Neuro in Biological News

Scientists capture the first image of memories being made

...thening the synaptic connection in the reinforcement of a memory, which until now has never been imaged," says Dr. Wayne Sossin, neuroscientist at The neuro and co-investigator in the study. "Using a translational reporter, a fluorescent protein that can be easily detected and tracked, we directly visualiz...

NIH awards UC $9 million grant to improve patient point-of-care technologies

...-care technologies to assist the diagnosis and treatment of patients with neurologic emergencies. The result is the "Point-of-Care Center for Emerging neuro Technologies. This five-year award is renewable for five years. It is estimated that one million brain cells die every minute during an ischemic ...

Lithium builds gray matter in bipolar brains, UCLA study shows

...linical neuropsychologist and assistant professor of psychiatry at UCLA, and Paul Thompson, associate professor of neurology at the UCLA Laboratory of neuro Imaging, used a novel method of three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to map the entire surface of the brain in people diagnosed with bip...

Womb needed for proper brain development

...indicate further research is needed to try to understand what mechanisms in utero are missing after birth that are essential for the normal process of neuro development. When a fetus's brain is developing during pregnancy in utero, very little patterned sensory stimulation reaches the brain, she explain...