Scientists know little about how the brain assigns cells to participate in encoding and storing memories. Now a UCLA/University of Toronto team has discovered that a protein called CREB controls the odds of a neuron playing a role in memory formation.
Researchers in Germany have hidden vaccine-grade measles virus inside artificially generated blood cells in order to devise a search-and-destroy therapy for human brain cancer that can?t be “seen” by the immune system.
A phase II clinical trial of an angiogenesis inhibitor to treat glioblastoma has shown promise in a majority of patients tested, say researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
A new method for determining biomarkers could allow physicians to personalize lung or brain cancer therapy and lower the risk of unnecessary radiation treatments.
UCSF is launching a new study to evaluate treatments for addiction to prescription painkillers and has openings for patients to enroll.
Smell and taste play essential roles in our daily lives. The chemical senses serve as important warning systems, alerting us to the presence of potentially harmful situations or substances, including gas leaks, smoke, and spoiled food. Flavors and fragrances are also important in determining what foods we eat and the commercial products we use.
Neurobiologists have pinpointed brain regions critical to one of the brain?s more remarkable feats?piecing together a continuous view of the world by integrating snippets of visual input from constantly moving eyes.
Researchers have discovered that the genetic malfunction that causes a form of mental retardation called Noonan Syndrome (NS) produces an imbalance in the genesis of two types of cells in the developing embryonic brain.
A study at the University Clinics of Bonn and Cologne gives people with therapy-resistant depression reason for hope. The doctors treated two men and a woman with what is known as deep brain stimulation.
A research group headed by Jan Born at the University of L?beck has now provided evidence that sleep not only strengthens the content of a memory but also the particular order in which they were experienced, probably by a replay of the experiences in “forward” direction.