Introduction: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a commonly diagnosed neurodegenerative disease among the elderly. Considering the limited symptomatic improvement associated with PD treatments, introduction of more effective agents is necessary. Citrus aurantium flower extract (CAE) is recognized as a neuroprotective and hepatoprotective agent with bioactive compounds, such as flavonoids, phenolics, a...

The human brain has hundreds of billions neurons and at least 7 million dendrites have been hypothesized to exist for each neuron, with over 100 trillion neuron–neuron, neuron–muscle, neuron–endocrine cell synapses [...]

This directory contains the Neuron code for the CA1 pyramidal cell model and the experiments described in: 1. Poirazi, P. Brannon, T. & Mel, B.W. Arithmetic of Subthreshold Synaptic Summation in a Model CA1 Pyramidal Cell. In Press, Neuron , February 2003. 2. Poirazi, P. Brannon, T. & Mel, B.W. Online Supplement: About the Model. In Press, Neuron , February 2003. 3. Poirazi, P. Brannon, T. & Me...

apoptosis plays an important role in many pathological processes of the central nervous system. the neuroprotective effect of periodic fasting (pf) in contrast to severe fasting or starvation has been suggested. however, these beneficial effects seem to depend on the type and duration of the used feeding protocol. this study was designed to evaluate the effects of different pf protocols on the ...