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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “neurons”

 

• Cancer Drug Prevents Build-up of Toxic Brain Protein

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 136
  Using a tiny dose of the leukemia drug nilotinib, researchers halt the accumulation of toxic proteins linked to Parkinsons diseases in the brains of mice.
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• Stem Cell Researchers Move Toward Treatment for Rare Genetic Nerve Disease

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 136
  Researchers use induced pluripotent stem cells to advance disease-in-a-dish modeling of ataxia telangiectasia, a rare genetic disorder associated with progressive loss of function in the cerebellum. Their discovery shows the positive effects of drugs that may lead to effective new treatments for the neurodegenerative ...
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• Researchers Discover Dynamic Behavior of Progenitor Cells in Brain

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 136
  Monitoring progenitor cells in the brains of living mice, researchers discover these cells remain highly dynamic in the adult brain. Progenitor cells can transform into cells that insulate nerve fibers and help form scars that aid in tissue repair, study suggests.
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• Work Out So You Won’t Pig Out

  
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  Exercise has long been used as a tool for weight loss.  It’s a matter of simple math:  burn more calories than you take in and you will lose weight.  Various research studies conducted over the past few years, however, have found several other ways that exercise helps you to lose weight, by inhibiting your ...
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• Why Matching and Mirroring Really Works

  
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  Have you heard of matching and mirroring? It’s the concept psychologists talk about when they refer to us building unconscious rapport with another person. They talk about matching their unconscious body language and gestures so that they feel at ease in our company. They also refer to matching or mirroring the ...
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• Turning Alzheimer’s Fuzzy Signals Into High Definition

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 136
  Researchers have discovered how cholinesterase inhibitors, a class of drug that prevents the breakdown of acetylcholine, could sharpen the brains performance in patients with Alzheimers disease.
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• OpenWorm looks to simulate life, with your help

  
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  Recently announced, the OpenWorm project looks to kickstart our creative side by exploiting our comprehensive understanding of c. elegans to let us make a nematode from scratch.
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• Individual brain cells track where we are and how we move

  
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  Leaving the house in the morning may seem simple, but with every move we make, our brains are working feverishly to create maps of the outside world that allow us to navigate and to remember where we are. Take one step out the front door, and an individual brain cell fires. Pass by your rose bush on the way to the ...
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• Study identifies a novel role for a protein related to synaptic vesicles.

  
  BrainFacts.org Blog — Authority: 121
  I often write on this blog that neurons in our brain are linked to each other by multiple connections. We call those connections synapses, but I never took the time to explain in detail how they work. It is a fascinating subject which constitutes an enormous field of research by itself. Here is an illustration of such ...
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• Do Self-Affirmations Work? A Revisit

  
  Wired for Success — Authority: 117
  Self-affirmations were first popularized by French psychologist Emile Coué back in the 1920s and are still a staple of self help gurus and psychologists and personal coaches. But do they work? read more
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• OpenWorm an Open-Source Virtual Worm

  
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  BBC News - Virtual worm project wriggles into life The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans is one of the most widely studied creatures on Earth Soon you could have an artificial creature living in your web browser. Programmers and scientists have joined together to try to create a comprehensive computer ...
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• Adult Cells Transformed into Early-stage Nerve Cells, Bypassing the Pluripotent Stem Cell Stage

  
  CellNEWS — Authority: 126
  Adult Cells Transformed into Early-stage Nerve Cells, Bypassing the Pluripotent Stem Cell Stage Friday, 03 May 2013 A University of Wisconsin-Madison research group has converted skin cells from people and monkeys into a cell that can form a wide variety of nervous-system cells — without passing ...
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• Please Visit My Other Blog, Steveso Thinks

  
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  As of May 15, 2013 I will not be renewing Senior Neurons. I have been and will continue to concentrate on my other blog Steveso Thinks , which has much the same content as this blog. I will try to arrange that any visitors to Senior Neurons will be redirected to Steveso Thinks. I hope those people who have followed ...
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• Mouse Study Shows Why Sleep Deprivation Temporarily Relieves Depression?

  
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  Many people have experienced relief from depression after going without a good night’s sleep — but the mood boost typically only lasts until the person falls asleep again. Although sleep deprivation is an impractical long term treatment, researchers have been interested in the workings behind this phenomenon. ...
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• Scientists Create Novel Approach to Find RNAs Involved in Long-term Memory Storage

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 136
  Researchers question why numerous different RNAs are transported to synapses. One reason, they suggest, is that they are stored to later help maintain long-term memory.
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• The power grid of the future will be controlled by neurons in a Petri dish

  
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  If researchers at Clemson University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have their way, the power grid of tomorrow will be governed by a network of living neurons, grown in a Petri dish, and attached to a computer. For now, the researchers have successfully used a simulation of the power grid to "teach" the ...
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• Stem Cell Transplant Restores Memory and Learning in Mice

  
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  Regenerative Medicine  For the first time, human stem cells have been successfully implanted themselves in the brain of a mouse and shown the ability to heal neurological deficits.For the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• What Sea Slugs Forget, Scientists Can Help Them Remember

  
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  From the humble sea snail, University of Texas scientists are learning a lot about how memory works...and what to do when nerve cells forget. read more
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• Three Ways to Shift Your Focus and Re-Shape Your Life

  
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  I read an insightful article in the Harvard Business Review last year by Kare Anderson, co-founder of the Say It Better Center and  a best-selling author.  The title was “ What Captures Your Attention Controls Your Life.”   She makes this statement: “Whatever we focus upon actually wires our neurons. For ...
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• Scientists reverse memory loss in brain cells …

  
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  Neuroscientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have taken a major step in their efforts to help people with memory loss tied to brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. Using sea snail nerve cells, the … Continue reading →
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