News articles tagged with 'axon'
The evolution of brain wiring: Navigating to the neocortex
— 28 Mar 2011 19:07 | BiologyA new study is providing fascinating insight into how projections conveying sensory information in the brain are guided to their appropriate targets in different species. The research,…
Rewrite the textbooks
— 18 Feb 2011 18:17 | HealthNeurones are complicated, but the basic functional concept is that synapses transmit electrical signals to the dendrites and cell body (input), and axons carry signals away (output).…
UC San Diego biologists gain new insights into brain circuit wiring
— 15 Feb 2011 15:39 | BiologyNeurobiologists at UC San Diego have discovered new ways by which nerves are guided to grow in highly directed ways to wire the brain during embryonic development…
Partnership of genes affects the brain's development
— 13 Feb 2011 21:13 | HealthThe human brain consists of approximately one hundred billion nerve cells. Each of these cells needs to connect to specific other cells during the brain's development in order to form…
Key protein discovered that allows nerve cells to repair themselves
— 10 Dec 2010 21:21 | HealthA team of scientists led by Melissa Rolls, an assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State University, has peered inside neurones to discover an unexpected…
Stability is first step toward treating ALS
— 23 Nov 2010 16:56 | HealthAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that eventually destroys most motor neurones, causing muscle weakness and atrophy throughout the body. There…
Research uncovers extensive natural recovery after spinal cord injury
— 15 Nov 2010 17:03 | HealthA study led by researchers in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine shows unexpected and extensive natural recovery after spinal…
Decoding the disease that perplexes: Salk scientists discover new target for MS
— 26 Oct 2010 13:29 | HealthScientists are closer to solving one of the many mysteries of multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases, thanks to a recent study conducted at the Salk Institute for Biological…
How injured nerves grow themselves back
— 28 Sep 2010 13:15 | HealthUnlike nerves of the spinal cord, the peripheral nerves that connect our limbs and organs to the central nervous system have an astonishing ability to regenerate themselves after injury.…
Alzheimer's imaging study identifies changes in brain's white matter
— 29 Jun 2010 10:44 | HealthScientists at the University of Kentucky's College of Medicine have identified changes in the brains of normal individuals at high risk for Alzheimer's disease that could prove important…