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Myth or Fact? A misfolded protein can cause you to never sleep again.

July 4, 2016June 30, 2017 knowingneurons 0 Comments 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Disease, Fatal Familial Insomnia, FFI, gene, Insomnia, Misfolded, mutation, Neurons, Prion, Protein, Sleep, Thalamus

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The Strange Relationship between Nicotine and Parkinson’s Disease

April 13, 2016March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 5 Comments 2016, Aggregates, Block, Bradykinesia, Brain, Cell, Cell death, Chaperone, Clusters, Disease, Disorder, Dopamine, Drug, Exercise, Inhibit, Lester, Misfolded, Movement, Neuroscience, News, Nicotine, Nigrostriatal pathway, Parkinson's Disease, PD, Protection, Protein, Protein folding, Reward pathway, Smoking, Smoking-Relevant Nicotine Concentration Attenuates the Unfolded Protein Response in Dopaminergic Neurons, Srinivasan, Tunycamycin

According to the World Health Organization, smoking is responsible for approximately 6 million deaths in the world every year or one fatality every six seconds. 71% of all lung cancers… Read more

Brain Basics Did You Know? Learning and Memory Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

A Beautiful Mind, A Dysfunctional Synapse

June 5, 2013March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw 3 Comments A Beautiful Mind, Decision-making, Endocytosis, John Forbes Nash Jr., Neuregulin-1, NRG-1, Paranoid schizophrenia, Protein, Recylcing, SNARE, synaptic, synaptic plasticity, Synaptophysin, vesicle

“I felt like I might get divine revelation by seeing a certain number; a great coincidence could be interpreted as a message from heaven.” – John Nash in “A Brilliant… Read more

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