Neuroscience
Scientists pinpoint proteins vital to long-term memory
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found a group of proteins essential to the formation of long-term memories.
Sep 12, 2013
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Medical research
Long intervening non-coding RNAs play pivotal roles in brain development
Whitehead Institute scientists have identified conserved, long intervening non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) that play key roles during embryonic brain development in zebrafish. They also show that the human versions of the lincRNAs ...
Dec 22, 2011
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Medical research
Signal explains why site of origin affects fate of postnatal neural stem cells
New research may help to explain why the location of postnatal neural stem cells in the brain determines the type of new neurons that are generated. The research, published by Cell Press in the July 28 issue of the journal ...
Jul 27, 2011
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Neuroscience
Pluggin in your vision's autostabilization feature
Just as most cameras now have an autostabilization feature to compensate for movement during picture taking, our eyes execute an imperceptible reflex that prevents our vision from blurring when we, or our field of vision, ...
May 7, 2015
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Neuroscience
Experiments challenge prevailing theory for the basis of cell death in the developing brain
(Medical Xpress)—The unexpected survival of embryonic neurons transplanted into the brains of newborn mice in a series of experiments at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) raises hope for the possibility ...
Oct 12, 2012
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Genetics
Early prenatal alcohol exposure affects genes involved in embryonic development
Alcohol exposure in early pregnancy can change gene function during the tightly regulated embryonic development, and consequently cause developmental disorders—especially neurodevelopmental disorders. Novel information ...
Jan 3, 2023
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Medical research
New study suggests enhanced mitochondrial fusion fuels nerve cell function and plasticity
Nerve cells (neurons) are among the most complex cell types in our body. They achieve this complexity during development by extending ramified branches called dendrites and axons and establishing thousands of synapses to ...
Apr 5, 2024
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Medical research
Zebrafish brain shows that new neurons are formed in the brain in a coordinated manner
Using Zebrafish, researchers from the School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry and Biophysics at the Faculty of Life Sciences of Tel Aviv University have developed an advanced simulation of a key process in the brain—the activation ...
May 11, 2021
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Medical research
Specific roles of adult neural stem cells may be determined before birth
Adult neural stem cells, which are commonly thought of as having the ability to develop into many type of brain cells, are in reality pre-programmed before birth to make very specific types of neurons, at least in mice, according ...
Jun 18, 2015
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Neuroscience
ALS and frontotemporal dementia show origins in utero, according to new study
Even though neurodegenerative diseases often strike in middle age or later, patients could have structural differences in their brains that arise before birth.
Aug 22, 2023
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