Sentences with phrase «animal brain circuitry»

If lamprey software can help people with spinal injuries, it will be in the shape of animal brain circuitry realised on a chip wired into a human being — a kind of cyborg sandwich.

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To probe the brain circuitry involved in this signal, and to assess the role of the cerebellum, the team turned to an animal model.

«The project's goal is to accelerate the development of technologies for mapping the brain's circuitry in animal models, specifically in the marmoset monkey, whose neural circuits are much closer to human compared with rodent models, and to connect the results to the diagnosis and treatment of human neurological disorders and mental illness.»

At the same time, animal studies exploring the biochemistry of the postpartum brain are uncovering changes in neural circuitry and areas in need of repair.

In a novel animal study design that mimicked human clinical trials, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that long - term treatment using a small molecule drug that reduces activity of the brain's stress circuitry significantly reduces Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology and prevents onset of cognitive impairment in a mouse model of the neurodegenerative condition.

Karl Deisseroth, an optogenetics pioneer at Stanford University, has used the technique with animals to learn more about the nature of the disordered brain circuitry in Parkinson's.

Fearing objects or contexts can be learned; in animals this is being studied as fear conditioning, which depends on the emotional circuitry of the brain.

The observation of different coping mechanisms led the team to probe the animals» brains, where they discovered that the level of a certain protein in its reward circuitry determines whether the mice will be traumatized for several weeks or only temporarily down.

For example, scientists could confirm or disprove whether an experience was truly linked with specific brain circuitry by first identifying networks activated when a rat encounters, say, an anxiety - provoking event, and afterwards stimulating that same network directly to determine whether the animal shows evidence of experiencing the same mental state.

Now armed with the human genome and a combination of cutting - edge genetic methods and brain imaging techniques, lab scientists are now exploring the neural circuitry of living animals in ways they could likely have never dreamed of even just 20 years ago.

Research on animals often fails to produce the same results in humans, though the researchers said the brain circuitry involving the reward system is similar in all vertebrates.