Throwing the micro switch: MicroRNA may link smoking risk gene to neurobiology of addiction
Philadelphia, PA, April 23, 2009 During the past several years, significant progress has been made in identifying susceptibility genes for nicotine dependence through genetic linkage and association analyses. Although a large number of genes have been associated with tobacco smoking, only a very...Curemark CEO Presents Autism Findings at Prestigious Neurobiology Conference at Oxford
Curemark, LLC announced today that Founder and CEO Dr. Joan Fallon has presented Curemark's most recent findings on autism at the Gordon Conference on Neurobiology and Brain Disorders which took place August 24-29 at Magdalene College in Oxford. Rye, NY (PRWEB) Septembe...Working with children with autistic spectrum disorder: Psychoanalysis and neurobiology
New York - As part of the Winter 2008 Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, psychoanalysts Susan P. Sherkow, M.D. (New York, NY) and Martha Herbert, M.D., Ph.D. (Boston, MA) will lead a discussion regarding "Psychoanalytic Approaches to Working with Children with Autistic Spectrum Di...Studying the psycho neurobiology of aging
New Orleans – The manner with which an individual responds to stress may be more relevant to aging rather than the chronological age, say leading researchers in the fields of neurobiology and psychoneuroendocrinology. // Healthy aging is all about handling stress well and having a very healthy life...Angelman Syndrome Foundation Takes Major Step Toward Furthering Research Efforts
...ng symptoms has the potential to positively affect more than 12 million people. Quotes Attributed to Michael D. Ehlers, M.D., Ph.D., Department of neurobiology at Duke University Medical Center: - "The creation of the Angelman Treatment and Research Institute is exciting and timely. - "The priori...Robotics insights through flies' eyes
...entists and engineers from five universities and institutes. Within the framework of CoTeSys, brain researchers from the Max-Planck Institute for neurobiology are exploring how flies manage to apprehend their environment and their own movement so efficiently. They've built a flight simulator for flies under ...Angelman Syndrome Foundation Takes Major Step Toward Furthering Research Efforts
...d for expanding our fundamental knowledge of UBE3A and its role in brain development and function," said Michael D. Ehlers, M.D., Ph.D., Department of neurobiology at Duke University Medical Center. "The Angelman Syndrome Foundation is to be applauded in having the vision to recognize the critical importance of b...Grant for brain tumor and deafness research
...ing damage, and to test drug-based therapies designed to alleviate the problem. The research is led by Professor Oliver Hanemann, Chair of Clinical neurobiology at the Peninsula Medical School. He said: "We have already achieved some success in re-profiling an existing drug called sorafenib by using the human ...Drug rescues memory lost to Alzheimer's disease
...d a multidisciplinary approach combining an understanding of immunology and neurobiology to uncover a completely different target than other therapies," said Andrea...s in the Alzheimer's brain," said Tenner, also a professor of pathology and neurobiology & behavior, as well as a member of UCI's Institute for Immunology and Insti...Mothers of children with autism have higher parental stress, psychological distress
...hildren 51 of the youngsters had an autism spectrum disorder and 22 had developmental delays. The families were part of a larger study exploring the neurobiology and developmental course of autism. The children in the stress study were predominantly male, white and about 3 years old when data was collected. ...Autism Studies Presented at Mid-Atlantic Research Consortium Meeting
...orders the centerpiece of their meeting, said Yudkoff, acknowledging multifaceted research being pursued by the participating centers, using genetics, neurobiology and imaging studies to investigate the intricate puzzle of autism. "The last 20 years of research have made it clear that autism is not a single ...Molecular Marker Identifies Normal Stem Cells as Intestinal Tumor Source
...er stem cells in solid tissues like the intestine was not known," said Richard Gilbertson, M.D., Ph.D., associate member of the St. Jude Developmental neurobiology and Oncology departments and the paper's senior author. "Our work provides the first direct link between normal solid tissue stem cells and cancer. Th...Study Suggests a Possible Way to Offset Chemobrain Memory Loss
...motherapy drugs, they lose memory," said Gregory Konat, Ph.D., professor of neurobiology and anatomy at WVU. "When we add NAC during treatment, they don't lose memo...to confirm the role of NAC in patients." In addition to the Department of neurobiology and Anatomy, researchers from WVU's Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center and De...Two New Alzheimer's Disease Studies Show Advances Against Different Treatment Targets
...n the normal aging population. Donald Schmechel, MD, Adjunct Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics), Professor of Psychiatry, and Associate Professor of neurobiology of Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, and colleagues conducted a Phase IIa clinical trial of AL-108 (Allon Therapeutics), an experimental the...UBC Forms European Advisory Board to Enhance Data Quality of CNS Trials
... psychotherapist with a specialty in behavioral therapy. -- Heinz C.R. Grunze, MD, is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, School of Neurology, neurobiology and Psychiatry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Prof. Grunze serves as an editorial reviewer on many journals and has served as vice presi...Two Major Studies Show: Human Pluripotent Stem Cells without Cloning or Destroying Embryo
...SCNT to focus on reprogramming instead. The following summary and analysis was produced by Maureen Condic, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah School of Medicine and Markus Grompe, M.D., Director, Oregon Stem Cell Center and Professor, Department of Molecular a...The neurobiology of musicality related to the intrinsic attachment behavior?
In the study of University of Helsinki and Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, the neurobiological basis of music in human evolution and communication was evaluated using candidate genes associated in the earlier studies with social bonding and cognitive functions. The data consisted of 343 family members...Tramiprosate (Alzhemed? preclinical results published in Neurobiology of Aging
Neurochem Inc. (NASDAQ: NRMX; TSX: NRM) is pleased to announce that Neurobiology of Aging, one of the world's leading peer-reviewed medical journals in the fields of gerontology and neuroscience, has published an online version of a publication on the preclinical development of tramiprosate (3-amin...Cancer-causing protein can also help fight the tumors it causes
...es discovered, has the power to heal as well as harm. Ph.D. student Oded Rechavi and his fellow researchers at Tel Aviv University's Department of neurobiology have found that Ras has the ability to transfer from cancer cells into immune cells such as t-cells a transfer that may be the key to creating new d...'The Vision Revolution': Eyes are the source of human 'superpowers'
...f of the human brain is used for vision, and sight is the best understood and most thoroughly investigated of the five senses. This is why Changizi, a neurobiology expert and assistant professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has spent the past several years researchin...Tracking down the causes of multiple sclerosis
...ce its progress remain unclear. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of neurobiology in Martinsried and an international research team have succeeded in attaini...ation with an international team, scientists at the Max Planck Institute of neurobiology have succeeded in developing a very effective animal model. The specially b...Protein identified as critical to insulating the body's wiring could also become treatment target
...e in the receptor's stability and function provides a potential new site for targeted cancer therapy, says Dr. Yanmei Tao says, postdoctoral fellow in neurobiology and the study's first author. In fact, antibodies to ErbB2 already are available to patients with breast and prostate cancers. For nerves to comm...New tool isolates RNA within specific cells
...ting cell-type specific RNA from other organisms, including mammals, and should be useful in broad areas of research including studies of development, neurobiology and disease." The new non-toxic, non-invasive method makes it possible to "listen in" to the messages -- in fact, messenger RNA -- that the nucleu...UCLA scientists discover ultrasonic communication among frogs
...sary background noise. Better hearing aids that are directional, for example, could result from the research. In 1998, Kraig Adler, a professor of neurobiology and behavior who had been Narins' professor at Cornell University, told Narins he should go to China to see "a frog with an ear canal like a human," N...Preclinical work shows how one gene causes severe mental retardation
...ence-dependent reorganization of the cortex was abnormal in animals that were missing the gene," said Michael Ehlers, M.D., Ph.D., a Duke professor of neurobiology and co-senior author of the study. "We looked at the visual cortex, because in this well-studied model, we could precisely control the sensory stimulu...Researchers discover that gene switches on during development of epilepsy
...n develop the disorder. In a study published this month in the Journal of Neuroscience , senior researcher Dwayne W. Godwin, Ph.D., a professor of neurobiology and anatomy, and colleagues, report discovering that a gene, already known to predispose people who inherit an active form of it to certain forms of e...iZumi Bio Appoints Dr. Corey Goodman to Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board
...uncil's board on Life Sciences. Dr. Goodman attended Stanford University as a Searle Scholar and earned a B.S. in Biology. He received his Ph.D. in neurobiology from the University of California , Berkley as a National Science Foundation (NSF) fellow, and was a Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellow at the Un...USC researchers derive first embryonic stem cells from rats
...tion of many labs around the world will change because of the availability of rat ES cells," says Qi-Long Ying, Ph.D., assistant professor of Cell and neurobiology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, researcher at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, and the ...NeuroFocus Chief Science Advisor Wins Humboldt Prize
... and selection as a 2008 Humboldt Research Award winner. In announcing the Award to Dr. Knight, the Foundation cited that it was "given in the area of neurobiology in recognition of your past accomplishments in research and teaching." Dr. Knight is a previous recipient of the Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investiga...USC and second sight announce European clinical trial for Argus II retinal implant
...he many people in the world afflicted with blindness, said Mark Humayun, MD, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering, and Cellular and neurobiology at the Doheny Eye Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, and Viterbi School of Engineering and the first physician to perform an Argus II implanta...Avicena Appoints Dr. M. Flint Beal to Board of Directors
...f a number of journals including the Journal of Neurochemistry, the Annals of Neurology, Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, Experimental Neurology and neurobiology of Disease. Dr. Beal received an M.D. from the University of Virginia Medical School and subsequently conducted residencies in internal medicine at t...David Barker, Former Illumina CSO, Joins GenVault's Scientific Advisory Board
...rch and Business Development until its acquisition by Amersham Biosciences. In his academic career, Dr. Barker conducted interdisciplinary research in neurobiology as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon and Associate Professor at Oregon State University...