Can watching movies detect autism?
Ben-Gurion University researchers indicate that tracking gaze patterns is measurable, reliable and offers great clinical potentialCredit: BEN-GURION U. NEW YORK...October ...
Tag: neurobiology
Biomarker for schizophrenia can be detected in human hair
Credit: RIKEN Working with model mice, post-mortem human brains, and people with schizophrenia, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain ...
Nerve cell protection free from side effects
Göttingen scientists are on the trail of an alternative erythropoietin receptorCredit: Ralf Heinrich The hormone erythropoietin (Epo) is a well-known ...
IQSEC1 gene mutations cause new intellectual disability syndrome
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine It used to take several years or sometimes decades to unequivocally identify the genes that ...
Identified a neural mechanism involved in the creation and consolidation of memories
Innovative methodology to study memoryCredit: University of Barcelona The memory of specific episodes is the base of autobiographical memory, but ...
Salk scientists receive $12.9 million from NIH BRAIN Initiative
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(October 21, 2019) Salk Institute scientists Nicola Allen, Eiman Azim, Margarita Behrens, and Joseph Ecker have ...
Beverly Davidson, PhD, elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Neuroscientist and gene therapy expert at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia receives outstanding honor in medicineCredit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Beverly ...
Make some noise: How background noise affects brain activity
University of Alberta scientists take neuroscience outside the lab, investigating how different sorts of background noise affect our focusCredit: John ...
SciLifeLab and AstraZeneca use cryo-EM to advance biomedicine
Research team of Alexey Amunts in collaboration with AstraZeneca unravel the extracellular region of the receptor tyrosine kinase RET involved ...
Autism spectrum disorder risk linked to insufficient placental steroid
Single ALLO injection during pregnancy was enough to avert both the cerebellar abnormalities and the aberrant social behaviors in experimental ...
Salk scientists awarded $14.3 million to map circuitry for movement
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA, CA--(October 18, 2019) A team of Salk scientists led by Professor Martyn Goulding has been ...
Novel nanoprobes show promise for optical monitoring of neural activity
New approach for studying neural circuits offers advantages over both microelectrodes and fluorescence-based optical techniques that require genetic modificationsCredit: Carolyn ...
A compound effective to chemotherapy-resistant cancer cells identified
Credit: Hokkaido University A compound effective in killing chemotherapy-resistant glioblastoma-initiating cells (GICs) has been identified, raising hopes of producing drugs ...
Research gauges neurodegeneration tied to FXTAS by measuring motor behavior
Credit: McKinney et al LAWRENCE -- The neurological disorder FXTAS (pronounced "fax-tas") stems from a genetic premutation seen in one ...
NIH continues support of Kent State Alzheimer’s researcher with new two-year grant
Credit: Kent State University Once it begins, Alzheimer's disease progresses systematically and aggressively, attacking victims on multiple fronts. But scientists ...
BARseq builds a better brain map
Credit: Zador lab/CSHL, 2019 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor Anthony Zador has taken the next step in his quest to ...
NIH scientists develop test for uncommon brain diseases
Samples of cerebrospinal fluid used to detect tauopathiesCredit: NIAID WHAT: National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists have developed an ultrasensitive ...
How hunger makes food tastier: a neural circuit in the hypothalamus
Researchers at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Okazaki identify the neural pathways that cause hunger-induced increases in the ...
Improving research with more effective antibodies
Scientists demonstrate flaws in protein detection tools, and outline a solutionCredit: The Neuro A new study points to the need ...
Sleep apnea treatment associated with lower health care costs
Increased PAP usage associated with reduced acute care, emergency department visitsCredit: American Academy of Sleep Medicine DARIEN, IL - Treating ...
