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29 Jun 2023

Researchers Find Neurons Linked To Chronic Stress

The neurons, which have been mapped using a variety of cutting-edge methods, also include estrogen receptors, which may help to explain why women are generally more sensitive to stress than males.

09 May 2021

How do proteins affect processing of information in brain: Study

Several billion nerve cells communicate with each other in the body so that humans and other living beings can perceive and react to their environment. Cross-linking mass spectrometry helps identify the interaction sites of the proteins.

06 Apr 2018

New brain cells in the old? Study stokes debate

People as old as 79 may still generate new brain cells, US researchers said Thursday, stoking fresh debate among scientists over what happens to our brains when we age.

01 Oct 2017

Falling asleep in a meeting? Not boredom, but your neurons are to blame

Lead author Yo Oishi said that the classic somnogen adenosine is a strong candidate for evoking the sleep effect in the nucleus accumbens.

01 Jun 2017

Strokes may increase desire for alcohol: Study

According to the study, stroke kills neurons in a part of the brain called the dorsal lateral striatum, and they stop inhibiting certain neurons in the mid-brain.

19 Oct 2016

Glial – Brain cells that play vital role in controlling appetite identified!

Neuroscientists at MIT found that activating these brain cells stimulates overeating, and that when the cells are suppressed, appetite is also suppressed.

04 Oct 2016

How brain zapping could decrease psychiatric symptoms

Electrifying brain circuits could treat neurological and psychiatric symptoms not because it causes neurons to fire but it creates an environment that makes it more or less likely for neurons to fire, researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found.

07 Sep 2016

Neuronal switch that turns off compulsive drinking urge

Researchers have found that inactivating a network of alcohol-linked neurons can switch off the urge for compulsive drinking.

31 Aug 2016

What makes some people binge drink while others stay sober

Alcohol can reduce firing of neurons or brain circuits, which is why it reduces anxiety and social inhibitions, and those who are less sensitive to motor-impairing effects of alcohol are likely to drink much, the researchers said.

25 Aug 2016

Sleep deprivation may lead to memory loss

It has been proposed earlier that changes in the connectivity between synapses - structures that allow neurons to pass signals to each other - can affect memory.

14 Apr 2016

Maple syrup, the new brain food

A team of researchers has tagged maple syrup as a promising option in protecting brain neurons and nurturing young minds.

Glucose metabolism

25 Mar 2016

Not just pancreas, brain too regulates glucose metabolism

It can be applied to any circuit, including dispersed cells like those involved in the immune system.

21 Mar 2016

Human skin cells hold promise to treat glaucoma

Using stem cells derived from human skin cells, US researchers have revealed that these can be turned into retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) -- the neurons that conduct visual information from the eye to the brain -- to prevent or cure glaucoma.

11 Mar 2016

Our `noisy` brain won't let practice make perfect

A team of neuroscientists has discovered that "noise" in our brain causes us to make mistakes, suggesting that practice will never make perfect.

10 Feb 2016

New method to 'weld' neurons using lasers

Femtosecond laser pulses - each ultrashort pulse occurring every 10-15 seconds - were delivered to the meeting point of the two cells.

25 Jan 2016

Gut neurons help our immune system control inflammation

Different populations of macrophages are among the many types of immune cells present in intestinal tissue.

24 Jan 2016

Information flows in brain like well-defined travel routes

Just as most of the world's air travel passes through a few major hubs, the majority of information in the brain flows through similarly well-travelled routes, a team led by an Indian-origin researcher from Indiana University has found.

Chinese scientists

05 Jan 2016

Scientists identify 'fear switch' neurons in mice

Chinese scientists have discovered two types of neurons that can arouse or suppress innate fear induced by odour, a development that could benefit therapy for fear-related disorders.

11 Dec 2015

Facebook ready to share artificial intelligence technology

Facebook is releasing for free the designs of a new computer server - twice as fast as those used by Facebook earlier, it designed to put more power behind artificial-intelligence software, MIT Technology review reported.

11 Dec 2015

Did you hear it? Our vision and hearing is not very reliable

Our vision and hearing are not as reliable as we might think, the study by life scientists at University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) said.

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