Sentences with phrase «brain circuits with»

We know we just overloaded a lot of people's brain circuits with this long article comparing term life vs whole life.

We know we just overloaded a lot of people's brain circuits with this long article comparing term life vs whole life.

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

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

«Mice that don't have these molecules seem to be able to change their brain circuits with experience much more rapidly than normal mice,» Shatz says.

Cerebellar granule cells form part of a brain circuit with a strikingly regular, almost crystalline, structure.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.»

In other words, the sights, sounds, air freshness, smells, and everything that comes with being outside tends to overwhelm their brain circuits — and their little brain tells them to fall asleep so that it can categorize all the information it just took from being outside.

«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.

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

But the brain waves bind together all the neurons in a circuit with every crest, pushing the neurons so close to their firing point that they're primed to respond to just the slightest extra stimulus.

McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that immune system activation during pregnancy and right at birth can cause alterations in the brain's neural circuits during young adulthood that are consistent with behavioral symptoms common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental conditions.

Gait disturbance in individuals with spinal cord injury is attributed to the interruption of neural pathways from brain to the spinal locomotor center, whereas neural circuits locate below and above the lesion maintain most of their functions.

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.

Today, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) announce the discovery of a new neural circuit in the brain that directly links the site of fear memory with an area of the brainstem that controls behavior.

It provides us with the necessary knowledge to find ways to manipulate brain circuits and improve short term memory in affected individuals,» Martinez - Trujillo said.

A team of CSHL scientists have discovered a new neural circuit in the brain that directly links the site of fear memory with an area of the brainstem that controls behavior.

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.

«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.»

So far scientists do not understand the underlying mechanisms, but if bird brains share certain key circuits with humans, then scientists may find answers by studying them.

In this way, brain circuits are remodeled with use.

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.

This pruning changes the relative density of receptors in the circuit linking the area of the brain involved with processing rewards (the basal ganglia) and the area of the brain implicated in inhibition and control (the prefrontal cortex).

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?»

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

And when people respond well to placebos, they show stronger activation in brain circuits that control pain compared with those who are less susceptible to the placebo response.

This work provides an insight into the areas of the brain that are activated when an individual is presented with an aversive food and suggests that the reward circuit may also encode disgust.

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

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.

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

The take - home lesson is that the brain has specific cortical circuits that, when triggered, are associated with sensations that arise in the course of wanting to initiate and then carry out a voluntary action.

With no SOCE, the wiring process to create a «flight circuit» in the fly brain did not develop — so, why is this important?

By simply activating certain circuits in the brains of female prairie voles, researchers made them «fall in love» with specific males.

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.

Deisseroth and Kreitzer tagged that circuit with ChR2 and delivered blue light directly into the brains of mice.

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.

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 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.

Functional loss of limb control in individuals with spinal cord injury or stroke can be caused by interruption of the neural pathways between brain and spinal cord, although the neural circuits located above and below the lesion remain functional.

«If you really want to deal with the right [brain] circuit, you have to work with the right stimuli,» she says.

When adults learn hierarchical rules, Frank and Collins have combined experimental data with computer models of brain function to suggest, that the key circuit involved is a connection between the PFC and another region called the striatum.

Scientists have long speculated that the act of seeing things in our mind's eye employs some of the same brain circuits that we use when seeing with our physical eyes.

Laird said she sees problems with the practice of labeling a set of regions in the brain as a specific circuit, such as the «hate circuit.»

Compared to controls, patients with depression had decreased fractional anisotropy (FA), a measure of the structural integrity of white matter connections, around an area near the deep gray matter of the brain that is strongly associated with the brain's reward circuit.

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

The group employed various viral tracing methods — infecting receptor - expressing neurons with a virus strain and watching them spread as they label infected cells with a fluorescent protein — to visualize the neural circuit downstream of the ESP1 receptor, as well as providing an image of nerve fibers belonging to specific neurons in the brain and synapses relaying impulses from neuron to neuron, to map the anatomical foundation that conveys ESP1 signals in the brain.

However, much work is needed to conclusively show that depressed patients do indeed have problems with their hate control that are tied to this brain circuit.