Sentences with phrase «brain circuits similar»

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

Not exact matches

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.

«A baby crying activates the circuits in the mother's brain that are similar to those that become overactive in people with obsessive - compulsive disorder,» Swain says.

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

Scientists have discovered key details of a brain - to - body signaling circuit that enables roundworms to lose weight independently of food intake, and there are reasons to suspect the circuit exists in a similar form in humans and other mammals.

If a traditional microchip is comparable to an electric circuit (remove one piece and the entire system collapses), this newtechnology is more similar to a human brain.

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.

These findings, which will be published online Aug. 18 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could help identify important brain circuits involved in stroke recovery and usher in new clinical therapies for stroke, including the placement of electrical brain - stimulating devices similar to those used for treating Parkinson's disease, chronic pain and epilepsy.

The scientists are currently studying similar brain wave phenomena in larger and more realistic neural circuits.