A Texas A&M professor is part of an international research project working to develop a standard framework for fast and accurate automatic neuron reconstruction.
Texas A&M College of Medicine researchers have answered a major question about how the neocortex develops, offering insights into the underlying causes of intellectual disabilities.
By examining neurons in the brain, Texas A&M researcher Stephen Maren reveals new insights into Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that may help to reduce the disorder's effects.
Steve Maren and his Emotion and Memory Systems Laboratory (EMSL) have made a breakthrough discovery that could help clinicians better treat disorders like PTSD. (College of Liberal Arts) By Heather Rodriguez, Texas A&M University College of Liberal Arts Steve Maren, the Claude H. Everett Jr. ’47 Chair of Liberal Arts…
By Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University Health Science Center “The synapse is essential for life,” said Mendell Rimer, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics at the Texas A&M College of Medicine. He studies a specific synapse called the neuromuscular junction, which—as the name implies—connects…
Vladislav Yakovlev has been developing a more efficient way of propagating light through an opaque medium. By Marcus Misztal, Texas A&M University College of Engineering The inner workings of the human brain have always been a subject of great interest. Unfortunately, it is fairly difficult to view brain structures or…
By Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University Health Science Center Despite several clinical trials of various therapeutic strategies, there are currently no drugs for curing or preventing epilepsy and few promising ones in the pipeline. Antiepileptic drugs are the lifeblood for symptomatic treatment of seizures, but these medications do…