Credit: NYU Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, January 12, 2020: New research from NYU Abu Dhabi s Laboratory of Neural Systems and Behavior for the first time used an animal model to demonstrate how abnormal sleep architecture can be a predictor of stress vulnerability. These important findings have the potential to inform the development of sleep tests that can help identify who may be susceptible or resilient to future stress.
In the study,
Abnormal Sleep Signals Vulnerability to Chronic Social Defeat Stress, which appears in the journal
Frontiers in Neuroscience, NYUAD Assistant Professor of Biology Dipesh Chaudhury and Research Associate Basma Radwan describe their development of a mouse model to detect how disruptions in Non-rapid Eye Movement (NREM) sleep result in increased vulnerability to future stress.
Researchers develop improved process for large-scale electron microscopy to visualize small structures
How are networks of neurons connected to make functional circuits? This has been a long-standing question in neuroscience. To answer this fundamental question, researchers from Boston Children s Hospital and Harvard Medical School developed a new way to study these circuits and in the process learn more about the connections between them. Neural networks are extensive, but the connections between them are really small, says Wei-Chung Allen Lee, PhD, of the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Boston Children s and Harvard Medical School. So, we have had to develop techniques to see them in extremely high-resolution over really large areas and volumes.
E-scooter company threatens bans for people seen doing burnouts during Canberra car meet-up
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Young men filmed doing burnouts on e-scooters are set to be referred to police, after pulling the stunt during an illegal car meet-up in the middle of Canberra this past weekend.
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E-scooter company Beam says it is working to identify the people doing burnouts so they can be referred to police
An illegal car meetup over the weekend saw Canberra streets closed, while another meeting saw police attacked
Advanced Knowledge on Autism, Basing on Mosaic Mutations by Angela Mohan on January 12, 2021 at 5:31 PM
Mosaic mutations arising during embryonic development could lead to the development of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), as per two studies published in
Nature Neuroscience, led by researchers at Boston Children s Hospital, Brigham and Women s Hospital (BWH), and Harvard Medical School (HMS).
The findings open new areas for exploring the genetics of ASD and could eventually inform diagnostic testing. Mosaic mutations affect only a portion of a person s cells. Rather than being inherited, they arise as a mistake introduced when a stem cell divides. A mutation in a stem cell will only be passed to the cells that descend from it, producing the mosaic pattern.