Sentences with phrase «behavioral effects in humans»
An expanded family of receptor channels that bind neurotransmitters in worms might help to explain behavioral effects in humans.
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Dr. Perry's research includes: the effects of prenatal drug exposure on brain development, the neurobiology of human neuropsychiatric disorders, the neurophysiology of traumatic life events, and long - term cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social and physiological effects of neglect and trauma in children, adolescents and adults.
«We have now found a potential mechanism, and at this point in our research, we need to test human participants in a blinded, placebo controlled clinical study — the same technique we used to study the behavioral effects of acupuncture in rats,» says Eshkevari, a nurse anesthetist and licensed acupuncturist.
«If scientists want to test drugs for dementia, Alzheimer's or autism, ideal models would react similarly to humans in regards to the reduction of symptoms, outbreak of side effects, such as enduring the same lesions as humans do, or exhibiting similar behavioral characteristics,» said Latham, who's with the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and an MSU AgBioResearch scientist.
Now researchers at the INSEAD - Sorbonne University Behavioral Lab and the University of Bonn said they have discovered how the brain lights up when under the sway of the placebo effect, a potential step in figuring out how to train people to recognize when they are falling victim to this habit of human nature.
One of the most powerful findings in behavioral finance is the endowment effect, which is that all human beings and almost all investors tend to systematically overvalue that which they own as opposed to that which they don't own.
According to scientists, the reason for these behavioral changes in both humans and dogs appears to stem from the effect that light has on two significant hormones.
Working with a companion animal and their human to effect behavioral change in animals displaying dysfunctional, harmful, aggressive, destructive, or undesirable behaviors that cause distress or threaten the wellbeing of humans and / or animals in the home.
Based on the behavioral data in humans and the neurobiological data in animals, we hypothesized that an effect of poverty on these brain volume outcomes would be found.