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Scientists learn more about how inhibitory brain cells get excited
Jan. 30, 2013 Scientists have found an early step in how the brain’s inhibitory cells get excited. A natural balance of excitement and inhibition keeps the brain from firing electrical impulses randomly and excessively, resulting in problems such as schizophrenia and seizures.
Scientists learn more about how inhibitory brain cells get excited
Jan. 30, 2013 Scientists have found an early step in how the brain’s inhibitory cells get excited. A natural balance of excitement and inhibition keeps the brain from firing electrical impulses randomly and excessively, resulting in problems such as schizophrenia and seizures.
Scientists learn more about how inhibitory brain cells get excited
Jan. 30, 2013 Scientists have found an early step in how the brain’s inhibitory cells get excited. A natural balance of excitement and inhibition keeps the brain from firing electrical impulses randomly and excessively, resulting in problems such as schizophrenia and seizures.
How brain cells shape temperature preferences
Jan. 29, 2013 While the wooly musk ox may like it cold, fruit flies definitely do not. They like it hot, or at least warm.
In-brain monitoring shows memory network
Jan. 29, 2013 Working with patients with electrodes implanted in their brains, researchers at the University of California, Davis, and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have shown for the first time that areas of the brain work together at the same time to recall memories. The unique approach promises new insights into how we remember details of time and place
Neuroscientists pinpoint location of fear memory in amygdala
Jan. 27, 2013 A rustle of undergrowth in the outback: it’s a sound that might make an animal or person stop sharply and be still, in the anticipation of a predator.
Poor sleep in old age prevents the brain from storing memories
Jan. 27, 2013 The connection between poor sleep, memory loss and brain deterioration as we grow older has been elusive. But for the first time, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a link between these hallmark maladies of old age
Science needs a second opinion: Researchers find flaws in study of patients in ‘vegetative state’
Jan. 24, 2013 A team of researchers led by Weill Cornell Medical College is calling into question the published statistics, methods and findings of a highly publicized research study that claimed bedside electroencephalography (EEG) identified evidence of awareness in three patients diagnosed to be in a vegetative state. The new reanalysis study led by Weill Cornell neurologists Drs
Chance finding reveals new control on blood vessels in developing brain
Jan. 24, 2013 Zhen Huang freely admits he was not interested in blood vessels four years ago when he was studying brain development in a fetal mouse. Instead, he wanted to see how changing a particular gene in brain cells called glia would affect the growth of neurons
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