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... study done by a University of Southern California neural specialist and colleagues. The insight may lead to...rain, and it may be that these inherently rhythmic neural systems make it to easy for us to swing to the rhythmic of music," said the scientist. Meanwhile, Sc...Fortifying food with folic acid benefits babies
...rth, shows that the proportion of babies born with neural tube defects in the province of Newfoundland and L...he way that folic acid works to reduce the risk of neural tube defects in developing babies is poorly understood, yet the evidence that this vitamin is of ben...Popular Science announces Third Annual 'Brilliant 10'
...oboda's work contradicted the mainstream view that neural circuitry is fixed after childhood and may lead to methods of repairing the memory-formation system in Alzheimer's patients and others. James Walker , 40, Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, TX) for his work in the field of impact physics....Cockroach-like robot leads new research effort
...ysical model, they hope to tease apart the complex neural and muscular networks in insects. At the same...ti-pronged approach will allow them to uncover the neural and muscular control and feedback loops that lead to the remarkably similar patterns of whole-body m...Folic acid vitamin use by women reaches all-time high, March of Dimes survey finds
...ious birth defects of the brain and spine known as neural tube defects (NTDs) occur in the early weeks following conception, often before a woman knows she is pregnant. The survey was conducted for the March of Dimes by The Gallup Organization under a grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control a...Protein is key to fatal disorder and normal cell function
... in uncontrolled apoptosis, or cell death, and the neural degeneration that is a hallmark of Batten disease. "Genetic diseases such as Batten disease provide a unique opportunity to understand the role of proteins, like cln3, that are vital for normal cell function," said Rose-Mary Boustany, M.D., a profess...Molecule awakens and maintains neural connections
...rotein that regulates the growth and activation of neural connections in the brain. The protein functions i...brain tissue and cultured cells can be extended to neural development in vivo....Newborns have ear preferences, too
... for hearing music. Babies aren't born with these neural pathways connecting the ear to the cortex, however...ces between right and left brain stems. We think a neural pathway much lower in the brain could be causing the stimulus-related ear differences in newborns." ...Origin and Development of the Vertebrate Traits
...ses on the evolution of morphogenesis (Day 1), the neural crest, sensory systems and the brain (Day 2), and the genetic and cellular bases for the chordate body plan (Day 3). It is hoped that the broad scope of the presentations and disciplines covered will stimulate fruitful discussion and yield fresh new ...A genetic disorder yields insight into genes and cognition
...that the people with WS showed significantly lower neural activity in the dorsal stream of the visual cortex. Higher-resolution structural MRI imaging revealed a reduction in the volume of gray matter in an adjacent brain region. The researchers' studies also showed that impaired input from this region coul...APS awards more than $140,000 to minority students of physiology
...stem (CNS). This research will help elucidate the neural mechanism that causes CNS oxygen toxicity. CNS oxygen toxicity is a potential health problem for hyperbaric oxygen therapy patients and U.S. Navy divers who breathe pure oxygen during their missions. Damon Jacobs University of North Carolina Ch...Review article makes case for a new source of cells in the body
...this cell type that escapes from the bottom of the neural tube early in development, after the tube closes t...s Dr. Sohal first saw in 1995 traveling out of the neural tube of a three-day-old chick embryo. Dr. Dickinson got a baptism by immersion as lead author on an ...New understanding of the machinery of flinching
...raziano and Dylan Cooke have shed new light on the neural machinery that controls flinching by dialing the response up or down using drugs. Their studies concentrated on a region of the motor cortex they have dubbed the polysensory zone, which Graziano and other researchers had shown could be induced to tri...Forgetting, reminding, and remembering: The retrieval of lost spatial memory
...buted a much needed resource for investigating the neural basis of memory loss....JCI table of contents, 2 August, 2004
...CD34+ cells also produced growth factors to aid in neural regeneration. There was also evidence of migration of nerve progenitors into the region of stroke damage. The mice that were treated with CD34+ cells showed improved behavioral characteristics. Of note, if blockers to blood vessel growth were give......CD34+ cells also produced growth factors to aid in neural regeneration. There was also evidence of migration of nerve progenitors into the region of stroke damage. The mice that were treated with CD34+ cells showed improved behavioral characteristics. Of note, if blockers to blood vessel growth were give....... All Ago2 homozygous embryos displayed defects in neural tube structure, with half of the embryos showing complete failure of neural tube closure in the head region. The embryos also had enlarged hearts and pronounced swelling of the...Casanova or caveman: Scientists isolate nerve cells that choreograph male fly's courtship behavior
... "What we found is that while interfering with the neural network changes the sequence, the individual subroutines - such as licking and singing - are still there. This suggests very strongly that these subroutines are somehow built into the nervous system itself." The evolution of courtship "Another inte......hlete's body to measure muscle firing patterns and neural control during performance. With runners, she'll use force plates to measure the amount of push being generated. The data she records during a performance will show her how much force is exerted by different muscle groups and joint movements. She'll......eering molecules that set in motion the linking of neural networks. In the end he fingered a molecule called FGF22, along with several of its close relatives, as key to setting in motion the construction of synapses. Umemori confirmed FGF22's role by showing that mice in which FGF22 was inactivated failed t...