1. Spinal Cord & Column Information
The spinal column, more commonly called the backbone, is made up primarily of vertebrae, discs, and the spinal cord. Acting as a communication conduit for the brain, signals are transmitted and received through the spinal cord.
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2. HHMI Scientist Abstract: Oliver Hobert, Ph.D.
A striking feature of nervous systems is their cellular complexity. My laboratory uses Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system to gain molecular and mechanistic insights into the creation of neuronal diversity. Our main concept is that the genera...
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3. Motor Neurons Are Selectively Vulnerable to AMPA/Kainate Receptor-Mediated Injury In Vitro -- Carriedo et al. 16 (13): 4069 -- Journal of Neuroscience
The nonphosphorylated neurofilament marker SMI-32 stains motor neurons in spinal cord slices and stains a subset of cultured spinal neurons [``large SMI-32(+) neurons''], which have a morphology consistent with motor neuron
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4. The mind's mirror
A new type of neuron--called a mirror neuron--could help explain how we learn through mimicry and why we empathize with others.
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5. Health Information
What is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis? Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is also called ALS, or Lou Gehrig disease. ALS is a disease that affects the nervous system. The nervous system includes the brain, spinal cord, and nerves in the body. The main ...
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6. Kennedy's Disease Association
Good morning. My name is Jean-Marc Gallo, I work at King's College in London, England. I became interested in Kennedy's Disease because my department has a long standing interest in motor neuron diseases, especially amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ...
www.kennedysdisease.org
7. The Brain - Transcript for Long-Term Effects of Drugs on the Brain video
The human brain weighs about three pounds and influences everything a person does. You may not realize it, but your brain is not the same today as it was yesterday or last month. The brain is a continuously changing collection of cells. When you l...
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8. FOCUS - January 28, 2005 - NEUROBIOLOGY: Study Sees Brain in Process of Seeing
Applying a new microscopy technique that detects the activity of individual neurons in the brain of a living animal, HMS researchers have gotten the first close-up look at the neural circuits that produce vision in action.
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9. tudy Using Robotic Microscope Shows How Mutant Huntington's Disease Protein Affects Neurons: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Str...
Using a specially designed robotic microscope to study cultured cells, researchers have found evidence that abnormal protein clumps called inclusion bodies in neurons from people with Huntington's disease (HD) prevent cell death. The finding helps...
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10. RESEARCH RESOURCE — TELLING the GOOD GUYS FROM the BADBy Jason Miller
How can we decide if a particular disease manifestation is a detrimental part of the disease process, a compensatory response by the organism, or simply incidental? The answer to this question has profound consequences for understanding diseases a...
www.gladstone.ucsf.edu
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