One of their tools is a laser that can activate a neuron in the animal's brain.
You hear it, smell it, vibrate in time with it, expose every neuron to the car and the environment.
Police said Mr Rivera covered his tracks by using a variety of pseudonyms including "neuron", "royal" and "wildicv".
He said narcolepsy was linked to a loss of a particular type of brain cell called a hypocretin neuron.
To compensate for the resulting neuron shortage, the remaining neurons sprout new fibers, and the surviving motor units become enlarged.
He and his group showed, by looking at electrical signals, that the mirror-neuron system does not work properly in autistic children.
Now, however, scientists at Merck mrk (nyse: mrk - news - people) think that they know the neuron-killer's name.
By current means, it could take researchers years to trace the 10, 000 or so synapses that branch from just a single neuron.
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In the human brain, a synapse is the structure which enables a neuron to send information to other parts of the brain.
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CombinatoRx in Boston is searching for combinations of existing drugs that may work in a synergistic way to increase levels of neuron-nourishing proteins.
But only a particular kind of dopamine-producing neuron will actually help Parkinson's patients, or even have an effect in a mouse model of Parkinson's.
In turn, this leads to the formation of the characteristic protein "tangles" found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's, the researchers told Neuron.
New research published in the journal Neuron suggests stimulating cognitive activities may be more effective than exercise alone in protecting the brain against Alzheimer's disease.
Some estimates suggest that if current technology were used, it would take years to map the roughly 10, 000 synapses that branch from just a single neuron.
The jet-lagged hamsters showed a drastic drop in neuron production in the hippocampus area of the brain, which closely contributes to memory processing and learning.
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Depending on just how researchers tailor the virus that carries the light-sensitive protein, they now can target almost any type of neuron they want to study.
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In their study, published this week in Neuron, the researchers decided to look at male mice which had been genetically engineered to lack androgen receptors in their nervous systems.
"They are not much larger than the dimensions of a neuron in the brain, " said materials scientist John Rogers at the University of Illinois, who helped develop them.
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McKay and his colleagues used embryonic stem cells to create a particular type of neuron that can be used to treat a model of Parkinson's disease in mice.
One of the features of a brain with Alzheimer's disease is the loss of synapses, which are junctions between two neurons or between a neuron and a muscle.
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Over the years, this stress may be more than the neuron can handle, leading to the gradual deterioration of the sprouted fibers and, eventually, of the neuron itself.
Each odor-sensing neuron has just one type of aroma receptor.
In addition, Techniques like Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are going to unravel the mystery of the neuron jungle.
Boyden and Forest, working with Forest's graduate student Suhasa Kodandaramaiah, developed a robotic system to record activity of a single neuron in the living brain using a tiny glass tube.
The SMAFoundation rented a ballroom at a big neuroscience conference in San Diego in October 2003 and sponsored a seminar, "Progress in Motor Neuron Disease, " flying in renowned SMA researchers to give lectures.
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