Sentences with phrase «across different brain»

«In designing brains, nature has two parameters it can play with: the size and number of neurons and the distribution of neurons across different brain centers,» said Herculano - Houzel, «and in birds we find that nature has used both of them.»

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They help communicate between different neocortical layers and across cortical areas from one side of the brain to the other.
Researchers stumble across immune proteins that play an unexpected — and very different — role in the brain
Several of these studies have shown that years of abstaining from booze can allow brain regions to return to their original volume and can repair neural connections across different regions.
Despite the complexity of the stimulus, the elicited brain activity patterns show remarkable similarities across different people — even at the time scale of fractions of seconds.
«Movies synchronize brains: Brain activity patterns show remarkable similarities across different people.»
All across the wrinkly expanse of the brain's outer layer, a constellation of different regions handle the meaning of language, scientists report online April 27 in Nature.
The ability for neurons to tune into different frequencies of gamma waves provides a way for the brain to traffic different types of information across the same neuronal circuits.
Obese adolescent girls, Stice found, showed greater activation compared with their lean peers in regions of the brain that encode the sensory experience of eating food — the so - called gustatory cortex and the somatosensory regions, archipelagoes of neurons that reach across different structures in the brain.
«Basically, what we've seen in this work is a method for measuring how much of a neurotransmitter is being [absorbed], and how that amount, or rate, is affected by different drugs... in a highly parallel fashion across much of the brain,» Jasanoff says.
«It's the first time you can see the inhibitors of serotonin reuptake, like antidepressants, working in different parts of the brain, and you can use this information to analyze all sorts of antidepressant drugs, discover new ones, and see how those drugs affect the serotonin system across the brain
«We've looked explicitly to see how the estrus cycle affects the brain across different stages of the cycle,» he says.
The researchers in the Greenberg lab found that across all analyzed datasets, and in studies of different mouse brain regions, in the absence of MECP2 the expression of long genes is increased.
Understanding how common brain circuits for decision - making contribute to seemingly unrelated disorders will allow researchers to focus on core disturbances and leverage treatment advances across different disorders.»
In a study published in the journal Neuron, co-first authors Christian Burgess, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow; Rohan Ramesh, a graduate student, and colleagues in Andermann's lab recorded images of brain activity in mice across different states of hunger and satiety.
In a paper published earlier this year in Molecular Cell, he and his team explored the activity of the FOS / JUN protein complex, which is expressed across many different cell types in the brain but appears to regulate unique programs in each different cell type.
In their new Science paper, the researchers analyzed gene expression in single cells across key developmental time points and from different regions of the brain.
The Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington, US, is today launching a four - year, $ 55 - million effort to build a three - dimensional map documenting the levels of activity of some 20,000 different genes across the human bBrain Science in Seattle, Washington, US, is today launching a four - year, $ 55 - million effort to build a three - dimensional map documenting the levels of activity of some 20,000 different genes across the human brainbrain.
A second finding involved brain synchronization — a measure of how well coordinated the brain activation was across different regions of the brain.
More recently, brain scans have directly linked these conditions with changes in levels of neurotransmitters — chemicals that convey messages across neurons — or alterations in the number or structure of neurons in different brain areas.
Amber Ruigrok, who carried out the study as part of her PhD, said: «For the first time we can look across the vast literature and confirm that brain size and structure are different in males and females.
Structural and functional brain changes related to different types of physical activity across the life span.
For example, Kerr said, «Based on the predominantly somatic descriptions of mindfulness experience offered by the belly - focused group, we would expect there to be more ongoing, resting - state functional connectivity in this group across different parts of a large brain region called the insula that encodes visceral, somatic sensations and also provides a readout of the emotional aspects of so - called «gut feelings».»
Our models can simulate how brain areas process information before passing it along and how different processing strategies would affect transmission across the brain.
If either drug looks good in one HD mouse, it would be wise to test it again, in at least one different mouse model, to make sure the benefit is big enough and consistent across models — and also to look in the brains of the mice to make sure the drug was doing what it was supposed to do in cells.
It is not yet understood why such conflicting patterns of brain connectivity are observed across different studies, and the factors contributing to these heterogeneous findings have not been identified.
We want to provide a reference atlas of the spatial distribution of different neuronal types across the entire mouse brain.
It is not yet understood why such conflicting patterns of brain connectivity results are observed across different studies, and factors contributing to these heterogeneous findings have not been identified.
The size of the human brain imposes significant challenges for communicating across different regions Prior to these technologies, the white matter was thought of as a passive cabling system.
While in the descriptive analysis similarities were observed in the brain response to stimulation at different acupuncture points, some differences across points were also noted.
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden may have found the answer.According to the textbooks, our perception of size and distance is a product of how the brain interprets different visual cues, such as the size of an object on the retina and its movement across the visual field.
How people choose a solid list containing five or ten favourites, from across different genres and subject matters, is just something I can't seem to muster the brain power for.
Right now students from Singapore and the US are working with our researchers and development team on novel game concepts, and visiting researchers are wracking their brains on different gaming related topics across a variety of fields.
Our demo «pilot» then took the character through the old building in a slightly different way, with «The Horde» (their official name) swarming across every surface possible to munch on his brains.
You're linking different aspects of your life across time, different aspects of your relational life, and even different aspects of your brain together.
Exposure to nature and sunlight releases endorphins in the brain that improve your mood and diffuse your attention, supporting your ability to flow across many different ideas and imagine alternative approaches.
In the new study, the researchers were able to observe steady growth in the hippocampus of children with supportive mothers across multiple brain scans taken at different time periods, with 127 children receiving three MRI scans each from the time they first started school through early adolescence.
Thus, it's predictable that there are differences in brain activity across different types of suggestive experiences.
The empathic brain and its dysfunction in psychiatric populations: Implications for intervention across different clinical conditions
When that message is identical across different media, each time the buyer sees it, the brain remembers and immediately ties them together, giving a powerful accumulative effect to the advertising.
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