The approach might also be beneficial for anyone exposed to lethal chemical agents, including those involved in the pest control and agricultural industries.
By Vandana Suresh, Texas A&M University Marketing & Communications A neuroscientist combines novel genetic and engineering tools to explore age-related decline in mental skills Why does aging cause severe deterioration in memory and thinking abilities in some people and not in others? Neuroscientist William Griffith, PhD, Regents…
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 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…
By Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University Health Science Center When hundreds of thousands of American troops deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1990 and 1991 in what is now called the First Gulf War, they were exposed to a variety of chemicals. These chemicals—especially…
By Keith Randall, Texas A&M University Marketing and Communications Elementary through high school students in the U.S. are falling farther behind in the classroom, and a Texas A&M University professor thinks he knows why: learners do not have good learning skills. William Klemm, professor of neuroscience at Texas…