Nearly all attempts to use traditional N -methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonists to treat neurodegenerative diseases have failed. This is because NMDARs are not only promoters of neuronal death but also have essential physiological roles in synaptic plasticity and cognitive functions such as learning and memory. Yan et al. explored the structural basis of NMDAR coupling to neuronal cell…
Irish Whale and Dolphin Group say a humpback whale has never been spotted before in an Irish river
Do we have free will? And how does brain activity prove or deny this? Join leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell as he argues that we are…
Xin et al. find that in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC), layer 2/3 neurons projecting to the anterior basolateral amygdala promote losing, whereas layer 5 neurons…
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Taking 2022 as a representative year, the university generated €3.2 million every day for the Irish economy
In a “billiard-ball world” of Newtonian science, causation was obvious—things had to touch each other in space and a cause always had to precede an…
Background Irish Travellers are an endogamous, nomadic, ethnic minority population mostly resident on the island of Ireland with smaller populations in Europe and the USA.…
This is a qualitative study exploring the perceptions of members from the Pakistani/Kashmiri community living in Luton, UK, on the adverse health risks associated with…
A REMARKABLE few days has seen the fall of Syrian tyrant Bashar Al-Assad, with reports placing him in the safe haven for a number of…
In many complex systems encountered in the natural and social sciences, mechanisms governing system dynamics at a microscale depend upon the values of state variables…
