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·March 6, 2014·3 min read

New High Tech Lab Records the Brain and Body in Action

A new lab at UCSF promises to bridge the worlds of technology and neuroscience to help better understand and treat neurological diseases.

This brain image has the prefrontal cortex labelled.

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·March 5, 2014·3 min read

Researchers Find Drug Therapy That Could Eventually Reverse Memory Decline in Seniors

Researchers believe they have found a drug therapy which could potentially reverse age related memory decline.

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·March 5, 2014·3 min read

Plumes in the Sleeping Avian Brain

New research provides deeper insights into the sleeping avian brain.

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·March 4, 2014·2 min read

Motion Sensing Cells in the Eye Let the Brain Know About Directional Changes

Researchers discover our ability to process directional movements is a result of cortical activation of signals which originate from retinal neurons.

This is a dti scan image of white matter in the brain.

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·March 4, 2014·4 min read

Blasts May Cause Brain Injury Even Without Symptoms

According to a new study, veterans exposed to explosions but do not report symptoms to TBI may still have damage to the white matter in their brain.

This is an anatomical diagram of an eye.

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·March 4, 2014·3 min read

Researchers Discover a Link Between Sharp Vision and the Brain’s Processing Speed

Researchers have discovered new evidence which correlates foveal crowding with the brain's processing speed.

This image shows a brain slice with amyloid beta stained.

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·March 4, 2014·4 min read

Alzheimer’s in a Dish

Researchers have successfully converted skin cells from patients with early onset Alzheimer's into neurons which are affected by the disease.

This is a computer generated model of amyloid beta.

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·March 4, 2014·4 min read

New Probes Quantify Folded and Misfolded Protein Levels in Cells

A new probe which allows researchers to quantify folded and misfolded protein levels in a cell could help pave the way for drug treatments for misfolding diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.

This is the neurovascular unit of a mouse spinal cord.

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·March 3, 2014·3 min read

Experimental Stroke Therapeutic Shows Promise for People with ALS

An experimental drug for human stroke patients appears to delay motor neuron impairment and degeneration.

The image is a microscopic view of a neuroblastoma rosette.

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·March 3, 2014·2 min read

Improved Lab Screening Technique Opens Door for New Pediatric Neuroblastoma Therapies

Researchers reveal the important role of microRNAs in regulating neuroblastoma brain cancer development.

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·March 3, 2014·4 min read

Fluorogenic Probe Created To Evaluate Potential Risk of Parkinson’s Disease

Researchers have created a two photon flurogenic probe which could be a useful tool to assess a person's potential risk of developing Parkinson's disease and to track the diseases progression.