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«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.»

He points to recent evidence revealing distinct brain circuits for different emotions and the fact that facial expressions for some emotions, such as disgust, are present at birth, suggesting they're innate.

Understanding how common brain circuits for decision - making contribute to seemingly unrelated disorders will allow researchers to focus on core disturbances and leverage treatment advances across different disorders.»

Neuroscientists now understand some of the ways that brain circuits for memory, emotion and attention malfunction in various mental disorders.

The C. elegans circuit for smell that the team looked at, for example, shares features with brain circuits for eyes in more complex animals.

Not exact matches

By collecting sequencing information about cells in the gut, for example, Kallyope can better figure out how they're connected to neurons in the brain in a series of circuits.

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage bBrain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage bbrain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage bbrain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brainbrain.

For some people, palatable foods invoke such a strong response in the brain's reward circuit — and so dramatically alter their biology — that willpower will rarely, if ever, be sufficient to resist eating those foods once they are around.

Just around the time that the nature of the dilemma crossed the border from impersonal to personal, I would see your amygdala and related brain circuits — your medial orbitofrontal cortex, for example — light up like a pinball machine.

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

The infrastructure mediates inheritance (for instance, in cell division or in the repetition of similar circuit patterns in the excitation of the brain), and inheritance thus has in it that same discontinuity.

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

In less than two months my brain has been staunchly rewired; all circuits once devoted to making decisions for myself have now been plugged into a big, blazing marquee blinking «Baby!

The developing brain is more flexible and better able to create new neural circuits for cognitive, motor, and language skills.

We have long known that interactions with parents, caregivers, and other adults are important in a child's life, but new evidence shows that these relationships actually shape brain circuits and lay the foundation for later developmental outcomes, from academic performance to mental health and interpersonal skills.»

It is common for people with epilepsy to have memory problems because the brain circuits that underlie memory function often are affected by epilepsy.

Richer and more relevant sensory information from spindles allows for efficient update of the computational circuits in our brain that guide movement.

In the hippocampus, a brain region vital for laying down new memories, «stem cells continue to add new circuit elements,» says Stanford University neuroscientist Theo D. Palmer, who helped Monje find out why brain fogginess can persist for years after cancer treatment has ended.

«We think these molecules are important for limiting connections,» she adds, noting that if synapses are too malleable they can set off a host of problems, ranging from shaky brain circuits to seizures, which are caused by excessive neuronal firing.

The potential for mind - boosting drugs and technologies has increased stunningly over the past decade as neuroscientists have unlocked the secrets of neuronal circuits, neurotransmitters, and specific molecular events triggering brain functions in three interconnected cognitive domains — attention, memory, and creativity.

Recent studies have demonstrated that falling in love — or the love a mother has for an infant, which is so powerful — is driven by these reward processes, and it actually engages the same [brain] circuit that gives priority of that behavior over anything else, just like in addiction.

An earlier study had identified the connection between the thalamus — a brain region that relays incoming signals from the muscles and senses — and the dmPFC, along with the role this neural circuit can play in modifying a mouse's desire for confrontation.

This implies that different cortical areas, for instance those involving cognition vs. those involving perception of sensory stimuli, have evolved to tailor their local circuits to specific brain functions.

The researchers performed further experiments in the mice to look for differences in the affected brain cells and the circuits in which they were connected.

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).

«The project's goal is to accelerate the development of technologies for mapping the brain's circuitry in animal models, specifically in the marmoset monkey, whose neural circuits are much closer to human compared with rodent models, and to connect the results to the diagnosis and treatment of human neurological disorders and mental illness.»

Since all behavior is controlled by the brain, human beings may have evolved specialized neural circuits that are responsible for compliance with society's rules.

Robert Lee Hotz, a science writer for the The Wall Street Journal said MacKinnon's story «lights up with the joy of great reporting and ambitious enterprise: Who else would put the world's most adventurous free climber into a brain scanner to probe the neural circuits that make most of us shudder, squirm and squeal with panic?»

By using tracer chemicals in experiments with live garden warblers, the researchers followed a circuit of neurons from the cryptochrome molecules to the «cluster N» area of the brain, which is active during navigation, showing for the first time that cluster N uses information from the retina.

By reversibly deactivating the new nerve fibers that grow, the neurobiologists were ultimately able to demonstrate for the first time that a group of these fibers is essential for the recovery of the motor function observed: Nerve fibers that grew into the spinal cord from the intact front half of the brain — changing sides — can reconnect the spinal cord circuits of the rats» paralyzed limbs to the brain, enabling the animals to grip again.

Understanding how the brain's corticothalamic complex creates any one conscious sensation necessitates delineating these underlying circuits for the 100 billion cells in the brain.

The work could lead to advances in understanding autism, for example, and deficits that may exist in the neural circuits of the brain that underlie social communication, Neunuebel said.

The same can be said for neuroscientists trying to work out the emergent properties — higher thought, for example — hidden in complex brain circuits.

He plans to continue using optogenetics to pin down circuits of brain cells responsible for disease and to combine that knowledge with the colorful circuit images to home in on which wires need to go where to establish normal communication.

Among their goals for this system are: a higher density electrode array to allow for more precise targeting on neurons, new recording circuits that vastly increase the volume of data captured, and a new wireless power and telemetry technology that allows for real - time data transmission from the brain.

Injury to the brain stimulates the production of new neurons, but these new cells are sometimes hyperexcitable, disrupting neural circuits and causing recurring seizures, researchers with UT Southwestern's Texas Institute for Brain Injury and Repair reported in Nature Communicatbrain stimulates the production of new neurons, but these new cells are sometimes hyperexcitable, disrupting neural circuits and causing recurring seizures, researchers with UT Southwestern's Texas Institute for Brain Injury and Repair reported in Nature CommunicatBrain Injury and Repair reported in Nature Communications.

The ability for neurons to tune into different frequencies of gamma waves provides a way for the brain to traffic different types of information across the same neuronal circuits.

Christianson said the findings set the stage for a large - scale investigation of the brain circuits that work together to orchestrate responses to social emotional information with the hope that such research will lead to better treatment for people with conditions marked by aberrant social cognition, such as autism or schizophrenia.

This new combination of electronics and drugs to intervene in an individual brain circuit might be used to create mouse models of other mood disorders for other studies, Dzirasa said.

For Col. Dallas Hack, a physician and the brain health / fitness research coordinator at Fort Detrick, Md., the advantage of Schneider's HDFT technology is the ability to see and quantify the damaged circuits.

Their brains are smaller and contain fewer neurons, and researchers have powerful genetic tools for monitoring and perturbing specific neurons and neural circuits in these insects.

«Hunting for the brain's opioid addiction switch: Expert investigates how drug addiction changes circuits in the brain.»

For decades, clinical and pre-clinical research considered that opiate consumption caused permanent changes in the brain's reward circuits, resulting in a persistent vulnerability to relapse.

The switch in the brain that sends us off to sleep has been identified by researchers at Oxford University's Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour in a study in fruit flies.

For voles, the profound lifestyle change seems to have occurred when previously separate circuits in the male brain — one for processing social recognition, another for reward — became biochemically linkFor voles, the profound lifestyle change seems to have occurred when previously separate circuits in the male brain — one for processing social recognition, another for reward — became biochemically linkfor processing social recognition, another for reward — became biochemically linkfor reward — became biochemically linked.

The comparison is approximate: all we can say for certain is that by around 12 weeks, the fetus has peripheral circuits which enable it to perform reflex actions without any involvement from the brain.

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.

«The evolution in songbirds of an identifiable circuit for a single complex behavior gives us a tremendous advantage as we try to parse out exactly what these parts of the brain do and how they do it,» says Woolley.

The experiment, Dulac adds, implies that the neuronal circuits for «male» behavior exist in the brains of female mice and that the animals» VNO, by sensing pheromones, controls which sexual behavior repertoire is expressed.

The critical role these changes play in brain development highlights the importance and urgency in understanding neural circuits in more detail and suggests new avenues for investigating the underlying causes of developmental disorders such as autism.