Sentences with phrase «major brain pathway»

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The brain, trying to deal with major emotional trauma, can alter its neural pathways, creating, essentially, a different person.»

Based on this surprising new information, Dr Silver's team showed that Mfsd2a is the major pathway for the uptake of DHA carried in the chemical form of LPCs by the growing fetal brain and by adult brain.

The $ 30 million Human Connectome Project will trace the main neural pathways that link the roughly 500 major regions in the brain, illuminating how biological circuitry underlies our mental functions.

Olaf Sporns of Indiana University maps the major pathways that link regions of the human brain.

A major challenge in repairing the brain is obtaining cortical neurons from the appropriate layer and area in order to restore the damaged cortical pathways in a specific manner.

The DTI images — taken at an average of 20 days after birth — were used to associate maternal iron intake during pregnancy to differences in cortical gray matter and, to a lesser extent, in major axonal pathways within the underlying white matter of the brain.

During the same experiment, they were also able to establish that the stimuli that were most effective in strengthening the synapses came from secondary, non-cortical brain regions rather than major cortical pathways (which convey actual sensory information).

Such plasticity in what is a major pathway in the adult canary's brain is surprising, say the researchers, and suggests that one day we may find ways of encouraging damaged human brains to repair themselves (Science, vol 249, p 1444).

Studies have shown that Alzheimer's disease hampers memory by first acting on the entorhinal cortex (EC), a brain region that provides the major input pathways to the hippocampus.

Imaging can reveal the flow of information in the brain: MRI - based imaging of six of the major white matter pathways in the human brain (© Dr Jamie Kawadler)

Moreover, PHENONIM - ICS is involved in European projects presenting a strong impact on human health: Interreg CARDIOGENE (Genetic mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases), GENCODYS (Genetic and epigenetic networks involved in cognitive dysfunctions), AgedBrainSYSBIO (Basic studies of brain aging), as well as projects in partnership with industry: MAGenTA (an Industrial Strategic Innovation project supported by Bpifrance about the treatment of major urogenital diseases) and CanPathPro (H2020 program), to develop a predictive modeling platform of signaling pathways involved in cancers.

They focused on one of its major pathways, the ventral tegmental area (VTA), which the mPOA use to transmit messages to other parts of the brain.

Why it matters: Parkinson's disease is marked by the loss of dopamine in the brain's nigrostriatal neural pathway, which is one of four major pathways for this hormone and neurotransmitter in the brain; the disease primarily affects part of the motor system involved in the production and coordination of movement.

One of the major functions of sleep is to clear away debris in the pathways of the brain, including the neurotransmitter adenosine.

This disease represents a major threat to our companions, as it not only serves as a source of pain to our pets, but also as a pathway to life - threatening disorders that affect their liver, kidneys, brain and heart.

One study found a correlation between the ability to resolve conflict and FA in the anterior corona radiata, a major pathway connecting the ACC to other brain areas (22).