Differences in the way men and women perform verbal and visuospatial tasks have been well documented in scientific literature, but findings have been inconsistent as to whether men and women actually use different parts of their brains. Th...

A study conducted by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh involving an amnesia-inducing drug has shed light on how we form memories. For a paper to be published in the July edition of the journal P...

Neuroscientists at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have found evidence of which protein in the brain's immune cells triggers a cascade of reactions that produces unregulated free radical production that eventually le...

Robijanto Soetedjo and Albert F. Fuchs Saccades begin as commands from the cortex and converge on motor neurons under orders from the superior colliculus via the brainstem and cerebellum. These pathways adapt over a lifetime to maintain ac...

Feasibility of functional electrical stimulation for control of seated posture after spinal cord injury: A simulation study, pg. 139 Spinal cord injury (SCI) among veterans that results in paralysis can affect seated posture. We analyzed t...

Giti Garthwaite, Katalin Bartus, Denise Malcolm, David Goodwin, Martha Kollb-Sielecka, Chaminda Dooldeniya, and John Garthwaite This week, Garthwaite et al. identify a nitric oxide (NO) signaling pathway from microvascular endothelial cell...

Marta Volosin, Wenyu Song, Ramiro D. Almeida, David R. Kaplan, Barbara L. Hempstead, and Wilma J. Friedman The p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75NTR) and Trk receptor tyrosine kinases elicit opposite cellular consequences: apoptosis and surviv...

Inbal Dar, Sharon Biton, Yosef Shiloh, and Ari Barzilai Cellular DNA damage such as double-strand breaks sets off restorative signaling cascades. One of these molecules is the protein kinase ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM). Interesting...

In tests on rats, researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Michigan have developed a treatment that helps spinal cord nerves regrow after injury. The findings will be published in the July 18 issue of the Proceedings of the Natio...

University of Florida scientists have used gene therapy to eliminate disabling muscle contractions in a mouse model of the most common form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy. The inherited disorder, known as myotonic dystrophy, is found in...