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Book review: Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene
Shanghai :: China | 2 days ago
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About 5,000 years ago, societies in ancient Sumeria, China and South America invented writing, and in the millennia since, the ability to read has propelled human intellectual and cultural development, vastly expanding our capacity to learn, create, explore...
Tags: Stanislas Dehaene, nerve cells, written words, dehaene writes, dyslexics children, China, Shanghai
New discovery can speed up development of Parkinson's drugs
Mumbai :: India | 9 days ago
Credibility Scientists from Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research have made a novel discovery that can speed up the development of more effective Parkinson's drugs. People with Parkinson's Disease suffer from muscle rigidity, tremor, a slowing of physical...
Tags: Parkinson, nerve cells, dopamine released, Bryce Vissel, India, Mumbai, Catecholamines, Dopamine, Phenethylamines, Parkinson's disease, Neuron, Neurotransmitters, Neurochemistry, Aging-associated diseases, Health Medical Pharma
Potential treatment for Huntington's disease found
Mumbai :: India | 12 days ago
Credibility Discovering a potential new treatment for Huntington's disease, researchers have found that normal synaptic activity in nerve cells protects the brain from the misfolded proteins characteristic to the ailment. Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical...
Tags: electrical activity, Huntington, nerve cells, normal synaptic, extrasynaptic activity, excessive extrasynaptic, India, Mumbai, Unsolved problems in neuroscience, Genes, Huntingtin, Huntington's disease, Protein folding, Neurological disorders, Neurology, Alzheimer's disease, Health Medical Pharma
Scientists make Alzheimer's discovery
Sydney :: Australia | 5 months ago
Credibility Bryce Vissel and Andrea Abdipranoto at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research identified a chemical, called activin A, that is essential for the brain's own stem cells to form new nerve cells, and to repair the brain, following neurodegeneration. Using...
Tags: nerve cells
Bullies enjoy inflicting pain on others
Chicago :: IL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Such scans showed that brain area associated with rewards was highlighted when the highly aggressive youth watched a video clip of someone inflicting pain on another person. "This is the first time that fMRI scans have been used to study situations that...
Tags: inflicting pain, nerve cells, aggressive youth, The University of Chicago, brains scans, Reuters, Xiaomei Jiang, unusually aggressive, solar cells
New Scientist: New brain cells are essential for learning
Brisbane :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Far from being a completed masterpiece, some parts of the brain are works-in-progress, continuously churning out new cells...In mice at least, it appears that fresh brain cells are key to learning and memory...This shows that it's essential," says Rodney...
Tags: nerve cells
Stem-cell advance for motor neurone disease
Als :: Denmark | about 1 year ago
Credibility In a major breakthrough, the skin cells of the two women, aged 82 and 89, were turned into mature nerve cells. The achievement promises to revolutionise the understanding and treatment of a range of incurable illnesses. The skin cells were genetically...
Tags: embryonic stem cells, stem cells, motor neurone, skin cells, nerve cells, amyotrophic later, als patient, Lou Gehrig, later sclerosis, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
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