Diabetes-Alzheimer’s link explored at Neuroscience 2019
Live-streamed press conference offers breaking researchCredit: Society for Neuroscience Surprising links exist between diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, and researchers are ...
Tag: neurobiology
Navigating ‘Neuralville’: Virtual town helps map brain functions
How cortical scene-selective regions are specializedCredit: Andrew Persichetti Psychologists at Emory University have found that the human brain uses three ...
UVA discovers surprise contributor to multiple sclerosis
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Cells that scientists have largely ignored when studying multiple sclerosis are actually key contributors to ...
Computer model helps make sense of human memory
Credit: OIST Brains are a mazy network of overlapping circuits -- some pathways encourage activity while others suppress it. While ...
$2.8 million grant will fund preclinical study of new dementia treatment
Credit: UK Photo | Mark Cornelison LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 7, 2019) -- The Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has received a ...
Researchers receive $7.8 million to establish rare disease network for myasthenia gravis
This is the first large, organized effort to search for improvements in myasthenia gravis, in not only research and treatment, ...
NIH funding bolsters rare diseases research collaborations
New grants aimed at better understanding diseases, moving potential treatments closer to the clinicCredit: Xiangyang Zhang, Ph.D., The George Washington ...
Scientists create brain-mimicking environment to grow 3D tissue models of brain tumors
Use of brain-like extracellular matrix allows cell growth and treatment to more closely replicate physiological responseCredit: Disha Sood & David ...
How effective is body cooling in patients that experience cardiac arrest?
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. - While body temperature cooling is not a new treatment tactic for patients who ...
Protein associated with many diseases fully visualized for first time
New drugs could be inspired by understanding how P2X7 protein receptor worksCredit: Oregon Health & Science University For the first ...
Researchers to develop ‘intelligent spinal interface’ with $6.3 million in DARPA funding
Credit: Nick Dentamaro / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Supported with a new grant of $6.3 million from the U.S. ...
Scientists predict the areas of the brain to stimulate transitions between different brain states
Using a computer model of the brain, scientists have developed an innovative method published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...
Sentinels in the mouth
Special sensory cells in the gums protect against periodontitisCredit: Monell Chemical Senses Center; Nature Communications PHILADELPHIA (October 3, 2019) - ...
U of G researchers discover potential drug to treat heart attacks
A potential drug to treat heart attacks and to prevent heart failure -- for which no cure currently exists -- ...
Brain disease or mental illness? New book explores historical rift between neurology and psychiatry
UMass Amherst mathematician, acclaimed Harvard neurologist co-author second bookCredit: Brian David Burrell University of Massachusetts Amherst mathematician and science writer ...
Researchers identify molecular process that could accelerate recovery from nerve injuries
Credit: Broad Stem Cell Research Center Twenty million Americans suffer from peripheral nerve injuries, which can be caused by traumas ...
Researchers study the mechanisms behind learning and long-term memory in the brain
Credit: Virginia Tech When we first purchase a smart phone, all of our settings and applications are the same. But ...
St. Jude neuroscientist Lindsay Schwarz receives a 2019 NIH Director’s Award
High Risk, High Reward grant award funds 'highly innovative, high-impact' biomedical research potential for broad impact across scientific fieldsCredit: St. ...
Three UC San Diego researchers receive top honors with NIH Director’s Awards
Rob Knight, PhD, awarded the Pioneer Award; Omar Akbari, PhD, and Shadi Dayeh, PhD, receive the New Innovator Award, recognizing ...
Exploring the brain in a new way: WVU researcher records neurons to understand cognition
Credit: Illustration by Shuo Wang Where is Waldo? Whether we're searching for Waldo or our keys in a room of ...
