Hearing the “Hot Goss” Among Movement-Controlling Neurons
The billions of neurons in your brain love to gossip, and many of the neurons responsible for movement use a chemical called dopamine to do so. Heather Schneps, a postbaccalaureate fellow in the Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Health, is recording the electrical activity that chit-chat produces to better understand how it might be abnormal in people with movement problems caused by Parkinson’s disease. Her findings may one day help researchers develop new and better treatments for those patients.
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