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Stem cell technology offers new insight into motor neuron disease
Scientists at the University of St Andrews and the University of Edinburgh have identified a specific type of cell in
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Neuron circuitry from brain signals
The brain is considered to be one of the most complex systems in existence. And while significant headway has been
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Scientists can predict where a rat will go based on hippocampal neuron firing
Place cells in the hippocampus fire when we are in a certain position—this discovery by John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and
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Scientific ‘dream team’ shed light on motor neuron death
As the old adage goes, ‘two heads are better than one’. With the development of new technologies and increasingly specialist
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Researchers crowdsource brain mapping with gamers, discover six new neuron types
With the help of a quarter-million video game players, Princeton researchers have created and shared detailed maps of more than
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Mechanism behind neuron death in motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia discovered
Scientists have identified the molecular mechanism that leads to the death of neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as
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