News articles tagged with 'synapse'
New insight into how environmental enrichment enhances memory
— 28 Mar 2011 18:57 | HealthIt is well established that environmental enrichment, providing animals with rich sensory, motor, and social stimulation, produces both dramatic increases in the number of synapses…
Scientists discover major clue in long-term memory making
— 21 Mar 2011 15:52 | HealthYou may remember the colour of your loved one's eyes for years. But how? Scientists believe that long-term potentiation (LTP) - the long-lasting increase of signals across a connection…
Immune molecule regulates brain connections
— 28 Feb 2011 17:13 | HealthThe number of connections between nerve cells in the brain can be regulated by an immune system molecule, according to a new study from UC Davis. The research, published Feb. 27 in…
Tau-induced memory loss in Alzheimer's mice is reversible
— 17 Feb 2011 17:48 | HealthAmyloid-beta and tau protein deposits in the brain are characteristic features of Alzheimer disease. The effect on the hippocampus, the area of the brain that plays a central role in…
A mental retardation gene provides insights into brain formation
— 16 Feb 2011 05:02 | HealthScientists at Duke University Medical Centre have uncovered clues to memory and learning by exploring the function of a single gene that governs how neurones form new connections. The…
Communication breakdown: Early defects in sensory synapses in motor neurone disease
— 10 Feb 2011 19:22 | HealthNew research using a mouse model of the motor neurone disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) reveals an abnormality in the way that sensory information is relayed to motor neurones in…
Salk researchers discover that stem cell marker regulates synapse formation
— 30 Jan 2011 19:04 | BiologyAmong stem cell biologists there are few better-known proteins than nestin, whose very presence in an immature cell identifies it as a 'stem cell,' such as a neural stem cell. As helpful…
CSHL scientists show in unprecedented detail how cortical nerve cells form synapses with neighbours
— 3 Jan 2011 16:14 | HealthNewly published research led by Professor Z. Josh Huang, Ph.D., of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) sheds important new light on how neurones in the developing brain make connections…
Tau disrupts neural communication prior to neurodegeneration
— 3 Jan 2011 16:08 | HealthA new study is unravelling the earliest events associated with neurodegenerative diseases characterised by abnormal accumulation of tau protein. The research, published by Cell Press…
The genetic basis of brain diseases
— 19 Dec 2010 23:23 | HealthIn research published today, scientists have studied human brain samples to isolate a set of proteins that accounts for over 130 brain diseases. The paper also shows an intriguing link…