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Pathway to Parkinson’s Takes Surprising Twist

November 12, 2019
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New York, NY — In neurodegenerative conditions like Parkinson’s disease, a specific group of neurons start to die one by one, causing movement problems and other symptoms. Scientists have long...

Artificial Networks Shed Light on Human Face Recognition

October 31, 2019
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Rehovot, Israel — Our brains are so primed to recognize faces – or to tell people apart – that we rarely even stop to think about it, but what happens in the brain when it engages in such...

Novel Nanoprobes Show Promise for Optical Monitoring of Neural Activity

October 21, 2019
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Santa Cruz, CA — Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed ultrasensitive nanoscale optical probes to monitor the bioelectric activity of neurons and other excitable cells. This novel readout technology...

Growing and Moving

October 10, 2019
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Freiburg, Germany — Neurons are not randomly arranged in the human brain. In the cortex, they are organized in interconnected clusters with high intrinsic connectivity. This modular connectivity structure,...

Tracking Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology in Single Neuronal Cells

September 26, 2019
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Coventry, UK — University of Warwick researchers have developed a superior method to describe the very earliest effects that Alzheimer’s Disease proteins have on the properties of brain cells. In...

Up-Close and Personal with Neuronal Networks

September 24, 2019
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Cambridge, MA — How our brain cells, or neurons, use electrical signals to communicate and coordinate for higher brain function is one of the biggest questions in all of science. For decades, researchers...

Researchers Build Microscopic Biohybrid Robots Propelled by Muscles, Nerves

September 17, 2019
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Champaign, IL — Researchers have developed soft robotic devices driven by neuromuscular tissue that triggers when stimulated by light – bringing mechanical engineering one step closer to developing...

Gene Therapy Helps Functional Recovery After Stroke

September 12, 2019
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A new gene therapy turns glial cells–abundant support cells in the brain–into neurons, repairing damage that results from stroke and significantly improving motor function in mice. A paper...

Role of GABA Neurons in Central Circadian Clock has been Discovered

September 9, 2019
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Nagoya, Japan — The research team led by Dr. Daisuke Ono and Prof. Akihiro Yamanaka of the Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, collaborating with Prof. Ken-ichi Honma and Prof. Sato Honma...

Blue Brain Finds How Neurons in Mouse Neocortex Form Billions of Synaptic Connections

August 29, 2019
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Lausanne, Switzerland — The structure of synaptic connections between neurons shapes their activity and function. Measuring a comprehensive snapshot of this so-called connectome has so far only been...

New Method Classifies Brain Cells Based on Electrical Signals

August 22, 2019
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Cambridge, MA — For decades, neuroscientists have relied on a technique for reading out electrical “spikes” of brain activity in live, behaving subjects that tells them very little about...

Brain Finds Order Amidst Chaos

August 22, 2019
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Lausanne, Switzerland — Neurons communicate with each other by sending out rapid pulses of electrical signals called spikes. At first glance, the generation of these spikes can be very reliable: when...

Tweaked CRISPR in Neurons Gives Scientists New Power to Probe Brain Diseases

August 16, 2019
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San Francisco, CA — A team of scientists at UC San Francisco and the National Institutes of Health have achieved another CRISPR first, one which may fundamentally alter the way scientists study brain...

Researchers Identify Key Proteins for Repair of Nerve Fibers

August 8, 2019
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Bonn, Germany — Scientists at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) have identified a group of proteins that help to regenerate damaged nerve cells. Their findings are reported in...

Brain Region Linked to Altered Social Interactions in Autism Model

July 30, 2019
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Cambridge, MA — Although psychiatric disorders can be linked to particular genes, the brain regions and mechanisms underlying particular disorders are not well-understood. Mutations or deletions of...

Taking out the Protein Garbage Becomes More Difficult as Neurons Age, Says Study

July 22, 2019
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Philadelphia, PA — Cells dispose of harmful “trash” through autophagy, a normal and necessary process in which aggregated proteins and dysfunctional structures are handled. If any part...

How Mammals’ Brains Evolved to Distinguish Odours is Nothing to Sniff At

July 18, 2019
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La Jolla, CA — The world is filled with millions upon millions of distinct smells, but how mammals’ brains evolved to tell them apart is something of a mystery. Now, two neuroscientists from...

Differences in MS Patients’ Cerebrospinal Fluid may be Key to Drugs that Halt Progression

July 15, 2019
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New York, NY — The disability burden for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) can vary significantly depending on whether they have a relapsing/remitting form of the disease, where they experience periods...

Protein-Linked Sugars are Crucial for Uptake of Proteins Linked to Parkinson’s Disease

July 4, 2019
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Philadelphia, PA — Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that affects more than 6 million people worldwide, is caused by the buildup of alpha-synuclein proteins in the brain. The...

How You and Your Friends can Play Video Game Together Using Only Your Minds

July 2, 2019
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Seattle, WA — Telepathic communication might be one step closer to reality thanks to new research from the University of Washington. A team created a method that allows three people to work together...

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