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Gut bacteria generate neurotransmitters that shape the neonatal immune sys
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers discovered that specific bacteria colonise the gut shortly after birth and produce the neurotransmitter serotonin, which educates gut immune cells. This helps to prevent allergic responses to both food and microbes during early development.
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Scientists reveal a detailed cell map of the mammalian brain
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
For the first time, an international team of researchers has created a full-cell atlas of a whole mammalian brain. This atlas serves as a map of the mouse brain, describing the kind, location, and chemical information of over 32 million cells as well as information on cell connectivity.
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Scientists unveil comprehensive cell map of mammalian brain
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
An international team of researchers has constructed a full-cell atlas of an entire mammalian brain for the first time.
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Study: Protein important in development of Alzheimer's disease for normal
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
New research has revealed that the tau protein, which is important in the development of Alzheimer's disease, is also involved in normal learning processes in the healthy brain, potentially providing a target for future drug therapies.
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Study: Revealing roles of dementia proteins in normal memory
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
New research has revealed how the tau protein, a critical element in the formation of Alzheimer's disease, is also involved in normal learning processes in the healthy brain, potentially providing a focal point for future drug therapies.
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Scientists reveal that 'brain-like computing' at molecular level is possib
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A breakthrough discovery at University of Limerick in Ireland has revealed for the first time that unconventional brain-like computing at the tiniest scale of atoms and molecules is possible.
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Study: Genetic variation within and between species to affect animal menta
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], August 5 (ANI): Our cognitive and emotional processes depend heavily on monoamine neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine. Their evolutionary ancestors were metazoans, and while related genes' functions have remained mostly unchanged over time, genetic variation within a
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Researchers discover new function performed by nearly half of the cells in
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Massachusetts [US], May 2 (ANI): According to a new study at Tufts University, researchers have discovered a previously unknown function performed by a cell type that contains almost half of all cells in the brain.
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Scientists explain why neurons consume so much energy even when at rest
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 6 (ANI): Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have recently found why the brain consumes vastly more energy than other organs, and, puzzlingly, it remains a fuel-guzzler even when its neurons are not firing signals called neurotransmitters to each other.
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Study unveils how proteins control information processing in brain
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Halle [Germany], May 9 (ANI): A complicated interaction between different proteins is needed for information to pass from one nerve cell to the next. A team of researchers now managed to study this process in the synaptic vesicles, which play an important role in this process.
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Consuming alcohol restructures brain causing changes in functioning, finds
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 18 (ANI): As people are already aware of the harmful effects of alcohol addiction, and the habit leading to many health problems, a new study has linked excessive alcohol consumption to the brain and its functions. A new study has found that alcohol addiction and a
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Elevated dopamine levels can cause hallucinations
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New York [U.S.A.], Feb. 17 (ANI): Links between hallucinations and dopamine, an organic chemical which acts as a neurotransmitter, have been made clear in a new research.
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