Sentences with phrase «activity during»

Of note, several proteins involved in the tumor necrosis factor, or TNF, pathway increased in activity during the induction and execution phases.

This was opposed to lower activity during trials where they either failed to recognize an old word or in which they saw a new word, whether or not they correctly identified it as new.

Volcanic activity during the formation of Gondwana has been suggested as a driver of these violent changes, but Kump says the evidence for increased volcanism was «a house of cards».

Athlete - athlete contact was the most common mechanism of all concussions among boys (68.8 percent) and girls (51.3 percent) regardless of the soccer - specific activity during which the injury occurred.

For researchers to better understand neuronal activity during this process, they need to determine the patterns of activity over the entire course of motor learning.

As part of clinical practice, patients are asked about their level of physical activity during routine outpatient visits and their responses documented in their electronic health record.

Changes in physical activity during the camping trip and the social interaction subjects had also likely influenced the retiming of their internal clocks, she says.

The DHS researchers on the TechSolutions programme and in the Human Factors / Behavior Science Division hope to record the brain's natural activity during periods of calm or alertness.

Heading was the soccer - specific activity during which almost one - third of boys» concussions (30.6 percent) and just over one - quarter of girls» concussions (25.3 percent) occurred.

Now, with more ways to monitor gene activity during development — and fully sequenced genomes of various snakes and other reptiles for comparison — Cohn and graduate student Francisca Leal have tracked the genetic activity in embryonic pythons to see why their legs start, but never finish, developing.

Other data used in the study includes social media activity during election night in the U.S. in November 2012, and during a major snowstorm in February 2013.

Researchers tracked each participant's physical activity during selected times over seven days and considered socio - demographic factors — including household income, highest level of education attained by parents living in the household and median household income.

The majority of students do not engage in any form of planned physical activity during the school week.

«Endocrine - disrupting chemicals alter thyroid hormone activity during pregnancy, affect thyroid hormone activity.»

To better understand these mechanisms, Too and colleagues infected human motor neuron cells with EV71 and compiled a list of human proteins that showed changes in activity during infection.

A team of researchers led by Bradley Peterson, MD, director of the Institute for the Developing Mind in the Department of Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, found that short - and long - term brain functioning can be influenced by immune system activity during the third trimester of gestation.

«The electrical brain activity during rapid eye movements in sleep were highly similar to those occurring when people were presented with new images,» said Dr. Nir.

The part of the brain that lit up with activity during those moments of pareidolia was the right fusiform face area, known to be responsible for facial recognition.

To examine the link, researchers measured blood glucose levels and hunger, while also using functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to observe brain activity during the crucial four - hour period after a meal, which influences eating behavior at the next meal.

Eban - Rothschild analyzed video footage of the animals» behavior in their novel environments, and correlated 1 - second video segments with recorded brain activity during the corresponding time frame.

Studying embryonic dragons is important for piecing together gene activity during sex determination.

Conditions at the end of the rainy season are used to forecast fire activity during the dry season.

The scientists will continue to explore brain activity during sleep and awake states, as a means to understand the common and essential features of vertebrate brain function.

Eighty per cent of participants admitted to taking part in some sort of gambling activity during their lifetime.

As hypothesized, distal threat elicited increased vmPFC activity during the chase phase.

Its levels declined again in late - stage patients with full dementia, closely mirroring the pattern of microglia activity during the course of the disease.

However, by recording brain activity during a simple task — whether one hears BA or DA — neuroscientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, and the Ecole normale supérieure (ENS) in Paris now show that the brain does not necessarily use the regions of the brain identified by machine learning to perform a task.

«We started with alternating periods of sound and no sound in order to create a map of the brain and find areas that produced the highest activity during the sound phase,» Dr. Sherwood said.

He found that only about one - fourth of children participating in organized sports — such as baseball, softball or soccer — received the government - recommended amount of physical activity during team practices.

«We noticed there was a lot of brain activity during sleep movements but not when these animals were awake and moving,» Tiriac says.

Studies have shown, for example, that intranasal oxytocin administration may increase emotion recognition and brain activity during face perception.

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.

Furthermore, the hippocampus — a key structure involved in memory — activated at the end of high - level chunks during movie viewing, and the strength of this hippocampal activity during perception predicted how strongly that chunk was later retrieved.

«Most research has focused solely on nutritional intake or physical activity during recess,» said Naiman Khan, PhD, assistant professor and leader of the research team.

«Timing and duration matters for school lunch and recess: Understanding the relationship between what students eat at lunch and physical activity during recess could inform policies that promote healthy behaviors.»

Patients with sleep disorders are often evaluated by polysomnography (PSG), which measures an assortment of the body's activity during sleep, including brain activity, eye movement, and heart rhythms.

New research shows that our brain displays a similar pattern of activity during dreams as it does during a mind - expanding drug trip.

Changes in brain activity during brain imaging suggest the intervention might capitalize on neuroplasticity to train the brain to work more efficiently.

By significantly increasing the speed of functional MRI (fMRI), researchers funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) have been able to image rapidly fluctuating brain activity during human thought.

One option is to reduce turbine activity during times of peak migration.»

These findings could help schools make policies that promote healthier school lunches and increased physical activity during recess.

Although the new study also showed reduced food waste when recess is before lunch, the findings suggest that current recommendations may have unintended consequences for the types of foods consumed and could affect physical activity during recess, depending on the duration of the recess - lunch period.

They suggest that brain activity during slumber must weaken neural connections, not strengthen them, because strengthening would saturate the brain's circuitry and consume so much energy that the brain could not continue to encode new information.

Once the animals were trained, the scientists inserted electrodes into their somatosensory cortex to record neural activity during tickling.

Instead of delivering the drug continuously at a steady rate, the hydrogel is designed to respond to increased disease activity during flares, releasing the drug when symptoms worsen.

Often the so - called prefrontal cortex not only apparently shows increased activity during decisions that require self - control, but in general during decision making.

Foster and Wilson say previous studies have demonstrated how rats» hippocampal cells rerun patterns of neural activity during sleep.

Slumber is known to improve recall in creatures from fruit flies to humans, and the reigning theory among neuroscientists has been that the waves of brain activity during deep sleep reactivate neurons that were triggered during the day, strengthening neuronal connections and cementing them into solid memories.

«But the marsupial's capacity to increase metabolic activity during exercise or to keep warm is superior to placentals»,» says Terence Dawson, a comparative physiologist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

By combining this data with Ridgwell's global climate model, the team deduced the amount of carbon added to the ocean and atmosphere and concluded that volcanic activity during the opening of the North Atlantic was the dominant force behind the PETM.