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Cancer Cells: Quick-change Artists Adjusting to Their Environment
Scientists now show that cancer cells of glioblastomas – conspicuously aggressive solid brain tumors – manifest developmental plasticity and their phenotypic characteristics are less constrained than previously believed.
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How Inhibitory Neurons Impact Brain Oscillations
Researchers have used a combination of two computer models to study the ways that different kinds of neurons synchronize, and to delve into the oscillatory patterns that are produced by that synchronization.
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Virus's Coat of Deadly Armor
Viruses interact with proteins in the biological fluids of their host resulting in a layer of proteins on the viral surface. This makes the virus more infectious and facilitates the formation of plaques characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.
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Tiny Channels Provide a Route for Pathological Proteins' Spread
Tiny channels between nerve cells are involved in a newly discovered mechanism of how Parkinson's disease can spread throughout the brain, according to new research from Linköping University, Sweden.
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Music Helps Build Premature Babies' Brains
Researchers from UNIGE and HUG demonstrate how music specially composed for premature infants strengthens the development of their brain networks and could limit the neurodevelopmental delays that often affect these children.
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Do You Hear What I Hear?
Study suggests infants with autism risk may be less able to distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar speech patterns.
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Does Describing Addiction as a Disease Make Substance Users Less Likely to Seek Help?
How does the way in which we talk about addiction affect the likelihood of substance users to seek help?
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mouse
What if scientists could manipulate your brain so that a traumatic memory lost its emotional power over your psyche? Researchers believe that a small structure in the brain could hold the keys to future therapeutic techniques for treating depression, anxiety, and PTSD, someday allowing clinicians to enhance positive memories or suppress negative ones.
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Algorithm Predicts Intensive Care Survival Rate
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet have used data on more than 230,000 intensive care patients to develop a new algorithm. Among other things, it uses disease history from the past 23 years to predict patients' chances of survival in intensive care units.
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Neuron to Network: Exploring the Brain's GPS
Spatial navigation is an essential cognitive function, frequently impaired in patients suffering from neurological disorders. Previous studies into the neuronal basis of spatial navigation have suggested that the activity of both individual nerve cells and large cell assemblies in the brain both play a crucial role. Theories on the relationship have now been explored in a new study.
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