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Neuron memory key to taming chronic pain

For some, the pain is so great that they can't even bear to have clothes touch their skin. For others, it means that every step is a deliberate and agonizing choice. Whether the pain is caused by arthritic joints, an injury ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Neurobiologists identify animal model for a deadly human metabolic disorder

In medical research, finding a reliable and cost-effective animal model can greatly enhance success in identifying disease mechanisms and genetic pathways, potentially cutting years off drug testing regimes and development ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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FDA-approved drug rapidly clears amyloid from the brain, reverses Alzheimer's symptoms in mice

Neuroscientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have made a dramatic breakthrough in their efforts to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. The researchers' findings, published in the journal Science, show t ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (60) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Why the middle finger has such a slow connection

Each part of the body has its own nerve cell area in the brain -- we therefore have a map of our bodies in our heads. The functional significance of these maps is largely unclear. What effects they can have is now shown by ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

My connectome, myself

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each of which is connected to many others. Neuroscientists believe these connections hold the key to our memories, personality and even mental disorders such as schizophrenia. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Why the brain is more reluctant to function as we age

New findings, led by neuroscientists at the University of Bristol and published this week in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, reveal a novel mechanism through which the brain may become more reluctant to function as we ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study confirms that mom's love good for child's brain

School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Davos wowed by device that reads 'code of life' in hours

It was the talk of Davos, grabbing the imagination of a forum otherwise shrouded in gloom: a miracle machine that cracks the code of life within hours and could revolutionise healthcare.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 29, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Making memories last: Prion-like protein plays key role in storing long-term memories

Memories in our brains are maintained by connections between neurons called "synapses". But how do these synapses stay strong and keep memories alive for decades? Neuroscientists at the Stowers Institute for ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study reports greater brain activation after cognitive rehabilitation for MS

Neuroscientists at Kessler Foundation have documented increased cerebral activation in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) following memory retraining using the modified Story Memory Technique (mSMT).

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists: They are surprisingly normal

(Medical Xpress) -- A multi-media production with a musical narrative set in the day room of a psychiatric hospital, Inside a Quiet Mind brought together Cambridge Neuroscientists and mental health service ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New automated imaging to greatly speed whole-brain mapping efforts

A new technology developed by neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) transforms the way highly detailed anatomical images can be made of whole brains. Until now, means of obtaining such images ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 15, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (14) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Fusion plasma research helps neurologists to hear above the noise

Fusion plasma researchers at the University of Warwick have teamed up with Cambridge neuroscientists to apply their expertise developed to study inaccessible fusion plasmas in order to significantly improve the understanding ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Whiff of 'love hormone' helps monkeys show a little kindness

Oxytocin, the "love hormone" that builds mother-baby bonds and may help us feel more connected toward one another, can also make surly monkeys treat each other a little more kindly.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover a brain cell malfunction in schizophrenia

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered that DNA stays too tightly wound in certain brain cells of schizophrenic subjects.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast