Sentences with phrase «brain circuit activity»

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There should, for example, be correlations between direct prehensions of a noncontiguous event and activity of particular brain circuits associated with that event.

«I believe ultimately that our behavior is a production of activity in our brain circuits,» Hyman said.

Psilocybin, a hallucinogenic compound found in magic mushrooms, may help re-set the activity of neural circuits in the brain that are involved in depression

Researchers studying the brain have long been interested in its neural oscillations, the rhythmic electrical activity that plays an important role in the transmission of information within the brain's neural circuits.

Moreover, these women showed greater activity in the brain circuit that enables people to understand the emotions of others.

«Modeling the rhythmic electrical activities of the brain: A new mathematical tool has been developed to help computational neuroscientists explore neural circuits» dynamic responses to stimuli.»

Psychiatric disorders are in fact brain disorders that involve abnormal activity in brain circuits, so having researchers who understand the brain in a deep and integrated way is going to be critical for the future, says Thomas Insel, director of the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

Neurons that turn off brain circuits do so by decreasing electrical activity to target nerve cells.

Stevens and her colleagues manipulated mice to make one eye more active than the other, creating a disparity in activity between the two neural circuits linking the eyes to the brain.

Microfabricated silicon needle - electrode devices were expected to be an innovation that would be able to record and analyze the electrical activities of the microscale neuronal circuits in the brain.

To map how the same sense can be perceived differently in the brain, the NYU Langone team, led by postdoctoral fellow Kishore Kuchibhotla, PhD, monitored nerve circuit activity in mice when the animals expected, and did not expect, to get a water reward through a straw - like tube (that they see) after the ringing of a familiar musical note.

«They made a very direct connection,» between the brain activity patterns they saw and their conclusion that the «hate circuit» is uncoupled.

Normally, brain activity is synchronous across this circuit's three regions.

In addition, researchers found that mice exposed to BPA before birth had reduced fiber density and brain activity in the hypothalamus circuits involved in regulating energy expenditure.

Tools developed via the Brain Activity Map may monitor vast ensembles of neurons as they fire — bringing static maps of neural circuits to life (shown above).

When comparing the scan results for brain activity before treatment and after a year of stimulation, the researchers found that there were changes in the regions linked to anorexia, suggesting that deep brain stimulation was able to directly affect the related brain circuits.

Several years ago, Yuste and other scientists originally pitched BRAIN to U.S. government officials as the Brain Activity Map, a 10 - year, $ 3 billion effort to develop tools in nanotechnology, optogenetics, and synthetic biology that could measure «every spike from every neuron» in a neural cirBRAIN to U.S. government officials as the Brain Activity Map, a 10 - year, $ 3 billion effort to develop tools in nanotechnology, optogenetics, and synthetic biology that could measure «every spike from every neuron» in a neural cirBrain Activity Map, a 10 - year, $ 3 billion effort to develop tools in nanotechnology, optogenetics, and synthetic biology that could measure «every spike from every neuron» in a neural circuit.

Optogenetics works at micro scale, and fMRI covers wide regions of the brain — together this means that scientists have a way to intervene and experiment with entire brain circuits, to finally see how a certain type of brain cell affects the wider global activity of the entire brain.

Just as computers use programming languages such as Java, the brain seems to have its own operating languages — a bewildering set of codes hidden in the rates and timing with which neurons fire as well as the rhythmic electrical activities that oscillate through brain circuits.

«Fruitfly study identifies brain circuit that drives daily cycles of rest, activity.»

Amita Sehgal, PhD, a professor of Neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, describes in Cell a circuit in the brain of fruit flies that controls their daily, rhythmic behavior of rest and activity.

«I believe that our behavior is a production of activity in our brain circuits,» psychiatrist Steven Hyman of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., told a session at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting earlier last year.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

-- To better understand how and why these specialized sub networks are created, researchers at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) have combined electrophysiological and optical approaches to manipulate and monitor neuronal activity at single - cell resolution in intact, functional brain circuits.

The first genetically encoded optical tool that can precisely control brain cells (neurons) by the millisecond, optogenetics allows for light - induced control of neuronal activity, helping researchers understand how neurons form circuits that control behavior.

This hyper - synchronization results in a surge of electrical activity that causes the brain to malfunction, like a computer with a short circuit.

A thorough understanding of the underlying chemistry and electrical activity of the brain will lead to a new suite of approaches for precise diagnosis and effective treatments that allow clinicians to restore disrupted or damaged neuronal circuits.

The study supported a long - standing hypothesis that the brain is active in the absence of input, or to put it more technically, the circuits in the brain can generate «intrinsic activity.»

These efforts also address neural function and memory, such as mechanisms employed by the brain to balance excitatory and inhibitory activity in neural circuits.

«This GABA circuit is unique, because local PV interneurons are excited by GABA, a brain neurotransmitter that normally inhibits neuronal activity.»

Prior to the study, scientists had observed synchronous patterns of electrical activity between the two circuit hubs after a monkey saw an object, but weren't sure if the signals actually represent such short - term visual memories in the brain.

Over hundreds of years, scientists have learned much about the brain, including the countless methods through which information is transferred from neuron to neuron at a junction called a synapse, and how hundreds — even thousands — of neurons can function together to form a larger circuit responsible for any given activity.

They «connect with each other, forming circuits, and once they're connected, they can synchronize their activity,» Arlotta said, potentially mimicking «higher - order functions of the human brain.»

The Lu lab is interested in how activity - dependent processes during brain development fine - tune the establishment of neural circuits and how neural activity affect neural circuit wiring and cognitive behaviors.

Science has proven that social exchanges change the neurotransmitter and circuit activity in your brain which decreases stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms and ups those calm and happy feelings.

The investigators saw that as the mice ramped down for sleep, activity in this brain circuit decreased.

Observing brain activity after different types of meals, scientists found that some circuits were specifically influenced by the consumption of meals high in protein.

In addition, novel activities flood the brain's reward circuits, creating an experience that brings you both more pleasure.

Once the generator is programmed, it delivers continual electrical pulses that alter the activity in specific brain «circuits.»

Benefits were reported by the patients which lasted for up to 5 weeks following the treatment, and the researchers believe the activity of key brain circuits known to play a part in depression may effectively be «reset» by the magic mushroom compound.

When an individual visualizes an activity such as running, playing piano, or playing a sport, the circuits in our brains that control these activities become activated.

such as running, playing piano, or playing a sport, the circuits in our brains that control these activities become activated.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers tracked blood flow in the participants» brains to identify the activity of neural circuits and networks.

The researchers found that when the participants» curiosity had been sparked, there was not only increased activity in the hippocampus, which is the region of the brain involved in the creation of memories, but also in the brain circuit that is related to reward and pleasure.

For positive emotional faces, considering the spreading effects of activation of secure base schema, it was assumed that both levels (high and low) of attachment anxiety are associated with increased activities in brain circuits that are responsible for positive emotions and the regions belonging to the reward system.