Sentences with phrase «brain circuits»

Research shows that excessive experience with toxic stress can disrupt the development of brain circuits related to stress response — and to learning and memory.

Both studies are helping scientists better understand how brain circuits work.

Having worked on emotions for many years — pain, stress, anxiety, depression — in the midst of a strong emotion, I can think about specific brain circuits being activated.

In fact, he has been able to identify 7 different brain circuits which correspond with discrete emotional responses.

Their feeding patterns and related brain circuits also are more like those of humans, she said.

Even when men and women do the same chores equally well, they may use different brain circuits to get the same result.

So, traditional, symptom - based categories make it difficult to relate diagnosis to genes, particular brain circuits, or basic behavioral mechanisms.

These differences were reflected in crucial changes in key brain circuits.

Seeing others experiencing pain activated brain circuits that are known to support actual first - hand experience of pain.

By carefully controlling this process, researchers can interrupt faulty brain circuits or destroy unwanted tissue.

Rather, they appear to repair entire brain circuits that had been faulty.

Some people are so tied up in their paradigm that they can't get the old brain circuits to follow a different path.

And studies show that frequently consuming sugar can leave a permanent mark on certain brain circuits, which then makes it even more difficult to kick a sugar habit.

And, it includes brain circuit formation as well as processing speed of the brain.

Scientists now know that specific brain circuits underlying sexual differentiation can be remodeled through life.

This builds global brain circuits that place individual experiences in a larger framework.

Even after we evolved the ability to use weapons and became predators ourselves, this ancient brain circuit still offered a useful defense against members of our own species.

There are therefore two categories of subjects whose brain circuits function very differently.

Instead of training animals, we might grow them with specially designed brain circuits.

«The concept of tuning brain circuits is a new strategy,» she says.

Such a tool will help researchers better understand how brain circuits process information, and this knowledge then can be applied to humans.

The research also presents an opportunity to greatly improve techniques for growing brain circuits in a dish that reflect the true diversity of the human brain, they said.

We need to image brain circuits in humans to understand what brain regions take part in these processes and how they interact.

That's the idea behind recent advances in brain science that propose to strengthen and repair these organic brain circuits by way of brain exercises.

A brain region linked to fear has just been found to contain a potent brain circuit that drives pleasure - inducing behavior.

This requires observing these mechanisms — circuits — in animals that have brain circuits similar to those in humans.

At this stage, the female brain actually becomes more stable with lower steady estrogen and oxytocin which translates into less emotion and more calm with brain circuits less reactive to stress.

And then when I started to learn about this intricate brain circuits, I started to realize, actually, there is a role for this.

In the longer term, new treatments for devastating brain diseases are likely to emerge from a deeper understanding of brain circuits.

Early this year, he reported that memory storage and retrieval happen on two different brain circuits, not on the same one as was long thought.

Our bodies respond to it by releasing chemicals and activating brain circuits that promote adaptive behavior.

The finding of the region associated with impulse control may one day identify brain circuits involved in addiction as well as attention deficit and personality disorders

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

Through the activation of brain circuits with light, female voles were tricked into selecting specific partners

«Simulated honeybees can use simple brain circuits for complex learning: Bees lacking insect equivalent of the cerebral cortex may still be able to learn odors.»

Whether or not overeating is technically an addiction, if it stimulates the same brain circuits as drug use, in the same way, then medications that dial down the reward system could help obese people to eat less.

One goal in neurobiology is to understand how the flow of electrical signals through brain circuits gives rise to perception, action, thought, learning and memories.

Laboratory studies have found that meditation produced changes in brain circuits involved in regulating emotion, Dr. Davidson said, and may reduce markers of inflammation and stress hormones like cortisol.

Brain networks consist of interconnected pathways linking brain circuits or loops, similar to a college campus in which paved sidewalks connect a wide variety of buildings.

A clever combination of optics and genetics is allowing neuroscientists to identify and control brain circuits with unprecedented precision

Low levels of the enzyme have been linked to high levels of brain signalling chemicals in the fetus, including serotonin, which might affect developing brain circuits.

The Human Connectome Project is a five - year effort to study brain circuits and how the wiring of the brain relates to human behavior.

The Obama administration's neuroscience initiative highlights new technologies to better understand the workings of brain circuits on both a small and large scale.

«It's a period in human development in which brain circuits change and reorganize and. . .

Finding out which neurons are connected with which others, and how they act together, is a huge challenge in neuroscience, and it's crucial for understanding how brain circuits give rise to perception, motion, memory, and behavior.

«Neuroscientists have learned a lot about brain circuits using the technique,» Zhou said, «and now researchers in many other fields are giving it a try.»

For a child to learn to walk or an adult to master a new skill such as juggling, new brain circuit activity is needed and new connections are made across large distances and at high speeds between different parts of the brain and spinal cord.

«The hypothesis suggests that this brain area has not evolved for reading but results from a reconfiguration of evolutionarily older brain circuits dedicated to object processing,» he says.

«How do adult brain circuits regulate new neuron production?.»

Contemplative neuroscientists say that making a habit of meditation can strengthen brain circuits responsible for maintaining concentration and generating empathy.