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• Stress and inflammation regulate the kynurenine pathway dioxygenases in a glia‐ and tissue‐specific manner 

  Dostal, Carlos Rene (2017-07-14)

  The inflammation and stress responses are intimately related adaptive responses to pathogens or other stressors upsetting our body’s homeostasis. However, when infections or other stressors persist-or are sufficiently ...

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• A role for nutrition in healthy brain aging 

  Zamroziewicz, Marta Karolina (2017-06-21)

  Nutritional cognitive neuroscience is an emerging interdisciplinary field of research that seeks to understand nutrition’s impact on cognition and brain health across the life span. While accumulating evidence indicates ...

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• RNA helicase MOV10 is essential for gastrulation and normal CNS development 

  Skariah, Geena (2017-07-09)

  Neural circuitry, at its most basic level, is composed of multiple synaptic connections formed between the neurons within a circuit. These synaptic contacts are also the sites of local protein synthesis, which is required ...

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• Sex differences in PFC-related behavior after amphetamine exposure and across adolescent development 

  Hammerslag, Lindsey Robertson (2017-06-02)

  Adolescence is a time of experimentation and risk taking. Experimentation with drug use during this period can have especially harmful consequences, however, as adolescent-onset substance use is more likely to lead to ...

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• Brain anatomy: investigations of the effects of aging, fitness, and arterial stiffness 

  Fletcher, Mark Allen (2017-05-19)

  This work explores the mechanisms and lifestyle modifiers of brain anatomy throughout the aging process. First, a thorough review of the mechanisms of fitness on brain anatomy is presented. Next, a study examining the ...

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