November 22, 2010 / Energy Substrates, Excitatory GABA
The Epilepsy Currents journal, Volume 10, Issue 5, pages 128–130, September/October 2010, published an article titled "Another Look at Early GABAergic Neurotransmission: Maybe It's Not So Excitin
November 16, 2010 / Excitatory GABA, Glucose, Ketone bodies, Methodology, Pyruvate
“They teach us in our institutes that GABA is excitatory in the neonates, should we still believe it?" (Excitatory GABA scandal?) There was an interesting development in the Department of Neur
October 4, 2010 / Astrocyte–neuron lactate shuttle, Lactate, Neuroscience FAQ, Q&A
Original Q&A :: About these Q&A :: Other Q&A Q: Dr. Zilberter, I am a little bit confused in the area of what they call shuttles between neurons and glial cells. What the suttles do?
September 20, 2010 / Excitatory GABA, Methodology, Neuroscience FAQ, Q&A
Original Q&A :: About these Q&A :: Other Q&A Q: Dr. Zilberter, In your post at brainfuels.com, you cited several researchers and the closing phrase was: "The work undermined the role
August 19, 2010 / Methodology, Theories
A.R. Luria was one of the most significant psychological researchers and theorists of the 20th century. He is considered to have founded the field of neuropsychology, and he had a great influence on a
July 31, 2010 / Astrocyte–neuron lactate shuttle, Lactate, Methodology
Glucose is an energy source for both neurons and glia in the adult brain but lactate, one of the monocarboxylic acids, being converted from pyruvate in astrocytes and supplied to neuron ("astrocyte-ne
July 19, 2010 / Energy Homeostasis, Energy Substrates, Excitatory GABA, Methodology
In the brain, neuronal electrical activity and intricate metabolic energy provisions are closely related. Although both functions have been painstakingly researched by electrophysiologists and biochem
July 1, 2010 / Theories
The best (imho) of the few known conventional theories of acupuncture belongs to an interdisciplinary team of theoretical biologists and brain morphologists working under Dr. Dmitri Chernavski, an aca
June 19, 2010 / Astrocyte–neuron ketone shuttle, Astrocyte–neuron lactate shuttle, Energy Homeostasis, Energy Substrates, Excitatory GABA, Methodology
On discrepancies of data from experiments on brain slices, in toto, and in vivo Let's start with the fundamental differences between environments depending on the types of experiments. (See Commenta
June 15, 2010 / Astrocyte–neuron ketone shuttle, Ketone bodies
In the brain, to each one neurone, there are 9 astrocytes (1). They are surrounded by capillaries and are close to the both blood-brain and blood-cerebrospinal "the first cellular barrier encountered
June 13, 2010 / Astrocyte–neuron lactate shuttle, Glucose, Lactate
Updates: Glucose versus lactate in immature brain slices Brain metabolism updates: Sweet and sour recipes for the brain Astrocyte-neuron lactate transport is required for long-term memory formation
May 17, 2010 / Adaptive regulation, Glucose
It's a well known fact that drinking carbohydrate-rich beverages during high-intensity exercise improves performance even if it's relatively short, which made researchers suspect that direct metabolic
May 7, 2010 / Adaptive regulation, Applications, Hormesis
Reflexo-therapy research results and possible approaches to its mechanisms Related: A theory of acupuncture, spinal cord, and endorphins There is only a couple direct research on the reflexo-ther
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May 6, 2010 / Intrinsic brain activity, Theories
Is the brain just a vessel, which is empty until the outside world fills it with reflections of its elements? What's going on inside the calm brain of a quiet person? The current view is that it fluct
April 17, 2010 / Energy Substrates, Excitatory GABA, Methodology, Neuroprotectors, Theories
As described in the post "On the mechanisms of brain protection by ketones", GABA, the principal brain chemical, normally acts to prevent hyperactivity in the neuronal networks. However, in the imma