Brain imaging shows that food activates an anorectic's
brain center associated with anxiety, not with pleasure as in nonanorectics.
Not exact matches
«If you just memorize a long list of words, it doesn't stick in your
brain,» says Orlando Kelm,
associate director of business language education at UT's
Center for International Business Education and Research.
«Beyond giving us so much data to explore, being able to show that depression is a
brain disease, that there is biology
associated with it, I think that's really critical,» Roy Perlis, the director of the
Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics at Massachusetts General Hospital, told Business Insider in 2016.
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.
«We tell parents that they know their child,» says Jill Lorenzi, a clinical
associate at the Duke University
Center for Autism and
Brain Development in Durham.
The
brains of the super-agers showed less cortical thinning, or neuron loss in certain areas, said lead researcher Emily Rogalski, research
associate professor at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease
Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
«We know that high - fat diets are tied to increased risk for metabolic syndrome and obesity, which in turn are
associated with decreased
brain function,» said TOS spokesperson Kelly Allison, PhD, Director of Education,
Center for Weight and Eating Disorders and
Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to detect electrical activity in the
brain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, associate research professor in FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of t
brain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator,
associate research professor in FAU's
Center for Complex Systems and
Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of t
Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the
brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of t
brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of touch.
«Every day, most of us take for granted that when we will to move, we can move any part of our body with precision and control in multiple directions and those with traumatic spinal cord injury or any other form of paralysis can not,» said Benjamin Walter,
associate professor of Neurology at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Clinical PI of the Cleveland BrainGate2 trial and medical director of the Deep
Brain Stimulation Program at UH Cleveland Medical
Center.
Notre Dame
Associate Professor of Psychology James Brockmole, who specializes in human cognition and how the visual world guides behavior, conducted the research at Notre Dame with Adam Biggs, currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Jessica Witt, associate professor of cognitive psychology at Colorado State Un
Associate Professor of Psychology James Brockmole, who specializes in human cognition and how the visual world guides behavior, conducted the research at Notre Dame with Adam Biggs, currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Duke Institute for
Brain Sciences and the
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Jessica Witt,
associate professor of cognitive psychology at Colorado State Un
associate professor of cognitive psychology at Colorado State University.
Ridgway suspects the squeals are tied to the release of dopamine, a neurotransmitter
associated with the reward
centers of mammal
brains.
This new generation of viruses has been genetically «targeted and armed,» says Winald Gerritsen of the VU University Medical
Center in Amsterdam, who is involved in an early human trial of an engineered adeno -
associated virus that attacks glioblastoma, an aggressive form of
brain cancer.
«This study, carried out using laboratory rats modeling stroke, demonstrated that ischemic stroke — in both its subacute and chronic stages — damages the BSCB in a variety of ways, creating a toxic environment in the spinal cord that can lead to further disability and exacerbate disease pathology,» said study lead author Dr. Svitlana Garbuzova - Davis,
associate professor in USF's
Center of Excellence for Aging and
Brain Repair, Department of Neurosurgery and
Brain Repair.
«For the first time, this research shows that the hypersensitivity experienced by chronic pain patients may result from hypersensitive
brain networks,» says co-senior author Richard Harris, Ph.D.,
associate professor of anesthesiology at Michigan Medicine with the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research
Center.
«Understanding the mechanisms that promote aberrant neurogenesis caused by traumatic
brain injury and subsequent seizures may open new therapeutic avenues to prevent epilepsy and
associated memory problems caused by impact,» said senior author Dr. Jenny Hsieh,
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and a member of the UT Southwestern Hamon
Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine.
At the same time, the obese girls sipping milk shakes showed decreased activation in the striatum, a region near the
center of the
brain that is studded with dopamine receptors and known to respond to stimuli
associated with rewards.
«Our study shows that both higher levels of HDL — good — and lower levels of LDL — bad — cholesterol in the bloodstream are
associated with lower levels of amyloid plaque deposits in the
brain,» said Bruce Reed, lead study author and
associate director of the UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease
Center.
«Small amounts of gadolinium deposit in certain parts of the
brain in people who undergo repeated gadolinium - based contrast agent enhanced exams,» said Vikas Gulani, MD, PhD,
Associate Professor of Radiology, Urology, and Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, member of the Case Comprehensive Cancer
Center, and Director of Magnetic Resonance Imaging at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical
Center.
The need for ongoing care for hearing - related issues was acknowledged in September 2014 when One Fund Boston, the charity created to accept and distribute donations to help those affected by the bombings, created the One Fund
Center, which will serve patients who have had difficulties with tinnitus and other hearing - related problems; mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety; and traumatic
brain injury and its
associated symptoms such as headache, cognitive symptoms and balance difficulties.
Therefore, starting an exercise program, regardless of one's age, can not only contribute to the more obvious physical health factors, but may also contribute to memory performance and
brain function,» explained corresponding author Scott Hayes, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and the
Associate Director of the Neuroimaging Research for Veterans
Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System.
Dr. Michael Kilgard,
associate director of the Texas Biomedical Device
Center (TxBDC) and Margaret Forde Jonsson Professor of Neuroscience in the School of Behavioral and
Brain Sciences, led the research team with Dr. Seth Hays, the TxBDC director of preclinical research and assistant professor of bioengineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, and postdoctoral researcher Eric Meyers PhD» 17.
«Speech and language learning depend on our ability to evaluate how accurately we are producing the particular sounds
associated with speech,» said Dr. Todd Roberts, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience with the O'Donnell
Brain Institute at UT Southwestern Medical
Center.
«Though the «blind
brain» wiring may change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi, associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Ca
brain» wiring may change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi,
associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra
Center for
Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Ca
Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Canada.
He was discussing how the league could donate $ 1 million or more to the
Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University, whose discoveries of
brain damage commonly
associated with boxers in the
brains of deceased football players were regularly discredited by the N.F.L.
New research from the
Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas investigating
brain differences
associated with risk - taking teens found that connections between certain
brain regions are amplified in teens more prone to risk.
«In this case,
brain regions
associated with emotion and reward
centers show increased connection even when they are not explicitly engaged.»
A weight - loss drug dampened the response to food cues in regions of the
brain associated with attention and emotion, leading to decreases in caloric intake, weight and body mass index (BMI), a team led by scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center (BIDMC) reported.
Here, the research team led by
Associate Professor Yukio Nishimura, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Natural Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), and Masahiro Sawada, a former graduate student of Kyoto University, and Dr. Hirotaka Onoe, a team leader at RIKEN
Center for Life Science Technologies found that the nucleus accumbens, that control motivation in the
brain, activates the activity of the motor cortex of the
brain, and then promotes recovery of motor function during the early stage of recovery after spinal cord injury.
This event focused on the effect on
brain and behavior of video games, which are played by 155 million Americans at least three times a week, according to Deborah Runkle, senior program
associate with the AAAS
Center of Science, Policy and Society.
«For improved
brain function, the results suggest that it's not enough just to exercise more,» said Eric Vidoni, PT, Ph.D., research
associate professor of neurology at KU Medical
Center and a lead author of the journal article.
«Our study found that the ability to balance on one leg is an important test for
brain health,» said Yasuharu Tabara, Ph.D., lead study author and
associate professor at the
Center for Genomic Medicine at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine in Kyoto, Japan.
«Essentially, they cause acetylcholine to build up in the
brain, causing hyperexcitability of neurons as well as the death of some neurons, which leads to inflammation in the
brain,» said Ashok K. Shetty, PhD, a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine at the Texas A&M College of Medicine,
associate director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, research career scientist at the Olin E. Teague Veterans Medical
Center, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System and senior author of the paper.
Writing in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, a research team, led by senior author William S. Kremen, PhD, professor of psychiatry and co-director of the
Center for Behavior Genetics of Aging at UC San Diego School of Medicine, found that major adverse events in life, such as divorce, separation, miscarriage or death of a family member or friend, can measurably accelerate aging in the
brains of older men, even when controlling for such factors as cardiovascular risk, alcohol consumption, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, which are all
associated with aging risk.
For example, the
center's
brain malformation study group has identified two genes
associated with abnormalities of the corpus callosum, conditions in which the bundle of nerve fibers that connect the
brain's two hemispheres is missing or incomplete.
RALPH J. GREENSPAN Director,
Center for
Brain Activity Mapping, UCSD
Associate Director, Kavli Institute for
Brain and Mind, UCSD
Neural implants: Richard Andersen, the James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience, T&C Chen
Brain - Machine Interface Center Leadership Chair; and director of the T&C Brain - Machine Interface Center, will work with Ueli Rutishauser (PhD» 08), associate professor of neurosurgery, neurology and biomedical sciences at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center, to observe brain activity of patients with neural prosthetics during social situat
Brain - Machine Interface
Center Leadership Chair; and director of the T&C
Brain - Machine Interface Center, will work with Ueli Rutishauser (PhD» 08), associate professor of neurosurgery, neurology and biomedical sciences at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center, to observe brain activity of patients with neural prosthetics during social situat
Brain - Machine Interface
Center, will work with Ueli Rutishauser (PhD» 08),
associate professor of neurosurgery, neurology and biomedical sciences at Cedars - Sinai Medical
Center, to observe
brain activity of patients with neural prosthetics during social situat
brain activity of patients with neural prosthetics during social situations.
President Marissa Ehringer (2016 - 2019) University of Colorado IBG Department 1480 30th St 447UCB Boulder, CO 80309 USA (303) 492-1463
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Brain Research Centre 2211 Westbrook Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 2B5 Canada (604) 730-2501
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[email protected] Awards Committee Yehuda Ben - Shahar (2016 - 2018, Chair) Robert Williams (2016 - 2018) Angela Ozburn (2016 - 2018) Dai Stephens (2017 - 2019) Lisa Tarantino (2017 - 2019)
Alain Destexhe, Research Director of Unité de Neurosciences CNRS, Gif - sur - Yvette, France Bruno Weber, Professor of Multimodal Experimental Imaging, Universitaet Zuerich, Switzerland Carmen Gruber Traub, Fraunhofer, Germany Costas Kiparissides, Certh, Greece Cyril Poupon, Head of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy unit of NeuroSpin, University Paris Saclay, Gif - sur - Yvette, France David Boas, Professor of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, University of Pennsylvania Hanchuan Peng,
Associate Investigator at Allen
Brain Institute, Seattle, US Huib Manswelder, Head of Department of Integrative Neurophysiology Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University, Amsterdam Jan G. Bjaalie, Head of Neuroinformatics division, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway Jean - François Mangin, Research Director Neuroimaging at CEA, Gif - sur - Yvette, France Jordi Mones, Institut de la Macula y la Retina, Barcelona, Spain Jurgen Popp, Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany Katharina Zimmermann, Hochshule, Germany Katrin Amunts, Director of the Institute Structural and functional organisation of the brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Leslie M. Loew, Professor at University of Connecticut Health Center, Connecticut, US Marc - Oliver Gewaltig, Section Manager of Neurorobotics, Simulation Neuroscience Division - Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Geneve, Switzerland Markus Axer, Head of Fiber architecture group, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM - 1) at Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Mickey Scheinowitz, Head of Regenerative Therapy Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Tel - Aviv University, Israel Pablo Loza, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain Patrick Hof, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, US Paul Tiesinga, Professor at Faculty of Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands Silvestro Micera, Director of the Translational Neural Engineering (TNE) Laboratory, and Associate Professor at the EPFL School of Engineering and the Centre for Neuroprosthetics Timo Dicksheid, Group Leader of Big Data Analytics, Institute Structural and functional organisation of the brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Trygve Leergaard, Professor of Neural Systems, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway Viktor Jirsa, Director of the Institute de Neurosciences des Systèmes and Director of Research at the CNRS, Marseille, F
Brain Institute, Seattle, US Huib Manswelder, Head of Department of Integrative Neurophysiology
Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University, Amsterdam Jan G. Bjaalie, Head of Neuroinformatics division, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway Jean - François Mangin, Research Director Neuroimaging at CEA, Gif - sur - Yvette, France Jordi Mones, Institut de la Macula y la Retina, Barcelona, Spain Jurgen Popp, Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany Katharina Zimmermann, Hochshule, Germany Katrin Amunts, Director of the Institute Structural and functional organisation of the
brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Leslie M. Loew, Professor at University of Connecticut Health Center, Connecticut, US Marc - Oliver Gewaltig, Section Manager of Neurorobotics, Simulation Neuroscience Division - Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Geneve, Switzerland Markus Axer, Head of Fiber architecture group, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM - 1) at Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Mickey Scheinowitz, Head of Regenerative Therapy Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Tel - Aviv University, Israel Pablo Loza, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain Patrick Hof, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, US Paul Tiesinga, Professor at Faculty of Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands Silvestro Micera, Director of the Translational Neural Engineering (TNE) Laboratory, and Associate Professor at the EPFL School of Engineering and the Centre for Neuroprosthetics Timo Dicksheid, Group Leader of Big Data Analytics, Institute Structural and functional organisation of the brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Trygve Leergaard, Professor of Neural Systems, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway Viktor Jirsa, Director of the Institute de Neurosciences des Systèmes and Director of Research at the CNRS, Marseille, F
brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Leslie M. Loew, Professor at University of Connecticut Health
Center, Connecticut, US Marc - Oliver Gewaltig, Section Manager of Neurorobotics, Simulation Neuroscience Division - Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Geneve, Switzerland Markus Axer, Head of Fiber architecture group, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM - 1) at Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Mickey Scheinowitz, Head of Regenerative Therapy Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Tel - Aviv University, Israel Pablo Loza, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain Patrick Hof, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, US Paul Tiesinga, Professor at Faculty of Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands Silvestro Micera, Director of the Translational Neural Engineering (TNE) Laboratory, and
Associate Professor at the EPFL School of Engineering and the Centre for Neuroprosthetics Timo Dicksheid, Group Leader of Big Data Analytics, Institute Structural and functional organisation of the
brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Trygve Leergaard, Professor of Neural Systems, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway Viktor Jirsa, Director of the Institute de Neurosciences des Systèmes and Director of Research at the CNRS, Marseille, F
brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Trygve Leergaard, Professor of Neural Systems, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway Viktor Jirsa, Director of the Institute de Neurosciences des Systèmes and Director of Research at the CNRS, Marseille, France
Belger, Inan and Dr. Rajendra Morey, clinical
associate in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical
Center, are also with the Duke - UNC
Brain Imaging and Analysis
Center.
Location: NC1 - 202 Title: «
Brain Metastases - Our Advances and Failures» The Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine welcomes guest speaker Dr. Paul R. Lockman, Professor and Chair Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Associate Center Director for Translational Research, West Virginia University Cancer Institute.
Higher levels of lifestyle physical activity are
associated with more gray matter in the
brains of older adults, according to a Rush University Medical
Center study published in the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.
Previous research in the laboratory of Daniel McGehee, PhD, neuroscientist and
associate professor in the Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care at the Medical
Center, discovered that nicotine could promote plasticity in a region of the
brain called the ventral tegmental area (VTA).
Additional authors are
associate professor Heather Bradshaw and research scientist Jim Wager - Miller in the Department of Psychological and
Brain Sciences and in the Gill
Center for Biomolecular Science and Program in Neuroscience; Emma Leishman, Ph.D. student in the Program for Neuroscience; and Joanna Winstone and Sierra Mills, undergraduate students in the Department of Psychological and
Brain Sciences.
Jessica Zwerling, MD,
associate director of the Montefiore Einstein
Center for the Aging
Brain in New York City, notes that the people in the study were clearly very motivated to take charge of their health.
«When you're lonely,
brain hormones
associated with stress such as cortisol become active, which can cause depression,» Bruce Rabin, MD, director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical
Center Healthy Lifestyle Program, told Health in a prior interview.
'' [This] raises the possibility that this receptor and its signaling pathway in the
brain may have a role in people with compulsive behavioral problems,» says senior author Nicole Calakos, MD, PhD,
associate professor of neurology and neurobiology at Duke University Medical
Center in Durham, North Carolina.
Dr. Bryon Adinoff, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center, has studied
brain changes
associated with tanning.
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)-- chronic abdominal cramping and pain, bloating, gas, diarrhea, and constipation — may be caused by a malfunction in the way the
brain and gut communicate, says David Greenwald, MD,
associate director of the division of gastroenterology at the Montefiore Medical
Center in Bronx, New York.
Dopamine is most commonly
associated with the reward and pleasure
centers in the
brain.
Associate Professor, Neuro - Oncology Research, Barrow
Brain Tumour Research
Center, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ