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Scientists reveal new evidence of key mechanism in Alzheimer's
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 19 (ANI): Rutgers scientists have found more clear-cut evidence of how the destructive proteins linked to Alzheimer's disease attack human brain cells and destroy surrounding tissue.
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In novel idea about brain connections, cosmological thinking meets neurosc
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 5 (ANI): A collaboration between a former cosmologist and a computational neuroscientist generated a new way to identify essential connections between brain cells.
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New way to identify essential connections between brain cells: Research
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 1 (ANI): A collaboration between a former cosmologist and a computational neuroscientist generates a new way to identify essential connections between brain cells.
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Study: Gene discovery indicates that abnormal lipid processing in cells ca
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 20 (ANI): New genetic findings add weight to the theory that degenerative motor neuron disease is caused by abnormal lipid (fat) processing pathways inside brain cells. This theory could help pave the way for new diagnostic approaches and treatments for this group of co
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Exercise may protect brain volume by keeping insulin, BMI levels low: Stud
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Caen [France], April 15 (ANI): A new study has found that exercise can help protect brain cells. It has been suggested that the role exercise plays in maintaining insulin and body mass index levels may help protect brain volume and thus help stave off dementia.
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Research suggests brain cell insight might lead to new treatments for neur
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 12 (ANI): New research might help scientists locate immature cells in the central nervous system that can shed light on the causes of neurodegenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis and autoimmune disease that affects the brain and nervous system. Further, it can ev
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Study examines how brain makes memories
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Los Angeles (California) [US], March 8 (ANI): In a study led by Cedars-Sinai, researchers have discovered two types of brain cells that play a key role in dividing continuous human experience into distinct segments that can be recalled later. The discovery provides new promise as a path towa
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Breakthrough discovery for treatment for kids suffering from autism, epile
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Chicago [US], December 19 (ANI): A lot of kids dealing with autism also suffer from epilepsy. Now, Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered an important brain protein that quiets overactive brain cells and is at abnormally low levels in children with autism.
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Study finds how brain cells navigate in light, dark
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], November 17 (ANI): Researchers have discovered how cells in an area of the brain called the retrosplenial cortex encode this angular head motion to enable navigation during day and night.
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Scientists discover new brain cells responsible for controlling movement
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 10 (ANI): A slew of new studies showed that the area of the brain responsible for initiating this action -- the primary motor cortex, which controls movement -- has as many as 116 different types of cells that work together to make this happen.
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Gene therapy restores vision after stroke: Study
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 9 (ANI): A research team led by Purdue University's Alexander Chubykin, an associate professor of biological sciences in the College of Science, in collaboration with the team led by Gong Chen at Jinan University, China, has discovered a way to use gene therapy to tu
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Neuroscientists roll out first comprehensive atlas of brain cells
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 7 (ANI): When you clicked to read this story, a band of cells across the top of your brain sent signals down your spine and out to your hand to tell the muscles in your index finger to press down with just the right amount of pressure to activate your mouse or trackp
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