Sentences with phrase «other brain researchers»

Other brain researchers had identified certain cell types and areas of the brain associated with fear, reward, addiction, and depression.

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However, when the researchers damaged a more central brain region called the limbic system, which is the source of emotions and pleasure (among other things), the hamsters» maternal behaviors — like nest - building, picking up pups, and nursing — never developed.

She joins a number of other top AI researchers coming out of University of Toronto who have gone on to secure positions of importance at major tech firms; U of T AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who heads Google Brain's Canadian operations, is another.

A version of the speed training program developed for this trial is now commercially available through the brain fitness company Posit Science, but the researchers are working on making other types of training available as well.

While it has shown promise for some types of tumors and become standard of care for others, researchers are just beginning to explore how different immunotherapy technologies can be applied to brain cancer.

Now, researchers who have measured the brain responses of 125 infants — including babies who were born prematurely and others who went full - term — show that a baby's earliest experiences of touch have lasting effects on the way their young brains respond to gentle touch when they go home.

A study by Luby and other WUSM researchers showed that a mother's love had a physical effect on the size of her child's hippocampus — the area of the brain responsible for memory.

When researchers looked at their brain activity during these times, they saw that one hemisphere of the brain had electrical patterns resembling nighttime sleep, whereas patterns from the other hemisphere indicated wakefulness.

For more consistent results, the researchers only recruited women, and the participants completed surveys to see if there were any other factors at work that could affect brain structure, such as depression or level of formal education.

Among 22 patients, the researchers found enhanced memory performance in the four patients with stimulation of the lateral temporal cortex but not among those with the other brain regions stimulated.

Endocast researchers need to study the range of brain surface characteristics in a larger sample of living chimps and other apes to make more accurate comparisons, Falk says.

Compared with postmortem brain tissue taken from healthy people and those with Alzheimer's, tissue from people who had CTE had higher levels of an inflammation protein called CCL11, Mez and other researchers reported in September in PLOS ONE.

In 2011 researchers found that these waves of electricity cause neurons in the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cells.

This work could guide medical science by pointing researchers in the direction of other molecules that could be used to treat disorders of the brain, Slot said.

As they studied brain activity in the knockout mice, the researchers also found prominent changes in a receptor in the brain known as mGluR5 and other proteins that support the function of neurons and synapses, said co-lead author Xiaoming Wang, M.D., Ph.D., senior research associate in Duke's department of pediatrics.

Other researchers, such as Elizabeth Phelps and Joe LeDoux (he of the goatee and guitar), were describing the way emotions influenced learning and memory, focusing on how the brain detects, analyzes and remembers threats.

Given how widespread many of these problems are, watching the Brain Gain initiative unfold could be instructive for researchers from other countries.

The cells also underwent tiny zaps of electricity, which allowed researchers to see how the neurons might have communicated with other nerve cells in the brain.

Johns Hopkins researchers report that fetal mice — especially males — show signs of brain damage that lasts into their adulthood when they are exposed in the womb to a maternal immune system kicked into high gear by a serious infection or other malady.

Meanwhile, other researchers are studying serum to garner clues about links between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and DNA methylation among individuals who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, gleaning information from samples on 150 service members with mild to severe TBI, along with 50 control subjects.

When the mice were at various ages, the researchers isolated mitochondria from their synapses and from other brain regions.

Dr. Lobo said that this latest research could help researchers better understand changes in brain cells and mitochondria from other addictive disorders.

A community of «tele - immersion» researchers suspect a deeper answer: Maybe there is something about how our brains are fine - tuned to perceive other people that video telecommunications have simply not picked up.

Your level of self - control, researchers have found, may have to do with a region of the brain that lets us take the perspective of others — including that of our future self.

fMRI scanners also allow Raichle and other researchers to study the brain's «dark energy» — baseline activities that are unrelated to external stimuli or the performance of overtly visible tasks, yet consume the vast majority of the brain's energy.

In addition to applying direct current to the scalp, brain - hacking researchers and DIYers are experimenting with other methods including alternating current and random noise stimulation.

Such insights inspired Wingeier and other researchers working to target tDCS to specific brain areas.

«These findings suggest that even neurons we previously thought were «useless» because they didn't individually encode information have a purpose when working in concert with other neurons,» said researcher Julio Martinez - Trujillo, based at the Robarts Research Institute and the Brain and Mind Institute at Western University.

There are researchers who argue that dreams originate as early as in the mother's womb, whereas others posit that they first occur when a child's brain becomes more developed, around five to seven years old.

Until very recently, researchers in the modern era found no evidence of a lymphatic system in the brain, leaving some puzzled about how the brain drains waste, and others to conclude that brain is an exceptional organ.

Lieberman got similar results when he showed a group of subjects pictures of other people's faces while the researchers scanned their brains.

«Neuroscientists have learned a lot about brain circuits using the technique,» Zhou said, «and now researchers in many other fields are giving it a try.»

On the organization's Web site it says: «The Brain Observatory is committed to maintaining the highest standards in open science, sharing all the images and data that are created in our laboratories with other researchers and the public.»

Researchers specifically analyzed how different areas of the brain activate in sync with each other — a property called functional connectivity — during a period of rest.

Last month, researchers led by Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital reported that a process in which microglia prune excess synapses in the brain during early life can turn on inappropriately later on, possibly triggering Alzheimer's or other disorders marked by damage to connections between brain cells.

Now, the researchers have visualized brain activity in awake mice as they interacted normally with mice and other stimuli.

Other researchers have used optogenetics to transmit artificial skin sensations into the brains of mice, but Ko plans to investigate other technologies to find a technique that's best suited for his lab's e-Other researchers have used optogenetics to transmit artificial skin sensations into the brains of mice, but Ko plans to investigate other technologies to find a technique that's best suited for his lab's e-other technologies to find a technique that's best suited for his lab's e-skin.

The researchers discovered that in brain regions involved in regulating anxiety — the amygdala and prefrontal cortex — microbe - free mice had an overabundance of some types of microRNA and a shortage of others compared with normal mice.

The researchers traced blood flow — and, with it, functional connections — between the hypothalamus and other parts of the brain.

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.

Although the technique is not yet refined enough to reveal the smallest projections from neurons, says Smith, it allows researchers to spot interesting regions that they can then cut out and examine more closely using other techniques — which will improve our understanding of the brain.

The Duke researchers who made this discovery say it may help explain how a relatively small number of genes can create the dazzling array of different cell types found in human brains and the nervous systems in other animals.

The more researchers may attempt to look at a single processing question, the more it turns out to be interrelated with many other things going on in the brain.

Previously, researchers had two theories about how neurons in the motor cortex might control movement: One was that these neurons fired in patterns that represent more abstract commands, such as «move your arm to the right,» and then neurons in different brain areas would translate those instructions to guide the muscle contractions that make the arm move; the other was that the motor cortex neurons would actually send directions to the arm muscles, telling them how to contract.

The study of Honnold's brain was strictly observational, but the researcher involved said it raises intriguing questions about brain control and regulation that might be applicable to other conditions such as anxiety disorders.

Instead of focusing on how the pitcher manipulates the ball, a team of researchers led by neuroscientist Arthur Shapiro of American University in Washington, D.C., attacked the question from the other side: how the human eye and brain perceive the ball's movement.

Researchers screened brains, along with other tissues, for antibacterial activity on the grounds that the brain is the most vital organ for locusts to protect.

Researchers from the University of Houston have shown for the first time that the use of a brain - computer interface augmented with a virtual walking avatar can control gait, suggesting the protocol may help patients recover the ability to walk after stroke, some spinal cord injuries and certain other gait disabilities.

Researchers traced the hormone's path from the skeleton to the hypothalamus — a brain structure that maintains blood sugar levels and body temperature and regulates other processes.

In 2007 and 2010, other researchers found evidence that the brains of symptomatic veterans showed distinctive anatomical changes.