Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study could aid degenerative disease therapies
Fresh insights into how nerves connect with muscles in the body could aid the development of therapies to treat neurodegenerative diseases.
Oct 30, 2019
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Neuroscience
Technique can image individual proteins within synapses
Our brains contain millions of synapses—the connections that transmit messages from neuron to neuron. Within these synapses are hundreds of different proteins, and dysfunction of these proteins can lead to conditions such ...
Sep 26, 2019
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Medical research
Remodeling mRNA can be presented like an 'endless' conveyor belt of sushi
Synapses between nerve cells in the brain undergo constant remodeling, which is the basis of learning. An LMU team has now traced the molecules that direct remodeling and shown that they circulate in the living cell like ...
Jul 18, 2019
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Neuroscience
Sleep readies synapses for learning
Synapses in the hippocampus are larger and stronger after sleep deprivation, according to new research in mice published in JNeurosci. Overall, this study supports the idea that sleep may universally weaken synapses that ...
Jul 1, 2019
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Dementia gene linked to connections in brain
Insights into how a gene that increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease disrupts brain cells have been revealed by scientists.
Jun 27, 2019
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Medical research
Researchers find synapse-boosting factors in young blood
A team of researchers at Stanford University has found synapse-boosting factors in the blood of young mice. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their study of the ...
Neuroscience
Inhibitory synapses grow as 'traffic controller' at busy neural intersections
Neurons pass on information to one another via synapses. The vast majority of these synapses are excitatory, which increase the activity of the receiving neuron. Around 10 to 20 percent of synapses have the opposite effect, ...
May 13, 2019
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Neuroscience
Multitasking with perfection: Nerve cell works like 1400 individual cells
CT1 is different. In general, a nerve cell receives input from a number of presynaptic cells, processes the signals, and passes its output to downstream cells. In the cell CT1, however, each of the approximately 1400 cell ...
Apr 26, 2019
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Neuroscience
Possible link discovered between autism and formation of inhibitory synapses
Neurobiologists Cátia Frias and Corette Wierenga have studied the formation of inhibitory synapses, a complex process that occurs when the brain adapts. Their research uncovered an astonishing link to autism: One of the ...
Apr 5, 2019
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Neuroscience
Fruit fly tissues communicate in ways once thought to be unique to nervous system
While virtually all cells in an animal's body communicate with their neighbors in one way or another, many scientists thought that only neurons—the specialized cells that comprise much of the brain and nervous system—produce ...
Mar 4, 2019
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