How the Office Org Chart in Your Brain Helps Organize Your Actions
Researchers shed light on how behavior is organized in the brain. The study reports learned behaviors are organized in a hierarchy of multiple levels of control.... Read More...
Salk Institute
Impaired Energy Production May Explain Why Brain is Susceptable to Age Related Disease
Cells from older people have impaired mitochondria, reducing energy production. The findings could open the door to discovering a clear link between mitochondrial dysfunction and age related neurodegeneration, researchers report.... Read More...
Interconnected Cells in a Dish Let Researchers Study Brain Disease
Using stem cells to generate a partial model of the brain, researchers discover how communication between neurons is altered in those with Schizophrenia. ... Read More...
Where Brain Cells Get Their Information May Determine Their Roles in Diseases
Researchers have mapped the relationship of two types of neurons implicated in psychiatric and movement disorder. The findings could lead to new treatments for a range of disorders from depression to Parkinson's disease.... Read More...
Organoids Reveal how Deadly Brain Cancers Grow
Researchers use gene editing to generate aggressive glioblastoma multiforme brain tumors in the lab. The model, researchers say, could be used to track the progression of tumors and develop personalized therapies for patients.... Read More...
Grafted Brain Organoid Provides Insight into Neurological Disorders
Researchers have developed more sophisticated organoid models to help provide new insights into a range of neurological and psychological disorders.... Read More...
Early Life Experiences Influence DNA in the Adult Brain
Researchers report maternal behavior can change the DNA of her offspring. The findings, researchers say, could lead to better understanding of some neuropsychiatric disorders.... Read More...
Decoding the Chemistry of Fear
Discovery about fear pathways in the brains of worms could have implications for better understanding anxiety in humans, researchers report.... Read More...
Making New Memories is a Balancing Act
According to researchers, some synapses get smaller as we learn new information.... Read More...
How the Brain Tells Our Limbs Apart
Researchers have identified contrasts in interneurons that govern motor control.... Read More...
Timing is Everything, to Our Genes
Researchers discover the activity of 80 percent of genes follow a day/night rhythm in many tissue types and brain regions.... Read More...
What Happens When Your Brain’s Support Cells Aren’t So Supportive?
Astrocytes may be good targets to prevent, or even reverse, the effects of normal aging, researchers suggest.... Read More...