Astrocytes are ‘Good Scouts’: Being Prepared Also Helps Neighboring Neurons

The Scouts Have It Right-BE PREPARED!

When You Reflect Are You Also Being Reflexive?

Teaching, researching and leading in the classroom and school community is largely an intuitive action. However, it can also be seen as scripted to some extent. Educators have plans that they first visualize and then attempt to predict on paper what may happen in the teaching environment. Planning in any manner requires a person to see within the mind’s eye. Once detailed on paper the teaching ...

Activation of neuronal NMDA receptors induces superoxide-mediated oxidative stress in neighboring neurons and astrocytes.

Excitotoxic neuronal death is mediated in part by NMDA receptor-induced activation of NOX2, an enzyme that produces superoxide and resultant oxidative stress. It is not known, however, whether the superoxide is generated in the intracellular space, producing oxidative stress in the neurons responding to NMDA receptor activation, or in the extracellular space, producing oxidative stress in neigh...

Neuropeptide-containing neurons of the cerebral cortex are also GABAergic.

Neurons in the cat and monkey cerebral cortex were stained immunocytochemically for glutamic acid decarboxylase (GluDCase; L-glutamate 1-carboxy-lyase, EC 4.1.1.15), somatostatin (SRIF), neuropeptide Y (NPY), and cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK). In all areas of cortex examined (somatic sensory, motor, parietal and visual areas), neurons displaying immunoreactivity for each of these molecules ...

MINDFULNESS IN PRACTICE Some Reflections on Being Good, on not Being Good and on Just Being