Columbia researchers receive $3 million to combat genetic killer of infants & toddlers
...n SMA patients. Christopher E. Henderson, Ph.D., a neurobiologist specializing in central nervous system development and neuronal degeneration will be joining the institution. Dr. Henderson will establish a Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease at CUMC focused on high-level translational motor neuron researc...New technique scans electrical 'brainscape'
...'s disease and schizophrenia, they said. Led by neurobiologist Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D., the researchers published their findings in the December 8, 2004, Journal of Neuroscience. Nicolelis is professor of neurobiology and co-director of Duke's Center for Neuroengineering. Other co-authors were Damien G...Nerve navigation findings prompt new direction for spinal cord research
...inal cord, says Dr. Wen-Cheng Xiong, developmental neurobiologist and lead author on the paper in the November issue of Nature Neuroscience. After crossing, the axon becomes part of the complex network that enables the right side of the brain to control the left side of the body and vice versa. The...Long-sought key to hearing may be found in protein discovery
...tant molecule in the ear," said Peter Gillespie, a neurobiologist at Oregon Health & Science University who recently has helped identify important parts connecting to either side of the channel. "This channel is the jewel everyone would like to find. Identifying it is getting at the real kernel of how the inner ear...Carnegie Mellon University neurobiologist Justin Crowley receives Searle Scholar Award
PITTSBURGH--Carnegie Mellon University neurobiologist Justin Crowley has been named a 2004 Searle Scholar. The Searle program supports the research of junior faculty with outstanding potential in the fields of chemistry, medicine and the biological sciences. One of only 15 exceptional young scientists r...A bird 'language' gene pinpointed
...singing in birds. Among the lead researchers was neurobiologist Erich Jarvis, Ph.D., of Duke University Medical Center and Constance Scharff of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Germany. Co-first authors of the paper were Sebastian Haesler of the Max Planck Institute and Kazuhiro Wada, M.D., of D...Human studies show feasibility of brain-machine interfaces
...professor of neurobiology Dennis Turner, M.D., and neurobiologist Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., will publish their results in the July 2004 issue of the journal Neurosurgery. Principal members of the research team also include Parag Patil, M.D., a resident in neurosurgery and lead author of the study, and Jose Carmena, P...Outstanding UCLA undergraduates present research
... stress from alcohol. Working in the laboratory of neurobiologist Anna Taylor, Lerner is researching how the immune system is impaired in rats whose pregnant mothers consumed alcohol. The thymus is significantly smaller in these rats, Lerner said. "Research and class lectures complement each other," Lerner said. "...Evidence that neurons prune only 'twigs' to rewire themselves
...onment. The transgenic mice were developed by Duke neurobiologist Guoping Feng and his colleagues. "Importantly, this technique enabled us to look in real time at the changes in a single neuron in the same animal; not at populations of neurons and not at different animals," said Katz. "We could follow over time how...Researchers discover 'doorways' into brain cells
...o the neuron's interior. The researchers, led by neurobiologist Michael Ehlers, reported their discoveries in the October 24, 2002, issue of the journal Neuron. Co-authors of the paper are neurobiologists Thomas Blanpied and Derek Scott. The research was sponsored principally by the National Institutes of Health....Atlanta researchers to launch clinical trial of progesterone for treatment of brain injury
...ed in humans. Researchers, led by Emory University neurobiologist Donald Stein, PhD, have found in a series of experiments that male and female rats with brain injury develop less brain swelling and recover more completely when they are treated with progesterone shortly following injury. The hormone seems to modera...Lack of inhibition strengthens nicotine addiction
... to promote addiction to this horrible habit, said neurobiologist Daniel McGehee, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of anesthesia and critical care at the University of Chicago and director of the study. It takes only a few exposures to create a lasting memory of the rewards of smoking, which are reinfo......ath in the nervous system, says Moses Chao, PhD, a neurobiologist at New York University. Such growth factors serve as survival agents for nerve cells, keeping them alive. Chaos study, funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health, appears in the March 13 issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy o...Government asks UNC to develop school program about alcohol and birth defects
...ology and anatomy, will spearhead the program with neurobiologist Dr. Marianne Meeker. Sulik said many alcohol-related birth defects occur early in the pregnancy, usually before women even know they're expecting. "These are problems that cannot be fixed - they are lifelong disabilities," Sulik said. "So it just ...Normal cellular enzyme becomes marker for Alzheimer's disease
...henature of AD, according to Dr. Stephen Snyder, a neurobiologist at the NationalInstitute on Aging, another NIH funding source for the work. "The isolation and in-depth analysis of GVD bodies could provide valuable cluesuseful not only for the diagnosis of AD, but in gaining a better understandingof the disease," ......ndamentalsof Human Neural Structure. Developed by neurobiologist S. Mark Williams with support from the departmentof neurobiology and the medical school, Sylvius was provided on CD-ROM tomedical students taking introductory neuroscience. The program was designed asan electronic adjunct to the textbook Neuroscienc...Nerve Cells Live Long And Talkative Lives In Sculpted Colonies On Silicon Chips
...gerof the department of biomedical engineering, or neurobiologist Michel Baudry ofthe department of biological sciences, can both observe the spontaneous patternsof synaptic activity that occur with the neurons talking to each other. "We can eavesdrop," said Brinton, "and try to find the algorithms that definetheir...