Sentences with phrase «brain circuits give»

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.

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The brain encourages these contortions, activating reward circuits in response to biased reasoning that gives a high akin to a junkie's.

«We know the endogenous cannabinoid system's primary function is to try to preserve homeostasis within a given brain circuit.

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.

«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.»

The brain circuits used by such «super-readers», and which are situated in the right hemisphere, are organised differently and thus cochlear implants give poor results.

«This gives us quite an exciting springboard to fully map out this decision - making circuit from all the sensory inputs leading into the brain and how the brain parses and compares these signals, and comes to a decision,» states Schinaman.

«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.

Understanding how networks of cells in circuits work together to give rise to behaviors, thoughts, and emotions requires new technology, he said, and optogenetics is starting to provide new approaches for mapping and repairing the brain.

Similarly, using light to stimulate atrophied neurons that may be associated with schizophrenia could someday allow clinicians to repair cognitive function, Boyden said, and enhance the flow of information through disordered brain circuits that otherwise may be giving rise to delusions and paranoia.

At Weizmann, Dr. Spiegel will be establishing his own independent research group which will attempt to identify the molecular and cellular mechanisms through which experience alters the structure and function of neural circuits in the brain in behaviorally relevant ways and to understand how these processes, when they go awry, might give rise to psychiatric disorders.

By inserting these proteins into the living brain, we can study and perturb different elements of neural circuits, giving us a picture of how individual components function within the complex network.

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.

If we can see all the neurons that are electrically active in a circuit at one time, we can get a better idea of how our brains are organized, how the neurons are communicating with each other, and how these circuits give rise to different brain functions.

We hypothesised that functional variations in the DRD4 gene expressed preferentially in brain regions of the reward circuit might modulate sensitivity to maternal stimuli, which in turn might result in infants» differential sensitivity to aspects of care - giving behaviour.