http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. UCSF scientists controlled seizures in epileptic mice with a one-time transplantation of medial ganglionic eminence (MGE) cells, which inhibit signaling in overactive nerve circuits, into the hippocampus, a brain region associated with seizures, as well as with learning and memory. Other researchers had previously used different cell types in rodent cell transplantation experiments and failed to stop seizures. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-epilepsy-mice-brain-cells.html Neuroscience Sun, 05 May 2013 13:00:27 EST news286953942 Scientists have found an early step in how the brain's inhibitory cells get excited. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-scientists-inhibitory-brain-cells.html Neuroscience Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:16:39 EST news278774191 The production of new neurons in the adult normal cortex in response to the antidepressant, fluoxetine, is reported in a study published online this week in Neuropsychopharmacology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-induction-adult-cortical-neurogenesis-antidepressant.html Neuroscience Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:51:46 EST news276515488 Inside the brains of mice and men alike, a relatively big football-shaped region called the thalamus acts like a switchboard, providing the prefrontal cortex, the part that does abstract thinking and decision-making, with most of its information. The thalamus's responsibility even includes helping the prefrontal cortex to maintain consciousness and arousal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-nonspecific-thalamus-prefrontal-cortex-key.html Neuroscience Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:03:36 EST news273863006 A low dose of the sedative clonazepam alleviated autistic-like behavior in mice with a mutation that causes Dravet syndrome in humans, University of Washington researchers have shown. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-low-dose-sedative-alleviates-autistic-like-behavior.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:20:51 EST news264860438 (Medical Xpress) -- Chronic pain, by definition, is difficult to manage, but a new study by UCSF scientists shows how a cell therapy might one day be used not only to quell some common types of persistent and difficult-to-treat pain, but also to cure the conditions that give rise to them. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-pain-transplants.html Neuroscience Wed, 23 May 2012 13:20:19 EST news256998014 Scientists now have a better understanding of how precise memories are formed thanks to research led by Prof. Jean-Claude Lacaille of the University of Montreal's Department of Physiology. "In terms of human applications, these findings could help us to better understand memory impairments in neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's disease," Lacaille said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-neuro-sharpen-memories.html Neuroscience Tue, 01 May 2012 17:20:01 EST news255107778 No matter what novel objects we come to behold, our brains effortlessly take us from an initial "What's that?" to "Oh, that old thing" after a few casual encounters. In research that helps shed light on the malleability of this recognition process, Brown University neuroscientists have teased apart the potentially different roles that two distinct cell types may play. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-distinct-brain-cells-sights.html Neuroscience Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:00:07 EST news253363963 A single injection of cocaine or methamphetamine in mice caused their brains to put the brakes on neurons that generate sensations of pleasure, and these cellular changes lasted for at least a week, according to research by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-discovery-brain-natural-resistance-drugs.html Neuroscience Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:10:01 EST news250425664