Ask the average person the street how the brain develops, and they'll likely tell you that the brain's wiring is built as newborns first begin to experience the world. With more experience, those connections are strengthened, ...
Jun 6, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fear burns memories into our brain, and new research by University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists explains how.
Jun 14, 2011
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New treatments for depression are needed that act rapidly and also have sustained effects. Ketamine accomplishes this, but toxic side effects limit its long-term use. Scientists haven't understood how ketamine was able to ...
Feb 29, 2024
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When our recent study met significant skepticism, we weren't surprised. After all, we ourselves remained skeptical of what we were seeing throughout our investigation. But repeated and varied experiments convinced us our ...
Mar 12, 2018
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McMaster University neuroscientists studying sports-related head injuries have found that it takes less than a full concussion to cause memory loss, possibly because even mild trauma can interrupt the production of new neurons ...
Nov 14, 2017
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New research published online in The FASEB Journal sheds important light on the inner workings of learning and memory. Specifically, scientists show that a plasma membrane protein, called Efr3, regulates brain-derived neurotrophic ...
May 11, 2017
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A new study shows the death of newborn brain cells may be linked to a genetic risk factor for five major psychiatric diseases, and at the same time shows a compound currently being developed for use in humans may have therapeutic ...
Apr 26, 2016
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Loss of memory is a well-established symptom of Alzheimer's disease. Also, cognitive impairment and personality changes are also observed in these patients. Many studies investigating the causes of Alzheimer's have focused ...
Sep 25, 2015
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Ongoing research at Iowa State University is investigating the connection between initial seizures and the onset of epilepsy later in life.
Oct 1, 2014
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Neurogenesis is a complex biological process by which neurons are generated from neural stem cells and progenitor cells. Indeed, the discovery of a dynamic neurogenesis in the adult brain (in both humans and animals) was ...
Sep 22, 2017
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