Keck Foundation funds research to repair the injured spinal cord
...ld, Choi and David I. Gottlieb, Ph.D., professorof neurobiology and associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics, haveconducted the initial studies that led to the current project. The pioneeringwork showed that cultured rodent embryonic stem cells can be chemicallyinstructed to develop into nerve cell prec...Use it or lose it applies to nervous system, scientists find
...d of theresearch team. Lichtman is a professor of neurobiology at Washington University School ofMedicine in St. Louis. He and his colleagues report their findings in the Oct.15 issue of Science. Postdoctoral fellow Mohammed Akaaboune, Ph.D., is firstauthor of the paper, which is accompanied by a commentary from...Pathway may provide target for treating chronic pain
...r and an assistant professor of anesthesiology and neurobiology atWashington University School of Medicine in St. ...r Morgan Sheng, M.D.,Ph.D., associate professor of neurobiology at Massachusetts General Hospital andHarvard Medical School and assistant investigator with the Howa......tch on andoff," said Rakic, professor and chair of neurobiology at Yale Medical School. The main element of the signaling pathway is the Notch receptor, which was firstdescribed in studies at Yale in the 1940s and was then cloned at Yale in the1980s, but its role in adult brain cells has not been identified unt...New approach to imaging separates thought from perception
...o Corbetta, M.D., assistant professor ofneurology, neurobiology and radiology. "Previously, we could determine whichbrain areas were active during a task but not the order of their activation." In the published study, volunteers lay in a scanner and watched whitedots on a dark screen. The trials began wit...Northwestern researchers present findings at Neuroscience Meeting
...stern University Medical School anddirector of the neurobiology program at Children's Memorial Institute forEducation and Research. Results of several tests showed that animals that received the GDNF gene therapymaintained over 50 percent of the connections between the substantia nigra, thearea of brain that dege...Targeted toxins may revolutionize pain therapy
...definitely going to extend ourunderstanding of the neurobiology of pain," Wiley said. "In addition, theyoffer novel, previously never available, therapeutic potential." Wiley and others will participate in a Society for Neuroscience symposiumentitled "Exciting new advances in pain research and treatment using rec...Coupling of brain proteins may prompt new treatments for schizophrenia, addiction
... U of T and section head, laboratory and molecular neurobiology at CAMH. "This may provide us with a new therapeutic window on how to restore normal cellular function in diseases like schizophrenia with the right medication that can either block this interaction or make it happen." Brain cells communicate with e...Why does an anti-depressant work for some people, but not others?
...rg is continuing her research in understanding the neurobiology of depression. Funding for this study was provided by the National Institutes of Mental Health, the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression, and Eli Lilly and Company....Duke eye researchers describe cascade of events that may lead to retinal degeneration
... assistant research professor of ophthalmology and neurobiology and first author of the study. "Since they can no longer communicate with rod cells, they do the next best thing -- they start to connect to cone cells." However, this new connection is a double-edged sword. On one hand, this new, though incor...Researchers image language recovery after stroke
...ssor of neurology, of radiology and of anatomy and neurobiology and the leader of this study. When stroke patients regain some of their language abilities, their behavioral improvements may result from either of two mechanisms. The damaged area might recover its original functions or a different part of the bra......y, as well as associate professor of neurology and neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine, said he and his collaborators have now identified the receptor responsible for inhibiting the growth of injured nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord by the protein, Nogo. The finding could lead to the reversal of func...Brain's efforts to save itself during Alzheimer's may backfire
...hn Hohmann, who was then a doctoral student in the neurobiology and behavior program at the University of Washington. If galanin is playing a role in the disease, then what we know as Alzheimers could be the result of many parallel events that themselves create complications. Crawley said that galanin will need t......DeKosky, M.D., professor of neurology, psychiatry, neurobiology and human genetics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and principal investigator of the study. These results suggest that the brain increases production of ChAT on its own in people with MCI and that in addition to their use in early ...NIAAA steps up search for brain mechanisms of alcohol abuse, alcoholism
...ill perform and develop capacity for computational neurobiology research on the functional organization and operation of the brain. "INIA affords its component research groups access to resources, information, technologies, ideas, and expertise far beyond the scope of any single research team," said Antonio Noron...Research explains possible origin of Parkinson's tremors
...stant professor of anatomy and neurobiology at the University of Tennessee in Memphis. Then the researchers compared the computer model to Wilson's experimental results with rat brain cells in the laboratory. By comparing the model ...Peptide promotes new growth in injured spinal cords
...matter, M.D., associate professor of neurology and neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine, said the study confirms which molecules block axon regeneration in the spinal cord and shows that a peptide can promote new growth. Axons are the telephone lines of the nervous system and carry a nerve impulse to a target ...Fibromyalgia pain isn't all in patients' heads, new brain study finds
...nology gave us a unique opportunity to look at the neurobiology underlying tenderness, which is a hallmark of fibromyalgia," says Clauw. "These results, combined with other work done by our group and others, have convinced us that some pathologic process is making these patients more sensitive. For some reason, s...