Neurobiology

Credit: Furukawa Lab/CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- The ideal drug is one that only affects the exact cells and neurons it is designed to treat, without unwanted side effects. This concept is especially important when treating the…

Technique could yield insights into complex proteins involved in Alzheimer's and other diseases MIT researchers have developed a way to dramatically enhance the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), a technique used…

Similarities in cognitive findings between persons with spinal cord injury and older healthy individuals could indicate accelerated aging of the brain after spinal cord injuryCredit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. January 18, 2019.…

Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Researchers at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have developed a new combination of technologies that allows them to identify the functional properties of individual…

More than €10 million in funding awarded to Charité Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have successfully convinced the EU Commission of the quality of their research proposals. As a result, the EU's Horizon 2020 research…

Credit: S. El Aidy, University of Groningen Patients with Parkinson's disease are treated with levodopa, which is converted into dopamine, a neurotransmitter in the brain. In a study published on 18 January in the journal Nature…

This article by Dr. Luigi Aloe et al. is published in Current Neuropharmacology, Volume 16 , Issue 10 , 2018 Nerve growth factor has been playing an important role in development of adult neurobiology. This is because of the regulatory…

Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) and the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) have shown that treatment using gene therapy leads to a faster recovery after nerve damage. By combining a surgical repair…

Researchers explore how maternal sleep habits, including lengthy periods of sleep without waking more than once in the night, may be associated with fetal health ANN ARBOR, Mich.- Sleeping more than nine hours per night during pregnancy…

Genetic variants which prevent a neurotransmitter receptor from working properly have been implicated in the development of schizophrenia, according to research by the UCL Genetics Institute. The N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR)…