Genetics
Gene associated with autism also controls growth of the embryonic brain
A UCLA-led study reveals a new role for a gene that's associated with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability and language impairment.
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Neuroscience
Fiber crossings ahead: Key enzymes affecting nervous system pathway identified
Voluntary motor movements rely on the corticospinal tract (CST)—a group of neuronal fibers in mammals that connect each side of the brain to the opposite side of the spinal cord, and ultimately to muscles. It contains about ...
Feb 5, 2020
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Neuroscience
Researchers identify unique neuron that computes like a compass
It's 5 p.m. as you leave the parking garage at work, but you realize you have no idea which way to turn to travel home. You know where you are and what street your house is on—it's just that you can't remember how to get ...
Feb 4, 2020
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Neuroscience
Genetic screen offers new drug targets for Huntington's disease
Using a type of genetic screen that had previously been impossible in the mammalian brain, MIT neuroscientists have identified hundreds of genes that are necessary for neuron survival. They also used the same approach to ...
Jan 30, 2020
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Medical research
Novel insight into chromosome 21 and its effect on Down syndrome
A UCL-led research team has, for the first time, identified specific regions of chromosome 21, which cause memory and decision-making problems in mice with Down syndrome, a finding that provides valuable new insight into ...
Jan 28, 2020
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Neuroscience
Blue light triggers memory and emphatic fear in mice via noninvasive approach
Researchers at the Center for Cognition and Sociality, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea, have engineered an improved biological tool that controls calcium (Ca2+) levels in the brain via blue light. ...
Jan 21, 2020
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Neuroscience
Researchers discover novel potential target for drug addiction treatment
New University of Minnesota Medical School research discovers a novel potential target for treating drug addiction through "the hidden stars of the brain."
Jan 15, 2020
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Medical research
The importance of individualized models for understanding brain function
New research conducted by Professor Itamar Kahn, director of the Brain Systems Organization in Health and Disease Lab in the Technion's Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, in collaboration with scientists from France and the U.S., ...
Jan 3, 2020
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Neuroscience
A molecular map of the brain's decision-making area
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have come one step closer toward understanding how the part of our brain that is central for decision-making and the development of addiction is organized on a molecular level. In mouse ...
Dec 24, 2019
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Medical research
Scientists eager to explain brain rhythm boost's broad impact in Alzheimer's models
The sweeping extent to which increasing 40Hz "gamma" rhythm power in the brain can affect the pathology and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in mouse models has been surprising, even to the MIT neuroscientists who've pioneered ...
Dec 11, 2019
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