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This image is a neuron cell diagram, cropped to show oligodendrocyte and myelin sheath.

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·September 23, 2013·3 min read

Breakthrough Offers First Direct Measurement of Spinal Cord Myelin in Multiple Sclerosis

Researchers have developed a new, non invasive, imaging tool that can visualize myelin damage in patients with MS.

The image shows an MRI scan of a male patient with a low grade glioma.

Brain Cancer Featured Open Neuroscience Articles

·September 23, 2013·5 min read

Researchers Erase Human Brain Tumor Cells in Mice

Human glioma brain tumor cell growth was halted and erased in mice, according to new research.

This is an illustration of amyloid beta plaque.

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·September 23, 2013·4 min read

Alzheimer’s Progression Tracked Prior to Dementia

A new study validates a proposed new system which helps to identify and classify people with preclinical Alzheimer's disease.

This is a brain slide with a giant cell glioblastoma brain cancer tumor.

Brain Cancer Featured Open Neuroscience Articles

·September 20, 2013·2 min read

Researchers Identify a Switch Which Controls Growth of Most Aggressive Brain Tumor Cells

The RIP1 protein can either protect or destroy brain tumors, a new study suggests.

This diagram shows how synaptic transmission works. The caption best describes the image.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 20, 2013·4 min read

Researchers Show How Brain Cell Connections Become Cemented Early in Life

A new study reports on how neurons keep their most active connections with other cells, while letting other synapses lapse.

This is a 3D illustration of synaptic transmission.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 20, 2013·1 min read

Nanoscale Neuronal Activity Measured for the First Time

Researchers develop a new technique which allows them to record and measure the electrical activity in synapses.

This image shows ortical and hippocampal neuronal activity during νC state. The caption best describes the image.

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·September 19, 2013·4 min read

Coma: Researchers Observe Never Before Detected Brain Activity

Researchers observe brain activity beyond a flat line EEG in human patients with extreme deep hypoxic comas.

This image shows an electronic stock market ticker.

Featured Neuroscience Business Psychology

·September 19, 2013·4 min read

Financial Boom and Bust Drivers, All in the Mind?

Biological mechanisms in the brains of traders lead them to predict how others will behave, resulting in stock marketing bubbles crashing; a new study suggests.

Diagram illustrating the influence of dark-light rhythms on circadian rhythms and related physiology and behavior.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 19, 2013·5 min read

Circadian Clock is Key to Firing Up Cell’s Furnace

Researchers have identified how the circadian clock helps prime mitochondria to correctly use stored energy when we are not eating.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 19, 2013·3 min read

Worm Research: Right Combination of Sugars Regulates Brain Development

A new study reveals how the tiny mir-79 molecule regulates neural development in roundworms.

This is a microscopic view of the entorhinal cortex.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 19, 2013·3 min read

Researchers Gain New Insights into the Workings of the Brain

Researchers obtain new insight into the functioning of a region of the brain involved in spatial orientation, but which is damaged by Alzheimer's disease.