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Neurons
Neurons: A nerve cell that receives and sends electrical signals over long distances within the body. A neuron receives electrical input signals from sensory cells (called sensory neurons) and from other neurons. The neuron sends electrical output signals to muscle neurons (called motoneurons or motor neurons) and to other neurons. A neuron that simply signals another neuron is called an interneuron.
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SEP 21, 2019Neuroscience
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a phase when dreams are created. Traditionally, REM has been thought of as a sleep sta ...Written By: Dr. Nina LichtenbergSEP 21, 2019Neuroscience
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Schwann cells are octopus-like cells in the nervous system that wrap around nerve cells, jelly-roll fashion, to form a s ...Written By: Dr. Nina LichtenbergAUG 18, 2019Genetics & Genomics
There are challenges to working with nerve cells in the lab, which can create research bottlenecks in the study of neuro ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 16, 2019Genetics & Genomics
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In healthy people, the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which is fromed by brain endothelial cells, strictly controls the ...Written By: Dena ArutaAUG 10, 2019Drug Discovery & Development
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SEP 21, 2019
Neuroscience
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a phase when dreams are created. Traditionally, REM has been thought of as a sleep sta
...
Written By:
Dr. Nina Lichtenberg
SEP 21, 2019
Neuroscience
Why is that you remember the name of your childhood best friend, but you struggle to recall the name of the person you j
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
SEP 19, 2019
Neuroscience
Researchers from the University of California have found a low-cost, non-invasive method to aid in diagnosing Alzheimer&
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
SEP 18, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
In recent years, ketamine has received growing interest for its neuroprotective effects. Known to alleviate symptoms of
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
SEP 17, 2019
Neuroscience
Play is not just for humans - many animals including dolphins, cats, dogs, otters, and ravens engage in playful behavior
...
Written By:
Dr. Nina Lichtenberg
SEP 16, 2019
Cell & Molecular Biology
Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating degenerative disorder thought to affect around 5.5 million Americans, most of
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 15, 2019
Plants & Animals
Lots of people are quick to dismiss animal intelligence as inferior to human intelligence, but let the record show that
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 13, 2019
Neuroscience
For decades, a groundbreaking brain study fueled opinions about whether we have free will over our actions. The conclusi
...
Written By:
Dr. Nina Lichtenberg
SEP 10, 2019
Neuroscience
Two years ago, Dr. Jayaram Chandrashekar and his colleagues at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Ca
...
Written By:
Dr. Nina Lichtenberg
SEP 08, 2019
Health & Medicine
Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), a polio-like infection, caught the attention of physicians in the U.S. during late summer
...
Written By:
Dena Aruta
SEP 06, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
We can write out the sequence of the genome, but the three-dimensional structure of the molecule is important to its fun
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 03, 2019
Neuroscience
When a fetus reaches six months old, it starts to produce electrical signals resembling brain waves. Now, we know that c
...
Written By:
Dr. Nina Lichtenberg
SEP 02, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
Typically, people need between seven and eight hours of sleep per night to function properly. In fact, reducing sl
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 27, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
Mice are used as the frontline for drug testing for brain disorders. Why? Their brains are supposed to have much of the
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 20, 2019
Neuroscience
Schwann cells are octopus-like cells in the nervous system that wrap around nerve cells, jelly-roll fashion, to form a s
...
Written By:
Dr. Nina Lichtenberg
AUG 18, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
There are challenges to working with nerve cells in the lab, which can create research bottlenecks in the study of neuro
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 16, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
Addiction to cigarettes, or nicotine, is one of the most widely researched addictions in modern science. And this is no
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 15, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
The two solidifying instigators of Alzheimer -disease (AD)—amyloid beta and the tau protein—have long been t
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
AUG 13, 2019
Health & Medicine
In healthy people, the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which is fromed by brain endothelial cells, strictly controls the
...
Written By:
Dena Aruta
AUG 10, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
Modern medicine commonly refers to addiction as a brain disease caused by drugs and other negative stimuli. However, evi
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 07, 2019
Neuroscience
A team of scientists in Korea and the United States have developed a tiny, flexible, wireless device that can control ne
...
Written By:
Dr. Nina Lichtenberg
AUG 05, 2019
Health & Medicine
The human brain is the most complex and least-understood part of the our body. With 86 billion brain cells and as many a
...
Written By:
Liat Ben-Senior
JUL 31, 2019
Health & Medicine
In March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved ketamine nasal spray to treat depression. Ketamine has gotten a
...
Written By:
Dr. Nina Lichtenberg
JUL 31, 2019
Cell & Molecular Biology
Mutations impacting a protein complex called SWI/SNF can cause a variety of problems. Now researchers know more about wh
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch