Sentences with phrase «brain cell connections for»

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And I'm waiting for the day when a prayer from the cell goes through... you know, a direct connection with God Also, I've been reading your Z - theory... interesting, but I have to reread it a few times to be able to wrap my brain around it.

Although infants have most of the brain cells they need for learning when they are born, the cells still need to form connections.

Especially during active sleep, key neuronal (brain cell) connections are made — the brain literally lays down the tracks for everything it learns, and it also prunes away little - used connections.

Scientists have discovered why a single mutated protein can lead to serious mental retardation in men with a common genetic disorder called fragile - X syndrome: The healthy protein is essential for establishing during childhood the adult pattern of connections between nerve cells in the brain.

But for neurons, birth date plays an important role in how these cells find their connections in the brain, a new study finds.

She found that cells born early reach for many areas of the brain and make lots of connections.

They may supply crucial insulating material for neurons, called myelin; digest and clean up dead cells in the brain; and help form and maintain the connection points between neurons and other cells.

In another group, the disabled gene made it difficult for fly brain cells to reinforce new connections that encode memories.

Some, for example, pointed to genes that expressed themselves in brain cells, or that involved immune function, a previously established connection.

Learning and storing memories, for example, requires brain cells to produce proteins that help create long - lasting connections in the brain.

The report highlights the need for cheaper, faster technologies that can trace connections between individual brain cells and record large networks of cells acting in synchrony.

«Synapse discovery could lead to new treatments for Alzheimer's disease: Scientists have discovered how connections between brain cells are destroyed in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.»

A new in vitro model Scientists developed a new research tool for this study that enabled them to monitor the spread of Tau aggregates whilst changing the synaptic connections between brain cells.

Researchers from Hiroki Taniguchi's lab at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) published a study in eNeuro in May 2017 showing for the first time that a unique type of inhibitory interneuron called chandelier cells — which are implicated in several diseases affecting the brain such as schizophrenia and epilepsy — seem to develop their connections differently than other types of neurons.

A team of researchers led by UNSW Australia scientists has discovered how connections between brain cells are destroyed in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease — work that opens up a new avenue for research on possible treatments for the degenerative brain condition.

«This study suggests that amyloid deposition in the gray matter affects the associated white matter connections, which are essential for conducting messages across the billions of nerve cells in the brain, allowing for all aspects of mental function.»

It may, for example, partly account for the differences in brain structure and behavior between identical twins, and could even affect thought processes by subtly influencing the changes in nerve cell connections that occur with experience.

Building on their previous work that identified and activated memory cells, a group led by RIKEN Brain Science Institute and RIKEN - MIT Center Director Susumu Tonegawa has now shown that spines — small knobs on brain - cell dendrites through which synaptic connections are formed — are essential for memory retrieval in these AD Brain Science Institute and RIKEN - MIT Center Director Susumu Tonegawa has now shown that spines — small knobs on brain - cell dendrites through which synaptic connections are formed — are essential for memory retrieval in these AD brain - cell dendrites through which synaptic connections are formed — are essential for memory retrieval in these AD mice.

We know, for instance, quite precisely which receptors in the brain are responsible for changes in the functional connections between nerve cells, the synapses; we also know the rules, when synapses get stronger and when they get weaker.

The Kavli Institute for Brain Science at Columbia University probes the complex network of brain cells and their connectBrain Science at Columbia University probes the complex network of brain cells and their connectbrain cells and their connections.

Understanding molecular mechanisms that govern the growth of connections between retinal ganglion cells and the developing brain may ultimately lead to new regenerative therapies for patients with glaucoma.

So for the last 15 years I've been studying retinal ganglion cell biology trying to understand why they fail to survive after injury or in degenerative diseases like glaucoma and also when their connections to the brain are interrupted why do they fail to regenerate to regrow, why do they fail to repair themselves, it's this fundamental problem that leads to permanent vision loss in glaucoma.

«Specific Brain Protein Required For Nerve Cell Connections To Form And Function.»

Among these achievements are the development of new techniques for classifying different types of neurons; automated methods for creating wiring diagrams of the connections between cells in the mammalian brain; new ways of recording and manipulating the electrical activity of hundreds, even thousands, of cells simultaneously; and, advanced microscopes that allow researchers to visualize the activity of all the cells in the brains of small animals.

One of Frankland's own studies in mice, for example, found that as new brain cells are formed in the hippocampus — a region of the brain associated with learning new things — those new connections overwrite old memories and make them harder to access.

Newer research confirms many of the old findings on these chemicals — endocrine disruption (in adults and babies), thyroid disruption, and increase risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and liver enzyme abnormalities.3 And recently, the Yale School of Medicine found that BPA «causes the loss of connections of brain cells,» which increases the risk for memory problems and even depression.4

They might, for instance, encourage the creation of additional blood vessels or new connections between brain cells or between different parts of the brain.

Now we are beginning to see that glial cells «go rogue» and begin — unexplainably — to destroy nerve connections that are healthy, even essential for the brain's function.