Sentences with phrase «brain mechanisms underlying»

Brain mechanisms underlying the impact of attachment - related stress on social cognition.

«This project has two main aims: we want to gain insight into the brain mechanisms underlying 1) the acquisition and extinction of fear memory and 2) fear related individual differences in humans.

We are particularly interested in isolating the brain mechanisms underlying selective attention and working memory.

Despite profound sex differences in the expression of social behavior and the incidence of these psychiatric disorders, little is known about how the brain mechanisms underlying these phenomena differ in females and males.

The brain mechanisms underlying White's effect remain unknown.

«We are wondering whether the brain mechanisms underlying self and other evaluation might be altered in clinical syndromes such as depression, where people can feel helpless when facing their daily tasks,» he says.

The brain mechanisms underlying self - consciousness are interesting from both neurological and clinical perspectives.

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Dr. Horta said, «The likely mechanism underlying the beneficial effects of breast milk on intelligence is the presence of long - chain saturated fatty acids (DHAs) found in breast milk, which are essential for brain development.

This is the first paper to examine the underlying neurobiological mechanisms as a function of breastfeeding, and to connect brain activity with maternal behaviors among human mothers.

Brain research is helping scientists better understand the neural mechanisms underlying language processing in infants and young children, as well as the social interactions necessary for honing those skills.

Identifying genes that promote or prevent neuronal death would thus be an important step in understanding both developmentally - regulated neuronal death as well as the mechanisms underlying degenerative brain disorders.

In order to examine the proximate mechanisms of such phenomena, I needed to be able to «tinker» with the underlying machinery (i.e. the brain), which is for the most part unfeasible in basic human research.

- Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience Supports collaborations among computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, theoreticians and experimental neuroscientists, which are imperative to advance our understanding of the nervous system and mechanisms underlying brain disorders and have a significant impact on the theory and design of engineered systems.

The Bloomfield Science Museum's interactive exhibit Journey through the Brain illuminates the neural mechanisms underlying day - to - day cognition.

Further research is needed to confirm the results and reveal the underlying brain mechanisms at play.

So far scientists do not understand the underlying mechanisms, but if bird brains share certain key circuits with humans, then scientists may find answers by studying them.

The high prevalence of this phenomenon may make it easier for us to study and better understand the underlying mechanisms in the brain behind such synaesthetic effects.

Dr. Michael M. Yartsev, Research Associate and C.V. Starr Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University receives the US$ 25,000 research prize for his work using the bat as an unusual animal model to study the underlying neural mechanisms of spatial memory and navigation in the mammalian brain.

In their findings, reported in Nature Physics, the researchers describe a method they developed for growing tiny «brains on chips» from human cells that enabled them to track the physical and biological mechanisms underlying the wrinkling process.

«We want to combine neuroimaging and cognitive assays with clinical symptoms to enhance prodromal diagnosis, identify neuroprotective agents to target underlying disease mechanisms in the brain, and develop behavioral and cognitive exercises that will increase the patient's ability to adapt.»

Barclay Morrison III, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has led the first study to determine underlying biological mechanisms that promote functional recovery of the blood - brain barrier (BBB) after blast injury.

By focusing on language, you may be focusing on the tool, not on the underlying mechanism, the cognitive architecture we have in our brain that helps us to communicate.»

They used a somewhat bizarre technique in which two mice were sutured together in such as way that they shared a circulatory system (known as parabiosis), and found old mice joined to their youthful counterparts showed changes in gene activity in a brain region called the hippocampus as well as increased neural connections and enhanced «synaptic plasticity» — a mechanism believed to underlie learning and memory in which the strength of neural connections change in response to experience.

New Scientist visits the lab where brains are sliced in search of the underlying mechanisms of multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's

The mechanisms underlying this brain / body connection are still not well understood.

The new research also gives insight into the mechanisms underlying the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging to detect blood flow changes in the brain.

The recent Finnish study clarified a mechanism underlying a severe progressive children's brain disease and adult's muscle disease.

Dr. Gradinaru's research interests focus on developing tools and methods for neuroscience (optogenetic actuators and sensors; tissue clearing and imaging) as well as on investigating the mechanisms underlying deep brain stimulation (DBS) and on the long - term effects of DBS on neuronal health, function, and ultimately behavior.

Although the relationship between mastication and brain function is potentially important, the mechanism underlying is not fully understood.

In the first study of the drug lorcaserin in the human brain, the research revealed the mechanism underlying the drug's efficacy and provides insight into which individuals may benefit most from the medication.

By revealing clear and consistent alterations in key brain regions, the findings shed light on the underlying mechanisms of bipolar disorder.

The brain was able to produce rhythmic, alternating activity that would underlie the swimming behavior, showing these two species produce their swimming behavior using very different brain mechanisms.

He said: «Examining saccades from different populations is revealing a lot about underlying brain mechanisms and how we think.

The researchers add that the mechanisms that underlie how fly neurons operate and communicate are likely to be the same mechanisms that operate in the human brain.

«Understanding the nature of the cognitive impairment and the underlying biological mechanisms are essential to the development of an effective treatment for chemo brain.

«Much more research is needed in order for us to more fully understand the underlying mechanism and specific role of the insular cortex, but is clear that something is going on in this part of the brain that is influencing addiction,» said Abdolahi.

«It's possible that there are common underlying brain mechanisms involved in both recovery from TBI and improvement in sleep,» said Gosselin.

Scientists seeking to understand the neural mechanisms underlying social cognition and emotion have drawn on a variety of methods, including studies of patients with neurological damage and single - cell recording of brain activity in nonhuman animals.

Delving into the uncharted domains of the brain, they hope to uncover the mechanisms underlying brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson?s, as well as epilepsy, stroke, and other neurological disorders, and to find ways of preventing or intervening the disease process.

Researchers do not yet know whether these effects were beneficial; they also have not discovered the mechanism underlying the observed shift in brain activity.

But so far, our understanding of the mechanisms underlying lupus» effects on the brain has remained murky.

While it has been known that there are considerable differences in how the brain clock of different individuals responds to changing shift cycles, we have known very little about the mechanisms that underlie these differences between people.

Marijuana, like other drugs of abuse, stimulates brain dopamine (DA) signaling in the nucleus accumbens (1, 2), which is a mechanism believed to underlie the rewarding effects of drugs (3 ⇓ — 5) and to trigger the neuroadaptations that result in addiction (reviewed in ref.

The mechanism underlying the lack of an effect of MP in cerebellar DV in abusers is unclear but could reflect the effects of chronic marijuana on cerebrovascular reactivity (increased cerebral vascular resistance)(23 ⇓ — 25), which might have prevented MP - induced vasoconstriction and associated reductions in radiotracer delivery to the brain.

Researchers at OIST have successfully isolated and recorded the activity of a subset of neurons in the striatum in the brain, shedding light on one mechanism underlying learning and decision making in animals.

Prof. Nicoll's lab is interested in elucidating the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying learning and memory in the mammalian brain.

Walsh and colleagues found that knocking out this gene disturbs the centriole's organization and function, suggesting an underlying biochemical mechanism for the brain deficits seen in the ferrets.

In the present study, to elucidate the neural mechanism underlying this behavior, we used an immediate early gene (IEG) to map the active brain regions of Japanese honeybee workers during the formation of a defensive bee ball.

Lipton and colleagues now report that the p38 MAPK pathway is also the mechanism underlying decreased stem cell proliferation in the brain associated with HIV / AIDS.

The research was carried out at Tel Aviv University and the University of California - San Francisco and will continue, with a focus on obtaining a better understanding of the brain and the biological mechanisms that underlie memory processes that cause vulnerability to alcoholism — and perhaps drug use — in some individuals.