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The image shows two slides of blood vessels.

Featured Open Neuroscience Articles

·January 24, 2013·3 min read

Chance Finding Reveals New Control on Blood Vessels in Developing Brain

New research demonstrates how developing glia and neural cells help control the growth of blood vessels.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·January 23, 2013·3 min read

Astrocytes Identified as Target for New Depression Therapy

Neuroscientists found that astrocytes may be responsible for the rapid improvement in mood in depressed patients after acute sleep deprivation. This study identified how astrocytes can regulate a neurotransmitter involved in sleep.

Featured Neuroscience

·January 21, 2013·3 min read

Researchers Turn One Form of Neuron into Another in the Brain

A new finding turns one of the basics of neurobiology on its head, demonstrating that it is possible to turn one type of already differentiated neuron into another within the brain.

Cytochrome P450 2D6 structure in a 3-D rendering

Featured Neurology

·January 18, 2013·3 min read

Penn Vet Study Reveals a Promising New Target for Parkinson’s Disease Therapies

With a new insight into a model of Parkinson’s disease, researchers have identified a novel target for mitigating some of the disease’s toll on the brain.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·January 18, 2013·2 min read

Scientists Build a Microimplant that Uses a Laser to Control Individual Nerve Cells

Scientists developed an implant that is able to genetically modify specific nerve cells, control them with light stimuli, and measure their electrical activity all at the same time.

Microphotographic image of stained section of brain after an accute stroke.

Featured Psychology

·January 18, 2013·3 min read

Stroke Survivors with PTSD More Likely to Avoid Treatment

A new survey of stroke survivors has shown that those with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are less likely to adhere to treatment regimens that reduce the risk of an additional stroke.

Featured Neuroscience

·January 17, 2013·3 min read

Is Athleticism Linked to Brain Size?

Research shows that exercise-loving mice have larger midbrains.

Fetal neurons are shown in two panels in this image. The caption describes well.

Featured Neurology

·January 17, 2013·5 min read

Findings on Potential to Prevent, Reverse Serious Disabilities Affecting Children Born Prematurely

Researchers report that low blood and oxygen flow to the developing brain does not, as previously thought, cause an irreversible loss of brain cells, but rather disrupts the cells’ ability to fully mature.

A brain slice with glioblastoma multiforme

Brain Cancer Featured

·January 17, 2013·3 min read

Researchers Identify Enzyme Involved in Deadly Brain Tumors

In a study published in Neuro-Oncology, researchers at Mayo Clinic identify an important association between the naturally occurring enzyme Kallikrein 6, also known as KLK6, and glioblastoma multiforme tumors.

Featured Neurology

·January 16, 2013·2 min read

Promising New Finding for Therapies to Treat Persistent Seizures in Epileptic Patients

In a promising finding for epileptic patients suffering from persistent seizures known as status epilepticus, researchers reported today that new medication could help halt these devastating seizures.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·December 10, 2012·4 min read

Secrets of Gentle Touch Revealed

Scientists at UCSF uncover the molecular basis of gentle touch, one of the most fundamental, but least well understood of our senses.

Featured Neuroscience

·October 26, 2012·2 min read

Stimulating Brain Cells with Light

The work will be conducted on laboratory rats modelling Parkinson’s disease. The transplanted cells will be derived from skin from an adult human and will have been “reprogrammed” as nerve cells. The light-sensitive protein is obtained from a bacterium, which uses light to gain energy.