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Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·November 6, 2015·5 min read

How Axons Regenerate on a Proper Path

Researchers have identified key components of a mechanism that allows the nervous system to heal itself.

Image shows neurons in the cerebral cortex.

Featured Neuroscience

·November 5, 2015·4 min read

Reprogramming Neurons

Researchers have successfully shown that the networks of communication among reprogrammed neurons and their neighbors can also be changed.

Featured Genetics Neurology

·November 4, 2015·3 min read

A New Model for Neurodegenerative Disease

Researchers have successfully created a pig model for ataxia telangiectasia that could help develop better treatments for the neurodegenerative disease.

Image shows a brain slice of the hippocampus.

Featured Genetics Neurology

·November 4, 2015·4 min read

Repairing Alzheimer’s Related Nerve Cell Damage

Researchers explain how a novel gene therapy approach could help treat Alzheimer's disease.

Featured Neuroscience

·November 4, 2015·3 min read

Creating a Protein Atlas of the Brain

Researchers have quantified an entire set of proteins in the adult mouse brain.

Featured Genetics Psychology

·November 3, 2015·3 min read

New Genetic Risk Biomarker for Later Life Depression Found

A gene implicated in Alzheimer's disease may also predict depression later in life, a new study reports.

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·November 3, 2015·5 min read

Alzheimer’s May Be a Collection of Different Diseases That Should be Treated Separately

Researchers report Alzheimer's disease may actually be a collection of different disease that should be treated independently with different approaches.

Featured Neurology

·November 2, 2015·5 min read

The Innate Immune System Modulates the Severity of Multiple Sclerosis

A new study reports on the processes which amplify neuroinflammation in multiple sclerosis.

Image shows MRI scans of a mouse brain tumor.

Brain Cancer Featured

·November 1, 2015·4 min read

New Computational Strategy Finds Brain Tumor Shrinking Molecules

According to a new study, computer modeling has been able to identify a molecule which inhibits a transient cellular event that drives glioblastoma brain cancer.