Neuroscience
Lactation changes how mom's neurons communicate—but it's reversible
Lactation temporarily changes how a mother's neurons behave, according to new research in mice published in JNeurosci.
Mar 23, 2020
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News tagged with neuronal firing
Neuroscience
Neurons absorb and release water when firing, study suggests
Neurons absorb and release water when they relay messages throughout the brain, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. Tracking this water movement with imaging technology ...
Sep 14, 2018
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Neuroscience
Neurons get the beat and keep it going in drumrolls
A neuron firing deep in the brain might sound a little like: Drumroll...cymbal crash! Drumroll...cymbal crash! Repeat. With emphasis on "repeat," according to a new study.
Feb 01, 2018
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Your neurons register familiar faces, whether you notice them or not
When people see an image of a person they recognize—the famous tennis player Roger Federer or actress Halle Berry, for instance—particular cells light up in the brain. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology on ...
Sep 21, 2017
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Enhancing neuronal activity promotes axon regeneration in adult central nervous system
Damage to axons in the central nervous system (CNS) typically results in permanent functional deficits. Boosting intrinsic growth programs can dramatically augment the axon regeneration of injured neurons. If injured neurons ...
Feb 10, 2016
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A surprising source of serotonin could affect antidepressant activity
Depression affects an estimated 350 million people worldwide and poses a major public health challenge, according to the World Health Organization. Researchers have discovered an unconventional way that serotonin is released ...
Mar 30, 2015
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Discovery of new drug targets for memory impairment in Alzheimer's disease
Research team in Korea has discovered that reactive astrocytes, which have been commonly observed in Alzheimer's patients, aberrantly and abundantly produce the chief inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA and release it through ...
Jul 09, 2014
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Neuroscience
Regulating brain activity to improve attention
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers from The University of Nottingham have found that balanced activity in the brain's prefrontal cortex is necessary for attention.
Jun 04, 2014
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Neuroscience
Illuminating neuron activity in 3-D
Researchers at MIT and the University of Vienna have created an imaging system that reveals neural activity throughout the brains of living animals. This technique, the first that can generate 3-D movies of entire brains ...
May 18, 2014
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Neuroscience
Turning off depression in the brain
Scientists have traced vulnerability to depression-like behaviors in mice to out-of-balance electrical activity inside neurons of the brain's reward circuit and experimentally reversed it – but there's a twist.
Apr 17, 2014
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