Word: neurone
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...study, published in the Dec. 6 issue of Neuron, is the first to correlate the pain and pleasure systems...
...possible overlap of signals from different ORs is surprising because it implies that a single neuron in the brain could be stimulated by more than one type of receptor in the nose...
...study by a MIT professor published last week in the journal Neuron suggests that sleeping rats exhibit brain activity that may resemble human dreams. This discovery may shed light on the link in humans between dreams and memory...
...cannot look at any neuron's activity and say that the person or animal is conscious or aware of that activity," says Robert A. Stickgold, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School...
...unclear, but scientists are not waiting to find out. Other possible treatments under study include boosting antioxidants, which would protect brain cells from free radicals, highly reactive molecules that are by-products of oxidation; and blocking the body's production of compounds called excitatory amino acids, which can cause neuron damage. It's hard to say which, if any, of these treatments will succeed, but with science closing in from so many directions, it's possible that for the first time, Parkinson's disease may find itself...