News articles tagged with 'neurones'
Active ingredients in marijuana found to spread and prolong pain
— 14 Aug 2009 11:01 | HealthImagine that you're working on your back porch, hammering in a nail. Suddenly you slip and hit your thumb instead - hard. The pain is incredibly intense, but it only lasts a moment.... — full story
Traffic jam in brain causes schizophrenia symptoms
— 11 Aug 2009 13:06 | HealthSchizophrenia waits silently until a seemingly normal child becomes a teenager or young adult. Then it swoops down and derails a young life... — full story
Avian influenza strain primes brain for Parkinson's disease
— 11 Aug 2009 12:06 | HealthAt least one strain of the H5N1 avian influenza virus leaves survivors at significantly increased risk for Parkinson's disease and possibly other neurological problems later in life,... — full story
Life and death in the living brain
— 11 Aug 2009 09:35 | BiologyLike clockwork, brain regions in many songbird species expand and shrink seasonally in response to hormones. Now, for the first time, University of Washington neurobiologists have interrupted... — full story
Researchers identify itch-specific neurones in mice, hope for better treatments
— 7 Aug 2009 11:51 | HealthHistorically, many scientists have regarded itching as just a less intense version of pain. They have spent decades searching for itch-specific nerve cells to explain how the brain... — full story
From nerve roots to plant roots - research on hereditary spastic paraplegia yields surprises
— 7 Aug 2009 10:56 | HealthSprouting. Branching. Pruning. Neuroscientists have borrowed heavily from botanists to describe the way that neurones grow, but analogies between the growth of neurones and plants may... — full story
On the move
— 6 Aug 2009 11:23 | HealthRather than sticking to a single DNA script, human brain cells harbour astonishing genomic variability, according to scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The findings,... — full story
Fat hormone influences baseline dopamine levels and our motivation to eat
— 6 Aug 2009 09:58 | HealthAs we all know from experience, people eat not only because they are hungry, but also because the food just simply tastes too good to pass up. Now, a new study in the 6th August Cell... — full story
Adult gut can generate new neurones
— 5 Aug 2009 09:48 | HealthThe adult lower digestive tract can be stimulated to add neurones to the intestinal system, according to new mouse research in the August 5 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The... — full story
Thinking crickets - 'cognitive' processes underlie memory recall in crickets
— 4 Aug 2009 12:38 | BiologyActivation of two different kinds of neurones is necessary for appetitive and aversive memory recall in crickets. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology blocked... — full story