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HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 Paul Muhlrad |
Changing Channels Appetite and other deep-seated desires could be modified by altering brain ion channels, according to research at Janelia Farm. |
Chemistry World June 27, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Nanoparticles allow remote control of cells In an experiment reminiscent of the mind-control rays that featured prominently in B-movies from the 1950s, scientists in the US have used a magnetic field to alter the behavior of an animal. |
Chemistry World June 2011 |
Breaking through the barrier Getting drug molecules into the brain means crossing the defensive blood-brain barrier. Anthony King investigates how chemists are infiltrating the brain's fortress |
Chemistry World January 10, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Proton Joins Elite Club of Cellular Messengers Researchers have discovered a new chemical that carries messages rapidly between cells - the first for more than 20 years. But unlike conventional signalling molecules, this is a far simpler chemical entity: it is the humble proton. |
Chemistry World March 2, 2009 James Urquhart |
Shining a light on neural activity US researchers have developed a new way to activate brain neurons that could lead to less invasive methods of restoring function in damaged nerves and brain tissue. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams |
The Very Hungry Mouse Activating one set of neurons makes a mouse eat, and eat, and eat. |
HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Marc Wortman |
Where Does It Hurt? Researchers are getting to the molecular details of pain's circuitry to answer the question with real specificity. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2010 Ivan Arnato |
Light Moves Light is becoming the tool of choice for researchers who want to precisely manipulate neurons and other cells. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C. P. Williams |
Living Chemistry Biologists understand better what chemists can bring to the table. And chemists understand better the questions that biologists really care about. This has led to a bigger impact of chemists on biological problems. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 Amber Dance |
A 3-D Computer Model Exposes the Brain's Neuropil, Where Learning And Memory Begin Learning and memory depend on nerve cells and support cells called astrocytes. Nerves have "output" channels -- long slender axons that reach out to other nerves -- and "input" channels -- branching dendrites that collect incoming signals. |
Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Tiny hole guides atoms against tide Researchers in Poland have made a synthetic device that uses an electrical field and an extremely small, conical pore in a thin film of material to coax potassium ions through the artificial membrane against their electrochemical potential. |
Chemistry World October 26, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Dismissing gatekeepers for enhanced nerve control US researchers have invented a better way to stimulate or block nerve impulses by coating an electrode with a membrane that can control the local concentration of ions. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 |
Let's Get Small Tim Harris develops tools neuroscientists can use to measure the brain's activity, to give them a quantitative view inside the elaborate structure of the brain. |
Bio-IT World January 21, 2005 Kevin Davies |
Allen Brain Institute Debuts 'Google for Gene Activity' The Allen Institute for Brain Science has released its first set of gene-expression data in the brain for nearly 2,000 mouse genes. The data will have important relevance for the study of brain function, disease, and the role of genes in governing human behavior. |
Chemistry World February 11, 2011 David Barden |
Waking up to new possibilities in imaging UK researchers have used a cage-like molecule to smuggle metal ions into cells, which could improve medical imaging. |
Psychology Today Mar/Apr 2008 Karen Wright |
Consuming Passions Appetite may be the ultimate mind-body problem. Understanding the true nature of appetite is the only way to successfully obstruct it. |
Technology Research News May 5, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
Chaos Seems to Aid Learning Researchers in Japan have built a computer simulation of the inferior olive, a portion of the brain that probably relays errors in movement to the cerebellum. The model shows that chaos can be useful in the brain for efficient learning. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams |
Nourishing Neural Stem Cells with CSF Inside your skull, your brain is floating in a clear liquid. This liquor cerebrospinalis, or cerebrospinal fluid, until recently was considered simply cushioning for the brain. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Jim Schnabel |
Oxygen on the Brain An ancient cellular program to protect cells when oxygen is low seems crucial for the production of new brain cells. |
Chemistry World February 24, 2011 Carl Saxton |
Mapping brain networks US scientists have created a model of the ring-shaped networks of neurons in the brain, which could help researchers to understand small changes within diseased brain cells. |
Chemistry World December 16, 2015 James Sudlow |
Cracking cocaine's secret to sneaking into the brain Up until now, it was though that cocaine had to be deprotonated to penetrate the blood -- brain barrier. A team uncovered that conformation and hydration were far more significant. |
Chemistry World February 7, 2011 Carl Saxton |
Targeting memory loss A new treatment for Alzheimer's disease has been developed by Canadian and US scientists. |
Chemistry World October 4, 2007 John Bonner |
How Traumatic Events Leave a Mark on the Brain Researchers in the US have a discovered a potential mechanism to explain why people retain stronger memories of events that occur in emotionally charged situations. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Willie D. Jones |
New Brain-Machine Interface Reactivates Monkey's Paralyzed Muscles A monkey learned to use the output of just one brain cell to move its wrist |
Chemistry World September 24, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Nerve gas detection in a fraction of a second A new molecule that detects and destroys lethal nerve gases has been developed by researchers in the US. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Deborah Franklin |
Helping Preemies Treating myelin injuries and tracking brain cell development to rescue the littlest patients. |
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 |
Chip controls neural connection Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany and the University of Calgary in Canada have used a silicon chip to coax a pair of nerve cells to communicat |
Chemistry World September 5, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Raman-based imaging takes guesswork out of brain surgery A new technique that color-codes cancerous and healthy brain cells according to their chemistry could help surgeons remove all traces of brain tumors while minimizing damage to sensitive tissues. |
Chemistry World July 15, 2015 Katie Nicholson |
Your brain on food: how chemicals control your thoughts and feelings If you want to know why you will experience hallucinations after eating a whole pot of nutmeg, Gary Wenk's new book, Your brain on food, is certainly for you. |
American Family Physician August 15, 2003 Evans et al. |
Quantum Sufficit Impatience and a feeling of time urgency may increase young persons' risk of developing high blood pressure later in life... Prescription drug abuse among young people is on the rise... Learning to read forces the brain to do something it doesn't really want to do... etc. |
Wired March 23, 2009 Jonah Lehrer |
Scientists Map the Brain, Gene by Gene I'm in the dissection room of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, and the scientist next to me is in a hurry. |
Chemistry World February 2006 Michael Gross |
Cupid's Chemistry Scientists are beginning to make some sense of romantic love through modern imaging techniques and a multidisciplinary approach involving geneticists, biochemists, anthropologists, psychologists, and others. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Madeline Drexler |
Mark Bear: Charting New Waters Bear has applied his discoveries in brain plasticity to understanding fragile X syndrome, an inherited form of mental impairment. |
BusinessWeek January 16, 2006 Arlene Weintraub |
What's Ethical And What Isn't? The debate over using human cells in animals for medical research. |
Scientific American January 2, 2006 JR Minkel |
T Cells for Brain Cells Some researchers claim that inducing a mild autoimmune reaction could actually protect the central nervous system from a spectrum of neurodegenerative conditions, from glaucoma and spinal cord injury to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. |
Chemistry World April 2010 |
Column: The crucible We are getting better at manipulating cells to grow into the tissues we need. Chemical factors are key, says Philip Ball |
Scientific American November 2005 Charles Q. Choi |
Baby to Brain Mothers could literally always have their kids on their minds. Researchers find that in mice, cells from fetuses can migrate into a mother's brain and apparently develop into nervous system cells. |
AskMen.com |
Foods To Boost Brain Power Check out this list, put together for AskMen by nutritionist Naomi Mead. |
Health September 2007 Lisa Mulcahy |
Food for Thought What you eat can affect how well you remember, so ... |
Salon.com September 30, 2002 Matthew Blakeslee |
Madison Avenue and your brain New advances in neuroscience are explaining why people just do it, exactly as they're told to, when that commercial comes on. |
PC Magazine November 29, 2006 |
Brain Chip University of Washington researchers have demonstrated an implantable device in live animals that can record signals from one part of the brain and send the impulses to a different part of the brain. |
Outside November 2002 Neal Thompson |
Strengthen the Muscle Between Your Ears True fitness follows the adage "Use it or lose it." Turns out the brain follows the same rule. Here's a two-part approach to brain development -- physical and mental -- which you can effortlessly incorporate into your existing workout plan. |
Wired August 2001 Jennifer Kahn |
Let's Make Your Head Interactive The Human Brain Project is combining wet anatomy with next-gen scanning, imaging, and networking to give neuroscience a revolutionary new tool -- the globally accessible online mind... |
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Willie D. Jones |
Engineers Work on Laser-Based Brain-Machine Interface for Prosthetic Arm Laser stimulation of nerves may light the way to better nervous-system feedback for prosthetics |
Chemistry World October 6, 2015 Tim Wogan |
Rolled-up electrodes record brain activity without scarring Ultra-flexible neural electrodes have been created that can more precisely measure brain activity without causing tissue scarring. |
Popular Mechanics June 1, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Brain Man: Questions for Neuroergonomics Expert Raja Parasuraman It's a merger of neuroscience, the study of the brain, with ergonomics, the study of how to design systems and technologies to be more compatible with what we know about human capabilities and limitations. |
InternetNews October 16, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
Point, Click, Save Your Brain New study suggests link between Internet activity and mental acuity. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 Samuel K. Moore |
Psychiatry's Shocking New Tools Electronic implants and electromagnetic pulses are picking up where psychoactive drugs have failed. |
Popular Mechanics July 7, 2008 Erik Sofge |
For Future of Mind Control, Robot-Monkey Trials Are Just a Start A study in the journal Nature this spring all but confirmed the latest evolution in the hard-charging, heady field of cybernetics: Monkeys can control machines with their brains. |
Reactive Reports Issue 60 David Bradley |
Networking Neural Nanotubes Carbon nanotubes may be the key to building cyborg type interfaces between biology and electronics. |