Sentences with phrase «brain circuits on»

A revolutionary technique that switches brain circuits on and off has taken neuroscience by storm and is now undergoing a new round of innovation

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

Not exact matches

This can be blamed on the male brain's temporal - parietal junction, which activates what Goman calls men's «analyze - and - fix - it 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.

Then go pick up a book on neuroscience and realize that your brain is far from perfect and many different «Dying» neurological circuits could cause the same thing....

What's happening, the authors suggest, is that as the gay fathers take on the role of independent, hands - on caregivers, their brains change as a result — the «mentalising» circuit connects with and stimulates the «emotional» circuit more commonly found to be active in mothers.

Emory medical school neurologist and depression researcher Helen Mayberg explains that her work on depression strives to describe the same overarching concepts that Freud invoked, including links between brain circuits and disordered moods.

«While previous studies at McLean and elsewhere have focused on the behavioral symptoms produced by such immune activation, this study goes deeper, going to the cellular level to show how the brain's neural circuits are affected.»

However, all the lesions were part of the same functional network, located on different parts of a single circuit that normally allows neurons throughout the brain to cooperate with each other on specific cognitive tasks.

If PirB partnered with MHCI in neural circuits, Shatz thought, the absence of either molecule should have similar effects on the brain.

Clearly, there are neural circuits in the visual pathways of the chick's brain that are specialized to detect the red spot on a beak as soon as the chick hatches.

Most recently, a technology called optogenetics has allowed experimenters to toggle entire brain circuits «on» or «off» by shining laser light on genetically modified synapses.

The two sides of the brain were exposed to the same mix of hormones during development, yet the song circuit was much larger on the male side of the creature's brain than on the female side.

Whatever is the goal, I work on that and I think about what types of brain circuits are going to be involved and how to most effectively engage them.

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.

Researchers from Hokkaido University and their colleagues found that male cockroaches can «see» fine structures of odor plumes, thanks to their finely tuned odor sensors on their antennae and neural circuits that convey spatial information to the brain.

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.

This kind of progressive speech impairment is associated with dysfunction in the cortical - basal ganglia brain circuit in both humans and songbirds, so Liu could make assumptions based on this trial about how the human brain circuit changes.

But when Tye switched on the light and activated the circuit in her subject's brain, the mouse ventured out, exploring the open part of the maze with no visible anxiety.

We were surprised how quickly we saw differences in the ability of mice from each group to learn how to run on complex wheel, which shows just how fast the brain can respond to wrap newly - activated circuits in myelin and how this improves learning.

If scientists can study accurate models of working neural circuits in these brain bits, he and others say, researchers might finally get a handle on uniquely human neurological conditions.

Solutions could include liquid coolants or circuits arrayed on 3 - D grids like the brain

Pass it on: Depressed patients may have problems with the function of a brain circuit thought to be involved in feelings of hate.

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 addition, the two genes are turned on in areas that are part of the cortico - striatal - thalamo - cortical circuit, a loop of brain cells connecting the cortex to specific regions involved in processing emotions and movement.

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.»

Serge Luquet's team at the «Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptative» laboratory (CNRS / Université Paris Diderot) has demonstrated part of the answer: triglycerides, fatty substances from food, may act in our brains directly on the reward circuit, the same circuit that is involved in drug addiction.

A higher proportion of people may have vivid death experiences, but do not recall them due to the effects of brain injury or sedative drugs on memory circuits.

Data sharing has become increasingly urgent in neuroscience, with its diversity of research tools and the vast amounts of information they generate, both on the whole brain and on the connecting neural circuits between brain regions.

Others do the opposite, turning on brain circuits that suppress appetite.

According to Halassa, the new research sets the stage for ever more detailed studies on the complex behavior involved in how the mammalian brain pays attention to what's important, and especially how those neural circuits are broken in cases of attention - deficit diseases, such as ADHD, autism, and schizophrenia.

Based on their data, Card and von Reyn propose that a looming stimulus first activates a circuit in the brain that initiates a slow escape, beginning with a controlled lift of the wings.

Most previous research on social behavior has focused on the brain's circuits for hardwired behaviors, like aggression, sex, or mothering.

There is no way to create a «schizophrenic» mouse, Meyer emphasizes, but certain key cognitive deficits and behaviors can be measured in both animals and humans and are thought to rely on similar brain regions and neural circuits.

But a new study suggests that caring for children awakens a parenting network in the brain — even turning on some of the same circuits in men as it does in women.

When the subjects truly saw the color rectangles, the fusiform circuit lit up on both sides of their brain; when they had to imagine the color, the circuit only lit up in the right hemisphere.

The gene - by - hormone interaction's effect on circuit function was found only with one of two versions of the gene that codes for BDNF (brain - derived neurotrophic factor), a chemical messenger operating in the circuit.

With brain imaging, the effects of regular TV viewing on a child's neural circuits are plain to see.

To find out, Spiegel and Kosslyn decided to collaborate on a study, focusing on a part of the brain that is well understood: the fusiform circuit.

Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new computational model of a neural circuit in the brain, which could shed light on the biological role of inhibitory neurons — neurons that keep other neurons from firing.

To find out, Spiegel and Kosslyn collaborated on a study that focused on a part of the brain that is well understood: the fusiform circuit.

Greene could then peel away the brain's general decision - making circuits and focus in on the neural patterns that differentiate personal from impersonal thought.

«This field can penetrate the brain regardless of tissue density — like MRI — and can turn on specific circuits at a specific time, whenever the test subject is within the magnetic field.»

Previous studies have shown that a special type of cortical interneurons, called basket cells, exerts a strongly inhibitory effect on brain circuits.

Developing memristive circuits that simulate the architecture of the brain on a chip might enhance our understanding of our own circuitry, or even help to develop next - generation artificial intelligence.

«The circuits in our brain that allow us to focus on a particular task, especially a task that leads to reward, are well known,» said Michael Platt, the James S. Riepe University Professor in Penn's psychology, neuroscience and marketing departments.

«We now have the tools to embark on reverse engineering the brain by discovering relationships between circuit wiring and neuronal and network computations.»

Buzsáki's team found conventional protocols lack sufficient current to directly influence brain circuits, but their study focused on what happened immediately following stimulating pulses.

A study published on February 2 in Nature Communications ups the ante, reporting that conventional TES techniques do not deliver enough current to activate brain circuits or modulate brain rhythms.

Most of his work focuses on the pharmacologic manipulation of mammalian brain circuits which use the most abundant inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system gamma - aminobutyric acid (GABA) as their chief signaling molecule.