Sentences with phrase «brain cells called neurons»

In both humans and mice, learning and memory requires effective communication between brain cells called neurons.

Most neuroscientists say thoughts are born from brain cells called neurons.

Whole - cell patch clamp electrophysiology, or whole - cell recording (WCR), is the gold - standard technique for studying the behaviour of brain cells called neurons under different brain states such as stress or learning.

Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, is characterized by the accumulation of plaques (composed of amyloid - beta protein) and fibrous tangles (composed of abnormal tau) in brain cells called neurons.

He has used optogenetics to study brain cells called neurons.

A chemical called leptin — one of the body's hormones — relays that signal to important brain cells called neurons.

But one prime suspect is beta - amyloid, a sticky protein fragment, or peptide, that accumulates in the brain, disrupting communication between brain cells called neurons.

In healthy brains, amyloid beta is degraded and eliminated, but in Alzheimer's disease, overproduction and disrupted clearance of the protein results in the formation of plaques between brain cells called neurons.

The study, «Modulating Behavior in C.elegans Using Electroshock and Antiepileptic Drugs,» just published in PLOS One, has led the researchers to build on the current animal models for inducing seizures via electroconvulsion in the genetically modifiable C.elegans that only has 302 brain cells called neurons.

Because these chemicals transmit messages between brain cells called neurons, scientists call them neurotransmitters.

The most vulnerable cells in HD are brain cells called neurons, about half of the cells in the adult brain.

New work in brain diseases like Alzheimer's suggests that brain cells called neurons might be «catching» the sickness from their neighbors.

Brain cells called neurons are responsible for transmitting information.