Sentences with phrase «brain circuitry»

Their efforts have produced 3D maps of brain circuitry in stunning detail.

Conversely, experiences that produce maladaptive changes in brain circuitry underlie many neuropsychiatric disorders, and age - related decreases in brain plasticity contribute to age - related memory disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.

While lapses in attention preceded response inhibition errors in the children without ADHD, brain circuitry involved in response selection and control was activated prior to errors in the children with ADHD.

Finding a neural substrate for social learning provides a different perspective into social behavior, with possible relevance to disorders such as autism, which are thought to involve abnormalities in the same brain circuitry studied in this work.

Their goal is to better understand how this brain region regulates emotion, which, in turn, could lead to a greater understanding of how brain circuitry is disrupted in depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other psychiatric conditions.

In the laboratory «Neural Basis of Sensorimotor Control» we study brain circuitry mechanisms for voluntary movement control and sensory processing that involves the arm and hand.

Imaging various sections of white matter from different angles can help researchers focus on the underlying brain circuitry important for proper neuron communication.

PULLMAN, Wash. — A WSU research team for the first time has developed a computer algorithm that is nearly as accurate as people are at mapping brain neural networks — a breakthrough that could speed up the image analysis that researchers use to understand brain circuitry.

Using a molecular method likely to become widely adopted by the field, researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health have discovered brain circuitry essential for alertness, or vigilance — and for brain states more generally.

The 2 - Year Window Mother Jones, November 18, 2011» «The concept of disrupting brain circuitry is much more compelling than the concept that poverty is bad for your health,» says Professor Jack Shonkoff, a Harvard pediatrician and chair of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.

«Mini-microscopes reveal brain circuitry behind social behavior.»

«The microchip technology also allows us to extract signals from the brain in order to reverse - engineer brain circuitry and decode the information that is in the subject's mind.

«Gene found to be crucial for formation of certain brain circuitry.»

The researchers were able to zero in on the Broca's area as well as related brain circuitry specifically linked to speech, using regional cerebral blood flow as a measure of brain activity, since blood flow is typically coupled with neural activity.

Using a molecular method likely to become widely adopted by the field, researchers have discovered brain circuitry essential for alertness — and for brain states more generally.

The slow and gradual addition of new nerve cells may be like a fine - tuning system, allowing adults to incorporate fresh information without altering our basic brain circuitry.

«By discovering how the removal of RGS4 affects brain circuitry at the molecular level, we gained a deeper understanding of the protein's role — both normally and in Parkinson's disease,» said Dr. Lerner.

For example, scientists could confirm or disprove whether an experience was truly linked with specific brain circuitry by first identifying networks activated when a rat encounters, say, an anxiety - provoking event, and afterwards stimulating that same network directly to determine whether the animal shows evidence of experiencing the same mental state.

It's because the distance between synapses carrying similar messages — positive or negative — shortens to make it easier for information to be shared via brain circuitry.

Throw a bear hug into the mix — and the accompanying flood of oxytocin — and that old brain circuitry lit up like fireworks.

Hormones drive many of these sex differences, while major life events — such as puberty, pregnancy, parenthood or even traumas — also help shape male and female brain circuitry.

«This is one of the first studies providing clear evidence showing that different brain circuitry is involved in different types of depressive behavior with specific symptoms,» said Lim.

The idea that brain circuitries devoted to affiliation and social bonds may well be as sophisticated as our fear mechanisms had been percolating for almost a decade.

«It is exciting to find a correlation between brain circuitry and gene expression by combining high quality data from these two large - scale projects,» says David Van Essen, Ph.D., professor at Washington University in St. Louis and a leader of the Human Connectome Project.

One framed artwork, however, connects Shatz to her childhood, and the earliest influences on her own brain circuitry.

Those with defective brain circuitry had much more difficulty.

This aberrant brain circuitry — the amyloid plaques and tau tangles — became the twin hallmarks of the disease that bears his name.

«This discovery not only will lead to new insight into how brain circuitry develops but to new insight into declining brain function that occurs with aging.»

Looking further, Deligiannidis has also examined the role of certain steroids synthesized from progesterone and other hormones and known to affect maternal brain circuitry.

What brain circuitry may be involved in the development of hoarding?

The authors of the study said the key question moving forward is to understand what specific changes in brain circuitry give rise to the effects observed in this study.

If lamprey software can help people with spinal injuries, it will be in the shape of animal brain circuitry realised on a chip wired into a human being — a kind of cyborg sandwich.

Karl Deisseroth, an optogenetics pioneer at Stanford University, has used the technique with animals to learn more about the nature of the disordered brain circuitry in Parkinson's.

«Our goal in the project was to close the gap in knowledge that exists on role of serotonin in the brain cortex, particularly as it concerns brain circuitry, its electrical activity and function,» said Roberto Fernández Galán, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

The abnormal brain circuitry of LKS patients renders the brain incapable of imprinting memory, further impairing brain function.

A new study shows that brain circuitry makes some people more susceptible to becoming addicts.

Although the details are murky, bad language seems to hinge on evolutionarily ancient brain circuitry with intimate ties to structures that process emotions.

We hope that our work will provide new insight into the signaling mechanisms responsible for establishing brain circuitry, and ultimately suggest therapeutic interventions for disorders in which these signaling mechanisms are perturbed.

Light - activated genes, now illuminating brain circuitry in rodents and monkeys, may help solve mysteries of human disease.

«Once we start to correlate particular patterns of activity to behaviors or mental states,» says Rafael Yuste, a neuroscientist at Columbia University who studies mammalian brain circuitry, «we will reinvent neuroscience as a field.»

This method successfully preserved the delicate brain circuitry.

Sawchenko's lab also aims to unravel brain circuitry related to past experience, emotion and stress in the hopes of better understanding a range of psychiatric disorders, including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Evidence of overlapping genetics and implicated brain circuitry across traditional categories is mounting.

«But there may be a window of opportunity later,» in infancy or even childhood, to correct brain circuitry.

14C -2-deoxyglucose autoradiography screen for mouse brain activity: relating known therapeutics and novel compounds for schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder to brain circuitry A. GIOVANNI, S. ENGEL, C. BOWEN, R. TERRY - LORENZO, P. G. JONES, L. HARDY, T. LARGE, T. HANANIA, E. V. SABATH, V. ALEXANDROV, M. QUTAISH, M. SEAMAN, P. CZARNECKI, M. SILVA, J. SULLIVAN... Abstract > / Posters

Unlike earlier animal models of central nervous system disorders that have emphasized trying to re-create behaviors that «look like» the diseases in humans, Feng aims to model the dysfunctional brain circuitry that underlies the behaviors.

In functional neurology, we examine brain function through various tests that evaluate reflexes, movement and balance, responses to stimuli, and how the eyes move — the eyes are a window into how well brain circuitry functions.