Sentences with phrase «brain circuits work»

Both studies are helping scientists better understand how brain circuits work.

«If you want to understand how brain circuits work, you first need to know how many pieces there are, of what types, and how are they distributed.

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When we hold an item in working memory, these oscillations move through brain circuits in waves that rise and fall scores of times.

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.

«We now know much more about how the cells work and how they best become integrated into the circuits in the brain.»

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.

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.

«Our current research work is a further indication that there is no way around simulating brain circuits in their natural size if we want to gain solid knowledge,» says Diesmann.

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

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.

«Precise control of brain circuit alters mood: Pacemaker circuit keeps emotional centers working together.»

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.

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

Scientists in recent years have made great strides in the quest to understand the brain by using implanted probes to explore how specific neural circuits work.

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.

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.

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.

«Any new rules, circuits, or understanding of how the brain works will allow us to design neuromorphic machines that are much more powerful in terms of cognitive power, energy efficiency, and packaging,» Curioni said.

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.

«Our work shows a crisp division of labor within memory circuits of the brain,» he said.

Neuroscientists at Duke University have introduced a new paradigm for brain - machine interfaces that investigates the physiological properties and adaptability of brain circuits, and how the brains of two or more animals can work together to complete simple tasks.

Optogenetics works at micro scale, and fMRI covers wide regions of the brain — together this means that scientists have a way to intervene and experiment with entire brain circuits, to finally see how a certain type of brain cell affects the wider global activity of the entire brain.

«Once we unravel the different working patterns and circuits in the brain during memory formation and decision - making, we can begin to look for differences in connectivity patterns that underlie abnormalities,» Harvey said.

Yuste hopes that seeing how the circuits work in real time might lead to new insights into the human brain and tell us more about mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, for example.

Iacoboni is best known for his work studying mirror neurons, a small circuit of cells in the brain that may be an important element of social cognition.

The results of their work, the researchers say, may advance scientific understanding of how genes linked to the risk of human bipolar disorder change neuronal circuits in the brain, and may offer an animal model for testing new treatments.

The work of Rakic and Jessell has provided, for the first time, a general framework for understanding the assembly of neural circuits within the mammalian brain.

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.

In essence, this would be a detailed, real - time motion picture of the circuits of the brain at work, built up from imagery of the electrical charges between neurons.

We now host a rat and mouse brain work bench (www.rbwb.org), providing access to repositories, databases, and analytical tools, for circuit level as well as molecular distribution data.

«The main hypothesis of how the cortex works is that it's a circuit built out of modules, like little bricks that repeat throughout the brain,» says Yuste.

The brain holds in mind what has just been seen by synchronizing brain waves in a working memory circuit, an animal study supported by the National Institutes of Health suggests.

A brain visual working memory circuit holds information in mind about what has just been seen.

«I think the ultimate goal of the cellular approach is to find out how the brain works in the sort of circuit diagram sense.»

Uhlhaas and colleagues summarize decades of work to hypothesize that «in ASDs abnormal brain maturation during early prenatal and postnatal periods results in cortical circuits that are unable to support the expression of high - frequency oscillations during infancy.

Thank the anthocyanins (antioxidants that lend berries their hues); these substances may work with other compounds in the fruit to block enzymes that short - circuit normal communication between brain cells.

«It works on the brain's reward circuit, providing the sensation of novelty,» says Dr. John.

Writing by hand activates a neural circuit in your brain that isn't working when you type.

Johnny Depp (The Lone Ranger, Dark Shadows) stars as Berkeley scientist Dr. Will Caster, who, along with his wife and research partner Evelyn (Hall, Closed Circuit), has been working on a way to create large networks run by highly advanced artificial intelligence, hoping to use his colleague Max Waters» (Bettany, Iron Man 3) software to upload contents of one's brain into such an intelligence to develop its sentient traits.

This book will be of great value to our understanding of how effective emotionally - focused group work can act as a growth - facilitating environment for optimizing brain circuits in the «social» «emotional» right brain, the biological substrate of the human unconscious mind.