Brain imaging reveals secrets of love, fear and betrayal
...March). The lecture, given by University of Oxford neuroscientist Professor Paul Mathews, will illuminate the parallels between the works of Shakespeare and the current search by experts to uncover the secrets of the brain. Professor Mathews and Shakespeare scholar Jeffrey McQuain recently combined their expertise ...LRRK2 gene mutation causes Parkinson's disease in several families
.... "It's a small number of cases," says Mayo Clinic neuroscientist Matthew Farrer, Ph.D., whose lab sequenced the gene, "but it will be insightful for creating models of Parkinson's and extrapolating from that to the disease in general." Age of onset of clinical symptoms of the disease varied, even within the same f...Johns Hopkins scientists receive presidential medals
Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., and astrophysicist Riccardo Giacconi, Ph.D., have been named recipients of the 2003 National Medal of Science, the United States' top scientific recognition, the White House announced today. The two will be the seventh and e...New theory chalenges current view of how brain stores long-term memory
...ation in the brain. But Northwestern University neuroscientist Aryeh Routtenberg has presented a provocative new theory that takes issue with that view. Routtenberg, with doctoral student Jerome L. Rekart, outlined the new theory on memory storage in the January issue of the journal Trends in Neuroscience. Ra...Canadian researchers to develop 'smart drug' to repair psychiatric disorders
...ications used to treat psychiatric disorders, says neuroscientist and team leader Yu Tian Wang, a UBC professor of Medicine and BRC member. "We're designing a whole new generation of medications that will work only on brain cells in areas that need to be repaired," says Wang. "This new type of drug will correct abn...Mutations in a multifunctional protein cause parkinsonism
...ion of chromosome 12 called PARK8. Mayo Clinic neuroscientist Matthew Farrer, Ph.D., and his team, continued to perform sophisticated genetic analyses on DNA collected from family members. Their work revealed the culprit gene and the multifunctional protein that it codes for. Mayo Clinic neuropathologist...Scientists pinpoint flaw, offer new promise for stroke treatment
...says Berislav Zlokovic, M.D., Ph.D., the Rochester neuroscientist who led the research thanks to funding from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. "This holds great promise for stroke therapy." TPA is best known as a clot buster useful for patients who have the most common type of stroke, where a blood cl...Transplant of pig tissue may reduce stroke size and damage
...ical function," said Dr. Cesario V. Borlongan, MCG neuroscientist and first author on the paper. The study is an important step in moving the potential treatment to clinical trials because the porcine choroid plexus tissue also could be used in humans, Dr. Borlongan said. The cells of the pig choroid plexus are s...Carnegie Mellon University neurobiologist Justin Crowley receives Searle Scholar Award
...sease." "Justin Crowley is a very promising young neuroscientist who bridges well between our college's emphasis on molecular events in biology and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition's emphasis on higher order events in cognition. We are very pleased with the strength and dynamism of the young interactiv...Tissue involved in brain development may offer new approach to stroke treatment
...in the adult brain, says Dr. Cesario V. Borlongan, neuroscientist at the Medical College of Georgia and first author on a study published in the May issue of NeuroReport. But within the last five years, researchers across the world have been compiling evidence that in response to stroke as well as other brain injur...Researchers invent way to determine optimal conditions for spinal cord nerve regen in lab animals
...ys Anthony Windebank, M.D., neurologist, molecular neuroscientist and joint principal investigator. "We feel that this research program will make a contribution toward a solution to the spinal cord injury problem," adds Michael Yaszemski, M.D., Ph.D., orthopedic spinal surgeon and chemical engineer. The determinat...Unraveling the secrets of the brain's smallest cells
...30 years ago by the celebrated English theoretical neuroscientist David Marr. Marr suggested that the layer uses a sparse coding scheme to represent sensory input, where the firing rate of the cells is low in order to maximize the number of different patterns of sensory input that can be represented by the cerebel...UNC neuroscientist awarded renewal of federal grant that began in 1957
...ederal officials, a research grant to a pioneering neuroscientist at the University of North Carolina at ChapelHill School of Medicine entered its 48th year. Since 1957, a grant from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, or NINDS, has supported the research of Dr. Edward R. Perl, Sarah Graham ...New findings on nerve cell proteins show promise for reducing disability
...s protein response," said Michael Tytell, Ph.D., a neuroscientist and the study's lead researcher. "We believe it has potential for preventing some of the disability that occurs as a result of nervous system trauma and disease." The research showed that up to 50 percent of the motor and sensory nerve cell death cou...Study supports new theory for nicotine's protective effect against neurodegenerative disorders
...neuroprotective properties in the brain," said USF neuroscientist R. Douglas Shytle, PhD, lead author of the study. "This finding lets us explore a new way of looking at neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's," said Jun Tan, PhD, MD, principal investigator for the study. "A better understanding of the th...New findings on memory could enhance learning
...m later," says Sam Deadwyler, Ph.D., a Wake Forest neuroscientist and study investigator. "Instead, it records vital information, such as their hairstyle, height, or age, all classifications that we are familiar with from meeting people in general. Our research suggests how the brain might do this, which could lead...Sepsis drug also protects brain cells
...flow in patients with severe sepsis, and last year neuroscientist Berislav Zlokovic, M.D., Ph.D., led a team that showed that the compound also protects the cells that are vital to supply blood to the brain. In the latest paper, Zlokovic and colleagues show that the compound also directly protects vital brain cells...Research clarifies how Alzheimer's medicines may reduce interference with learning and memory
...mory and learning. Professor Michael Hasselmo, a neuroscientist at Boston University's Center for Memory and Brain and a co-author of the study, says, "Proactive interference influences common tasks such as remembering where we parked the car or where we left the keys. If one parks in the same lot every day, the...Melatonin may have an effect on nocturnal blood pressure
...iation . Lead author Frank A.J.L. Scheer, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and at Harvard Medical School's division of sleep medicine, said that melatonin's effect on blood pressure might be due to its ability to help regulate the body's biological clock. "It has been reported that people w......vel model of human brain aging developed by a UCLA neuroscientist identifies midlife breakdown of myelin, a fatty insulation coating the brain's internal wiring, as a possible key to the onset of Alzheimer's disease later in life. Detailed in the January edition of the peer-reviewed journal Neurobiology of Aging, t...