Schlagwort: Neurons
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New insights into the energy balance of brain neurons
A research team at the Carl Ludwig Institute for Physiology at Leipzig University has,for the first time, demonstrated how the energy levels of individual neurons in the brain change during so-called spreading depolarizations – waves of activity that occur in various brain disorders. The findings provide important foundations for understanding energy metabolism in cases of…
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What is the difference between the brains of men and women? The focus is on glial cells
Alzheimer’s disease predominantly affects women, while more men suffer from Parkinson’s disease. The reason for this presumably lies in differences in the brain that emerge early in embryonic development. So far, research has focussed on neurons. However, another cell type, glial cells, could also influence diseases in a gender-specific way. They are therefore the focus…
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Artificial neurons organize themselves
Novel artificial neurons learn independently and are more strongly modeled on their biological counterparts. A team of researchers from the Göttingen Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks (CIDBN) at the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) has programmed these infomorphic neurons and constructed artificial neural networks from…
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Saving energy is „in“, even neurons are joining in
Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn as well as the University Medical Center Göttingen found that the neuronal energy conservation program determines the location and number of messenger RNA (mRNA) and proteins,…
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Building blocks of memory – function of specialised nerve cells
Specialised nerve cells in the temporal lobe react highly selectively to images and names of a single person or specific objects. Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn have now provided direct evidence for the first time that the so-called concept neurones are indeed the building blocks of our memory…
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Social Network of synapsys navigate your act
Bonn, 02.09.2024. For the discovery of neuroplasticy, there was the Nobelprice. Point was the question of how are itselfs neuronal activity is shelfs in the brain, while we are thinking. The activity in interaction between inside perception and tempt from the environment. Yet it was nonspecific, how neurons an alteration of strength over more, near…