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Overexpression of PKMzeta in the insular cortex. A merged picture of a neuron stained with GFP (green), PKMzeta (blue), and NeuN (red)

Getting a Grasp on Memory

02.04.2011
Brain & Behavior
Memories can be either enhanced or erased through the manipulation of a certain protein.
Aha! Mouse over "camouflage" image for undoctored picture

New Insight into "Aha!" Memories

02.04.2011
Brain & Behavior
Much of memory research involves repetitive, rote learning. So why do the things we learn through sudden insight tend to stick in our memory?
A developing eye of the fruit fly (left) is connected by the optic stalk to the optic lobe in the fly’s brain

Take the Axon Train

14.03.2011
Brain & Behavior, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics
Institute scientists discover an entirely new form of transportation inside nerve cells
Prof. Vivian Teichberg. New support for the approach

GOT to Prevent Brain Damage

14.03.2011
Brain & Behavior, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
Two recent studies could point the way toward a new treatment for stroke, head trauma and brain injury. 
Hope for Stroke Victims

Hope for Stroke Victims

08.02.2011
Brain & Behavior, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
Two new studies from Spain provide conclusive evidence that an approach developed at the Weizmann Institute could speed recovery from stroke and...
Turning off Stress

Turning off Stress

08.02.2011
Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior
Weizmann Institute scientists reveal the actions of a family of proteins that "turn off" the stress response. Their findings could be relevant to...
Weizmann Institute scientists discover: A Chemical Signal in Human Tears

Weizmann Institute scientists discover: A Chemical Signal in Human Tears

06.01.2011
Brain & Behavior
Weizmann scientists found that merely sniffing a woman’s tears – even when the crying woman is not present – reduces sexual arousal in men
Prof. Michal Schwartz

Developing New Therapies for Spinal Cord Injury

12.09.2010
Brain & Behavior, Benefiting Humanity
New therapies for spinal cord injury based on original concepts proposed by Prof. Michal Schwartz are being developed and tested in clinical...
Prof. Anthony (Tony) Futerman

A Fatal Excess

02.09.2010
Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior
The accumulation of too many lipids in a cell leads to a number of hereditary diseases that in particular afflict Ashkenazic Jews: Tay-Sachs, Gaucher...
Fluorescent microscope photo of mouse cortical nerve cells (neurons) in culture infected with lentiviruses that express green fluorescent protein. From the lab of Dr. Alon Chen

How Does the Brain Take Shape?

30.08.2010
Brain & Behavior, Genetics
What genetic and neural mechanisms give rise to our personality? Which fine tune our sexual behavior? What code programs a mother’s love or our...

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