Tag: Potential

Sunset at the Bhimbetka rock shelters on the outskirts of Bhopal offers a glimpse into how people used to live in central India 100,000 years ago.

The earliest traces of human life in India have been discovered here. Inside natural caves there are impressive rock paintings, some of them thousands of years old, depicting hunters or warriors mounted on elephants.

ScienceDaily (Nov. 16, 2009) Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham), the University of British Columbia's Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics and the University of California, San Diego have found that normal synaptic activity in nerve cells (the electrical activity in the brain that allows nerve cells to communicate with one another) protects the brain from the misfolded proteins associated with Huntington's disease.

In contrast, excessive extrasynaptic activity (aberrant electrical activity in the brain, usually not associated with communication between nerve cells) enhances the misfolded proteins' deadly effects.