In a recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Michele Noonan, a University of Texas neuroscience graduate student in the lab of Amelia Eisch, shows that a lack of neurogenesis, or birth of new neurons, in the adult rat can actually cause drug addiction. (scientificamerican.com)
The entire fellowship program centers on the research presentations, because it is through these that the ANDP realizes a return on its investment — insight into issues facing neuroscience graduate students and postdocs and, even better, some problem - solving ideas. (sciencemag.org)
Jonathan Grima, currently a fourth - year neuroscience graduate student in Rothstein's laboratory, learned that this same mutation is also the most common cause of another disorder in which patients have Huntington's - like symptoms without having the causative Huntington's disease mutation. (sciencedaily.com)