Sentences with phrase «brain cells process»

Despite all they have learned in the past century, neuroscientists have made little headway in figuring out exactly how brain cells process information.

Researchers try to prevent onset of the disease by correcting a brain cell process that goes awry

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Adult brains actually do grow new brain cells through the incredible process of neurogenesis, improving your memory, stabilizing your mood, and boosting your ability to handle stress.

It also speeds the incredible process of neurogenesis, actually helping us grow new brain cells.

Simply put, it gives the brain what one neuroscientist calls «greater bandwidth,» boosting the processing capacity of the affected brain cells by 3,000 %.

Scientists now recognize that intense exercise helps your brain produce brain - derived neutrophic factor, an important protein that helps stimulate the process of neurogenesis, which is the growth of new brain cells.

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.

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.

Embryonic stem cells are produced during development by the same process of epigenetic programming that later will produce adult cells such as skin and brain.

Consider also his claim that «the right way to think» about a visual experience is that «photons reflected off objects attack the photoreceptor cells of the retina and this sets up a series of neuronal processes (the retina being part of the brain), which eventually result, if all goes well, in a visual experience that is a perception of the very object that originally reflected the photons» (MC 64).

It is completely different in the most important ways, which is it does NOT feed cancer cells in the way highly processed white sugar does and it does NOT cause chemical reactions in the brain (exactly like heroin)-- keeping you craving more sugary foods / drinks like highly processed white sugar does.

Any form of hurrying you into the birth process or, once into it, hurrying the process faster than it goes naturally will damage cells in the baby's brain.

The study, «Polarity of varicosity initiation in central neuron mechanosensation,» which will be published June 12 in The Journal of Cell Biology, observes the swelling process in live cultured neurons and could lead to new ways of limiting the symptoms associated with concussive brain injuries.

The process is occurring by something called «Fetal Microchimerism» This is when the cells of the baby still continue to live on in Mom's body and brain after baby is born, and it lasts for decades.

In addition to maintaining stem cell populations and keeping the brain supplied with all its cell types, the investigators showed that NAD also is vital for the process of cognition itself.

In June, neuroscientist Adam Anderson's team at Cornell University demonstrated that, though our feelings may seem unique, our brains process them using a similar pattern of brain cell, or neuron, activation — meaning we feel feelings the same way.

It goes beyond the structure of life and gets to biological processes, including how cells or molecules move, how cells respond to their environment or neighbors, and how the brain works or how injuries heal, he says.

Crayfish have a «nursery» in their heads where blood cells transform into neurons — the process may one day help us to regenerate our own brain cells

Adult neural stem cells in the hypothalamus — a brain region that regulates hunger, sleep, body temperature and other activities — appear to orchestrate the body's aging process, they found.

He noted that it was unclear, for example, whether resveratrol affected the aging process in the kind of cells in the heart and brain that are particularly susceptible to degeneration with age.

Stuart Hameroff, an anesthesiologist who has spent many years studying brain functions, has collaborated with renowned Oxford University polymath Roger Penrose on a model that explains consciousness as the result of quantum processes occurring in tiny structures called microtubules in brain cells.

The latest findings show that genetic defects in the body's ability to manufacture carnitine might be associated with an increased risk of autism because carnitine deficiency interferes with the normal processes by which neural stem cells promote and organize embryonic and fetal brain development.

Over the past 15 years, the GFP gene has enabled scientists to watch a plethora of previously murky biological processes in action: how nerve cells develop in the brain, how insulin - producing beta cells form in the pancreas of an embryo, how proteins are transported within cells, and how cancer cells metastasize through the body.

Hormones regulate a lifelong reshaping of our neuronal pathways, programming a turnover and pruning of brain cells — a process that begins in the womb and continues to affect our intellectual, emotional and social development in adulthood.

The result fit with prior research indicating that accelerated growth of new brain cells in the dentate gyrus, in a process called neurogenesis, is necessary for antidepressants to cure rats of their depression.

The nerve cells involved in this integration process and control of hormonal signals reside in an area of the insect brain known as the mid-Ventral Ganglion (mVG), which in turn communicates with a region of the central brain that is akin to the mammalian hypothalamus.

The screening process identified three promising compounds, which were then tested for their ability to prevent Zika infection of human brain cells.

Last month, researchers led by Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital reported that a process in which microglia prune excess synapses in the brain during early life can turn on inappropriately later on, possibly triggering Alzheimer's or other disorders marked by damage to connections between brain cells.

Knowing how these cells mature during development might lead to a better grasp of just how to replicate that process in the adult brain, which could eventually pave the way to strategies that rejuvenate aging circuits, Donato said.

This is because larger brain parts are thought to have a later and longer process of neurogenesis — the development of neurons or nerve cells from neural stem cells and progenitor cells.

The first step in the process involves inserting into those brain cells a gene that makes a light - sensitive protein.

One clinical trial involves the drug CGF166, a one - time gene therapy, which, if proven successful in humans, could regenerate new hair cells within the cochlea that can signal the part of the brain that processes sound.

Agalliu also found that Th17 cells induced by strep opened the BBB only in certain spots: Since strep enters the body through the nose, it made sense that he saw the BBB was pierced near the olfactory bulb, the structure in the front of the brain that processes odors.

Using a mouse model, the team also demonstrated that two processes during neurodevelopment are regulated by the gene: proliferation — the replication of neuronal stem cells that have the potential to become multiple different kinds of cells, including neurons — and migration — the movement of neurons to specific locations in the brain during development.

And what happens in the fresh state is basically when respiration ends, when we stop breathing and we stop clearing toxins from cells, all those processes that were ongoing — and the cells don't know what yet, right; the rest of the body, the heart has stopped, the brain is stopping, but the cells still have some chemistry that's going on after the body has died.

«Disturbances to these processes may cause neuronal stem cells to develop into different types of cells or may cause neurons to migrate to different locations in the brain, changing neuronal circuitry and potentially leading to behavioral disorders like schizophrenia.»

When brain cells accumulate clumps of U1 proteins, that could mean the process of splicing is impaired.

Researchers are using the sea hare model to learn about individual cells function, discover the chemical pathways controlling various brain activities and to study how memories are processed and stored.

In their findings, reported in Nature Physics, the researchers describe a method they developed for growing tiny «brains on chips» from human cells that enabled them to track the physical and biological mechanisms underlying the wrinkling process.

«After circulatory arrest, spreading depolarization marks the loss of stored electrochemical energy in brain cells and the onset of toxic processes that eventually lead to death.

Intriguingly, all seven play a role in cell division, the process by which immature neurons multiply in the fetal brain, before migrating to their final location.

Prof. Hasan's group show that a process called SOCE (Store Operated Calcium Entry) which works to maintain calcium levels in cells could also play a role in maintaining the levels of dopamine, a vital neurotransmitter in the brain.

Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, might damage muscle - controlling nerve cells in the brain earlier in the disease process than previously known, according to research from the Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute.

Exercise can enhance the development of new brain cells in the adult brain, a process called adult neurogenesis.

«Shutting off vital tumour growth processes can lead to the death of human brain tumour - initiating cells.

Single - celled organisms like this paramecium appear to process information even without a brain or neurons.

While the regenerative capability of brain cells, in the hippocampus — the part of the brain responsible for learning and memory — slows down as part of the aging process, the Rutgers scientists determined that the process that occurred after a head injury was related to injury and not age.

Working with an animal model, the researchers found that a type of cell present in the brain's primary processing area during early development, long thought to form structural scaffolding with no role in transmitting sensory information, may conduct such signals after all.

Glioblastoma is the most lethal form of primary brain tumor and leads to death in patients by invading the brain tissue in a process that allows single cells to move through normal brain tissue, which makes complete surgical removal of the tumor impossible.

Mice with a form of dementia have had the condition reversed by a process that involves «rebooting» brain cells otherwise destined to die.