Topic: David Sweatt

A Molecular Signature of Cognitive Decline

Science - 462 days ago
A new study with mice suggests that proteins (blue) that keep DNA under wraps might be key players in age-related memory loss.. Neuroscientist Andr? Fischer of the European Neuroscience Institute in G?ttingen, Germany, and colleagues wanted to probe the histone connection ...

How to Make-or Break-Memory

Scientific American - 1793 days ago
Study co-author David Sweatt, a neurobiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, says the finding could provide new targets for treating mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and the autism-spectrum disorder Rett, conditions in which improper methylation switches off certain genes during ...