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Study may explain how a well-known epilepsy and pain drug works
The finding may also point to new therapies for brain injury and neuropathic pain.The role of neurons in the brain and nervous system is well known, but astrocytes, a different type of brain c...
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Read moreStudy pinpoints key mechanism in brain development, raising question about use of anti-seizure drug
This discovery, based on experiments in cell culture and in mice, could advance scientists' understanding of how young children's brains develop as well as point to new approaches toward cou...
Studies and Analyses | Read morePhotoswitches shed light on spontaneous free swimming in zebrafish
A new way to select and switch on one cell type in an organism using light has helped answer a long-standing question about the function of one class of enigmatic nerve cells in the spinal cord....
Life Sciences | Read moreSeizure drug enhances sleep for women with hot flashes
Approximately 40 percent of menopausal women experience sleep disruption, often in the form of difficulty with sleep initiation and frequent nighttime awakenings. The study is the first to show sustai...
Health and Medicine | Read moreYale researchers find key to keeping cells in shape
Cell size is regulated by the balance of positively and negatively charged ions and other solutes in the fluid inside and outside cells, which in turn prevents water from moving across cell membranes ...
Life Sciences | Read moreRoaming receptors
Changes in the synaptic strength of neurons, effected by repeated neuronal activity, drive important behavioral processes such as learning and memory. Continuous simulation of a neuron, for example, c...
Life Sciences | Read moreNovel medical indication of Baclofen and other GABAB receptor specific agonists
Scientists from the university hospital of Frankfurt am Main found that baclofen significantly improves the medical therapy in a so far unknown field of medical application. Furthermore, the results i...
Technology Offerings | Read moreNew treatment discovered for restless legs syndrome improves sleep
The 12 week study involved 58 people with RLS. Of the group, 30 people received the drug pregabalin and the rest received placebo. Sleep studies were performed at the beginning and end of the research...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreSmithsonian scientist warns that palm oil development may threaten Amazon
It could easily become a threat to the Amazon rainforest because of a proposed change in Brazil's legislation, new infrastructure and the influence of foreign agro-industrial firms in the region,...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreTaurine: Key to the visual toxicity of an anti-epileptic drug for children?
Serge Picaud, head of research at Inserm, and his colleagues of the Institut de la Vision have just discovered the origin of this secondary effect and have proposed strategies for limiting it....
Health and Medicine | Read moreNew research sheds light on fly sleep circuit
In a novel study appearing this week in Neuron, Brandeis researchers identify for the first time a specific set of wake-promoting neurons in fruit flies that are analogous to cells in the much more co...
Life Sciences | Read moreHope for treating relapse to methamphetamine abuse
A new study at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory suggests that vigabatrin (a.k.a. gamma vinyl-GABA, or GVG) blocks drug-seeking behavior in animals previously t...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreBrain waves
A seemingly simple action, such as picking up a pencil, actually involves complex communication between many parts of the central nervous system. Information about the pencil and its location enters t...
Life Sciences | Read morePenn biophysicists create new model for protein-cholesterol interactions in brain and muscle tissue
The results provide a new model of behavior for the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, a well studied protein involved in inflammation, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia...
Life Sciences | Read moreInsight into the evolution of parasitism
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, together with American colleagues, have decoded the genome of the Pristionchus pacificus nematode, thereby gaining insight into the ev...
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