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Researchers Create Cell-Level Wearable Devices to Restore Neuron Function
Researchers have developed tiny, wireless devices capable of wrapping around individual neurons, potentially aiding in the ...
Researchers discover critical link between myelin repair failure and neuron damage in multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin, the ...
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Pathway Identified for Early Intervention in ALS Progression
Researchers have uncovered a mechanism that may trigger ALS’s earliest stages, identifying proteins that mislocalize, causing ...
Scientific American1d
Consciousness Might Hide in Our Brain’s Electric Fields
A mysterious electromagnetic mechanism may be more important than the firing of neurons in our brains to explain our ...
Researchers Develop Wireless Devices Small Enough To Wrap Around Neurons
By snugly wrapping around neurons, these devices could help scientists probe subcellular regions of the brain, and might even ...
Psychology Today1d
Why Cramming Doesn't Work
Consider first how memories are stored in the brain, from a perspective of a brain cell, a neuron. To a neuron, human ...
Astrocytes: The Brain’s Hidden Memory Architects Revealed
New research reveals that astrocytes, a type of non-neuronal brain cell, play a significant role in memory storage and recall ...
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Nerve Covering Repair Tied to Neuron Damage
Model developed in study will pave way for more discovery about important but mysterious process Ben Emery, Ph.D., and ...
Science Daily3d
Newly discovered neurons change our understanding of how the brain handles hunger
The findings reveal that BNC2 neurons, when activated by leptin and possibly other signals, not only suppress appetite but also alleviate the negative feelings associated with hunger. Remarkably, ...
Key pathway leading to neurodegeneration in early stages of ALS identified
Approximately 5,000 people in the U.S. develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) each year. On average, they survive for ...
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Chinese scientists connect brain-like tissue to machine for brain repair
The Chinese research team responded to this challenge by employing electrical stimulation to boost neuron plasticity ... increase in neural activity -- with the growth of both neuronal cells and ...
‘Swiss army knife’ of the brain: How star-shaped cells reshape our understanding of memory
How does the brain store—and access—our memories? While our understanding of the brain has (thankfully) developed greatly from the days of removing cerebral tissue to see what would happen, a precise ...