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Dr. Perlmutter explains what happens when the brain encounters carbs and gluten, why your brain thrives on fat and cholesterol, and how you can spur the growth of new brain cells at any age.

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One study looked at behavior among mice, and concluded that males with new offspring develop new brain cells and neurons when they are physically present with their pups that do not form when they are absent.

The best explanation so far, says Henrietta van Praag, a neurobiologist at the National Institute on Aging, is that exercising the heart somehow stimulates growth factors to produce new nerve cells in the brain.

In a new study published in Cell Reports, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes identified different types of neurons in a brain region called the reticular thalamus.

A new computer - imaging technique shows researchers how brain cells communicate — one molecule at a time

BRAIN CANDY A new database offers a deep look at living human nerve cells, revealing elaborate branching structures and myriad shapes, such as in this neuron called a pyramidal cell (cell image, left and 3 - D computer reconstruction, right).

But following the removal of the primary tumor, micrometastatic cells learn to communicate with cells in their new microenvironment in the brain — cells which are, at first, hostile to them.

Dr. Del Maestro adds, «Yong and colleagues at the University of Calgary have begun to unravel the complex interaction of the microglia with the brain tumor cells, resulting not only in furthering our understanding, but providing a new concept and drug which can now be immediately assessed in clinical trials.»

Researchers at the Humboldt and Charité Universities in Berlin, led by Dr Julie Seibt from the University of Surrey, used cutting edge techniques to record activity in a particular region of brain cells that is responsible for holding new information — the dendrites.

«By learning how tau spreads, we may be able to stop it from jumping from neuron to neuron,» said Karen Duff, PhD, professor in the department of pathology and cell biology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain) and professor of psychiatry (at New York State Psychiatric Institute.)

In contrast, the new method used on mice causes certain nerve cells to fire at a specific rhythm, generating brain waves that researchers believe may clear A-beta.

A new diagnostic test, created by Detlev Riesner and colleagues at the Heinrich - Heine - Universitat in Dusseldorf, Germany, may help spot the plaques long before brain cells die off.

Scientists at Barrow Neurological Institute have recently made discoveries about use of a new technology for imaging brain tumors in the operating room — a finding that could have important implications for identifying and locating invading cells at the edge of a brain tumor.

Today, a team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) led by Professor Partha Mitra describes a new mathematical model that combines large data sets to predict where different types of cells are located within the brain, based on their molecular identity.

Even short - term blockages of this kind can lead to remarkable changes in the auditory system, altering the behavior and structure of nerve cells that relay information from the ear to the brain, according to a new University at Buffalo study.

A molecule in cells that shuts down the expression of genes might be a promising target for new drugs designed to treat the most frequent and lethal form of brain cancer, according to a new study by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James).

Working with mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have contributed significant new evidence to support the idea that high doses of cocaine kill brain cells by triggering overactive autophagy, a process in which cells literally digest their own insides.

Scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute have uncovered new insights into how stem cells transform into brain cells that control leg movements.

Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have devised a new way to use stem cells in the fight against brain cancer.

The study answered long - standing questions in the field, but the researchers stated that this is just the beginning of many more experiments aimed at understanding how our brains are able to form new nerve cells throughout life.

In a study spanning molecular genetics, stem cells and the sciences of both brain and behavior, researchers at University of California San Diego, with colleagues at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies and elsewhere, have created a neurodevelopmental model of a rare genetic disorder that may provide new insights into the underlying neurobiology of the human social brain.

Now a team at the Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School, in collaboration with the Allen Institute for Brain Science, has developed a new method that allows scientists to pinpoint thousands of mRNAs and other types of RNAs at once in intact cells — all while determining the sequence of letters, or bases, that identify them and reveal what they do.

Easton, who looks at materials used in fuel cell electrodes and brain sensors, is already communicating with a new hire in the physics program about starting up a collaboration ---- something he might have shied away from, he says, at another institution.

When exposed to something new, groups of brain cells in the perirhinal cortex fire quickly, at a rate of about 30 pulses per second, or hertz.

A new study of brain cells in this area finds that firing these neurons at one frequency makes the brain treat novel images as old hat.

«This work is exciting because they've shown that pre-stimulating an area of the brain necessary for the task makes processing faster,» says Arnd Pralle of the State University of New York at Buffalo, who uses magnetism instead of light to activate brain cells in worms.

A previously unknown mechanism through which the brain produces new nerve cells after a stroke has been discovered at Lund University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.

New research by neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), published in The Journal of Neuroscience, reveals a set of cells in the fruit fly brain that respond specifically to food odors.

New work at the University of California, Davis, shows for the first time how visual attention affects activity in specific brain cells.

The study, published May 6, 2016 in Cell Stem Cell, also shows that inhibiting this mechanism reduces brain cell damage, hinting at a new therapeutic approach to mitigating the effects of prenatal Zika virus infectCell Stem Cell, also shows that inhibiting this mechanism reduces brain cell damage, hinting at a new therapeutic approach to mitigating the effects of prenatal Zika virus infectCell, also shows that inhibiting this mechanism reduces brain cell damage, hinting at a new therapeutic approach to mitigating the effects of prenatal Zika virus infectcell damage, hinting at a new therapeutic approach to mitigating the effects of prenatal Zika virus infection.

If the compound identified in this study successfully reduces tissue death and improves recovery in further experiments, it could lead to new approaches for preserving brain cells after an ischemic stroke,» said Francesca Bosetti, Ph.D., Pharm.D., program director at the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).

«In those that didn't learn, three weeks after the new brain cells were made, nearly one - half of them were no longer there,» said Shors, professor in the Department of Psychology and Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers.

Since the process of producing new brain cells on a cellular level is similar in animals, including humans, Shors says ensuring that adolescent children learn at optimal levels is critical.

So by 1992, he had begun looking for new technology that could detect the activity of many brain cells at once.

That feeling may be traced to the firing of newly identified «anxiety» cells deep inside your brain, according to new research from neuroscientists at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

We are encouraged by the new use of these stem cells to rapidly identify new treatments,» says co-senior author Dr. Jeffrey Rothstein, Director of the Brain Science Institute and the Robert Packard Center for ALS research at Johns Hopkins University.

The researchers also looked at the dendrites growing out of these new brain cells, projections that reach out and communicate with neighboring cells.

«A better understanding of the brain region and cell type - specific binding targets of Hnrnph1 will tell us more about the function of this gene and possibly identify new therapeutic strategies for minimizing risk and treating psychostimulant addiction — a disorder for which there is currently no FDA - approved drug,» explained corresponding author Camron Bryant, PhD, assistant professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics & Psychiatry at BUSM.

Other research at U-M is developing new options for treating brain cancer through immunotherapy — harnessing the immune system to attack cancer cells once an injection of a particular gene therapy is delivered into the brain tumor.

Scientists at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have discovered how HIV / AIDS disrupts the normal replication of stem cells in the adult brain, preventing new nerve cells from forming.

Los Angeles, CA (Scicasts)-- Investigators at Cedars - Sinai are exploring a new way to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by transplanting specially engineered neural cells into the brain.

Feng Zhang, PhD, Core Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, MIT; Robertson Investigator, New York Stem Cell Foundation; James and Patricia Poitras ’63 Professor in Neuroscience, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.

Her aim is to understand, at the molecular level, the mechanisms that control communication between the brain, immune system, and blood vessels — with the ultimate goal of designing new therapies that slow, stop, or reverse the progression of a wide range of neurological disorders, such as MS. Recently, Dr. Akassoglou's lab identified how microglia — a type of immune cell that acts as the brain's first line of defense — are activated when fibrinogen enters the brain or spinal cord.

A Postdoctoral Fellow position is available in the lab of June Liu, Ph.D. in the School of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy at LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans to study synaptic and neural circuitplasticity in brain slices and its role in learning and memory.

A new technique that converts stem cells into brain cells has been developed by researchers at Lund University.

The focus now is on getting better at growing the cells and turning them into the right kind of brain cell before starting new trials in patients.

Scientists at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have created a new technique that simplifies the production of human brain and muscle cells - allowing millions of functional cells to be generated in just a few days.

New studies in mice have shown that immature stem cells that proliferate to form brain tissues can function for at least a year — most of the life span of a mouse — and give rise to multiple types of...

Now researchers at UC San Francisco have taken the first step toward a comprehensive atlas of gene expression in cells across the developing human brain, making available new insights into how specific cells and gene networks contribute to building this most complex of organs, and serving as a resource for researchers around the world to study the interplay between these genetic programs and neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, intellectual disability and schizophrenia.

But new U-M led research shows that the clock may be broken in the brains of people with depression — even at the level of the gene activity inside their brain cells.