Sentences with phrase «studies of the brains»

But can study of the brain really tell us about God?

Here's a hint: «Low calorie» does not equal «World's healthiest», especially when you add artificial sweeteners, which have been linked to studies of brain damage and cancer.

Specifically, intensive postmortem neurological studies of their brain tissues reveal a relatively low density of acetylcholine (a neurotransmitter) nerve sites, which, at normal densities, function in critical ways to help re-initiate breathing following a sleep - related apnea or extended breathing pauses.

He has contributed to the study of the brain processing of form, symmetry, flicker, motion, color, and stereoscopic depth perception and has developed tests for the diagnosis of retinal and optic nerve diseases.

It's to put the study of the mind back in the study of the brain, says Solms: «What neuropsychoanalysis is all about is this: How does the actual stuff of being a person relate to the tissue and physiology and anatomy and chemistry of the brain?»

«New study of brain circuits finds key links to symptoms of depression: Altering distinct brain pathways found to aid symptoms such as social withdrawal and helplessness behavior.»

The pregnant mothers were participants in a larger, long - term study of brain development led by Thomason.

Studies of brain structure and correlations with levels of a protein known as BDNF (brain - derived neurotrophic factor) will also be performed using these findings.

«Neuroscientists develop potential tools for the study of brain function: Thermogenetics could aid research in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's.»

The new study is an example of what happens when epidemiology experiments — studies of patterns in health and disease — crash into studies of brain imaging.

A summary of their study of the brain region known as the suprachiasmatic nucleus, or SCN, will be published online in the journal Current Biology on Dec. 22.

«The idea they can clean up brain debris has been well established in studies of brain disease,» says Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital.

High - profile advances, from the Allen Brain Atlas to the Brainbow mouse, have injected an air of excitement into the study of the brain — an atmosphere that has been amplified by big funding initiatives in the United States and abroad.

Every era's most advanced technologies, when applied to the study of the brain, keep uncovering more layers of nested complexity, like a set of never ending Russian dolls.

The journal is also broadening its coverage beyond the study of the brain.

Researchers say their findings, published in Annals of Neurology, are «surprising» as the results differ from what has been seen in studies of brain regions that harbor other brain cell - types.

As the birthplace of artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology, Carnegie Mellon has been a leader in the study of brain and behavior for more than 50 years.

In the study of the brain, the shape of things to come is, quite literally, shape.

He believes «it's just a matter of years before sensitivity is vastly improved,» leading to more detailed studies of brain development.

Studies of the brain have found that normal control populations are also heterogeneous in brain physiology and behavior, further complicating efforts to study people with ADHD.

When the investigators analysed MRI studies of the brain, they found that participants with MCI, particularly those with non-amnestic MCI, had larger white matter lesion volumes and worse microstructural integrity of normal - appearing white matter compared to controls.

Studies of brain - damaged patients have shown that the same brain area responsible for processing such words — a region in the left frontal lobe known as Broca's area — is also involved in social tasks, such as recognizing emotional expressions.

Over the past five to 10 years, studies of brain activity during sleep have provided some of the first direct evidence that the brain employs a Boltzmann - like learning algorithm in order to integrate new information and memories into its structure.

More detailed studies of brain maturation are now needed to validate the findings, Sebat said.

• Jeffrey Macklis, whose studies of brain - cell generation we mentioned (3 April, p 29), is at Harvard University, not MIT.

Reichert's own studies of the brain's origin lead to a little - known ancestor, a humble creature called Urbilateria, which wriggled and swam nearly a billion years ago.

Matthew Walker at the University of California in Berkeley and colleagues have conducted the first study of brain activity in relation to food among sleep - deprived people.

A new study of brain cells in this area finds that firing these neurons at one frequency makes the brain treat novel images as old hat.

Still, Sheehan said neuroscience already is one of the leaders in data sharing and management, with such resources as the NIH - funded National Database for Autism Research; an NIH - Defense Department sponsored data base on traumatic brain injury; the NIH - funded Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC), which helps researchers to develop, share and collaborate on software tools for doing functional and structural imaging studies of the brain; and the Neuroscience Information Framework, an NIH initiative that makes neuroscience resources - data, materials, and tools - accessible via any computer connected to the Internet.

The research team, which includes Daniel S. Koo, PhD, and Carol J. LaSasso, PhD, of Gallaudet University in Washington, say their findings should impact studies of brain differences in deaf and hearing people going forward.

Previous studies of the brain have revealed the importance of «cortical integration» in maintaining consciousness, meaning that the brain must process and combine multiple inputs from different senses at once.

It was a defining moment, the birth of a technique that would revolutionise the study of brains and behaviour.

Postmortem studies of the brains of Alzheimer's patients show a dramatic destruction of neurons, and particularly neurons which secrete or utilise the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.

«And many studies of the brain and central nervous system, using imaging, EEG and other objective measures of brain structure and function, add to the existing evidence that central nervous system dysfunction is a critical element in the disorder.

This theoretical consistency is important, as it allows researchers to better focus future studies of brain connectivity in schizophrenia, by targeting the brain regions known to be affected.

Imaging studies of the brain DA system in marijuana abusers have also shown different findings from those reported for other types of substance abusers.

Scientists raising funds for the world's first imaging study of the brain on LSD raised more than $ 65,000 earlier this year, more than twice their goal.

Traditionally studies of brain function have focused on task - evoked responses.

More fundamental studies of brain function and connectivity, as well as studies of the spine, are performed in non-human primates.

Dr. Parsons had a unique talent to link novel approaches in analytical chemistry with sophisticated techniques in behavioral pharmacology and neurocircuitry, and this approach opens the door to novel, out - of - the - box studies of brain mapping that are recognized as the key to new advances in our understanding of the circuitry of the brain, a major new initiative of the National Institutes of Health.

Future studies of brain function and evolution will increasingly take advantage of the approaches of systems biology, Wu suggested.

Adeno - associated viral (AAV) vectors are the most frequently used gene - transfer tools in the study of the brain and spinal cord, which together are known as the central nervous system (CNS).

She recently co-chaired the NIH planning committee for the President's BRAIN Initiative, a neuroscience program to advance studies of the brain in health and disease.

By the early 1980s, Columbia University had begun to emerge as a pioneering center for molecular approaches to the study of brain function.

A Voxel - Based Morphometry Study of the Brain of University Students Majoring in Music and Nonmusic Disciplines.

«The Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech will let us do something special because we are now bringing individual talents together to transform the study of the brain.

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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.

A particularly distinctive aspect of my research has been the study of brain functional connectivity and its pharmacological modulation, an area that my group has pioneered.

The study of the brain has undergone a quiet revolution over the past ten years.