Sentences with phrase «brain by neurons»

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By collecting sequencing information about cells in the gut, for example, Kallyope can better figure out how they're connected to neurons in the brain in a series of circuits.

A study conducted by researchers at the University of London has revealed some interesting information about neurons in the male brain.

They say that drinking coke really ignites the creative functions in their brain by getting their neurons firing at 100 %.

It is real to me because the firing of neurons in my brain stem are interpreted as real sensory data by my brain.

Patterns in beasts» acts are the sole witness to a design by irony inspired: when scientists mapped how the neurons fired in the cortex of the brain when learning, on - screen a melody was coldly burning.

He begins by noting that groups of neurons firing simultaneously produce complex interrelated patterns of brain waves within the electromagnetic field which is the brain itself.

We have mirror neurons in our brain that help us to learn — when we learn to tie our shoelaces by watching someone else, mirror neurons are at work.

We also have mirror neurons in our brain that help us to learn — when we learn to tie our shoelaces by watching someone else, that is those mirror neurons at work.

Thus it is possible that a single neuron might be interdependent in the mode of ontic power with a macroscopic feature of action (e.g., conscious understanding) simultaneous with it and also make a contribution by way of its causal power to a later neural occurrence in some other part of the brain.

God and spirituality are feelings created by the bio-chemical firing of neurons and connections within your brain and don't exist in objective reality.

Another physiologist would find that these were controlled by a chain of neurons from the brain connected by synapses.

We know from cases of brain damage and the effects of psychoactive drugs, that our experiences are caused by physical chemistry acting on our physical neurons in our brains.

We can compare the diverse tasks performed by a colony to the many proteins generated by gene transcription, to various cell types of a developing embryo, or to the firing patterns of neurons in the brain.

It is considered an inhibitory neurotransmitter, which means it regulates brain and nerve cell activity by inhibiting the number of neurons firing in the brain.

Research has revealed that when your child watches an action performed by someone, neurons are fired in their brains.

Although the prevailing idea has been that the devastating disease, which strikes some 1 percent of U.S. adults, is primarily caused by something going wrong with neurons, the scientists suspected the brain's support cells, called glia.

Companies trawl the web to gather billions of images and use them to train an algorithm inspired by neurons in the brain, called a deep neural network.

When the researchers gave the mice a drug called lamotrigine, often prescribed for bipolar disorder, the animals» brain activity mimicked that of their resilient counterparts: The neurons in the already hyperactive VTA started firing even more intensely, followed by a lull and abatement of depression symptoms.

It is a big step toward the goal of pain science, which is to zero in on the brain region or regions altered by chronic pain and devise a treatment (a drug or maybe electrical stimulation) that can correct the malfunctioning neurons in that zone.

Instead evidence suggests that during sleep, neurons are controlled by electrical impulses that ripple through the brain like waves.

Panksepp saw that human emotions and emotional problems could be explored by studying other mammals — how their brains generated emotions akin to the anger, sadness and joy that humans describe, what neurons and neural circuits were involved.

Leptin circulates in the blood and crosses into the brain, where it is sensed by leptin receptors expressed on neurons in the hypothalamus.

USING YOUR BRAIN In «The Limits of Intelligence,» Douglas Fox points out that human intelligence is limited by communication among neurons in the brain, which is limited in turn by the size of our neuBRAIN In «The Limits of Intelligence,» Douglas Fox points out that human intelligence is limited by communication among neurons in the brain, which is limited in turn by the size of our neubrain, which is limited in turn by the size of our neurons.

A neuron by itself, or even in a network of nerves, is not conscious — whole brain complexity is needed.

By combining a large number of neuron - imitating skyrmions, the thinking goes, scientists could create a computer that operates something like a brain.

Modafinil also indirectly alters the action of glutamate, the main neurotransmitter used by neurons in the brain to send signals down the line.

Using a high - resolution analysis of how individual neurons and their connected brain networks processed this touch information, designed by neurocomputational scientist Alberto Mazzoni and physics scientist Anton Spanne, the groups got an unexpected insight into the brain representations of the external world experienced through touch.

Like ECOG, EEG relies on brain signals picked up by an array of electrodes that are sensitive to the subtle voltage oscillations caused by the firing of groups of neurons.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

By claiming that he could pry information from the brain without drilling deep inside it — information that could allow a subject to move a computer cursor, play computer games, and even move a prosthetic limb — Schalk was taking on «a very strong existing dogma in the field that the only way to know about how the brain works is by recording individual neurons,» Schmeisser vividly recalls of that daBy claiming that he could pry information from the brain without drilling deep inside it — information that could allow a subject to move a computer cursor, play computer games, and even move a prosthetic limb — Schalk was taking on «a very strong existing dogma in the field that the only way to know about how the brain works is by recording individual neurons,» Schmeisser vividly recalls of that daby recording individual neurons,» Schmeisser vividly recalls of that day.

Electrical signals between neurons generate electric fields that radiate out of brain tissue as electrical waves that can be picked up by electrodes touching a person's scalp.

Neuroscientist Henry Markram of the Brain Mind Institute at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland, has spent the last 15 years painstakingly mapping cells from the living brains of rats so that he can create a neuron - by - neuron simulation of the bBrain Mind Institute at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland, has spent the last 15 years painstakingly mapping cells from the living brains of rats so that he can create a neuron - by - neuron simulation of the brainbrain.

BDNF, which stands for «brain - derived neurotrophic factor,» is synthesized naturally by neurons and is crucial to neuronal development and specialization.

We know that in the human brain there are about one hundred billion neurons that communicate by means of electrical signals.

We already knew that the brain is constantly adapting throughout our lives, for example by generating new neurons well into adulthood.

The bacteria, when injected into mice, activate a set of serotonin - releasing neurons in the brain — the same nerves targeted by Prozac.

85 Billion Estimated number of cells in the human brain that are not neurons, according to a 2009 study by Brazilian neuroscientists.

When the researchers tracked the stem cells in the mice's brains, they saw that only about 5 percent of them actually developed into neurons, suggesting the cells did not rescue memory by replacing dead neurons, LaFerla says.

The idea for Smith's study was inspired by the work of co-author Alena Savonenko, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pathology, and her colleagues who showed that loss of serotonin neurons was associated with more protein clumps, or amyloid, in mouse brain.

The ~ 200 GB of data for each brain was then analyzed with machine learning algorithms that identify individual neurons by type, according to parameters «learned» from human experts.

When it reaches the brain, Zika virus infects neuronal stem cells, which will generate fewer neurons, and by inducing chronic stress in the endoplasmic reticulum, it promotes apoptosis, i.e. the early death of these neuronal cells.

Seeking to combine DBS's deep - brain targeting with TMS's noninvasiveness, Boyden's MIT team, led by bioengineer Nir Grossman, took advantage of a well - known property of neurons: They respond only to low - frequency electrical signals.

While the effects of the technique are not well - understood, TMS may be able to restore normal connectivity by stimulating neurons to make more connections with each other, thereby enhancing communication between parts of the brain.

This protein is expressed at relatively high levels in proliferating precursors and non-neuronal cells but down - regulated in developing neurons by a brain - enriched regulatory RNA called miR - 9.

In a small study of healthy twentysomethings the scientists showed they could make neurons more or less excitable by sending weak electrical currents through the brain's motor cortex.

One set does this by increasing levels of the neurotransmitter GABA that quiets neurons, including some of those the brain's reward system.

In l986 while running a lab at Georgia Tech, Kennedy learned that Canadian scientists were spurring neuron growth in rats» brains by adding bits of sciatic nerve.

The team identifies where neurons are firing by injecting the brain with dyes or using genetically engineered proteins that bind to calcium molecules.

«By learning how tau spreads, we may be able to stop it from jumping from neuron to neuron,» said Karen Duff, PhD, professor in the department of pathology and cell biology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain) and professor of psychiatry (at New York State Psychiatric Institute.)

The research, published in the current issue of the journal Science, demonstrates that brain cells, known as astrocytes, which play fundamental roles in nearly all aspects of brain function, can be adjusted by neurons in response to injury and disease.