Sentences with phrase «effort by neurons»
«We think it's a last - ditch effort by neurons to get rid of bad proteins,» Dickey says.
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«Our study suggests that direct current stimulation can compensate somewhat for the loss of dopamine by decreasing the effort the brain has to put into getting its motor neurons to fire,» adds Shadmehr, the senior author of a report on the research published online in The Journal of Neuroscience on Sept. 2.
Surcharged by the success of those efforts, the Jans next uncovered the principles and genes that control the process by which the slender branches of neurons, called dendrites, grow into densely interlacing forests.
«The general challenge is that, despite 20 or 30 years of focused effort by pharmaceutical companies and labs, we still don't know why neurons die in neurodegenerative disorders,» Lipscombe said.
In an effort to achieve these goals, we have established interdisciplinary partnerships devoted to the study of basic biological processes and signaling pathways targeted by neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, tauopathies, Down syndrome, neurometabolic disease (including obesity & diabetes), motor neuron disease and traumatic brain injury.