Less tau reduces seizures and sudden death in severe epilepsy
Deleting or reducing expression of a gene that carries the code for tau, a protein associated with Alzheimer's disease, can prevent seizures in a severe type of epilepsy linked to sudden death, said researchers at Baylor ...
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Jan 22, 2013 |
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Measuring distress in people with Types 1 and 2 diabetes
(Medical Xpress)—Australian diabetes experts, psychiatrists and neuroscientists have reported the benefits of measuring depression and disease-related distress in patients with diabetes. They have also ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 22, 2013 |
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Neuroscientists show how decision-making processes are influenced by neurons
Whether in society or nature, decisions are often the result of complex interactions between many factors. Because of this it is usually difficult to determine how much weight the different factors have in making a final ...
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Jan 15, 2013 |
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Transmission of tangles in Alzheimer's mice provides more authentic model of tau pathology
Brain diseases associated with the misformed protein tau, including Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration with tau pathologies, are characterized by neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) comprised ...
Neuroscience
Jan 15, 2013 |
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Parkinson's treatment can trigger creativity
Parkinson's experts across the world have been reporting a remarkable phenomenon—many patients treated with drugs to increase the activity of dopamine in the brain as a therapy for motor symptoms such as ...
Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Jan 14, 2013 |
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New discovery in autism-related disorder reveals key mechanism in brain development and disease
A new finding in neuroscience for the first time points to a developmental mechanism linking the disease-causing mutation in an autism-related disorder, Timothy syndrome, and observed defects in brain wiring, according to ...
Neuroscience
Jan 14, 2013 |
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Researchers find causality in the eye of the beholder
We rely on our visual system more heavily than previously thought in determining the causality of events. A team of researchers has shown that, in making judgments about causality, we don't always need to use cognitive reasoning. ...
Neuroscience
Jan 10, 2013 |
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Study shows cognitive benefit of lifelong bilingualism
Seniors who have spoken two languages since childhood are faster than single-language speakers at switching from one task to another, according to a study published in the January 9 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Compared to the ...
Neuroscience
Jan 08, 2013 |
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Don't let botox go to your head…or should you?
Injecting botox into the arm muscles of stroke survivors, with severe spasticity, changes electrical activity in the brain and may assist with longer-term recovery, according to new research.
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Jan 08, 2013 |
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The pain puzzle: Uncovering how morphine increases pain in some people
For individuals with agonizing pain, it is a cruel blow when the gold-standard medication actually causes more pain. Adults and children whose pain gets worse when treated with morphine may be closer to a solution, based ...
Neuroscience
Jan 06, 2013 |
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Dopamine-receptor gene variant linked to human longevity
(Medical Xpress)—A variant of a gene associated with active personality traits in humans seems to also be involved with living a longer life, UC Irvine and other researchers have found.
Neuroscience
Jan 03, 2013 |
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New study finds key mechanism in calcium regulation
All living cells keep their cellular calcium concentration at a very low level. Since a small increase in calcium can affect many critical cellular functions (an elevated calcium concentration over an extended period can ...
Neuroscience
Jan 03, 2013 |
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Itchy wool sweaters explained: Scientists uncover itch-specific nerve cells in skin
Johns Hopkins researchers have uncovered strong evidence that mice have a specific set of nerve cells that signal itch but not pain, a finding that may settle a decades-long debate about these sensations, ...
Neuroscience
Jan 02, 2013 |
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New study refutes accepted model of memory formation
A study by Johns Hopkins researchers has shown that a widely accepted model of long-term memory formation—that it hinges on a single enzyme in the brain—is flawed. The new study, published in the Jan. 2 issue of Nature, found ...
Neuroscience
Jan 02, 2013 |
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Birdsong study pecks theory that music is uniquely human
(Medical Xpress)—A bird listening to birdsong may experience some of the same emotions as a human listening to music, suggests a new study on white-throated sparrows, published in Frontiers of Evolutionary Ne ...
Neuroscience
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