Sentences with phrase «active neurons»

With greater awareness, the slow swell gives way to faster, higher - frequency waves as more electrically active neurons kick in.

The sparse coding represents the data using just a few active neurons and the features associated with those neurons, he noted.

According to the new model of brain activity that the researchers have devised, the answer to that is one bit per active neuron per second.

The findings suggest that these previously unknown microtubule structures provide a «roadway» for the transport of mitochondria crucial to maintain energy supplies into the synaptic terminals of these highly active neurons associated with vision.

The researchers, led by Lior Appelbaum and Philippe Mourrain of Stanford University, tagged the larvae neurons with a dye so that active neuron connections, or synapses, appeared green, whereas inactive ones appeared black.

«We developed a technique that allowed us to use the DMD to scan light at speeds up to 20 kilohertz, which is fast enough to see fluorescence from active neurons.»

So Stoléru and other scientists have switched to a faster method, functional MRI (fMRI), which monitors the flow of blood to active neurons by measuring levels of oxygen in the brain.

Then the scientists assayed the animals» brains for the c - Fos transcription factor, a marker of active neurons.

While it would normally take several months to produce brain cells, Gan and her team can now engineer large quantities of them within 1 or 2 weeks, and have functionally active neurons within 1 month.

In 2015, her lab published a paper in Cell (DOI: 10.1016 / j.cell.2015.04.012) that found that both adult and pediatric glioma cells grew faster when adjacent to highly active neurons.

Earlier research has already produced cerebral organoids that developed distinct regions such as the hippocampus, motor regions, and visual areas, with electrically active neurons.

Scientists in the US are planning to map the brain activity of the dragonfly as it hunts, using a specially built backpack to transmit electrical signals from the insect's active neurons to a computer.

The mice were a strain previously engineered to produce a bright green fluorescent marker in any active neurons.

«These active neurons are surrounded by inhibitory neurons,» says Li.

Or are the active neurons somehow able to bypass their controls?

Scientists can watch the brain in action using a fluorescent protein that lights up active neurons (magenta) in a larval fish brain (Credit: Looger Lab / HHMI)