Sentences with phrase «brain researchers determine»

Brain researchers determine the function of a part of the brain by studying people whose brains are damaged in that region.

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The researchers hope to uncover barometers that physicians can rely on to determine what, exactly, is occurring inside the brain after a concussion, and how long the recovery process can be expected to take for different groups of athletes.

The researchers collected the brain activity — five additional sensors were placed on the volunteers» faces to allow researchers to screen for the impact of random movement, including eye blinks — and then mapped the signals back to the brain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory abrain activity — five additional sensors were placed on the volunteers» faces to allow researchers to screen for the impact of random movement, including eye blinks — and then mapped the signals back to the brain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory abrain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory abrain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory aBrain - Machine Interface System Laboratory at UH.

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, Georgetown University and the University of Rochester have found that specific small molecules in blood plasma may be useful in determining whether someone has sustained a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), commonly known as a concussion.

The UNC researchers are now trying to determine the precise molecular details of how the set of AAV amino acids allows the viruses to cross the blood - brain barrier.

The trail warmed in the early 1990s when researchers determined that, in normally developing brains, neurotransmitters triggered protein production near synapses.

«Our own previous study on Facebook could only show correlation between social network size and the brain, but we could not determine the direction of causation between social brain regions and social network size,» notes Ryota Kanai of University College London, one of the researchers on the study.

Yet researchers are still trying to understand how activity in this hypothalamus - adjacent area could conjure the condition — and to determine what other glitches in brain structure, metabolism or interactions contribute to sufferers» throbbing noggins.

Interestingly, the researchers found that the degree of functional connectivity, between brain regions involved in detecting grammatical violations and those related to working memory, predicted the performance accuracy of the participants in determining whether a sequence was grammatical or not.

Contreras - Vidal and researchers with his lab use non-invasive brain monitoring to determine what parts of the brain are involved in an activity, using that information to create an algorithm, or a brain - machine interface, which can translate the subject's intentions into action.

By assessing the survival of the cells that engulf the particles and measuring the levels of red or green light that they emitted, the researchers determined which formulation of particles performed best, then tested that formulation in mice with human brain cancer derived from their patients.

In a bid to determine the regions of the brain concerned with these memorization difficulties, the researchers conducted magneto - encephalographs (a technique that allows very weak magnetic fields produced by neural activity to be measured at the surface of the head) on a group of amusics while they were performing a musical task.

The two researchers proposed that inhibitory nerve cells in the spinal cord determine whether a pain impulse coming from the periphery, such as the foot, is relayed to the brain or not.

The researchers hope to realize that promise by further manipulating the owls» brains to determine the actual neurotransmitters and receptors involved in signaling attention.

Raghanti says that the researchers are now counting the neurons in the chimp brains they studied to determine whether the cells are lost with age, and studying inflammation in the brains.

To determine how the brains of echolocators process these cues, researchers have recorded the echoes produced by echolocator's clicks on different materials (a blanket, fake foliage and a whiteboard) and looked at the response these sounds produced in the brains of sighted people, of blind non-echolocators and of blind echolocators.

In a stunning discovery that overturns decades of textbook teaching, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have determined that the brain is directly connected to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist.

Through analysis of high - resolution anatomical magnetic resonance imaging of brain volumes, taken three times over the two - year study period, the researchers were able to determine that individuals with MCI or Alzheimer's showed greater losses in gray matter volume in both the basal forebrain and temporal lobe, compared with cognitively normal controls.

Looking for the roots of this sensory decline, German researchers at Ruhr University Bochum stumbled on a surprise: rather than shriveling up, the brain's sensory body map — which helps us discriminate Braille letters by determining where the raised bumps are in relation to one another — expands with age, exactly as it does during learning.

In future studies, the researchers hope to determine whether treating the sleep apnea — using CPAP or other methods — returns patients» brain chemicals back to normal levels.

Do this lying in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine and you will have an idea of what researchers instructed 12 female and nine male subjects, all right - handed, to do so they could attempt to determine the regions of the brain exclusively used when humans envision specific future events.

To determine how the brain encodes this drug - related behavior, the researchers need to know exactly which neurons are involved.

National Institutes of Health researchers studying zebrafish have determined that a population of cells that protect the brain against diseases and harmful substances are not immune cells, as had previously been thought, but instead likely arise from the lining of the circulatory system.

Determining this moment with pupil dilation, which Lewis thinks is most likely a basic arousal response, could aid researchers who investigate humor - related brain activity with MRI or electroencephalography.

Researchers have uncovered eight genetic variations that help determine the size of key brain regions.

Researchers then analyzed the connectivity of each participant's brain to determine a relationship between brain connectivity and Self - Related Sharing Scale score across participants.

The next step, researchers said, is to expand the brain - on - a-chip device to three dimensions and sort through the data collected thus far to determine how it correlates with in vivo data.

Black said the researchers will aim to replicate these findings in additional patients and determine if and how the brain regions they identified may contribute to Tourette's syndrome, with a goal of developing more effective therapies.

So, when the UI researchers noticed an increase in brain activity while the newborn rats were twitching during REM sleep but not when the animals were awake and moving, they conducted several follow - up experiments to determine whether sleep twitching is a unique self - generated movement that is processed as if it lacks corollary discharge.

In their study, which was conducted in cooperation with the Fritz Lipmann Institute in Jena, the researchers in Dresden wanted to identify factors that determine brain development, and understand how larger brains have evolved.

The researchers next hope to follow a group of people for a longer duration to determine if sitting causes the thinning and what role gender, race, and weight might play in brain health related to sitting.

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.

The researchers determined that HARE5 likely controls a gene called Frizzled 8, which is part of a molecular pathway important in brain development.

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have identified the neurons in the brain that determine if a mouse will learn to cope with stress or become depressed.

Now, for the first time, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have determined one way Zika infection can damage developing brain cells.

Using functional MRI, the researchers then determined that less than a minute of blue light exposure triggered changes in activity in regions of their brain associated with alertness and executive function.

Researchers are keen to localize this brain activity to determine the areas of the brain that are responsible for a certain function or feeling.

Researchers found that a pocket near the top of the brain stem may be key in determining whether someone is likely to engage in compulsive behavior or become hooked on drugs like cocaine, which is currently abused by an estimated two million Americans.

Carmichael and his team began by determining which molecules become more prevalent in the brain during the recovery period after a stroke, and listing all of the genes that are up - or down - regulated, which the researchers had previously identified during an earlier study.

Water tends to diffuse more quickly along nerve fibres than through other tissues, though researchers are not clear exactly what determines the speed of diffusion in different parts of the brain.

By comparing piglets with and without iron - deficient diets in the first four weeks of life, and then again at eight weeks after all received sufficient iron for four weeks, the researchers were able to determine whether the brain anomalies seen at four weeks persisted after the iron - deficient piglets» diets were corrected.

The researchers also determined that many of the 18 newly identified autism genes affect the operation of a small subset of biological pathways in the brain.

In future studies, the researchers plan to use brain imaging techniques to determine if it is possible to identify a specific, smaller group of people who can benefit from the clot retrieval therapy seven to 24 hours after stroke onset, said Dr. Reza Jahan, professor of radiology and neurosurgery at UCLA, and a co-author of the study.

Researchers have found that a protein critical to the embryonic development of limbs also plays a role in determining how the mammalian neocortex, the outer layer of the brain, is formed.

«Researchers probe brain disease - causing proteins at the atomic level: A change in a single amino acid determines which species are vulnerable, study finds.»

The researchers are working to untangle these networks to determine how the brain infers solutions to problems without being overwhelmed by data.

The researchers determined that lower fitness levels were associated with weaker white matter, which in turn correlated with lower brain function.

Just from the pattern of activity in the hippocampus — a part of the brain instrumental to our ability to navigate — the researchers could determine where each subject was located within the simulation.

Regulator genes help determine how other genes will express themselves, and the researchers suspected that some of these regulators might be making brain development more active in human embryos than in chimps.

Researchers from UCL and Swansea have been investigating the results of autopsies from a small number of retired professional footballers with dementia in an effort to determine whether their brains showed distinct damage compared to other typical dementia patients.