Researchers have used a technique to monitor brain development in infants and detect disturbances in white matter, according to a study in the July issue of Radiology. Carola van Pul, Ph.D., and colleagues from M醲ima Medical Center in...

Memory loss associated with early Alzheimer's disease (AD) may be linked to altered activity in several areas of the brain, according to a study in the July issue of Radiology.For the first time, researchers at Duke University Medical Cent...

Subtle memory deficits often ascribed to 'normal aging' appear to be early signs of Alzheimer's disease according to research by the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago. Researchers studying older men and women who do not have d...

The accumulation of the microtubule-associated protein tau is associated with several neurodegenerative diseases, and in the case of FTDP-17 (frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism-linked to chromosome 17), tau mutations are sufficient...

Bays and Wolpert examined our ability to predict and oppose external forces in order to maintain limb or body position. They chose a bimanual task in which a force was applied to the left hand based on the velocity of the right hand. Subje...

The tip link sits at the business end of a hair cell, linking the top of a shorter stereocilia on the hair bundle to its taller neighbor, and thus presumably gating the mechanosensitive channels. This week, Ahmed et al. set out to identify...

Although millions depend on medications such as Ritalin to quell symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), scientists have struggled to pinpoint how the drugs work in the brain. But work at the University of Wisconsi...

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Alzheimer's pathology can appear in the brains of older men and women without dementia or mild cognitive impairment. The pathology is related to loss of episodic memory, according to a study published in the June 27, 2006, issue of Neu...

This week, Pla et al. argue that interneurons, unlike cortical projection neurons, migrate to their cortex locations without Reelin, the secreted product of Cajal-Retzius cells. Cortical interneurons originate in the median ganglionic emin...