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Alzheimer’s disease

·April 7, 2011·2 min read

Freeway Air Bad for Mouse Brain

Study finds brain damage typical of aging and memory loss after short-term exposure to vehicle pollution If mice commuted, their...

Neurology

·April 4, 2011·2 min read

Researchers Link Herpes to Alzheimer’s Disease

‘Cold sores’ connected to cognitive decline Laboratories at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Brown University, and House Ear Institute...

Neurology

·March 29, 2011·2 min read

Indications of Alzheimer’s disease may be evident decades before first signs of cognitive impairment

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that patients with Alzheimer's disease have lower glucose utilization in the brain than those with normal cognitive function, and that those decreased levels may be detectable approximately 20 years prior to the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.

Neurology Neuroscience

·March 22, 2011·3 min read

New Method Delivers Alzheimer’s Drug to the Brain

Oxford University scientists have developed a new method for delivering complex drugs directly to the brain, a necessary step for...

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·March 17, 2011·4 min read

Similarities Between Plant Reproduction and Animal Nervous Systems

Research using tobacco plants and Arabidopsis Thaliana weeds has answered long standing mysteries about sexual reproduction in plants. The research...

Featured Genetics Neurology

·February 16, 2011·5 min read

Alzheimer’s Symptoms Reversed in Mice with Human Tau Genes

Alzheimer’s disease research has lead to important findings involving the tau gene and the possibility of reversing the disease’s progression....

Featured Neurology

·January 20, 2011·2 min read

Amyloid Fiber Mystery Unraveling – First Reaction Pinpointed

Scientists discovered the reaction which starts the formation of amyloid fibers. Amyloid fibers are problematic in many diseases and disorders...

Featured Neuroscience

·January 19, 2011·4 min read

MicroRNA-29 Makes Brain Cells Resist Programmed Cell Death

Neuroscientists found that the specific microRNA, microRNA-29 (miR-29), can make brain cells resistant to programmed cell death. The researchers injected...

Featured Neurology

·January 18, 2011·2 min read

Protein Misfolding and Aggregation Roles in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Max Planck researchers discovered that large, less hydrophobic proteins with a significant increase of disorder in their structures were more...

Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·December 20, 2010·2 min read

Another Marathon Mouse Engineered – Boosting Acetylcholine Reduces Fatigue

After inserting a gene into mice that increases choline transporter and as a result increases acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junctions, the engineered mice were able to run on treadmills twice as long as controls without the inserted gene.

The image is a diagram showing the formation of beta-amyloid.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·December 9, 2010·5 min read

Beta-amyloid Removal Problems May Underlie Alzheimer’s Disease

The removal of beta-amyloid is not efficient in late-onset Alzheimer's disease sufferers. These new findings could help produce better early diagnostic tests and therapies for Alzheimer's disease and related research.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·December 9, 2010·3 min read

Acetylcholine and SK Channels Involved in Learning and Memory

New research on learning describes the interaction between acetlycholine receptors and SK channels and their involvement in learning and memory. These findings could lead to new research targeting acetylcholine and SK channels to help cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia as well as help understand learning and memory better.