Sentences with phrase «d.comprehensive behavioral testing»

But experts looking back at the 2007 case now say Hodges was part of a burgeoning trend: Criminal defense strategies are increasingly relying on neurological evidence — psychological evaluations, behavioral tests or brain scans — to potentially mitigate punishment.

The behavioral tests used here modeled one dimension of the disease — an inability to experience pleasure from normal activities — but not others, such as stress and anxiety, and probably tap into different brain mechanisms in mice than in humans, he says.

As expected, young mice treated with THC performed slightly worse on behavioral tests of memory and learning.

A month after treatment, nine of 12 mice had some level of hearing restored and could be startled by a loud clap, a standard behavioral test for hearing.

Focusing on the neural pathway from the brain's prefrontal cortex to the amygdala, they combined optogenetics — a technique that uses light to control the activity of neurons in living tissue — with behavioral testing, a methodology that allows researchers to study functional connections between different regions of the brain.

The healthy adults also underwent two rounds of fcMRI scans and behavioral tests, spaced three months apart.

They also gave the children another questionnaire and behavioral test to assess their willingness to delay gratification.

Likewise, instead of researching how alcohol exposure affected the developing rat fetus, I daydreamed about a career that didn't involve microscopes, animal colonies, or behavioral testing.

Using simple behavioral tests, Bateson's team showed that honeybees under stress tend to be pessimistic.

These mice also went on to exhibit a range of depressive symptoms in behavioral tests.

To see if CGP3466B, like ketamine, has antidepressant effects in mammals, the researchers used two standard behavioral tests on mice.

And now we have behavioral tests, and I don't actually care what the tests are.

In a study now being reviewed for publication, Bookstein and Streissguth looked at the results of behavioral tests and brain scans of 45 adult men, 30 of them afflicted with either fetal alcohol syndrome or fetal alcohol effects, the others not.

Also, behavioral tests of motor function in post-stroke animals in correlation with BSCB damage are needed.

«We're planning to follow up with additional behavioral tests to look at whether controlling the chickadees» experiences and environments has an impact on the results,» says Rice.

Given that behavioral tests can take up to two months and mice usually live four to five months in the lab, the mandate's costs add up quickly.

To identify the brain regions involved in canceling a decision, the new study recruited 21 subjects for a modified «stop signal task,» a commonly used neuroscientific behavioral test that involves canceling a planned movement.

Other behavioral tests examine sociability, giving the mice the choice to spend time either with other mice or with inanimate objects; risk - taking, in which the mice either venture out on to a high open ledge or hide in a dark enclosed space; and repetitive behavior, where the focus is on excessive grooming or jumping.

According to Yang and Silverman, a typical behavioral test aims for 20 mice per group in order to achieve sufficient statistical power.

When barn owls flew over the cages of individual voles, each of the animals» nervousness increased by about the same amount, as measured by standard behavioral tests.

To verify this attraction, the researchers are carrying out behavioral tests.

Using a combination of molecular biology, neurobiology and behavioral tests, the researchers now show that loss of ATF1 changes the response of the fruit fly brain to a whiff of yeast.

The team then entered the brain activity measures and behavioral test scores into a machine - learning algorithm.

Family members» eye - movement capabilities were not strongly correlated with their scores on other cognitive or social - behavioral tests, a result that Mosconi calls «exciting.»

Using data from 58 of the 59 infants, the algorithm picked out the brain connections that differ between children with and without autism, and that track with scores on any of the behavioral tests.

After the final stressors were administered, the researchers gave the young mice a round of behavioral tests and then waited until the mice reached adulthood, at about 10 weeks old, to see if their different upbringings had affected their cognitive abilities or brain morphology.

«In both behavioral tests used in this study, the mice need to control the paw movement,» explains Yi Li, M.D., a Henry Ford neuroscientist and lead author of the study.

Researchers then gave the mice several behavioral tests for «depression» including the forced swim test, in which researchers measure how fast the mice give up swimming and decide to float.

They verified that blood concentration levels were comparable to effective levels in humans being treated for bipolar disorder or mania, and then administered the open field and other behavioral tests.

In the study, the researchers used behavioral tests, as well as neuroimaging, to investigate whether there is an influence of biological sex on facial recognition, according to Suzy Scherf, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience.

Those differences translated into improvements on behavioral tests.

We combined a behavioral test for magnetic compass orientation in mole rats and immunocytochemical visualization of the transcription factor c - Fos as a marker of neuronal activity.

They assessed the effects using behavioral tests, including putting food in the middle of an open space and timing the animals» response.

Next the team gave the mice a battery of behavioral tests that required them to poke their nose at panels in their enclosure to indicate which of three panels was a different color than the other two.

At the time of admission for functional MRI scanning (5 years after the ictus), the patient was assumed to remain in a vegetative state, although extensive behavioral testing after the functional MRI revealed reproducible, but inconsistent, responses indicative of a minimally conscious state.

In the course of screening over 180 mutant mouse strains with a systematic battery of behavioral tests, Dr. Tsuyoshi Miyakawa and his colleagues found that mice with heterozygous knockout of the alpha - isoform of calcium / calmodulin - dependent protein kinase II (αCaMKII) exhibit behavioral deficits and other brain features consistent with bipolar disorder.

Since mice can't read eye charts out loud, he and his colleagues had to use a behavioral test to see if their eyes were working.

Behavioral testing for attention and impulsivity began when the rats were about 80 days old and continued six days a week for three months, using a well - accepted protocol.

Once the neurons were inhibited, the mice were given a series of behavioral tests.

They then performed serial behavioral tests on the mice, including Y - maze test (to assess working memory), rotarod test (motor function and learning), and contextual and cued fear condition test (fear learning and memory).

Dr. Carlezon and his group were the first to report that a class of drugs called kappa - opioid receptor (KOR) antagonists has antidepressant, anti-anxiety, and anti-stress effects in their behavioral tests.

All the while Bath has turned the system into a significant research tool on the Brown campus and beyond.In 2012, with funding from the Brown Institute for Brain Science through the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Scientific Innovation Fund, Serre and Bath opened their lab up as a «core» called the Rodent Neurodevelopmental Behavioral Testing Facility.

The Company's capabilities include behavioral testing, electrophysiology, translational EEG, quantitative histology, molecular biology, and microdialysis.

Pogorelov, V.M.; Baker, K.B.; Malbari, M.M.; Lanthorn, T.H.; Savelieva, K.V. Standardized Behavioral Test Battery to Identify and Validate Targets for Neuropsychiatric Diseases and Pain.

A cost - effective solution for all standard behavioral tests such as the Morris water maze and open field testing.

But in BAC - HD mice, when the mutant Huntington's disease gene was turned off in the hypothalamus, the mice showed less signs of depression on one behavioral test.

We have a wide range of tools for all kinds of behavioral tests for zebrafish.

The present study was aimed at identifying behavioral tests that are most sensitive to the emergence of behavioral / neurological deficits in SOD1 - G93A (SOD1) mice in a cross comparison with the newly proposed hPFN1G118V (PFN1)(Fil et al., 2016) mouse model of motor neuron disorder.

These behavioral tests helped the team identify brave and anxious birds, then narrow down areas of the genome related to variations in anxiety.

Treatments were administered in the food (TestDiet ® 5015, Richmond, IN, USA) for a period of two weeks before commencement of behavioral testing.