News articles tagged with 'neurone' (Page 2)
Mount Sinai researcher finds unexpected temperature sensation for a light detector
— 12 Mar 2011 14:35 | HealthNew research from Mount Sinai School of Medicine has discovered that rhodopsin, a pigment of the retina that is responsible for the first events in the perception of light, may also…
UCSF report describes new model for neurodegeneration
— 11 Mar 2011 15:43 | HealthA team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has developed a new model for how inherited genes contribute to a common but untreatable and incurable neurodegenerative…
Researchers selectively control anxiety pathways in the brain
— 10 Mar 2011 18:20 | HealthA new study sheds light - both literally and figuratively - on the intricate brain cell connections responsible for anxiety…
Parkinson's disease may be caused by microtubule, rather than mitochondrial complex I, dysfunction
— 8 Mar 2011 14:50 | HealthPatients with Parkinson's disease (PD) suffer a specific loss of dopaminergic neurones from the midbrain region that controls motor function. The exact mechanism of this selective neurodegeneration…
Genetic makeup and duration of abuse reduce the brain's neurones in drug addiction
— 8 Mar 2011 13:56 | HealthA study conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory demonstrated that drug addicted individuals who have a certain genetic makeup have lower grey…
Loss of key protein boosts neurone loss in ALS
— 5 Mar 2011 14:00 | HealthAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as ALS or more popularly, Lou Gehrig's disease, is a notorious neurodegenerative condition characterised by the progressive deterioration of brain…
Boosting protein garbage disposal in brain cells protects mice from Alzheimer's disease
— 5 Mar 2011 13:33 | HealthGene therapy that boosts the ability of brain cells to gobble up toxic proteins prevents development of Alzheimer's disease in mice that are predestined to develop it, report researchers…
Johns Hopkins team explores PARIS; finds a key to Parkinson's
— 4 Mar 2011 16:15 | HealthJohns Hopkins scientists have discovered that PARIS - the protein - facilitates the most common form of Parkinson's disease (PD), which affects about 1 million older Americans. The…
Star-shaped brain cells feed long-term memory
— 4 Mar 2011 15:33 | HealthStar-shaped cells in our brains called astrocytes were once considered little more than structures to fill the gaps between all-important neurones. But more recent evidence has emerged…
Human stem cells transformed into key neurones lost in Alzheimer's
— 4 Mar 2011 15:09 | HealthNorthwestern Medicine researchers for the first time have transformed a human embryonic stem cell into a critical type of neurone that dies early in Alzheimer's disease and is a major…