News tagged with neurotransmitter glutamate
First steps of synapse building is captured in live zebra fish embryos
Using spinning disk microscopy on barely day-old zebra fish embryos, University of Oregon scientists have gained a new window on how synapse-building components move to worksites in the central nervous system.
Neuroscience
Apr 18, 2013 |
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The mysterious GRIN3A and the cause of schizophrenia
Since the 1960s, psychiatrists have been hunting for substances made by the body that might accumulate in abnormally high levels to produce the symptoms associated with schizophrenia. In particular, there was a search for ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 14, 2013 |
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Preventing suicide: A critical next step
Doctors may in the future be able to take a blood test to determine if a patient is suicidal, hopefully decreasing the number of people taking their own lives.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 20, 2013 |
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Group Therapy: New approach to psychosis treatment could target multiple nervous system receptors
Antipsychotic drugs, used in the treatment of psychotic disorders involving severe delusions and hallucinations, have been studied for more than 70 years. Currently available antipsychotic drugs, however, only alleviate certain ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 01, 2013 |
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Scientists learn more about how inhibitory brain cells get excited
Scientists have found an early step in how the brain's inhibitory cells get excited.
Neuroscience
Jan 30, 2013 |
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Countering brain chemical could prevent suicides
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers have found the first proof that a chemical in the brain called glutamate is linked to suicidal behavior, offering new hope for efforts to prevent people from taking their own ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 14, 2012 |
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Glutamate neurotransmission system may be involved with depression risk
Researchers using a new approach to identifying genes associated with depression have found that variants in a group of genes involved in transmission of signals by the neurotransmitter glutamate appear to increase the risk ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 13, 2012 |
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Scientists identify compounds that could thwart post-traumatic stress disorder
A brain pathway that is stimulated by traumatic or fearful experiences can be disrupted by two compounds that show promise for preventing post-traumatic stress disorder, Indiana University researchers reported.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 15, 2012 |
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Learning faster with neurodegenerative disease
People who bear the genetic mutation for Huntington's disease learn faster than healthy people. The more pronounced the mutation was, the more quickly they learned. This is reported by researchers from the Ruhr-Universität ...
Neuroscience
Sep 14, 2012 |
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Researchers link two biological risk factors for schizophrenia
(Medical Xpress) -- Johns Hopkins researchers say they have discovered a cause-and-effect relationship between two well-established biological risk factors for schizophrenia previously believed to be independent of one another.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 17, 2012 |
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Balancing connections for proper brain function
Neuropsychiatric conditions such as autism, schizophrenia and epilepsy involve an imbalance between two types of synapses in the brain: excitatory synapses that release the neurotransmitter glutamate, and ...
Neuroscience
Jun 22, 2012 |
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Intestinal bacteria produce neurotransmitter, could play role in inflammation
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital have identified commensal bacteria in the human intestine that produce a neurotransmitter that may play a role in preventing or treating inflammatory ...
Inflammatory disorders
Jun 17, 2012 |
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Scientists prevent cerebral palsy-like brain damage in mice
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that a protein may help prevent the kind of brain damage that occurs in babies with cerebral palsy.
Neuroscience
Nov 02, 2011 |
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The architects of the brain: Scientists decipher the role of calcium signals
German neurobiologists have found that certain receptors for the neurotransmitter glutamate determine the architecture of nerve cells in the developing brain. Individual receptor variants lead to especially long and branched ...
Neuroscience
Oct 26, 2011 |
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New drug target for Alzheimer's, stroke discovered
A tiny piece of a critical receptor that fuels the brain and without which sentient beings cannot live has been discovered by University at Buffalo scientists as a promising new drug target for Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative ...
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Oct 11, 2011 |
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