NEURO

Every month, up to 6.4 million searches related to cannabidiol (CBD) are performed by American adults looking to obtain information or buy products. CBD search queries eclipse those for other natural medical alternatives by a significant percentage. from Neuroscience News https://ift.tt/2JdyQDe

Crashes in visual processing occur when neurons processing one image are tasked with processing another too quickly. This results in either one or both images being unable to reach our conscious awareness. from Neuroscience News https://ift.tt/33Xf9Yh

Study reveals how acetate, a byproduct of alcohol breakdown, travels to the brain's learning system and alters proteins that regulate DNA function. from Neuroscience News https://ift.tt/2Jg0hwh

Summary: Treating mouse models of autism with modafinil and EBIO reduced hypersensitivity to noise. Source: MIT People with autism often experience hypersensitivity to noise and other sensory input. MIT neuroscientists have now identified two brain circuits that help tune out distracting sensory information, and they have found a way to reverse noise hypersensitivity in mice […] from Neuroscience News https://ift.tt/31GsqDd

MRI neuroimaging can distinguish between memory loss caused by Alzheimer's disease and traumatic brain injury. Using new image analysis software, researchers discovered TBI causes the most amount of damage to the ventral diencephalon, a brain area associated with memory and learning, and the least amount of atrophy to the hippocampus, a brain region most impacted by Alzheimer's. from Neuroscience News https://ift.tt/2W9kdGm

In this issue of Neuron, Garcia-Marques et al. (2019) describe a new set of elegant tools based on the single strand annealing DNA repair system and CRISPR technology that provide many avenues for genetic and cellular manipulations. from journals https://ift.tt/2o9VTaI

Prion-like domains have been implicated in protein phase separation and aggregation in cellular stress and neurodegeneration. In this issue of Neuron, Andrusiak et al. (2019) uncover a surprising role for a stress granule protein and phase separation in axon regeneration. from journals https://ift.tt/2BCaIGf