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Long-term Potentiation
Synapses are sites which transmit electric nerve impulses between nerve cells. Long-term potentiation (LTP) describes the strengthening of synapses to increase signal transduction between the nerve cells. Monitoring LTP is often used by neuroscientists and physicians to study memory.
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AUG 26, 2015
Cancer
Cancer researchers, always looking for more effective and less toxic approaches to stopping the disease, recently launch
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 20, 2015
Health & Medicine
For years, males with sexual problems looking for a solution have had many drug treatments to choose from. For the first
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 20, 2015
Cancer
The culprits in a rare immune cell cancer called cutaneous T-cell lymphoma may be a group of mutations in 15 genes for p
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 13, 2015
Earth & The Environment
A new report by scientists from Oregon State University and the University of North Carolina states that blooms of toxic
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
AUG 11, 2015
Neuroscience
Drugs that are used to treat common conditions such as bladder problems, depression and insomnia could delay recovery ti
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 05, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
While skeletal muscle is abundant in the human body, it been difficult for researchers to derive muscle cells from precu
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 05, 2015
Health & Medicine
Human norovirus is a member of the Caliciviridae family of viruses which are single-stranded RNA nonenveloped viruses th
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
AUG 01, 2015
Neuroscience
American seniors are getting attention for mental health issues - but maybe too much of the wrong kind. According to a U
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 28, 2015
Cancer
A newly published study co-authored by MIT economists claims that drug companies "underinvest" in long-term research to
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 23, 2015
Neuroscience
It's simple, it's noninvasive and it's accurate, but it's early too. Nonetheless, a saliva test that detects Alzheimer's
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 19, 2015
Cancer
Chemicals found in some beloved foods and beverages may help the body to utilize chemotherapy drugs. Valuable in a nutri
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 12, 2015
Earth & The Environment
For the first time in human history, a wave energy converter (or WEC) has been connected to the US energy grid. A protot
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUL 09, 2015
Cancer
Powerful diseases require powerful drugs or powerful doses of drugs, often with severe side effects. An optical control
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 07, 2015
Neuroscience
The phrase, "dreams are made for children," might have taken on new meaning, based on a study at Washington State Univer
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 03, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Part I of this article, published yesterday, explained how long-term exposure to weightlessness causes some really signi
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUN 25, 2015
Health & Medicine
Salmonella enterica is the number one cause of bacterial foodborne illness worldwide. Infections can be transmitted by a
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
JUN 12, 2015
Health & Medicine
The way that mothers-to-be choose to have their babies born can be up to them in many scenarios. Many prefer to give bir
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 11, 2015
Health & Medicine
A 27-year old woman from Belgium was recently the first in the world to bear a child using transplanted frozen ovarian t
...
JUN 09, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Often, when the idea of total conversion to clean energy for the US is proposed, the chorus in return is: that's just no
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
MAY 29, 2015
Neuroscience
One of the bigger questions in the field of neuroscience has been whether the amnesia that results from Alzheimer's or t
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAY 20, 2015
Neuroscience
What really makes a good leader? There are probably as many lists of the traits that make up good leaders as there are l
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAY 14, 2015
Space & Astronomy
You know how every once in a while, in a presidential speech, or some statement from NASA, or a speech by someone in Con
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
MAY 14, 2015
Neuroscience
Memory is one of the more complex functions of the human brain. Leaving alone the debate about the accuracy of memory an
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAY 06, 2015
Neuroscience
Americans love football, but recent stories about the intense and cumulative effect of trauma on the brain has caused re
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider