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Study Finds Large Doses of Intensive Therapy Better for Children With Cerebral Palsy

October 14, 2021
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Blacksburg, VA — Children with cerebral palsy can gain greater use of an impaired arm and hand with larger doses of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) – without increasing stress for parents,...

Antioxidants to Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease

October 12, 2021
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Quebec, Canada — Research conducted by the Ph.D student Mohamed Raâfet Ben Khedher and the postdoctoral researcher Mohamed Haddad of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has shown...

A Cousin of Viagra Reduces Obesity by Stimulating Cells to Burn Fat, Study Suggests

October 7, 2021
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Baltimore, MD — Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have found that a drug first developed to treat Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and sickle cell disease reduces obesity and fatty liver in mice...

Strict Lineage Tracing Crucial to Nerve Cell Regeneration Research, Study Says

October 4, 2021
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Dallas, TX — UT Southwestern stem cell scientists find that stringent lineage tracing is crucial for studies of nerve cell regeneration. Their results, which are published in Cell, show that this tracing...

Team Rewires a Behavioural Circuit in the Worm Using Hydra Parts

October 4, 2021
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Woods Hole, MA — For two people to communicate in a loud, crowded room, they need to be standing side by side. The same is often true for neurons in the brain. But the same way a cell phone allows...

Strict Lineage Tracing Crucial to Nerve Cell Regeneration Research, Study Says

October 1, 2021
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Tracking Muscle Activity with Clothes on Your Back

October 1, 2021
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Washington, DC — Bioelectrical sensors on the skin can be used to measure electrical signals in the body, like heart activity and muscle contraction. While that provides valuable information for clinicians,...

Novel Small Molecule Potently Attenuates Neuroinflammation in Brain and Glial Cells

September 30, 2021
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Birmingham, AL — Neuroinflammation can worsen outcomes in stroke, traumatic brain injury or spinal cord injury, as well as accelerate neurodegenerative diseases like ALS, Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s....

ADHD and Impulsivity: New Potential Targets to Approach the Treatment for Neuropsychiatric Disorders

September 29, 2021
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Barcelona, Spain — A study published in the journal Pharmacological Research describes the existence of a complex built by dopamine and noradrenergic receptors that could be a therapeutic target of...

New Microscopy Technique Reveals Activity of One Million Neurons Across the Mouse Brain

September 20, 2021
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New York, NY — Capturing the intricacies of the brain’s activity demands resolution, scale, and speed—the ability to visualize millions of neurons with crystal clear resolution as they actively call...

Contrary to Expectations, Study Finds Primate Neurons have Fewer Synapses than Mice in Visual Cortex

September 15, 2021
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Chicago, IL — Primates are generally considered smarter than mice. But in a surprising finding, neuroscience researchers at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have discovered...

BCL11A: Evidence for Neuroprotective Effect

September 15, 2021
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Bonn, Germany — The neurotransmitter dopamine influences the activity of a wide variety of brain areas. A deficiency of this substance can have drastic consequences: The death of dopamine-producing...

Docking Peptides, Slow to Lock, Open Possible Path to Treat Alzheimer’s

September 14, 2021
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Houston, TX — Progress on treating Alzheimer’s disease has been frustratingly slow. A group of scientists in Houston suggest frustration at a very small scale may lead to a new path toward treatment. Researchers...

Behind the Scenes, Brain Circuit Ensures Vision Remains Reliable

September 9, 2021
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Cambridge, MA — When it comes to processing vision, the brain is full of noise. Information moves from the eyes through many connections in the brain. Ideally the same image would be reliably represented...

New Research Shows a Link between Cell Identities and Childhood Cancer Type Neuroblastoma

September 9, 2021
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Solna, Sweden — Neuroblastoma often starts in the sympathetic nervous system or the adrenal glands. This cancer has a high variability in outcome, ranging from spontaneous regression and complete disappearance...

Biologists Identify Bacterial Proteins that Promote Neurodegeneration, Opening a New Therapeutic Approach for Neurodegenerative Diseases

September 9, 2021
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Hong Kong, China — Growing evidence indicates that gut microbiota plays a critical role in regulating the progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Alzheimer’s...

Neurons are much Smarter than We Thought

September 8, 2021
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Jerusalem, Israel — We are in the midst of a scientific and technological revolution. The computers of today use artificial intelligence to learn from example, and execute sophisticated functions...

Researchers Develop Brain-Inspired Memory Device

September 7, 2021
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Singapore — Many electronic devices today are dependent on semiconductor logic circuits based on switches hard-wired to perform predefined logic functions. Physicists from the National University of...

Many of the Fastest-Evolving Human Genes Linked to Evolutionary Changes in Brain Development

September 7, 2021
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Boston, MA — More than 3,000 regions in the human genome are very different in people from in any other mammals, including our closest primate relatives. Now, a study reported in the journal Neuron on...

Research Reveals How Subtle Changes in a MicroRNA may Lead to ALS

September 1, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — When people think about the connection between genes and disease, they often envision something that works like a light switch: When the gene is normal, the person carrying it does not...

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