Evidence that memories are consolidated during sleep
... paper was Miguel Nicolelis, Ph.D., a professor of neurobiology and of biomedical engineering, who is also co-director of the Duke Center for Neuroengineering. Lead author was Sidarta Ribeiro, Ph.D., in Nicolelis's laboratory. Other co authors were neurobiologists Damien Gervasoni, Ph.D., Ernesto Soares, Yi Zhou,...Estrogen makes the brain more vulnerable to stress
...l years, said Becca Shansky, a graduate student in neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine and lead author of the study to be published in the March issue of Molecular Psychiatry. The researchers exposed male and female rats to different levels of stress and then tested them on a short-term memory task. The ...Study provides new insights about brain organization
...rganized," said Wallace, an associate professor of neurobiology and anatomy at Wake Forest Baptist. He said thes...were Barry Stein, Ph.D., professor and chairman of neurobiology and anatomy at Wake Forest Baptist, and Ramnarayan Ramachandran at the University of California....New findings on nerve cell proteins show promise for reducing disability
...eurons means paralysis," said Tytell, professor of neurobiology and anatomy at Wake Forest Baptist. The goal of the work is to prevent or minimize the "secondary" cell death that occurs in the hours and days after a spinal cord or brain injury. During this period, cells surrounding the injury can become inflame...Human studies show feasibility of brain-machine interfaces
...esearch team, led by neurosurgeon and 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 ......are addressed from a variety of perspectives, from neurobiology and psychophysiology to social and organizational science. It all adds up to fascinating insights into ourselves and the world around us. This research is being presented at the Society's upcoming Annual Convention in Chicago. With the online prog...Study reveals cause of loss of consciousness during seizures
...enfeld, M.D., assistant professor of neurology and neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine and lead author of the study, "but we were amazed to discover that the temporal lobe also causes the rest of the brain to malfunction. That's why patients lose consciousness." "Loss of consciousness during seizures often ...Three Harvard Medical School endowed chairs named simultaneously in sleep medicine
...by the new endowment, focuses on understanding the neurobiology of the human circadian pacemaker and applying that... to clinical medicine and occupational health. The neurobiology of circadian photoreception in humans is a primary area of research. Czeisler and his colleagues, fo...Certain components of the brain's 'executive functions' are compromised early in abstinence
... professor of neurology, psychiatry, and anatomy & neurobiology at Boston University Medical School, and research career scientist at the Boston Veteran Affairs Healthcare System. They are defined differently by different theorists and researchers. Most agree, however, that executive functions are human qualiti...Long-sought key to hearing may be found in protein discovery
... for a decade," says David Corey, HMS professor of neurobiology and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Other protein candidates have been nominated, but this is "the strongest evidence yet that this protein is the hair-cell transduction channel," says Corey, lead author of the paper. The disc...Biotech breakthrough in islet cell replacement for type 1 diabetes
...chemistry, molecular biology and cell biology; and neurobiology and physiology; as well as Lonnie Shea, assistant professor, chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering....NIDA sponsors frontiers in addiction research mini-convention
...Award is to encourage innovative research into the neurobiology of drug addiction and alcoholism. This year's recipient will be announced at this event. The NIDA chair is NIDA Deputy Director Dr. Timothy P. Condon. For more information on this NIDA event, call Michelle Person or Blair Gately in the NIDA ...Exercising limbs protects brain cells affected by Parkinson's, study in rodents shows
...Michael J. Zigmond, Ph.D., professor of neurology, neurobiology and psychiatry, and co-director of the Parkinson's Disease Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Called neurotrophic factors, these proteins protect neurons and promote their survival. According to the researchers'...Nerve navigation findings prompt new direction for spinal cord research
...d, Dr. Xiong says. "Everybody in the developmental neurobiology field is wondering what is the mechanism, how the neuron, once it senses the environment, couples with the motor activity. This provides information for that kind of puzzle," she says of the newly published work. The researchers are loo...Researchers develop neural prosthesis allowing a monkey to feed self using only its brain
... limbs," said Andrew Schwartz, Ph.D., professor of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and senior researcher on the project. The research was detailed in a press conference today at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego. According to Dr. Schwartz, a part ...Technology points to possible targets for epilepsy and Alzheimer's drugs
...," said Qiang Gu, Ph.D., an assistant professor of neurobiology and anatomy. "Being able to measure levels of a large number of proteins simultaneously is a step forward in understanding more about the disease process and hopefully identifying new targets for drug treatment." A project to map the human genome...New finding could make addiction treatment more effective
...eep issue," said Godwin, an associate professor of neurobiology and anatomy. "One reason they may go back to drinking may be an attempt to make their sleep feel more normal or satisfying." Previous research has shown that alcohol affects spindle waves, which are brain rhythms associated with normal sleep. T...Research on nerve cell circuitry reveals clue about schizophrenia
... in the brain," said Hegde, assistant professor of neurobiology and anatomy. "Our ultimate goal is to better understand the cause of schizophrenia and to help in developing more effective drug treatments." Hegde and colleagues studied a part of the mouse brain that has two major types of nerve cells similar to t...Brain's nicotine receptors also target for anti-depressants
...ssociate professor of psychiatry, pharmacology and neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine and senior author of the study. "This finding has implications for those patients who are depressed to the point of being suicidal, and for the 30 percent of people who are not responsive to anti-depressants that are now av...... professor of neurobiology, and Paul Macey, Ph.D., neurobiology postdoctoral researcher, at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, are available for interviews. JOURNALS: Journal of Neurophysiology, Nov. 3, 2004, "Hypoventilation reveals central nervous system respiratory control mechanisms" http...