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Released: 15-Oct-2021 8:05 AM EDT
Researchers identify key brain circuit regulating cocaine addiction, relapse
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In new findings published in Neuron, neuroscientists at the University of California San Diego and the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC singled out the specific brain circuit that triggers cocaine relapse in mice. When they applied a molecular brake to block activity in this circuit, the mice completely lost their previously avid interest in the drug, resuming normal behavior.

Released: 14-Oct-2021 3:50 PM EDT
Large doses of intensive therapy better for children with cerebral palsy, scientists find
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Scientific findings have supported the benefits of pediatric Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy, in which a child’s more functional arm and hand are constrained by a lightweight cast, a splint, or a mitt, while a trained therapist uses operant conditioning techniques individualized for each child. Until this study in Pediatrics, little was known about whether the outcome of therapy was directly linked to the dosage of therapy or method of constraint.

27-Jul-2021 7:05 AM EDT
Virginia Tech Scientists Tie Improved Learning Processes to Reduced Symptoms of Depression
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In a Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry study led by Pearl Chiu and Brooks King-Casas of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, brain imaging and mathematical modeling reveal previously unreported mechanistic features of symptoms associated with major depressive disorder.

   
Released: 13-May-2021 12:05 AM EDT
Researchers launch ‘next generation’ human brain imaging lab
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Researchers to measure the brain's subtle magnetic signals in two research volunteers simultaneously as they interact, capturing the rich complexity of the brain's signaling during face-to-face social interactions in real-time.

   
Released: 21-Dec-2020 2:20 PM EST
Virginia Tech researchers uncover mechanisms that wire the brain’s cerebral cortex
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A research team at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has identified the type of brain cell that produces a protein that is crucial for the formation of inhibitory circuits in the brain.

30-Nov-2020 9:15 AM EST
Virginia Tech researchers show teens with risk-averse peers make safer choices
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In a new study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Virginia Tech neuroscientists at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC show that observing peers making sound decisions may help young people play it safe. The discovery may one day inform measures to help teens make healthy decisions.

Released: 16-Nov-2020 8:05 AM EST
Virginia Tech Scientists Provide New Evidence of Elusive Electrical Pathway in the Heart
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The research team discovered it could improve irregular heart rhythms – even when the heart’s blood supply was completely shut off – by altering concentrations of common electrolytes in the bloodstream.

   
8-Oct-2020 6:05 PM EDT
Scientists find neurochemicals have unexpectedly profound roles in the human brain
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Dopamine and serotonin are at work at sub-second speeds to shape how people perceive the world and take action based on their perception. The discovery shows researchers can simultaneously measure the activity of both dopamine and serotonin in disorders ranging from depression to Parkinson’s disease.

Released: 21-Sep-2020 6:00 AM EDT
Virginia Tech scientists advance understanding of blood-brain barrier health
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in a study with potential impacts on a variety of neurological diseases, Virginia Tech researchers have provided the first experimental evidence from a living organism to show that an abundant, star-shaped brain cell known as an astrocyte is essential for blood-brain barrier health.

15-Sep-2020 11:20 AM EDT
Drones deliver time savings to customers, new revenue to businesses
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A new economic impact study from Virginia Tech suggests that drone delivery could offer a significant economic boost in communities.

   
Released: 20-Jul-2020 7:40 PM EDT
Virginia Tech, partners launch nation’s first pediatric rehabilitation resource center
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Research partners across three institutions are opening the nation’s first and only resource center dedicated to promoting clinical trials research in the rapidly expanding field of pediatric rehabilitation. It will be one of a network six centers under the umbrella of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health, with direct oversight from the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research.

Released: 15-Jul-2020 1:10 PM EDT
In one hour, surface coating inactivates virus that causes COVID-19
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A Virginia Tech chemical engineering professor has developed a surface coating that, when painted on common objects, inactivates SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

   
28-Jun-2020 7:55 PM EDT
New 3D model shows how paradise tree snake uses aerial undulation to fly
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For more than 20 years, Virginia Tech biomedical engineering and mechanics professor Jake Socha has sought to measure and model the biomechanics of snake flight and answer questions about them, like that of aerial undulation's functional role.

Released: 24-Jun-2020 8:50 AM EDT
Researchers discover cellular structure of poorly understood visual brain region
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The brain’s ventral lateral geniculate nucleus (vLGN) receives signals from the eye, but it is not associated with classical image-forming. For decades little was known about this brain region’s cellular structure and purpose. In a new study, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC neuroscientists reveal newly identified brain cell subtypes unique to this region that form a striking layered formation.

Released: 15-Jun-2020 4:35 PM EDT
Expert: Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ workplace protection long overdue
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President Trump is expected to present details of his long-awaited peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians today following his White House meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and leader of the opposition, Benny Gantz, earlier this week Virginia Tech’s foreign policy expert Joel Peters is skeptical that the plan will jumpstart the long-stalled effort to bring Israelis and Palestinians together.

Released: 9-Jun-2020 4:05 PM EDT
Virginia Tech Research Provides New Explanation for Neutrino Anomalies in Antarctica
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A new research paper co-authored by a Virginia Tech assistant professor of physics provides a new explanation for two recent strange events that occurred in Antarctica - high-energy neutrinos appearing to come up out of the Earth on their own accord and head skyward.



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