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DNA Test that Identifies Down Syndrome in Pregnancy Can Also Detect Trisomy 18 and Trisomy 13

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 2, 2012

A newly available DNA-based prenatal blood test that can identify a pregnancy with Down syndrome can also identify two additional chromosome abnormalities: tris... Read More...

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Gene Regulator in Brain’s Executive Hub Tracked Across Lifespan

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 2, 2012

Mental illness suspect genes are among the most environmentally responsive.For the first time, scientists have tracked the activity, across the lifespan, of... Read More...

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Same Genes Linked to Early- and Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 1, 2012

The same gene mutations linked to inherited, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease have been found in people with the more common late-onset form of the illness.T... Read More...

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Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Neural Precursors, Bypassing Stem Cell Stage

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 31, 2012

Mouse skin cells can be converted directly into cells that become the three main parts of the nervous system, according to researchers at the Stanford Universit... Read More...

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Envelope for an Artificial Cell

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 26, 2012

Chemists have taken an important step in making artificial life forms from scratch. Using a novel chemical reaction, they have created self-assembling cell memb... Read More...

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Researchers Induce Alzheimer’s Neurons from Pluripotent Stem Cells

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 25, 2012

First-ever feat provides new method to understand cause of disease, develop drugsLed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Med... Read More...

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Genetic Study Offers Clues to How Intelligence Changes Through Life

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 19, 2012

Scientists have estimated for the first time the extent to which genes determine changes in intelligence across the human life course.The study found that g... Read More...

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A First: Brain Support Cells from Umbilical Cord Stem Cells

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 17, 2012

For the first time ever, stem cells from umbilical cords have been converted into other types of cells, which may eventually lead to new treatment options for s... Read More...

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Walk This Way: Scientists and MBL Physiology Course Students Describe How a Motor Protein “Steps Out”

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 13, 2012

Just like people, some proteins have characteristic ways of “walking,” which (also like human gaits) are not so easy to describe. But now scientists have discov... Read More...

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A Gene for Depression Localized

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 4, 2012

Psychiatric disorders can be described on many levels, the most traditional of which are subjective descriptions of the experience of being depressed and the us... Read More...

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Human Skull Study Causes Evolutionary Headache

Neuroscience NewsDecember 20, 2011

Scientists studying a unique collection of human skulls have shown that changes to the skull shape thought to have occurred independently through separate evolu... Read More...

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UCSF-Led Team Discovers Cause of Rare Disease – PKD/IC

Neuroscience NewsDecember 16, 2011

Childhood Disorder Called PKD that Causes Epileptic Seizures Linked to Genetic MutationsA large, international team of researchers led by scientists at the ... Read More...

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News

Ketamine reduces drinking in male rats, but not females

The difference between an expert’s brain and a novice’s

At what point does click-bait susceptibility become a mental health disorder?

Neuroscience

Ketamine reduces drinking in male rats, but not females

The difference between an expert’s brain and a novice’s

At what point does click-bait susceptibility become a mental health disorder?

Neurology

New cell therapy improves memory and stops seizures following TBI

Fecal transplantation to treat patients with Parkinson’s disease: Hope or hype?

Long-term blood pressure variation and risk of dementia

AI

How artificial intelligence can transform psychiatry

Enjoyment of pop music classics linked to combination of uncertainty and surprise

Learning is optimized when we fail 15% of the time

Robotics

Deep3DFly: the deep-learning way to design fly-like robots

Electronic glove offers ‘humanlike’ features for prosthetic hand users

Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels

Psychology

At what point does click-bait susceptibility become a mental health disorder?

How humans’ sense of ‘intuitive physics’ leaves fingerprints on fictional worlds

Researchers discover the brain circuits that rapidly detect friend or foe

Genetics

DNA Test that Identifies Down Syndrome in Pregnancy Can Also Detect Trisomy 18 and Trisomy 13

Gene Regulator in Brain’s Executive Hub Tracked Across Lifespan

Same Genes Linked to Early- and Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Neural Precursors, Bypassing Stem Cell Stage

Envelope for an Artificial Cell

Researchers Induce Alzheimer’s Neurons from Pluripotent Stem Cells

Genetic Study Offers Clues to How Intelligence Changes Through Life

A First: Brain Support Cells from Umbilical Cord Stem Cells

Walk This Way: Scientists and MBL Physiology Course Students Describe How a Motor Protein “Steps Out”

A Gene for Depression Localized

Human Skull Study Causes Evolutionary Headache

UCSF-Led Team Discovers Cause of Rare Disease – PKD/IC