Sentences with phrase «brain connections lost»

Post mortems showed that brain connections lost in the untreated mice remained healthy, and completely normal protein production had resumed in the treated animals, even though the prions continued to accumulate.

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What continues to be lost, in my view, in much of what the media has reported over the last six years about the results of autopsies conducted by researchers at the Sports Legacy Institute in Boston on the brains of athletes - autopsies which show the presence of the dark splotches of tau protein which are the tell - tale sign of CTE - which is that they provide, at most, anecdotal evidence suggesting a possible connection.

An artificial connection that bridges the lost pathway and connects brain to spinal circuits has potential to ameliorate the functional loss.

Shrinkage, dopamine depletion, and lost dendritic connections are not the only problems facing the aging brain.

USE it or lose it: a class of immune cell demolishes idle circuits and connections in the brain, even a healthy one.

This hypothesis might help explain why prodromal symptoms occur: As connections between neurons dwindle, prodromal patients might lose, for example, the ability to filter out irrelevant sensations, which then flood the brain without any processing.

But in aging brains, neurons start to lose connections and don't communicate as well.

An artificial neural connection that bridges the lost pathway and connects brain to spinal circuits has potential to ameliorate the functional loss.

The exercise, researchers presumed, rebuilt the connection between the brain and the spinal cord, awakening, or even regrowing, the locomotive neural circuits the injured patient had lost.

Similarly, a readily rewired grid helps to explain how people recover from brain injuries by making new connections to regain lost functions.

Once many of these connections are made, the brain employs a use - it or lose - it strategy; if the organism's subsequent experiences stimulate the synapse, it will strengthen and survive.

We can potentially bypass the damaged part of the brain where connections have been lost and deliver information to an intact part of the brain.»

However, delivering this information to the part of the brain responsible for processing sensory inputs does not work if this part of the brain is injured or the connections between it and the motor cortex are lost.

New research is helping scientists figure out how to harness the brain's plasticity to rewire these lost connections, an advance that could accelerate the development of neuro - prosthetics.

Engineered neuroplasticity is a new form of rehabilitation that uses engineered devices to restore lost or injured connections in the brain, spinal cord and other areas of the nervous system.

«Our implantable devices aim to bridge such lost connections by decoding brain signals and stimulating the appropriate part of the spinal cord to enable the person to move again.»

Mice with a single insult temporarily lose 10 - 15 percent of the neuronal connections in their brains, but no inflammation or cell death resulted.

That connection may benefit those who have lost vision because of damage in the structures between the eye and the brain — the loss of an eye through trauma, for instance, or damage to the optic nerve.

Our researchers are discovering and applying principles of engineered neuroplasticity, which is a new form of physical rehabilitation that uses engineered devices to restore lost or injured connections in the brain, spinal cord and other areas of the nervous system.

These disruptions cause neurons in the brain to stop working properly, lose connections with other cells, and then die.

And that literally creates neural connections in your brain that give you the sense there's something wrong with me; I need lose weight.

DM is a progressive, ascending condition of the spinal cord in which, simply put, the cord slowly loses connection with the dog's brain.

I caught the «rushing syndrome», and that, combined with a teaching career at a school which held an incredible demand for achieving «perfection», caused my overstimulated brain to lose its connection with my purpose.

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