Glucagon - like peptide - 1, released from a small set of
brain cells in the brain stem, stops subjects from eating high - fat food specifically.
Having higher BDNF stimulates the growth of new
brain cells in the brain's memory center and is associated with a dramatic reduction in the risk for Alzheimer's disease as was recently reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Not exact matches
Cell phone radiation linked to
brain and heart cancer
in rats.
BlueRock's first two programs are treatments that could regenerate heart muscle
cells after heart attacks and help replace certain neurons
in the
brain as they decline
in people with Parkinson's disease.
Interleukin - 1 is important for developing the killer T
cell response against the virus, but it also affects the part of the
brain in the hypothalamus that regulates body temperature, resulting
in fever and headaches.
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.
For one, it would give them three specific biological markers to hone
in on: The buildup of beta amyloid and tau proteins, which cause
brain plaques associated with Alzheimer's, and
brain nerve
cell death.
Unlike some of the promising treatments that have failed
in 2017 that deal with the so - called «amyloid hypothesis» (the treatments target amyloid beta deposits
in the
brain that accumulate
in people with Alzheimer's disease), approaches that try to prevent nerve
cells from dying wouldn't have any impact on that buildup.
Chemotherapy works by killing cancer
cells by targeting fast - dividing
cells, and
in most cases, kills off some healthy
cells along the way, including nerve
cells in the
brain.
Nerve
cells in our
brains control our circadian rhythms, which influences sleep - wake cycles, hormone release, emotions and energy levels.
Also
in San Diego, Ceregene is developing a treatment for decaying
brain cells that works via an injection of a harmless virus infused with a protein that keeps such
cells functional.
Pagan said that a larger, more comprehensive study must be done before determining the drug's true impact, but if the drug's effectiveness is confirmed
in such tests, nilotinib could become the first treatment to impede the killing of
brain cells that's consistent with Parkinson's, according to NPR.
The scientists found that when individuals completed a word puzzle, right before a moment of insight, a cluster of
cells located
in the superior temporal gyrus —
in the right hemisphere of the
brain — show significant activity.
Researchers at Accera,
in Broomfield, Colorado, believe that
in some forms of impairment,
brain cells are actually starving for glucose, the basic food of
cells.
When behavior is successful our
cells become finely tuned to what the animal was learning at the time while a failure shows little change
in the
brain or improvement
in the monkey's behavior.
With virtual anatomy, there's nothing
in the body we can't see: a heart beating, nerves signaling
in the
brain, a
cell dividing, an infection raging.
Specifically, it appears that exercise stimulates neurons (nerve
cells) to grow
in the hippocampus, the part of the
brain responsible for memory.
When these «energy factories» are topped off, neurons
in the
brain may be better able to ward off stress from age - related
brain diseases that ordinarily exhaust or kill the
cells.
We are teaching the T
cells, the lymphocytes, multiple
cells to be more proactive
in cleaning up the cancer
cells in the
brain.
These CAR - T
cells were able to penetrate the blood -
brain barrier, one of the major hurdles
in treating
brain tumors.
The
brain tissue develops
in three dimensions, allowing for the
cells to connect more like those
in natural...
Cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Carmen Simon found that when your message stays consistent over time, people's
brains store it
in their «place
cells.»
Unlike other memory storage
in the
brain, place
cells never run out of capacity.
Anything
in Wall Street
brain cells will be ETF - ized.
Do you have even 3 working
brain cells in your head???? You don't know # $ & %.
First, it maybe mediated through the
cells in the
brain.
Furthermore, successful functioning of a
cell, organism or
brain is contingent upon the recurrence of the most basic physico - chemical processes
in their adherence to the laws of nature.
If human
brains are like body's
cells, there is a natural point of specialization,
in which new systems break away and form similar but slightly different branches, as
cells in a body become fingers, feet, hands, etc..
Thus, at the lowest level, electrons tend to unite and converge
in the atom; atoms converge by molecularization, crystallization; molecules unite by polymerization;
cells unite by conjugation, reproduction, association; nerve ganglions concentrate and localize to form a
brain by what might be called a process of cephalization; the higher animal groups form colonies, hives, herds, societies, etc.; man socializes and forms civilizations as foci of attraction and organization.
Science also requires an influx of new, educated young scientists, and poisoning American children's
brains through miseducation has resulted
in cell and molecular biologists being imported from Asia.
Lately I've begun to thank God for it, this chemical that — if scientists are right, and they aren't even sure — inhibits my overly efficient reuptake of another chemical (serotonin) that somehow facilitates communication between nerve
cells in my
brain.
Whitehead's answer is that they are
in the «interstices» of the
brain, i.e.,
in the empty spaces between the
brain cells.
Oh, you're not??? Oh well, guess we'll remain here... now run along you little bigoted troll and take your other personalities with you...no - one (not even people
in your own country) wish to hear from your un-medicated schizophrenic one -
celled brain!
The infrastructure mediates inheritance (for instance,
in cell division or
in the repetition of similar circuit patterns
in the excitation of the
brain), and inheritance thus has
in it that same discontinuity.
If so, the soul is the thread of coordinated consciousness wandering through an enveloping unconscious mind composed of all (or many) of the entirely living occasions existing
in the
cells of the
brain.
«Garcia - Falgueras and Swaab state
in the abstract of their 2010 study, «The fetal
brain develops during the intrauterine period
in the male direction through a direct action of testosterone on the developing nerve
cells, or
in the female direction through the absence of this hormone surge.
This depends upon there being a
brain, an arrangement of
cells in a particular part of the body which by reason of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know»
in a distinctively human manner — quite different from, although certainly continuous with, the sort of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades of animal life.
By virtue of a complicated arrangement of
cells in the
brain, there is at the human level emergent a mental state marked by what I have styled awareness.
Their
brain is divided
in regions with different coordinated functions, and it is composed of several hundred thousands of nerve
cells (the honey bee has about 800,000).
Only a special systemic order of atoms
in certain molecules of different types of
brain cells, steady activity of these
cells and excitations coming from sensoric nerves and running to associative and motoric centers are the basis of the peculiarity of
brain function.
These nerve impulses activate selected
cells in this part of the
brain.
After birth the
brain cells in question are nourished by the food of the growing child.
One final comment: The assumption of protopsychic matter is no more revolutionary than our epistemological knowledge that all objects which we see have no color, because color only arises
in sense
cells and
brain.
Hence, there is no particular «psychophysical matter» involved
in the
brain cells and their functions.
«Garcia - Falgueras and Swaab state
in the abstract of their 2010 study, «The fe - tal
brain develops during the intraut - erine period
in the male direction through a direct action of tes - tosterone on the developing nerve
cells, or
in the female direction through the absence of this hor - mone surge.
The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are,
in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with
cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the
brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what
in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.
Finite human freedom can be realized only
in something objective, even if this were to be thought of as consisting merely
in brain cells, conceptual mechanisms, associations, that is, basically
in social or psychological models of thought, or if it were to belong — but only seemingly — to a merely inner realm of thought.
No doubt it is true, scientifically speaking, that no distinct center of superhuman consciousness has yet appeared on earth (at least
in the living world) for which it may be claimed or predicted that one day it will exercise a centralizing function,
in relation to associated human thought, similar to the role of the individual «I»
in relation to the
cells of the
brain.
My counterview proposes that we think of the region of the soul
in its relation to the regions of both the
brain cells, and the occasions
in the interstices of the
brain as White - head thinks of the
cell in its relation to the molecules and empty spaces within it.
We can not stay where we are at present, either physically or psychically; but looking far ahead we may descry an ultimate state
in which, organically associated with one another (more closely than the
cells of a single
brain) we shall form m our entirety a single system, ultra-complex and,
in consequence, ultra-centrated....