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The Protein Srebp2 Drives Cholesterol Formation in Prion-Infected Neuronal Cells Which May Promote Prion-Dependent Diseases
Prions are causing fatal and infectious diseases of the nervous system, such as the mad cow disease (BSE), scrapie in sheep or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum Münc...
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Read moreAre Teenagers Wired Differently Than Adults?
With the advent of magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, we have begun to appreciate how the brain continues to develop structurally through adolescence and on into adulthood. High emotionality is a cha...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreOn your last nerve: NC State researchers advance understanding of stem cells
The research is a significant advance in understanding the development of the nervous system, which is essential to addressing conditions such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and...
Life Sciences | Read moreAnalyzing structural brain changes in Alzheimer's disease
By applying the techniques to the newly completed dataset of the multi-institution Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), the scientists demonstrated that such sub-regional brain vol...
Studies and Analyses | Read more'Despair' Gene May Link to Mood Disorders
Pharmacy scientists at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) have identified antidepressant and anti-anxiety behaviors in tests of mice lacking the gene. Writing in the journal BMC Neuro...
Life Sciences | Read moreNew paper describes connections between Circadian and metabolic systems
The relationship between circadian and metabolic systems the researchers describe could have important implications for understanding the higher incidence of cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabet...
Life Sciences | Read moreNew research shows that wireless telephones can affect the brain
It is still too early to say if any health risks are involved, but medical researcher Fredrik Söderqvist recommends caution in the use of these phones, above all among children and adolescents. Few ch...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreNew UAB Study Sheds Light on Brain’s Response to Distress, Unexpected Events
In the study, UAB researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to see how activity in the parts of the brain associated with fear, learning and memory respond when research participan...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreChildren with autism show slower pupil responses
Recently, University of Missouri researchers have developed a pupil response test that is 92.5 percent accurate in separating children with autism from those with typical development. In the study, MU...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreConnection between depression and osteoporosis
This was revealed by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers, Prof. Raz Yirmiya, head of the Brain and Behavior Laboratory, and Prof. Itai Bab, head of the Bone Laboratory. They further revealed th...
Health and Medicine | Read moreHybrid Molecules Show Promise for Exploring, Treating Alzheimer's
In order to answer that key question and develop new approaches to preventing the damage, scientists must first understand how amyloid-beta forms the telltale clumps.University of Michigan res...
Life Sciences | Read moreCircadian surprise: A heat sensor for body-clock synchronization
Although much is known about how light affects the body clock - also known at the circadian clock - it is not well understood which cells or organs sense daily temperature changes or how temperature s...
Life Sciences | Read moreSeeing previously invisible molecules for the first time
A team of Harvard chemists led by X. Sunney Xie has developed a new microscopic technique for seeing, in color, molecules with undetectable fluorescence. The room-temperature technique allows research...
Life Sciences | Read moreNanowire biocompatibility in the brain: so far so good
In the future it is expected that it will be possible to insert nanoscale electrodes to study learning and memory functions and to treat patients suffering from chronic pain, depression, and diseases ...
Life Sciences | Read moreThe Food-Energy Cellular Connection Revealed: Metabolic Master Switch Sets the Biological Clock in Body Tissues
Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies shed light on the long missing connection: A metabolic master switch, which, when thrown, allows nutrients to directly alter the rhythm of...
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