Mar 18, 2015 | animal research, Conditions, Imaging & Diagnostics
Forgetting is something that many of us worry about as we get older. Then we start to wonder if we are getting Alzheimer’s disease or something else. Relax. It probably isn’t Alzheimer’s, but the natural way our brain ages. The brain cells called neurons lose their connections between each other that can cause long term […]
Feb 9, 2015 | animal research, animals helping humans, Conditions, Medical Research
Researchers at Johns Hopkins, for the first time, have been able to look at changes in the brain as memories are formed with a receptor called AMPA. AMPA, like many other receptors, lives with proteins on the cell surface. Their job is to talk to each other and act as receivers and senders of information […]
