Health
Drinking alcohol during pregnancy affects learning and memory function in offspring?
Maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy has detrimental effects on fetal central nervous system development.
Jul 19, 2013
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Addiction
Study reveals how smoking increases vulnerability to alcohol abuse
Smoking is a well-known risk factor for subsequent alcohol abuse, but the mechanisms underlying this link are unknown. Now researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Neuron on July 18 show in a study conducted in rats ...
Jul 18, 2013
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Neuroscience
Rat hippocampal neurons: An executor of neuroinflammation
Recent findings suggest that Toll-like receptor 4 expressed in the central nervous system, especially in glial cells, plays a vital role in neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative conditions. Traditional theory suggests that ...
Jul 15, 2013
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Neuroscience
Can supplementing vitamin D reduce infections in patients from neurosurgical ICU?
Vitamin D influences many other physiological processes, including muscle function, cardiovascular homeostasis, nerve function, and immune response. Furthermore, accumulated evidence suggests that vitamin D also mediates ...
Jul 15, 2013
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Medical research
Researchers find zinc's crucial pathway to the brain
A new study helps explain how parts of the brain maintain their delicate balance of zinc, an element required in minute but crucial doses, particularly during embryonic development.
Jun 26, 2013
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Surgery
Bariatric surgery restores nerve cell properties altered by diet
Understanding how gastric bypass surgery changes the properties of nerve cells that help regulate the digestive system could lead to new treatments that produce the same results without surgery, according to Penn State College ...
Jun 17, 2013
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Neuroscience
Optogenetic rendering of a whisker space holodrome with single spike precision
(Medical Xpress)—The constant refrain of the federal BRAIN Initiative can be summarized as the twin-towered call of "tools to codes." To that point, the latest issue of Nature methods is currently running an in-depth series ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain can be trained in compassion, study shows
Until now, little was scientifically known about the human potential to cultivate compassion—the emotional state of caring for people who are suffering in a way that motivates altruistic behavior.
May 22, 2013
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Neuroscience
Temporal processing in the olfactory system
The neural machinery underlying our olfactory sense continues to be an enigma for neuroscience. A recent review in Neuron seeks to expand traditional ideas about how neurons in the olfactory bulb might encode information ...
Neuroscience
Sense of touch reproduced through prosthetic hand
In a study recently published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, neurobiologists at the University of Chicago show how an organism can sense a tactile stimulus, in real time, through an ...
May 10, 2013
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