News tagged with neurotransmitter
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The role of dopamine in sleep regulation
A group of Spanish researchers has discovered a new function of the neurotransmitter dopamine in controlling sleep regulation. Dopamine acts in the pineal gland, which is central to dictating the 'circadian rhythm' in humans—the ...
Medical research
Jun 19, 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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Multi-center clinical study intensifies first strike at high-risk cancer in kids
An experimental treatment that combines intense chemotherapy with a radioactive isotope linked to synthesized neurotransmitter is being tested in newly diagnosed cases of high-risk neuroblastoma – a deadly, hard-to-cure ...
Cancer
Jun 12, 2012 |
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Molecular imaging finds link between low dopamine levels and aggression
Out of control competitive aggression could be a result of a lagging neurotransmitter called dopamine, say researchers presenting a study at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's 2012 Annual Meeting. During a computer game against ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 11, 2012 |
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Brain cell activity imbalance may account for seizure susceptibility in Angelman syndrome
New research by scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine may have pinpointed an underlying cause of the seizures that affect 90 percent of people with Angelman syndrome (AS), a neurodevelopmental ...
Neuroscience
Jun 06, 2012 |
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Ear delivers sound information to brain in surprisingly organized fashion: study
The brain receives information from the ear in a surprisingly orderly fashion, according to a University at Buffalo study scheduled to appear June 6 in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Neuroscience
Jun 05, 2012 |
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Antidepressant helps relieve pain from chemotherapy, study finds
The antidepressant drug duloxetine, known commercially as Cymbalta, helped relieve painful tingling feelings caused by chemotherapy in 59 percent of patients, a new study finds. This is the first clinical trial to find an ...
Cancer
Jun 04, 2012 |
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Preventing diabetes: Researchers measure loss of human pancreas cells
(Medical Xpress) -- A Yale University-led research team has developed a way to measure the loss of insulin-producing islet cells in the human pancreas. The death of those beta cells leads to diabetes. The ...
Medical research
Jun 01, 2012 |
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Fruit flies with Restless Legs Syndrome point to a genetic cause
When flies are made to lose a gene with links to Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS), they suffer the same sleep disturbances and restlessness that human patients do. The findings reported online on May 31 in Current Biology strong ...
Genetics
May 31, 2012 |
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Chronic pain is relieved by cell transplantation in lab study (Update)
(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 ...
Neuroscience
May 23, 2012 |
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Study supports urate protection against Parkinson's disease, hints at novel mechanism
Use of the antioxidant urate to protect against the neurodegeneration caused by Parkinson's disease appears to rely on more than urate's ability to protect against oxidative damage. In the May issue of the open-access journal ...
Parkinson's & Movement disorders
May 23, 2012 |
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Children with rare, incurable brain disease improve after gene therapy
Using gene transfer techniques pioneered by University of Florida faculty, Taiwanese doctors have restored some movement in four children bedridden with a rare, life-threatening neurological disease.
Pediatrics
May 16, 2012 |
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Colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy may be used to predict Parkinson's
Two studies by neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center suggest that, in the future, colonic tissue obtained during either colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy may be used to predict who will develop Parkinson's ...
Parkinson's & Movement disorders
May 15, 2012 |
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Sundown syndrome-like symptoms in fruit flies may be due to high dopamine levels
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania researchers have discovered a mechanism involving the neurotransmitter dopamine that switches fruit fly behavior from being active during the day ...
Genetics
May 14, 2012 |
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New research finds powerful function of alpha 2 delta protein that controls neurotransmission
Scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered that the single protein -- alpha 2 delta -- exerts a spigot-like function, controlling the volume of neurotransmitters and other chemicals that flow between the ...
Medical research
May 13, 2012 |
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