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Neuro Primer: Sleep

Neuro Cartilla: El Sueño

May 28, 2021 Joel Frohlich 0 Comments Adenosine, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer’s disease, ascending activating system, atonia, Brainstem, Caffeine, Coffee, Dreaming, dreams, general anesthesia, Hypnogram, locus coeruleus, NREM, Optic Chiasm, parasomnia, Raphe Nucleus, rapid eye movement sleep, REM, REM sleep behavior disorder, Sleep, Sleep paralysis, suprachiasmatic nucleus, synchronization, tuberomammillary nucleus

Artículo original: Neuro Primer: Sleep Traducido por Daniela Semerjian. ~~~ Es fácil preguntar: “¿Por qué dormir?” Pero también podemos darle la vuelta a la pregunta: “¿Por qué despertarse?” Necesitamos estar… Read more

Neuro Primer: Sleep

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Neuro Primer: Sleep

March 20, 2019May 31, 2021 Joel Frohlich 1 Comment Adenosine, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer’s disease, ascending activating system, atonia, Brainstem, Caffeine, Coffee, Dreaming, dreams, general anesthesia, Hypnogram, Hypothalamus, locus coeruleus, NREM, Optic Chiasm, parasomnia, Raphe Nucleus, rapid eye movement sleep, REM, REM sleep behavior disorder, Sleep, Sleep paralysis, suprachiasmatic nucleus, synchronization, tuberomammillary nucleus

Spanish Translation also available here: Neuro Cartilla: El Sueño ~~~ It’s easy to ask: “Why sleep?” But we can also turn the question on its head: “Why wake?” We need… Read more

Aging Learning and Memory Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Uncategorized

The Pathology of Alzheimer’s Disease

December 6, 2018December 5, 2018 Khayla Black 1 Comment Aging, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer’s disease, Amyloid beta, amyloid plaque, dementia, neurofibrillary tangles, Tau

Whether it be forgetting 20 years of your life or having the same conversation every five minutes only to forget it each time, memory impairment can take a large toll… Read more

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Neuro Primer: Aging

October 10, 2018October 8, 2018 Gabrielle Torre 0 Comments AD, Age-related cognitive decline, Aging, ALS, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer’s disease, Amyloid, amyloid plaques, Baby Boomers, beta-amyloid, Brain activation, Brain cells, Cardiovascular health, Childhood, Cognition, Cognitive performance, Cortex, dementia, Disease, Executive function, Exercise, Genetics, glutamate, Hippocampus, Longevity, Memory, Memory decline, myelin, Nervous System, Neurogenesis, Neuroimaging, Neurons, Neuroplasticity, Neuroscience, Neurotransmitters, Normal aging, Parkinson's, Parkinson's Disease, Plasticity, Quality of life, Research, Science, Sleep, Sleep habits, Ventricles, Working memory

What happens to the brain in aging? Normal aging comes with many changes in brain structure and function. As individuals approach the age of 65 years and above, they experience… Read more

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[Podcast] Uploading the Human Brain

July 19, 2018July 19, 2018 Alexa Erdogan 0 Comments Alzheimer, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer’s disease, Brain, Calcium imaging, Cnidarians, connectome, Consciousness, Cortex, EEG, Epilepsy, Interview, Jurrasic Park, Knowing Neurons, LEGO, long term depression, Long-term potentiation, LTD, LTP, Microscopy, Neuron, Neuroscience, Neurotransmitters, Parkinson's, Parkinson's Disease, Research, Sci-fi, Science, Science Fiction, SOMA, Upload

n a brand new episode of the Knowing Neurons podcast, we explore the concept of “mind uploading”. How would something like a mind upload really work?… Read more

Big Ideas Did You Know? Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

The Law of Attraction, the Placebo Effect, and the Immune-Brain Connection

March 1, 2018April 18, 2019 Caitlin Aamodt 0 Comments Addiction, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer’s disease, Autism, depression, Drugs, Immune System, Law of Attraction, Parkinson's, Parkinson's Disease, placebo, Placebo effect, Social experiment, Surgery, Synapses, Treatment

iomedical researchers call it “the most replicated experiment in the history of science.” Simply put, the placebo effect is a phenomenon where people who believe they are being treated for… Read more

Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Uncategorized

High Fat Diet May Prevent Sudden Death in Epilepsy

October 11, 2017October 10, 2017 Tamsin Irwin 0 Comments ALS, Alzheimer's, Brain health, Cell Metabolism, Diet, Epilepsy, genes, Health, high-fat diet, Hippocampus, Ketogenic, Ketogenic diet, mitochondria, Motor neuron disease, Parkinson's, Seizure drugs, Seizures, SUDEP

he human brain consists of highly complex circuitry which is wired to elicit a synchronous pattern of electrical signals. This allows for communication between differing regions of the brain. When… Read more

Brain Basics Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Can We Trust MRI Research? It’s Complicated.

March 29, 2017June 30, 2017 Rachel Jonas 2 Comments ADHD, Alzheimer's, Brain, Default mode network, DMN, fMRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, MRI, Neuroimaging, Psychiatry

The first human magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan was acquired almost 40 years ago. The scanner — hand-built by Dr. Raymond Damadian with the help of his two postdoctoral fellows… Read more

The Tenets of Tauists Knowing Neurons

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The Tenets of Tauists

April 2, 2014March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw 1 Comment 2014, Alzheimer's, Chromatin, degeneration, DNA, Drosophila, Euchromatin, Feany, Frost, Fruit fly, H3K9me2, Heterochromatin, HP1a, Hyperphosphorylated, Nature Neuroscience, Neurotoxicity, Nucleus, Tau, Tau promotes neurodegeneration through global chromatin relaxation, Tauopathy

For the labs working tirelessly to understand the underpinnings of Alzheimer’s disease, there are often two camps: BAPtists and tau-ists. … Read more

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Uncovering the Brain Circuitry of Short Term Memory

September 30, 2013March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 5 Comments Alzheimer's, Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex, Memory, Monkey, NMDA, NMDA receptors, Schizophrenia, Working memory

Have you ever asked for a phone number only to forget it moments later? The only way to remember it is to rehearse the digits over and over in your… Read more

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Magnesium Supplement to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease

May 27, 2013March 5, 2017 Ryan Jones 6 Comments AD, AD-mice, Age, Aging, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer’s disease, and Synaptic Plasticity in the Infralimbic Prefrontal Cortex and Lateral Amygdala, dementia, Effects of Elevation of Brain Magnesium on Fear Conditioning, Elderly, Elevation of Brain Magnesium Prevents and Reverses Cognitive Deficits and Synaptic Loss in Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Model, Emotion, Enhancement of Learning and Memory by Elevating Brain Magnesium, Enhancement of Synaptic Plasticity through Chronically Reduced Ca2+ Flux during Uncorrelated Activity, Fear Extinction, Journal of Neuroscience, Learning, Liu, Magnesium, Memory, Mg2+, MIT, Neuron, NMDA, NMDA receptors, Old, Slutsky, Supplement, Synapse, Synaptic function, Synaptic loss

The human brain contains roughly eighty-six billion (~10^10) neurons, each of which forms approximately ten thousand (10^4) synaptic connections with other neurons. Therefore, on average, there are one hundred trillion… Read more

Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Sleep

From Turkey Comas To New Disease Treatments

April 22, 2013March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 0 Comments 2013, Alzheimer's, Amino acid, BBB, Blood-brain barrier, Crystallography, Disease, Drug, Huntington's, KMO, Metabolism, Nature, Neurodegeneration, Neurodegenerative disease, Sleep, Structural basis of kynurenine 3-monooxygenase inhibition, Target, Therapy, Tryptophan, UPF648

Neurodegenerative disorders, like Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s disease, are devastating. As you can imagine, witnessing the slow and progressive loss of a loved one’s mental and emotional states is an extremely… Read more

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