Sentences with phrase «systems neuroscience says»

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The Society for Neuroscience says that this system of mirroring is the basis of many things, right from social skill development to language to empathy and so on.
Despite an explosion of research on the use of brain scans and other tools of science to help better determine a person's guilt or innocence, experts at a AAAS - organized discussion said hopes that neuroscience might transform the legal system are unrealistic for now.
«For us, it's very important to understand the neural circuits or pathways so that we can develop therapies specifically for pain or itch, instead of targeting it as a whole systemsays Santosh Mishra, assistant professor of neuroscience in NC State's College of Veterinary Medicine and the corresponding author of a paper on the topic.
«It's useful in modeling concepts in neuroscience to have a system that will yield a diverse range of behaviors for small changes of a control parameter, as this may help offer some insights about how the same neural tissue displays different responses,» Alonso said, whose research was funded by a fellowship from the Leon Levy Foundation.
«Those working in neuroscience who are interested in neurofeedback often have no way of studying the technique within the broader framework of a feedback system and its theoretical foundations,» says Moses Sokunbi, Researcher at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste.
«Although the neuroscience literature had said that that doesn't occur in the spinal cord, we wanted to apply what we had learned in the peripheral nervous system and ask if it occurs when the central nervous system regenerates.»
«It was thought that during pregnancy, their immune systems no longer destroyed the myelin,» says Samuel Weiss of Hotchkiss Brain Institute in Calgary and co-author of the study published in The Journal of Neuroscience.
«The practice of the Wim Hof Method may lead to tonic changes in autonomous brain mechanisms, a speculation that has implications for managing medical conditions ranging from diseases of the immune system to more intriguingly psychiatric conditions such as mood and anxiety disorders,» said Diwadkar, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences.
«This group really seemed to go a long way toward identifying what may be an interesting new approach to treatment, and that's fantastic,» says Paul Kenny, chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai Health System, who was not involved with the Amgen work.
«If you want to know how the brain works or really understand a complex system, how it can be adaptive, how it can learn — computational neuroscience is the way to go,» says Eliasmith.
«The challenge of brain simulation is that the nerve cells enter into a temporary relationship with other neurons depending on the task at hand,» says Prof. Dr. Markus Diesmann, director of Juelich's institute Computational and Systems Neuroscience (INM - 6).
«We now know that the megacheirans had central nervous systems very similar to today's horseshoe crabs and scorpions,» said the senior author of the study, Nicholas Strausfeld, a Regents» Professor in the University of Arizona's department of neuroscience.
«There is an intimate relationship between face recognition and the reward systemsaid Rypma, associate professor of cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology at The University of Texas at Dallas.
Because the brain is like every other tissue connected to the peripheral immune system through meningeal lymphatic vessels,» said Jonathan Kipnis, PhD, professor in the UVA Department of Neuroscience and director of UVA's Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG).
We hope that these insights will help to build a foundation for better understanding, and perhaps one day better combatting, decision - making biases in the legal systemsaid co-author Owen Jones, professor of law and biological sciences at Vanderbilt and director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience.
The findings bolster an emerging link between the immune system and conditions such as autism, says lead researcher Jonathan Kipnis, professor of neuroscience at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
A national observatory system could also foster the public development and use of expensive technologies, such as lasers, which are used for a variety of neuroscience methods but are currently supplied by private companies, Yuste says.
«When we started this work, very few people were thinking about how the nervous system and gut bacteria interact,» said Eisen, who is a member of the UO's Institute of Neuroscience.
The procedural memory system has previously been implicated in other developmental disorders, such as dyslexia and developmental language disorder, say the study's senior researcher, Michael T. Ullman, PhD, professor of neuroscience at Georgetown.
«The big punch line is that all things being equal, your reward system fires off a lot more when you're giving than when you're taking,» says Grafman, who is chief of the cognitive neuroscience section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
Professor Jim Deuchars, Professor of Systems Neuroscience in the University of Leeds» Faculty of Biological Sciences, said: «You feel a bit of a tickling sensation in your ear when the TENS machine is on, but it is painless.
«We've used enzymatic production methods to create a system that not only improves the quality of the manufactured oligonucleotides but that also makes it possible to scale up production using bacteria in order to produce large amounts of DNA copies cheaply,» says co-developer Björn Högberg at the Swedish Medical Nanoscience Center, part of the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
«In my view,» says Hassabis, «the extended version of the complementary learning systems theory is likely to continue to provide a framework for future research, not only in neuroscience but also in the quest to develop Artificial General Intelligence, our goal at Google DeepMind.»
When Botox and related botulinum drugs entered the market, «the idea was that they are safe to use, they stay where they are injected, and you don't have to worry about toxin going to the central nervous system and causing weird effects,» says Edwin Chapman, an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor of neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin — Madison.
«There is a zeitgeist now of Big Science being more effective,» says Zachary Mainen, head of systems neuroscience at the Lisbon - based Champalimaud Foundation and co-organizer of the open letter against the HBP.
«It seems like the brain's communication with the motor system is so hard wired, and this ability to stop an action is so innate that even repeated practice won't really alter it,» says Jan Wessel, assistant professor in the UI Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and corresponding author on the study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
«The olfactory system is often an underappreciated sensory system in humans, even though we've all experienced the feeling of smelling a particular odor and having an almost instant flashback or emotional experience of an old memory,» said Filomene G. Morrison, BA, a neuroscience PhD candidate at Emory University and McLean Hospital, and the lead author of the paper.
«Research has shown that even mild cognitive deficits lead to depression, anxiety, decreased participation in society, increased unemployment, and decreased quality of life,» says Dr. Chiaravalloti, director of Neuropsychology, Neuroscience & Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Research at Kessler Foundation, and project director of the Northern New Jersey TBI System (NNJTBIS).
«What happens at the membrane in the release of neurotransmitter — this is really fundamental to the nervous systemsays Jon Storm - Mathisen, chair of the Kavli Prize for Neuroscience committee.
«All this is a focus of intense research,» says Andreas Meyer - Lindenberg, chief of the Unit for Systems Neuroscience in Psychiatry at the NIMH and an author of the Nature Neuroscience article.
«The reward and motivation system is activated more significantly with higher prices and apparently increases the taste experience in this way,» said study co-author Bernd Weber, acting director of the Center for Economics and Neuroscience at the University of Bonn.
«The conclusion that we would make is that these [soft] skills should be emphasized even more in our education system and in our system of socializing children,» says Kenneth Dodge, a professor of public policy and of psychology and neuroscience at Duke who was a principal investigator in this study as well as in the original Fast Track project.
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