Neuroscience
Scientists use crabs to validate popular method to identify unknown human brain neurons
"Being crabby" might have a whole new meaning.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, usually referred to as PNAS, is the official journal of the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS). PNAS is an important scientific journal that printed its first issue in 1915 and continues to publish highly cited research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, feature articles, profiles, letters to the editor, and actions of the Academy. Coverage in PNAS broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences. Although most of the papers published in the journal are in the biomedical sciences, PNAS recruits papers and publishes special features in the physical and social sciences and in mathematics. PNAS is published weekly in print, and daily online in PNAS Early Edition. PNAS was established by NAS in 1914, with its first issue published in 1915. The NAS itself had been founded in 1863 as a private institution, but chartered by the US Congress, with the goal to "investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art." By 1914, the Academy was well established.
- Publisher
- United States National Academy of Sciences
- Country
- United States
- History
- 1914 - present
- Impact factor
- 9.681 (2011)
Neuroscience
The biological basis of economic behavior: How the brain perceives value and reward
Holiday shopping season is in full force and consumers who are on the lookout for deals in stores or online may be surprised to learn that a considerable amount of research is underway to elucidate the neuroscience underlying ...
Immunology
The gut may be involved in the development of multiple sclerosis
The gut has long been suspected to play a role in autoimmune disease. A research team has now identified evidence of a potential mechanism.
Dec 04, 2019
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Neuroscience
Coffee, nicotine and amphetamines activate 'hot spots' in the fetal brain
If pregnant women take significant amounts of the psychostimulants coffee, nicotine and amphetamine during pregnancy, their children have a higher risk of developing neurological and psychiatric problems later in life. Researchers ...
Dec 04, 2019
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Neuroscience
Study shows children can spontaneously recreate core properties of language
A trio of researchers from Stanford University, Leipzig University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has found that young children are able to recreate the core properties of spoken language using ...
Neuroscience
Neurodegenerative diseases may be caused by transportation failures inside neurons
All neurodegenerative diseases have a common thread: the appearance of protein clumps in the brain such as amyloid-beta plaques in Alzheimer's disease and alpha synuclein aggregates in Parkinson's. The root cause of this ...
Dec 03, 2019
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Medications
Endometriosis could be treated with cancer drug, study suggests
The painful symptoms of endometriosis—a chronic condition which affects millions of women—could potentially be reduced with a drug that had previously been investigated as a cancer treatment.
Dec 02, 2019
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Medical research
New clues about the origins of familial forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
A team led by Brazilian researcher Elis Eleutherio, professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in partnership with Tiago Outeiro, at University of Goettingen, Germany, made important progress in understanding ...
Dec 02, 2019
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Neuroscience
A new study reveals the function of corpora amylacea to remove brain waste substances
An article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) describes a new pathway in the central nervous system to expel waste substances from the brain through the creation of corpora amylacea (CA), ...
Dec 04, 2019
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Neuroscience
Neuro interface adds tactile dimension to screen images
Researchers from Duke University and HSE University have succeeded in creating artificial tactile perception in monkeys through direct brain stimulation. This breakthrough can be used to create upper-limb neuroprostheses, ...
Dec 03, 2019
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