Sentences with phrase «basic brain mechanisms»

The work in her laboratory has broad implications for understanding basic brain mechanisms that control mood and motivated behavior.

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In order to examine the proximate mechanisms of such phenomena, I needed to be able to «tinker» with the underlying machinery (i.e. the brain), which is for the most part unfeasible in basic human research.

The brain mechanisms of basic emotions such as anger and happiness are fairly similar across people.

Scientists have long believed that humans» ability to form words — basic building blocks of language — emerged as a distinctive brain mechanism to support communication.

Building on findings from basic brain research, lab studies of sleep, clinical studies of sleep and dreams, and his records of his own dreams, Hobson explores the mechanisms and functions of dreams and sleep.

But if the improvement is replicated, it shows that advances in the basic neurosciences, combined with the appropriate prosthetic technology, might restore motor functions and the mechanisms supporting awareness in the brain.

The basic chemistry of these and thousands of other manufactured compounds incorporated in everyday products do not appear in nature; they have entered our environment so recently that our genes, cells, brains, and bodies have not yet evolved mechanisms for coping with them.

«This study gives us information on the basic mechanism that could be happening in the brain when memories or false memories are formed,» says Ramirez.

The scientists presume that the ability to compensate an impaired process by another part of the brain depends on the hierarchy level on which the language is perturbed: Processing the rhythm of a word is such a basic mechanism that can not be simply overtaken by another part.

The Council provides a forum whereby information relating to brain imaging may be discussed and disseminated and also provides a mechanism for the promotion and encouragement of basic brain imaging research and development.

Moreover, PHENONIM - ICS is involved in European projects presenting a strong impact on human health: Interreg CARDIOGENE (Genetic mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases), GENCODYS (Genetic and epigenetic networks involved in cognitive dysfunctions), AgedBrainSYSBIO (Basic studies of brain aging), as well as projects in partnership with industry: MAGenTA (an Industrial Strategic Innovation project supported by Bpifrance about the treatment of major urogenital diseases) and CanPathPro (H2020 program), to develop a predictive modeling platform of signaling pathways involved in cancers.

He spent his basic research career studying the mechanisms of steroid hormone action on the brain, behavior, and mental health, and the influences of the environment and stressors on those actions in laboratory rodents.

The team, led by Gladstone Senior Investigator Anatol C. Kreitzer, PhD, was trying to understand the basic mechanisms of the basal ganglia, which are a group of interconnected neurons in the brain that control movement and are associated with decision - making and action selection.

So, traditional, symptom - based categories make it difficult to relate diagnosis to genes, particular brain circuits, or basic behavioral mechanisms.

Janelia scientists are working on some of science's most challenging problems: discovering the basic rules and mechanisms of the brain's information - processing system and developing optical, biological, and computational technologies for creating and interpreting biological images.

Not only is this a novel way to study basic biological mechanisms of these commonly targeted receptors inside the brain and individual neurons, but it's also a tool scientists can use to study specific effects of drugs in various regions of the brain.

Vital Biological Functions: We prioritize basic daily survival with assorted homeostatic mechanisms that require substantial energy — firing brain neurons, digesting food, breathing air.

Our brains and body are wired to run on carbohydrates, and when you starve them of this basic energy source during a ketogenic diet, powerful cravings arise as a natural defense mechanism.

The Archeology of Mind by Dr. Jaak Panskepp Presents an affective neuroscience approach — which takes into consideration basic mental processes, brain functions, and emotional behaviors that all mammals share — to locate the neural mechanisms of emotional expression.

Again, modern imaging methods are enabling this information to be translated to the developing human brain (27), and indeed, imaging with neuropsychology is an area where rapid progress is being made and needs to be made to translate the growing basic neuroscience knowledge of mechanisms into clinical relevance and application.