New technique scans electrical 'brainscape'
...Journal of Neuroscience. Nicolelis is professor of neurobiology and co-director of Duke's Center for Neuroengineer...unction. "One of the Holy Grails of neurobiology has been the neural 'code' by which the brain processes information. Now we can say that there is no...Researchers develop MRI technique to study brain anatomy in invertebrates
...provides a powerful new tool for understanding the neurobiology of behavior in invertebrate animal models. Conventional MRI technology employs high-intensity magnetic fields to excite protons in the water molecules of soft tissue. Scanners detect the excitation and image cross-sectional slices of an organ, such a...Faces must be seen to be recognized
...'s face. So, a fascinating and central question in neurobiology is where in the hierarchy of visual processing face recognition takes place. Through a series of precise experimental manipulations of perception in human subjects, Farshad Moradi and his colleagues have gained new insight into the process. They have...New theory chalenges current view of how brain stores long-term memory
... department of psychology and in the department of neurobiology and physiology, Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and a leading researcher in the Institute for Neuroscience, Northwestern University. To achieve this high degree of flexibility, Routtenberg's new theory goes ...New test is first step in early detection of Alzheimer's disease
...d to be reversible. William L. Klein, professor of neurobiology and physiology in Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and two colleagues reported the discovery of ADDLs in 1998. "Detection of plaques in patients may be too late," said Klein, an author on the PNAS paper who last year demonstrate...Contrary to previous findings, smoking is detrimental to patients with Alzheimer's
...or of the research project, associate professor of neurobiology and behavior, and co-director of the UCI Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia. "But these previous studies drew their conclusions after focusing only on plaque formation. Our paper stresses the importance of investigating Alzheimer's disease therap...Brain activity of men and women during hostile or impulsive acts differs less on nicotine
...Brain Imaging Center, and Fallon is a professor of neurobiology and anatomy. David Keator, James Mbogori and Derek Taylor in the UCI School of Medicine assisted with the study....When the brain, not the ears, goes hard of hearing
...er include William O'Neill, associate professor of neurobiology and anatomy, and Joseph Walton, associate professor of otolaryngology, both at the University. The center is currently funded by a five-year, $6.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health....Molecule important in cell construction also critical in learning and memory
...ssociate professor of psychiatry, pharmacology and neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine, and the senior author of the study, studied mice missing one of these proteins---adducin--and found the cytoskeleton developed normally. However, the mice were impaired during fear conditioning and memory exercises. "We we...Kandel pays tribute to Hubel's and Wiesel's 25-year partnership and work in neurobiology & vision
...king research that transformed an entire branch of neurobiology and made lasting contributions to the field of neu... cat retina in 1950, and founded the department of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, where most of their work was done. A reception and book sale will foll......but it could let in a lot of light for probing the neurobiology of the brain," says co-senior author Louis Ptacek, MD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and UCSF professor of neurology. The finding, published in the March 31 issue of Nature, builds on previous research led by Ptacek and co-author Chr...