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Protein linked to mental retardation controls synapse maturation, plasticity

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has demonstrated the mechanism by which a signaling protein found throughout the brain controls the maturation and strength of excitatory synapses, the tiny ...





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NSAIDs prevent early sign of Alzheimer disease in mice

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

If taking nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen or naproxen is to protect you from developing Alzheimer disease then you will have to start taking them at a very early age according to new research ...


Fragile X syndrome -- A stimulating environment restores neuronal function in mice

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 23, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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.


Yale team finds mechanism that constructs key brain structure

Scientists find mechanism that constructs key brain structure

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Yale University researchers have found a molecular mechanism that allows the proper mixing of neurons during the formation of columns essential for the operation of the cerebral cortex, they report in the ...


Running electronics using light

Running electronics using light

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 1 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- "If you open up almost any electronic gadget, you will see various elements that operating using electric circuitries," Nader Engheta tells PhysOrg.com. "Many of them have different functi ...


Cocaine addiction linked to voluntary drug use and cellular memory

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 30, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rats that voluntarily use cocaine show a persistent cellular memory in the brain's reward center even after several months of abstinence from the drug, while their involuntary counterparts had no such memory, according to ...


The protein Srebp2 drives cholesterol formation in prion-infected neuronal cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Prions are causing fatal and infectious diseases of the nervous system, such as the mad cow disease (BSE), scrapie in sheep or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München and Technische Universität ...


Scientists reveal how neuronal activity is timed in brain's memory-making circuits

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created May 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Theta oscillations are a type of prominent brain rhythm that orchestrates neuronal activity in the hippocampus, a brain area critical for the formation of new memories. For several decades these oscillations were believed ...


Visualizing brain processes with new techniques

Visualizing brain processes with new techniques

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The brain's magic is worked by neural circuits, where information is transmitted from one nerve cell to the next. In the heat of the summer, for example, our ability to relish an ice cream ...


More than fish bait: Worms unlock secrets to new epilepsy treatments

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of scientists from The University of Alabama used worms to reel in information that they hope will lead to a greater understanding of cellular mechanisms that may be exploited to treat epilepsy. In a new research report ...


Identification of a key molecular pathway required for brain neural circuit formation

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created May 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The research group of Dr. Frédéric Charron, a researcher at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), has made a discovery which could help treat spinal cord injuries and neurodegenerative ...



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