News tagged with synaptic connections
Computer model shows changes in brain mechanisms for cocaine addicts
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Sep 22, 2009 |
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About 2 million Americans currently use cocaine for its temporary side-effects of euphoria, which have contributed to making it one of the most dangerous and addictive drugs in the country. Cocaine addiction, ...
Mechanism of Alzheimer's suggests combination therapy needed
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have discovered a mode of action for mysterious but diagnostic protein snarls found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients that suggests a one-two punch ...
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Researchers reverse the cognitive impairment caused by sleep deprivation
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A research collaboration led by biologists and neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania has found a molecular pathway in the brain that is the cause of cognitive impairment due to sleep deprivation. ...
Discovery could lead to new autism treatment
Feb 04, 2009 |
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A Brown University research team has discovered something in the brain that could serve as a target for future autism and mental retardation treatments.
Getting wired: How the brain does it
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Aug 26, 2009 |
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In a new study, researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro), McGill University have found an important mechanism involved in setting up the vast communications network of connections ...
Brain Damage Occurs Within Minutes from the Onset of a Stroke, Study Reveals
Feb 14, 2008 |
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Scientists at the Brain Research Centre at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute have found that harmful changes to the brain's synaptic connections occur within the first three ...
Relearning process not always a 'free lunch'
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Aug 22, 2008 |
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Researchers at Sheffield University and the University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom, have helped determine why relearning a few pieces of information may or may not easily cause a recollection of other associated, previously ...
Scientists capture the first image of memories being made
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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 ...
Function of a neglected structure in neurons revealed after 50 years
Sep 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fifty years after it was originally discovered, scientists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland, have elucidated the function of a microscopic network of ...
Study: Brain connections strengthen during waking hours, weaken during sleep
Jan 20, 2008 |
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Most people know it from experience: After so many hours of being awake, your brain feels unable to absorb any more-and several hours of sleep will refresh it.
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 ...
Learning addiction: Dopamine reinforces drug-associated memories
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Sep 09, 2009 |
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New research with mice has provided some fascinating insight into how addictive drugs hijack reward signals and influence neural processes associated with learning and memory. The research, published by Cell Press in the ...
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