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Middle-class Americans are only one serious illness away from bankruptcy, according to a joint study by Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Harvard Law School (HLS) researchers...
Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers have discovered a new way of looking at how the neurons in animal brains function, which might shed light on the development of neurodegenertive diseases in humans...
...course this will tell us a lot about normal brains, but in the not too distant future we would like to apply it to diseased brains as well,” said lead investigator Dr. R. Clay Reid in an HMS press release. Reid did not respond to multiple requests for comment over the last week...
Before this technique, the best method of tracking neuron responses were electrodes, which were limited to showing “impulses only in one or a very few cells at a time,” wrote Dr. David H. Hubel, HMS professor of neurobiology. “The power of [this] method is that you can see a large number of cells at once...
...method “allows you to see a complete circuit [of nerve cells] for the first time in its entirety,” said Reid, who is also a professor at HMS. “It gives you an immediate bird’s eye view of what the brain is doing, neuron by neuron...