Sentences with phrase «brain and behavior using»

Neurocounseling: Bridging Brain and Behavior Using new nervous system science to help clients with their digital dating experiences

That is, knowledge about the more than two - millennia - old Eastern tradition of investigating the mind from the inside, from an interior, subjective point of view, and the much more recent insights provided by empirical Western ways to probe the brain and its behavior using a third - person, reductionist framework.

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According to the synopsis about the show, «Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior.

Brain - wave biofeedback training involving learning to increase one's alpha waves (associated with a relaxed, tranquil feeling state) has been used with some success in treating neuroses, psychoses, and behavior problems.

As parents gaze at their newborn; talk gently; use soft, higher - pitched voices; and are positive, warm, and encouraging, their brain's gray matter, or cell bodies, actually grow in the emotion and thought regions that support parenting behaviors.

Find out about the science behind your teen's brain, if his or her behavior is normal, or what tools you can use to talk about drugs and alcohol.

• teens & technology (the Internet, social networking sites, etc.) • the latest in teen drug use prevention (including prescription drugs) • teen bullying: how to spot it, how to handle it • special stepfamily considerations • how brain development affects teen behavior and decision - making • improved discipline and communication • updated teen sexuality issues

The emergence of tensional outlets usually signifies something distressful for your child, and they use these behaviors as a way to self - soothe and calm their brain.

Dr. Giedd's research team seeks to use cutting edge technologies to explore the relationship between genes, brain and behavior in healthy development and in neuropsychiatric disorders of childhood onset.

The results, published online in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity, strengthen the case that transgenic Huntington's disease monkeys could be used to evaluate emerging treatments (such as this) before launching human clinical trials.

«Our results using an animal model suggest that a maternal high - fat diet during pregnancy and lactation could have significant and lasting effects on the brain, behavior and cognition of rat pups,» said Dr. Tamashiro.

A new study of artifacts from a cave in Israel suggests that our ancestors began regularly using fire about 350,000 years ago — far enough back to have shaped our culture and behavior but too recent to explain our big brains or our expansion into cold climates.

Page and his colleagues, who use animal models to understand how autism risk factors impact the developing brain and to identify potential treatments for the condition, have found that animals with mutations in the autism risk gene phosphatase and tensin homolog (Pten) mimic aspects of autism, including increased brain size, social deficits and increased repetitive behavior.

«What we're showing in this paper is that patients who used a brain - machine interface for a long period of time experienced improvements in motor behavior, tactile sensations and visceral functions below the level of the spinal cord injury,» he said.

For instance, zapping the temporal lobe using deep - brain stimulation can improve spatial memory, and using a powerful magnet to alter activity in the right temporoparietal junction can make our moral compass go haywire, causing behaviors we think of as immoral to become permissible.

Now, UCLA researchers have developed a way to use brain scans and machine learning — a form of artificial intelligence — to predict whether people with OCD will benefit from cognitive behavior therapy.

A 2002 study using MRI scans showed that brain areas keeping aggression and impulsive behavior in check were relatively larger in women than in men.

Dulac's study — which used genetic manipulation and surgery to create VNO-less female mice — reveals that the circuitry for male behaviors appears to be present in all mouse brains.

Parasites use hormones, neurotransmitters and other proteins to disconnect the host brain and the immune system, altering host behaviors to increase the survival and reproduction of the parasite.

By using the smaller and less complex cricket brain as a model, Dr. Adamo hopes to uncover more broad patterns of nervous system function in both immune responses and, of course, behavior.

In the past decade, researchers have used mouse models to unravel how cellular changes in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), a brain structure involved in action selection associated with arousal and reward, may contribute to addiction - related behavior.

Participants were screened for risk - taking behaviors, such as drug and alcohol use, sexual promiscuity, and physical violence and underwent functional MRI (fMRI) scans to examine communication between brain regions associated with the emotional - regulation network.

The researchers used the Rochester Epidemiology Project medical records database, brain function testing at ages 8 - 12 or 15 - 20, and parent reports to assess behavior and brain function.

«We were very excited to discover that when we used a typical genetic mutation that was more susceptible to electroconvulsive seizures, we were able to actually rescue these worms by treating them with FDA approved human antiepileptic drugs beforehand,» said Monica Risley, co-lead author and a Ph.D. student in FAU's Integrative Biology and Neuroscience program, as well as a student in the new International Max Planck Research School in Brain and Behavior.

Instead of only using a standard clinical interview to determine whether individuals met the criteria for a clinical diagnosis of bipolar disorder, the researchers combined the results from brain imaging, cognitive testing, and an array of temperament and behavior measures.

But in these experiments, Burwell's team, including lead authors Jonathan Ho and Devon Poeta, altered some of the rats» behavior by manipulating the brain using optogenetics.

The study, «Modulating Behavior in C.elegans Using Electroshock and Antiepileptic Drugs,» just published in PLOS One, has led the researchers to build on the current animal models for inducing seizures via electroconvulsion in the genetically modifiable C.elegans that only has 302 brain cells called neurons.

Now a team of researchers has used computer - vision and machine - learning techniques in fruit flies to create behavior anatomy maps that will help us understand how specific brain circuits generate Drosophila aggression, wing extension, or grooming.

«It is a very bold theory,» says Arne Öhman, a psychologist at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden who uses brain imaging and behavior studies to test how humans respond to visual threats.

In studying the functional behavior of the brain, from control of muscles to the formation of memories, scientists are using such tools such as electron microscopy, recordings of electrical signals from individual brain cells, and imaging of brain structures and processes using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and high - resolution optical imaging.

To examine the link, researchers measured blood glucose levels and hunger, while also using functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to observe brain activity during the crucial four - hour period after a meal, which influences eating behavior at the next meal.

Using further neurological studies, George and his colleagues tracked this compulsive behavior to the activation of «stress» and «reward» pathways in the brain.

Neurons use neuropeptides to communicate a range of brain functions including learning, metabolism, memory and social behaviors.

Using an animal model of this syndrome, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered that mutations in PTEN affect the assembly of connections between two brain areas important for the processing of social cues: the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with complex cognitive processes such as moderating social behavior, and the amygdala, which plays a role in emotional processing.

Beyond these much - needed engineering advances, more research is required to expand the possibilities of brain - controlled machines to facilitate complex tasks and behaviors such as tool use and language production (without the use of a virtual keyboard).

In order to broaden the conversation about cognitive enhancement, the Commission instead uses the term «neural modification,» which includes emerging technologies, as well as daily conditions and behaviors that impact brain performance.

Scientists injected fluorescent molecules into about 150 mouse brain structures and used a high - resolution microscope to document the molecules as they moved through the brain's «cellular highways,» which need to be in tip - top shape for different parts of the brain to communicate and coordinate behaviors.

Brain scans using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and even genetic tests are turning up possible clues to our political origins and behaviors.

Using a new class of mathematical models that do not make many assumptions about how behavior is organized, we will deconstruct the mouse's normal behavior into motifs, or syllables, and correlate those with brain activity.

More recently, I have demonstrated the feasibility of using fMRI in combination with pharmaco - genetic silencing to dissect the circuital basis of complex behaviors, and demonstrated for the first time that the mouse brain contains distributed resting - state functional connectivity networks, including plausible homologues of the human default - mode (DMN) and salience networks.

Our work will provide a suite of new tools for other neuroscientists to use, as well as general insight into how the brain processes information and carries out behavior.

Bath's Early Career Award from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation supported some of the earliest experiments to use the facility.

Using a new high - speed imaging technique called SCAPE to track activity in the entire fly brain, we will identify activity patterns that generate appetite and trigger food seeking behavior.

Other research interests include elucidating the effects of persistent alcohol and marijuana use on brain metabolite levels and structural maturation patterns that contribute towards suboptimal cognitive processing and maintaining drug dependence behaviors.

By blending classical and cutting - edge genetic approaches, Vivek Kumar, Ph.D.Researches behavior and behavioral abnormalities, including addiction, ADHD and depression, using mouse genetics as a platform.Vivek Kumar is unveiling the genes at work within the brain to control complex behaviors, such as anxiety and addiction.

He is the author of more than 1000 journal articles and several books including Uses of Marijuana (1971), Madness and the Brain (1974), The Troubled Mind (1976), Biological Aspects of Abnormal Behavior (1980), Drugs and the Brain (1986), and Brainstorming (1989).

Using iPSC - derived human DA neurons from opioid - dependent subjects to study dopamine dynamics Sheng Y, Filichia E, Shick E, Preston KL, Phillips KA, Cooperman L, Lin Z, Tesar P, Hoffer B, Luo Y. Brain and Behavior.

Biocellion is being used to model a variety of biological system behaviors, such as biofilm formation and wrinkling, microbial growth dynamics in complex soil structure, brain tumor growth and invasion, formation of complex bacterial colonies, and changes in blood vessels and skin cells.

With this tool, neuroscientists can use light to trigger or suppress neuronal firing and precisely manipulate animal behavior, allowing them to map circuits underlying normal brain functions and study their dysfunction in mood and movement disorders.

Using mouse recombineering techniques, she is working to unravel the complicated circuitry of the hypothalamus and connected brain areas involved in food intake behavior, neuroendocrine, and autonomic responses to stress.