Depression Can Alter A Person’s Circadian Clock At The Cellular Level
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The circadian clock rhythms that help govern biological, hormonal and behavioral patterns in the human body are altered at the cellular level in people suffering from depression,...
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For National Neuropathy Awareness Week (May 13-17), The Neuropathy Association and the Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation Call Attention to the Diagnostic Challenges Hurting Millions of Neuropathy Patients. New York, NY (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 Continued lack of peripheral neuropathy awareness combined with Medicare reimbursement cuts for diagnostic tools are causing major impediments to neuropathy epidemic prevention, patient care, and treatments according to The Neuropathy Association and the...
In a study just published in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine, researchers have found a new way to increase the survival of stem cells injected into the brain. The discovery might one day prove useful in developing new treatments for neurological disorders — especially brain lesions, which among other things can provoke seizures and indicate multiple sclerosis or certain forms of cancer. Durham, NC (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 Researchers have found a new way to increase the survival of stem...
HAYWARD, Calif., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists at the Center for Learning and Memory, Tsinghua University, Beijing, and the California-based biopharmaceutical company Magceutics, Inc. (www.magceutics.com) have demonstrated a novel therapy for reversing memory decline in mice with Alzheimer's Disease. By increasing brain magnesium levels, they find significant cognitive improvement in advanced stage AD mice. The study is the first to demonstrate a mechanism for reversing...
SYDNEY, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Sydney and ResMed Limited today announced a new partnership that includes significant and long-term funding of research at the University, ultimately benefitting the hundreds of millions of sufferers of sleep-disordered breathing worldwide. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100203/RESMEDLOGO) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130513/LA12842LOGO) Under an agreement recently reached between the parties, ResMed...
Full Nerve Repair Product Portfolio Now Approved in Europe Alachua, FL (PRWEB) May 01, 2013 AxoGen, Inc. (OTCBB: AXGN), a leading regenerative medicine company focused on the commercialization of proprietary products and technologies for peripheral nerve reconstruction and regeneration, today announced European CE Mark approval for two of its nerve repair products, AxoGuard® Nerve Protector and AxoGuard® Nerve Connector. AxoGuard® Nerve Connector and AxoGuard® Nerve...
Brain's elusive motor neurons are dressed in fluorescence so scientists can find them and study why they die A small group of elusive neurons in the brain's cortex play a big role in ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a swift and fatal neurodegenerative disease that paralyzes its victims. But the neurons have always been difficult to study because there are so few of them and they look so similar to other neurons in the cortex. In a new preclinical study, a Northwestern Medicine®...
Research published in the May 2013 journal GENETICS may shed light on the root cause of some neurodegenerative diseases Scientists have identified a gene that keeps our nerve fibers from clogging up. Researchers in Ken Miller's laboratory at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) found that the unc-16 gene of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans encodes a gatekeeper that restricts flow of cellular organelles from the cell body to the axon, a long, narrow extension that neurons use...
This past weekend teams from the National Football League used statistics like height, weight and speed to draft the best college players, and in a few weeks, armchair enthusiasts will use similar measures to select players for their own fantasy football teams. Neuroscientists at Carnegie Mellon University are taking a similar approach to compile "dream teams" of neurons using a statistics-based method that can evaluate the fitness of individual neurons. After assembling the teams, a...
Georgia Institute of Technology Sand-dwelling and rock-dwelling cichlids living in East Africa's Lake Malawi share a nearly identical genome, but have very different personalities. The territorial rock-dwellers live in communities where social interactions are important, while the sand-dwellers are itinerant and less aggressive. Those behavioral differences likely arise from a complex region of the brain known as the telencephalon, which governs communication, emotion, movement and...
Researcher Johan Jakobsson and his colleagues have now published their results in Nature Communications "At present, researchers know very little about exactly how microglia work. At the same time, there is a lot of curiosity and high hopes among brain researchers that greater understanding of microglia could lead to entirely new drug development strategies for various brain diseases", says Johan Jakobsson, research group leader at the Division of Molecular Neurogenetics at Lund...
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Formation and Orientation The development of the brain is broken down into stages. The basic evolution begins in the third week of the embryonic process where the neural plate is formed. By week four, the neural plate has developed into the neural tube. The anterior part of the tube, the telencephalon, grows rapidly as it prepares to later give way to the brain. As time goes on, cells begin to classify themselves as either neurons or glial cells, thus determining their functions. Glial...
