News tagged with neuronal loss
New mechanism for amyloid beta protein's toxic impact on the Alzheimer's brain
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Scientists have uncovered a novel mechanism linking soluble amyloid -- protein with the synaptic injury and memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The research, published by Cell Press in the June 25 issue ...
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Discovery of 'alert status' area in brain opens door to treatment of impaired consciousness disorders
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Sep 14, 2009 |
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A new understanding of how anesthesia and anesthesia-like states are controlled in the brain opens the door to possible new future treatments of various states of loss of consciousness, such as reversible coma, according ...
QBI neuroscientists make Alzheimer's disease advance
Jun 10, 2008 |
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Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) neuroscientists at UQ have discovered a new way to reduce neuronal loss in the brain of a person with Alzheimer's disease. Memory loss in people with Alzheimer's disease can be attributed ...
APP -- Good, bad or both?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 18, 2009 |
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New data about amyloid precursor protein, or APP, a protein implicated in development of Alzheimer's disease, suggests it also may have a positive role -- directly affecting learning and memory during brain development. So ...
New research helps explain genetics of Parkinson's disease
Nov 24, 2008 |
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A new study by Narendra et al. suggests that Parkin, the product of the Parkinson's disease-related gene Park2, prompts neuronal survival by clearing the cell of its damaged mitochondria.
Parkinson's-linked mutation makes neurons vulnerable to calcium-induced death
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 12, 2009 |
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A new study reveals the mechanism by which a genetic mutation linked with Parkinson's disease (PD) renders dopamine neurons particularly vulnerable to cell injury and death. The research is published by Cell Press in the ...
Cell's split personality is a major discovery into neurological diseases
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May 07, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Université de Montreal (UdeM) and the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University have discovered that cells which normally support nerve cell (neuron) survival also play an active and ...
Chemical compound found in tree bark stimulates growth, survival of brain cells
Oct 01, 2007 |
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Researchers have identified a compound in tree bark that mimics the chemical reactions of a naturally occurring molecule in the brain responsible for stimulating neuronal cell signaling. Neuronal cell signaling plays a crucial ...
Protein is linked to functional development of brain neurons
Jun 18, 2007 |
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Rockefeller University investigators say that a molecule that helps transport cargo inside nerve cells may have another, critically important, role related to how developing neurons sprout the projections that relay electrical ...
Nerve cells derived from stem cells and transplanted into mice may lead to improved brain treatments
Jun 25, 2008 |
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Scientists at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research have, for the first time, genetically programmed embryonic stem (ES) cells to become nerve cells when transplanted into the brain, according to a study published today ...
Huntington's disease deciphered
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Jun 14, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have discovered how the mutated huntingtin gene acts on the nervous system to create the devastation of Huntington's disease. The report of their findings ...
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