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New discovery links brain and muscle cells in signal transmission
09 Feb 2025 02:19 GMT
… transmitting signals in the brain that may facilitate … the possible connection between brain and muscle cells … branch-like extensions on brain cells that receive incoming … brain.
It also sheds light on the molecular mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity …
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Mitochondria’s Role in Social Memory May Offer Clues to Brain Disorder
09 Feb 2025 00:00 GMT
… weaken brain connections. By revealing how mitochondria support neural plasticity, Farris … ’s research lays the groundwork for strategies to preserve brain … dendrites readily express plasticity, unlike the plasticity-resistant synapses onto …
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Linking Body and Brain: New Research Explores How Physical Cues Inform Neural Signaling
07 Feb 2025 23:50 GMT
… and memory processes in the brain. Traditionally, the endoplasmic reticulum … is understood in both healthy brains and those afflicted by … , calcium signaling, neuronal communication, synaptic plasticity, dendrites, microscopy, imaging, neuroscience, …
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Brain Cells Use Muscle-Like Signals to Strengthen Learning and Memory
07 Feb 2025 22:48 GMT
… light on synaptic plasticity, which underlies learning …
Neural Calcium Amplification: Brain cells use structured ER … branch-like extensions on brain cells that receive … brain.
It also sheds light on the molecular mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity …
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Scientists say they’ve discovered how the brain overcomes fear
07 Feb 2025 15:02 GMT
… newly identified where the brain stores memories to disregard … plasticity and learning happening in these downstream areas.”
The brain … such as drugs, deep brain stimulation or functional ultrasounds, … needed.
"Targeting brain areas like the ventrolateral …
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Researchers discover strategy to slow brain metastases growth in melanoma
07 Feb 2025 14:32 GMT
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Using mouse models of brain metastases and advanced sequencing … their effectiveness in treating brain metastases".
The study … their effectiveness in patients with brain metastases. "These … with the Cellular Plasticity and Neuropathology lab at IN …
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Scary Or Safe? New Brain Pathway Quashes The Instinct To Flee From Danger
06 Feb 2025 21:32 GMT
… optogenetics to silence specific brain areas and electrophysiological recordings of … neurons, synaptic connections and molecular plasticity mechanisms,” Hofer and Mederos … therapeutic interventions, such as deep brain stimulation (DBS), focused ultrasound, …
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Brain Mechanism for Overcoming Instinctive Fears Identified in Mice
06 Feb 2025 21:16 GMT
… Instead, they found, plasticity occurs downstream in the … learned behavior relies on plasticity within vLGN populations that … impairments in eCB-dependent plasticity could contribute to … deep brain stimulation, or enhancing eCB-dependent plasticity within …
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How the Brain Overcomes Instinctive Fear and Adapts to New Threats
06 Feb 2025 21:04 GMT
… and (2) a brain structure called the ventrolateral … and ‘hard-wired’ brainstem-mediated behaviours, enabling animals … release of endocannabinoids – brain-internal messenger molecules known … learned behavior relies on plasticity within vLGN populations that …
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Fairy Tale or Trap? How Beauty Ideals Imprint Young Brains
06 Feb 2025 01:34 GMT
… through synaptic plasticity and long-term potentiation.
While human brains are clearly … are imprinted through experience-dependent plasticity during critical developmental windows.
Epigenetic …