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For Neurons, Where They Begin Isn’t Necessarily Where They End

Scientists at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Institute of Genomic Medicine describe novel methods for inferring the movement of human brain cells during fetal development by studying healthy adult individuals who have recently passed away from natural causes.

Novel Study Maps Infant Brain Growth In First Three Months of Life Using MRI Technology

…of Hawaii demonstrates a new approach to measuring early brain development of infants, resulting in more accurate whole brain growth charts and providing the first estimates for growth trajectories of subcortical areas during the first three months after birth.

Down Syndrome Research Untangles Therapeutic Possibilities for Alzheimer’s

…groups have similar looking brains with higher levels of the protein beta amyloid. In fact, patients with Down syndrome develop the abnormal protein at twice the rate. Results of a pilot study confirms the pathogenic role of beta amyloid in dementia as seen in both AD and Down syndrome.

Negative Fateful Life Events and the Brains of Middle-Aged Men

…— appear to also specifically accelerate aging in the brain.

Why Don’t We All Get Alzheimer’s Disease?

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine offer an explanation for why we all don’t get Alzheimer’s disease (AD) - a trick of nature that in most people maintains critical separation between a protein and an enzyme that, when combined, trigger the progressive cell degeneration and…

Neuronal Structures Associated with Learning and Memory Sprout In Response to Novel Molecules

…of amyloid-beta, a protein fragment that accumulates in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease.

Novel Studies of Gene Regulation in Brain Development May Mean New Treatment of Mental Disorders

…up with a novel way to describe a time-dependent brain development based on coherent–gene-groups (CGGs) and transcription-factors (TFs) hierarchy. The findings could lead to new drug designs for mental disorders such as autism-spectrum disorders (ASD) and schizophrenia.

Bioengineers Lead NIH Center to Map the Gene Activities of Individual Cells in Human Cortex

Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have received a $9.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a single-cell genomics center and develop a three-dimensional map of gene activities in individual cells in the human cortex.

Zika Virus Targets and Kills Brain Cancer Stem Cells

…notably microcephaly and other brain malformations. In a new study, published today in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report the virus specifically targets and kills brain cancer stem cells.

In the Wake of a Wildfire, Embers of Change in Cognition and Brain Function Linger

Five years after the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history, UC San Diego researchers document persistent differences in cognitive function among survivors.