Sentences with phrase «while deep brain»

While deep brain stimulation may improve function compared with those who do not receive it, little evidence exists on whether the treatment has any benefits to life expectancy.

Not exact matches

And while Christianity's highest and deepest implications may tax the brains and moral courage of the most fully developed personalities, they can also be accepted by the relatively simple and ungifted.

Under this induced deep hypothermia, surgeons are able to briefly stop the heart while performing procedures on the heart or large vessels close to the heart without increasing the risk of permanent brain damage.

«While previous studies at McLean and elsewhere have focused on the behavioral symptoms produced by such immune activation, this study goes deeper, going to the cellular level to show how the brain's neural circuits are affected.»

In a second surgical procedure less than a week after the brain surgery, Velly and his colleagues took readings from the deep - brain electrodes in 25 patients while also collecting electrode readings from their scalp.

Innate social behaviors in the mouse brain: Neuroscientists image activity deep in the brain while mice engage in fighting and mating.»

The scalp recordings let the scientists monitor the cortex, while the deep - brain electrodes let them monitor the thalamus.

Then they would lie in a high - resolution positron emission tomography (PET) scanner for a grueling 90 minutes while the machine took pictures in 2 - millimeter increments of their nucleus accumbens, a region deep in the brain that (among other things) controls reward and motivation.

While the Johns Hopkins team studies the likely effects of radiation on the brain during a deep space mission, other NASA - funded research groups are looking at the potential effects of radiation on other parts of the body and on whether it increases cancer risks.

While receiving deep brain stimulation, rats showed a noticeable improvement in treadmill walking speed and endurance.

While the results suggest that deep brain stimulation could improve survival rates for patients with Parkinson's disease, the researchers note a few limitations to the study.

The most important quality was... that he recognised that while building simple models is important... we can only answer the deeper questions about the complexity of the brain by modelling the complexity.»

While optogenetics is used only in animal models, Gittis said she believes their findings could create a new, more effective deep brain stimulation protocol.

For example, during each of the first three blocks of the test, Subject 1 received deep - brain stimulation while navigating to stores 1, 3, and 5 but not to stores 2, 4, and 6; Subject 2, on the other hand, received deep - brain stimulation while navigating to stores 2, 4, and 6 but not to stores 1, 3, and 5.

While many contend that the earliest cognitive deficits are caused by damage to the striatum — a structure deep in the brain known to be severely affected in HD — recent evidence suggests that this claim may paint an incomplete picture of the widespread changes occurring in the brains of HD patients during the very early stages of the disease.

As significant hominin brain expansion occurred at ∼ 1.8 Ma coeval with occurrence of massive ephemeral deep - water lakes, while subsequent expansions are associated with extreme dry periods.

Deep sequencing of cerebral white matter - derived RNA from the HIV (n = 4) and ODC (n = 4) patients and SURG (n = 2) groups revealed bacterially - encoded 16 s RNA sequences in all brain specimens with α - proteobacteria representing over 70 % of bacterial sequences while the other 30 % of bacterial classes varied widely.

And while our brains are absolutely brilliant in their ability to help us find logic and make sense of things, they don't have a deeper connection to the world around us.

During NREM your body enters a state of deep relaxation, while your brain is processing memories and getting some much needed R&R.

While it's far too early to know whether deep brain stimulation helps those with early Alzheimer's, the initial findings suggest the technique is worth further study, said lead researcher Dr. Andres Lozano.

Hidden deep in the plant's bright yellow roots is an extraordinarily powerful compound called curcumin that has the unique ability to block an enzyme that causes inflammation, while combatting free radical damage to highly sensitive vital organs like your brain and heart.

Following the Yin Yoga practice, we will enjoy a resting Yoga Nidra session that slows the brain waves while remaining awake, encouraging healing in the deep subconscious mind.

Example: For Pratiloma Ujjayi you need to prepare the neck and shoulders for holding the arm while working with the nostrils, intercostals for deeper breathing, and include asymmetrical poses to facilitate right / left brain integration.

Marzano reinforced this finding, asserting that as students hear phonemes while seeing corresponding letters in the new words, the brain makes deeper connections leading to retention.

Taking a walk outdoors, if only for a few moments, allows the warmth of the sun to warm you, while at a deeper level the stimulus of sunlight activates rhythms via the pineal gland and hypothalamus in the brain.

I chose to write from the experience of the latter given that floating between worlds led to a permeable, less analytical form of writing, while fulfilling the promise of enhanced brain activity and deep relaxation.

A pair of elegant experiments delve deep into the brains of animals, while a pair of authors stir up a storm over their take on global warming.