News tagged with synapse formation
Researchers visualize formation of a new synapse
Jun 18, 2009 |
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A protein called neuroligin that is implicated in some forms of autism is critical to the construction of a working synapse, locking neurons together like "molecular Velcro," a study lead by a team of UC Davis researchers ...
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Scientists capture the first image of memories being made
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 18, 2009 |
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The ability to learn and to establish new memories is essential to our daily existence and identity; enabling us to navigate through the world. A new study by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute ...
Capturing the birth of a synapse
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 27, 2009 |
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Researchers have identified the locking mechanism that allows some neurons to form synapses to pass along essential information. Mutations of genes that produce a critical cell-adhesion molecule involved in ...
Study May Explain How A Well-Known Epilepsy and Pain Drug Works
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Duke University Medical Center researcher who spent years looking for the signals that prompt the brain to form new connections between neurons has found one that may explain precisely how a well-known ...
Study pinpoints key mechanism in brain development, raising question about use of antiseizure drug
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a key molecular player in guiding the formation of synapses — the all-important connections between nerve cells — in the brain. This discovery, based ...
Hairstyle of a Neuron: From Hairy to Mushroom-Head
Mar 07, 2007 |
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Synapses are essential for the brain's normal function: their absence or presence is tightly linked to the brain's ability to transfer, process, and store information. Synapses are thus constantly generated ...
Building memories with actin
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Memories aren't made of actin filaments. But their assembly is crucial for long-term potentiation (LTP), an increase in synapse sensitivity that researchers think helps to lay down memories. In the July 13, ...
Ritalin may cause changes in the brain’s reward areas
Feb 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A common treatment for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, prescribed millions of times a year, may change the brain in the same ways that cocaine does, a new study in mice suggests. Research from Rockefeller ...
The APCs of nerve cell function
Jun 16, 2008 |
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Rapid information processing in the nervous system requires synapses, specialized contact sites between nerve cells and their targets. One particular synapse type, cholinergic, uses the chemical transmitter acetylcholine ...
Scientists identify new cellular receptor for HIV
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 10, 2008 |
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A cellular protein that helps guide immune cells to the gut has been newly identified as a target of HIV when the virus begins its assault on the body's immune system, according to researchers from the National Institute ...
Scientists identify machinery that helps make memories
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Oct 30, 2008 |
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A major puzzle for neurobiologists is how the brain can modify one microscopic connection, or synapse, at a time in a brain cell and not affect the thousands of other connections nearby. Plasticity, the ability of the brain ...
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