Neuroscience
Deafening affects vocal nerve cells within hours
Portions of a songbird's brain that control how it sings have been shown to decay within 24 hours of the animal losing its hearing.
Mar 7, 2012
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News tagged with nerve connections
Neuroscience
Scientists make advances in neuroscience and vision research
Thanks to a new study of the retina, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have developed a greater understanding of how the nervous system becomes wired during early development.
Dec 6, 2011
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Autism spectrum disorders
Autism may involve disordered white matter in the brain
It's still unclear what's different in the brains of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), but evidence from genetic and cell studies points to abnormalities in how brain cells (neurons) connect to each other. A study ...
Dec 5, 2011
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nutritional intervention helps in mild Alzheimer's disease
A second clinical trial of the medical food Souvenaid confirmed that daily intake of the nutritional intervention improves memory in people with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD). Results of the trial - called Souvenir II - were ...
Nov 5, 2011
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Neuroscience
Timing for clinical trials for stem cell therapy in spinal cord injuries is right
Regenerative medicine in spinal cord injuries (SCI) is proving to help the human body create new cell and nerve connections that are severed during this type of injury. In a review of current scientific research for stem ...
Oct 18, 2011
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Neuroscience
Two-dimensional learning: Viewing computer images causes long-term changes in nerve cell connections
Viewing two-dimensional images of the environment, as they occur in computer games, leads to sustained changes in the strength of nerve cell connections in the brain. In Cerebral Cortex, Prof. Dr. Denise Manahan-Vaughan and ...
Sep 26, 2011
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Medical research
Cancer protein's surprising role as memory regulator
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School have found that a common cancer protein leads a second, totally different life in normal adult brain cells: It helps regulates memory formation and may ...
Sep 22, 2011
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Medical research
Breathing restored after spinal cord injury
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine bridged a spinal cord injury and biologically regenerated lost nerve connections to the diaphragm, restoring breathing in an adult rodent model of spinal cord ...
Jul 13, 2011
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Medical research
Unexpected cell repairs injured spinal cord
Lesions to the brain or spinal cord rarely heal fully, which leads to permanent functional impairment. After injury to the central nervous system (CNS), neurons are lost and largely replaced by a scar often referred to as ...
Jul 7, 2011
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