central nervous system

Longitudinal connections and the organization of the temporal cortex in macaques, great apes, and humans

NewsemiaJuly 31, 2020

by NewsemiaJuly 31, 202000

by Lea Roumazeilles, Nicole Eichert, Katherine L. Bryant, Davide Folloni, Jerome Sallet, Suhas Vijayakumar, Sean Foxley, Benjamin C. Tendler, Saad Jbabdi, Colin Reveley, Lennart Verhagen,...

Neurology

Higher doses of omega-3 supplements may be needed for averting cognitive decline

NewsemiaJuly 20, 2020

by NewsemiaJuly 20, 202000

For years, a scientific puzzle has bedeviled researchers aiming to fight Alzheimer’s disease, a common and incurable form of dementia. Source link...

Biology

Rest-task modulation of fMRI-derived global signal topography is mediated by transient coactivation patterns

NewsemiaJuly 10, 2020

by NewsemiaJuly 10, 202000

by Jianfeng Zhang, Zirui Huang, Shankar Tumati, Georg Northoff Recent resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) studies have revealed that the global signal (GS) exhibits a nonuniform...

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New vitamin K-based drug eliminates medication-resistant epileptic seizures in mice

NewsemiaJuly 6, 2020

by NewsemiaJuly 6, 202000

In the cover article of the June 11 issue of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, a team of researchers at the Medical University of South...

Biology

Resting-state brain and spinal cord networks in humans are functionally integrated

NewsemiaJuly 3, 2020

by NewsemiaJuly 3, 202000

by Shahabeddin Vahdat, Ali Khatibi, Ovidiu Lungu, Jürgen Finsterbusch, Christian Büchel, Julien Cohen-Adad, Veronique Marchand-Pauvert, Julien Doyon In the absence of any task, both the...

Gastroenterology

Irritable bowel disease heightens the risk of dementia

NewsemiaJune 29, 2020

by NewsemiaJune 29, 202000

Scientists have long explored the link between the gut and the brain. Now, a new study shows that older adults with chronic inflammation of the...

Gastroenterology

Irritable bowel syndrome heightens the risk of dementia

NewsemiaJune 26, 2020

by NewsemiaJune 26, 202000

Scientists have long explored the link between the gut and the brain. Now, a new study shows that older adults with chronic inflammation of the...

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Protein profile in serum reflects COVID-19 severity

NewsemiaJune 25, 2020

by NewsemiaJune 25, 202000

The wide range of manifestations of COVID-19 has continued to baffle investigators. Now, a new study published on the preprint server medRxiv in June 2020...

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Creating the first 3D neural map of a heart

NewsemiaJune 15, 2020

by NewsemiaJune 15, 202002

News-Medical spoke to Dr. Vadigepalli and Dr. Schwaber about their groundbreaking research in which they managed to map the neurons in the heart. Source link...

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GMU researchers studying effect of cannabidiol on exosome release

NewsemiaJune 7, 2020

by NewsemiaJune 7, 202003

Fatah Kashanchi, Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Virology, School of Systems Biology, and Lance Liotta, Co-Director, Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, are working to mitigate virally...

Neurology

How COVID-19 affects the nervous system

NewsemiaJune 1, 2020

by NewsemiaJune 1, 202002

A new paper published in the journal JAMA Neurology in May 2020 discusses the presentation and complications of COVID-19 with respect to the nervous system....

Biology

Dilp-2–mediated PI3-kinase activation coordinates reactivation of quiescent neuroblasts with growth of their glial stem cell niche

NewsemiaMay 30, 2020

by NewsemiaMay 30, 202000

by Xin Yuan, Conor W. Sipe, Miyuki Suzawa, Michelle L. Bland, Sarah E. Siegrist Dietary nutrients provide macromolecules necessary for organism growth and development. In...

Biology

Behavioral flexibility is associated with changes in structure and function distributed across a frontal cortical network in macaques

NewsemiaMay 26, 2020

by NewsemiaMay 26, 202005

by Jérôme Sallet, MaryAnn P. Noonan, Adam Thomas, Jill X. O’Reilly, Jesper Anderson, Georgios K. Papageorgiou, Franz X. Neubert, Bashir Ahmed, Jackson Smith, Andrew H....

Gastroenterology

Neuroscientists trace brain-to-gut pathways

NewsemiaMay 19, 2020

by NewsemiaMay 19, 20200133

Neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute have traced neural pathways that connect the brain to the stomach, providing a biological mechanism to explain...

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Discovery of novel brain-digestive link

NewsemiaApril 6, 2020

by NewsemiaApril 6, 2020021

Scientists across the globe have long studied the link between the brain and the digestive system. Previous studies have tied brain networks and how they...

Biology

BigBrain 3D atlas of cortical layers: Cortical and laminar thickness gradients diverge in sensory and motor cortices

NewsemiaApril 3, 2020

by NewsemiaApril 3, 2020026

by Konrad Wagstyl, Stéphanie Larocque, Guillem Cucurull, Claude Lepage, Joseph Paul Cohen, Sebastian Bludau, Nicola Palomero-Gallagher, Lindsay B. Lewis, Thomas Funck, Hannah Spitzer, Timo Dickscheid,...

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Newly developed laboratory model helps reveal how HIV infection affects the brain

NewsemiaMarch 28, 2020

by NewsemiaMarch 28, 202004

Though many negative repercussions of human immunodeficiency virus infection can be mitigated with the use of antiretroviral therapy, one area where medical advances haven’t made...

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Cryo-electron microscopy helps visualize ball-and-chain inactivation of ion channels

NewsemiaMarch 19, 2020

by NewsemiaMarch 19, 202006

Ion channels, which allow potassium and sodium ions to flow in and out of cells, are crucial in neuronal ‘firing’ in the central nervous system...

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GlobalData: Oncology is top therapy area for non-industry-sponsored clinical trials

NewsemiaFebruary 22, 2020

by NewsemiaFebruary 22, 2020039

Oncology was the top therapy area for non-industry sponsored clinical trials in 2019, making up 25.7% of all clinical trials. Source link...

Biology

Lack of the MHC class II chaperone H2-O causes susceptibility to autoimmune diseases

NewsemiaFebruary 19, 2020

by NewsemiaFebruary 19, 2020062

by Robin A. Welsh, Nianbin Song, Catherine A. Foss, Tatiana Boronina, Robert N. Cole, Scheherazade Sadegh-Nasseri DO (HLA-DO, in human; murine H2-O) is a highly...