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Chaperone Protein Imbalance Promotes Toxic Tau Buildup in Ageing Brain

April 21, 2021
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Tampa, FL — Chaperone protein imbalance can play a significant role in initiating toxic accumulation of tau in the ageing brain – an early step in the development of Alzheimer’s disease...

Tiny Implantable Tool for Light-Sheet imaging of brain activity

April 20, 2021
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Cardiff, UK — Tools that allow neuroscientists to record and quantify functional activity within the living brain are in great demand. Traditionally, researchers have used techniques such as functional...

How Tangled Proteins Kill Brain Cells, Promote Alzheimer’s, CTE

April 19, 2021
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Boulder, CO — Look deep inside the brain of someone with Alzheimer’s disease, most forms of dementia or the concussion-related syndrome known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and you’ll...

Neural Plasticity Depends on this Long Noncoding RNA’s Journey from Nucleus to Synapse

April 19, 2021
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Jupiter, FL — Making memories involves more than seeing friends or taking photos. The brain constantly adapts to new information and stores memories by building connections among neurons, called synapses....

Understanding the Growth of Disease-Causing Protein Fibers

April 16, 2021
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Bath, UK — Amyloid fibrils are deposits of proteins in the body that join together to form microscopic fibers. Their formation has been linked to many serious human diseases including Alzheimer’s,...

Researchers Discover New Way to Monitor & Prevent Nerve Cell Deterioration After TBI

April 14, 2021
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Cleveland, OH — Violent blows or jolts to the head can cause traumatic brain injury (TBI), and there are currently about five million people in the U.S. living with some form of chronic impairment...

Brain Damage Caused by Plasticisers

April 13, 2021
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Bayreuth, Germany — The plasticisers contained in many everyday objects can impair important brain functions in humans. Biologists from the University of Bayreuth warn of this danger in an article...

Neural Stem Cells Age Rapidly, Study Reveals

April 13, 2021
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Los Angeles, CA — In a new study published in Cell Stem Cell, a team led by USC Stem Cell scientist Dr. Michael Bonaguidi, demonstrates that neural stem cells – the stem cells of the nervous...

PLD3 Gene Contributes to Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

April 12, 2021
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Nashville, TN — A rare and controversial mutation in the phospholipase D3 (PLD3) protein – previously linked to Alzheimer’s disease – interferes with PLD3’s vital recycling...

Artificial Intelligence could ‘Crack the Language of Cancer and Alzheimer’s’

April 12, 2021
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Cambridge, UK — Powerful algorithms used by Netflix, Amazon and Facebook can ‘predict’ the biological language of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, scientists...

Autism Gene Study Finds Widespread Impact to Brain’s Growth Signalling Network

April 9, 2021
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Jupiter, FL — Damage to the autism-associated gene Dyrk1a, sets off a cascade of problems in developing mouse brains, resulting in abnormal growth-factor signaling, undergrowth of neurons, smaller-than-average...

New Pig Brain Maps Facilitate Human Neuroscience Discoveries

April 9, 2021
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Urbana, IL — When scientists need to understand the effects of new infant formula ingredients on brain development, it’s rarely possible for them to carry out initial safety studies with human...

Researchers Identify Pathway that Transitions Brain from Plasticity to Stability

April 8, 2021
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Eugene, OR — Researchers exploring the developing central nervous system of fruit flies have identified nonelectrical cells that transition the brain from highly plastic into a less moldable, mature...

‘Brain Glue’ Helps Repair Circuitry in Severe TBI

April 8, 2021
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Athens, GA — At a cost of $38 billion a year, an estimated 5.3 million people are living with a permanent disability related to traumatic brain injury in the United States today, according to the Centers...

Key Brain Molecule may Play Role in Many Brain Disorders

April 8, 2021
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Chapel Hill, NC — A team led by scientists at the UNC School of Medicine identified a molecule called microRNA-29 as a powerful controller of brain maturation in mammals. Deleting microRNA-29 in mice...

Mouse Models of Neurodevelopmental Disorders Display Metabolic Dysfunction

April 7, 2021
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Ottawa, ON — Mouse models of neurodevelopmental disorders possess unique, sex-specific metabolic dysfunctions, according to a new study in eNeuro. Understanding the unique metabolic effects of each...

New Blueprint of Brain Connections Reveals Extensive Reach of Central Regulator

April 7, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Thousands of our daily activities, from making coffee to taking a walk to saying hello to a neighbour, are made possible through an ancient collection of brain structures tucked away...

Tracking Receptor Proteins can Unveil Molecular Basis of Memory and Learning

April 7, 2021
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Nagoya, Japan — The neurons in our nervous system “talk” to each other by sending and receiving chemical messages called neurotransmitters. This communication is facilitated by cell membrane...

Vitamin A for Nerve Cells

April 6, 2021
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Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany — Neuroscientists agree that a person’s brain is constantly changing, rewiring itself and adapting to environmental stimuli. This is how humans learn new things...

Novel Pharmacological Strategies to Treat Alcoholism. Focus on Epigenetics

April 6, 2021
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Salamanca, Spain — Abusive alcohol drinking considerably impacts human health. Alcoholism, better defined as Alcohol Use Disorders (AUD), includes a group of pathological entities related to alcohol-induced...

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