happen one puff at a time. Animals move through, and subsequently distort, plumes of odor molecules that constantly drift, changing direction as the wind disperses them. Now, ...
How to read brain activity?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the very first time, scientists show what EEG can really tell us about how the brain functions.
A Single Neuron Can Change the Activity of the Whole Brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The pulsing of a single neuron can switch a brain’s waves from the equivalent of a big ocean swell to ripples on a pond, according to new research from Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator ...
Light used to map effect of neurons on one another
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Harvard University have used light and genetic trickery to trace out neurons' ability to excite or inhibit one another, literally shedding new light on the question of how neurons ...
2 signals -- from within and out of cell -- specify motor neuron differentiation
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Two signals - an external one from retinoic acid and an internal one from the transcription factor Neurogenin2 - cooperate to activate chromatin (the basic material of chromosomes) and help determine that certain nerve progenitor ...
You can control your Marilyn Monroe neuron
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a scientific first, researchers have been able to demonstrate the ability of humans to control the activity of individual brain cells.
Stabilizing Force for Good Communication Between Neurons and Muscle Cells Found
Oct 09, 2008 |
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You can't raise a finger without your brain directing muscle cells, and scientists have figured out another reason that usually works so well.
Membrane fusion at the synapse: Janus faced synaptotagmin-1 helps to keep the fast pace
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Oct 29, 2008 |
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Imagine a bathtub with two soap bubbles colliding but never fusing. Then you add detergent, and the surface of the water goes flat as the walls of the bubbles collapse and merge.
Brain study suggests way to measure, treat autism
Feb 06, 2008 |
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Researchers have pinpointed subtle deficits in the brains of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that they say could aid more precise diagnoses and perhaps improve treatment of ASD. The researchers discovered characteristic ...
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