Sentences with phrase «brain mechanisms at»

Further research is needed to confirm the results and reveal the underlying brain mechanisms at play.

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But whatever the mechanism, the bottom line is that if your brain is a bit frazzled from fear of failure or previous setbacks of any kind, simply taking a few minutes to think (or write) about past successes before you tackle any cognitively demanding task is likely to help your brain perform at its peak.

For all the misplaced criticisms aimed at lawmakers» attempts to unpack Zuckerberg's brain — or push him off script — the CEO's testimony told a chilling tale of an immature company seemingly untended and out of control, scrambling to establish mechanisms aimed at preventing the bad stuff from ever happening again.

Seeking additional insight into similar mechanisms at work in other centers of the brain, Donato and his team discovered that the signal to develop one area known to be involved in more abstract functions, including memory and navigation, originated from deep within the brain, in a specific population of neurons that kicks off the maturation of an entire neural network.

This LTP mechanism is how the brain operates at the cellular level to allow us to learn and remember.

Having previously found that molecules called cryptochromes embedded in birds» retinas both respond to light and detect magnetic fields, scientists at the University of Oldenburg in Germany recently showed that avian brains incorporate clever mechanisms for processing the geomagnetic information.

Dr. Michael M. Yartsev, Research Associate and C.V. Starr Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University receives the US$ 25,000 research prize for his work using the bat as an unusual animal model to study the underlying neural mechanisms of spatial memory and navigation in the mammalian brain.

Ron Duman and colleagues at Yale University began their search for a mechanism behind depression by comparing post-mortem brain samples from 21 people who had been depressed and 18 people of the same age.

She notes that this study looked at only static body postures, but together with subsequent experiments — including one in which people watched videos of gymnasts — it offers a possible mechanism for how the brain predicts what will happen a few seconds ahead of what we experience.

New research, led by scientists at the University of Southampton, has found that neurogenesis, the self - repairing mechanism of the adult brain, can help to preserve brain function in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Prion or Parkinson's.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have uncovered a mechanism that guides the exquisite wiring of neural circuits in a developing brain — gaining unprecedented insight into the faulty circuits that may lead to brain disorders ranging from autism to mental retardation.

Barclay Morrison III, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has led the first study to determine underlying biological mechanisms that promote functional recovery of the blood - brain barrier (BBB) after blast injury.

«Not enough research has been done on the mechanisms driving sensory problems in autism, but it's important because sensory processing probably affects to some degree how the brain develops,» said co-author Yong - hui Jiang, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics and neurobiology at Duke.

In essence, the presence of an audience, at least a small one, increased people's incentive to perform well, Chib said, and the brain scans validated this by showing the neural mechanism for how it happens.

So, what happens that the researchers were looking at, this moment, when the bees suddenly lost weight, and they found that it is dictated by the queen bee's pheromones, which trigger this insulin mechanism in the bees» brains that causes them to lose weight.

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham report the discovery of a novel mechanism in the brain involved in the formation of memory and learning.

Medina and his colleagues also suspect that another mechanism is at play: Purkinje cells might respond differently when a signal from a climbing fiber is synchronized with signals coming elsewhere from the brain.

In a major breakthrough, a team led by researchers at the Salk Institute and Harvard Medical School have identified an important neural mechanism in the spinal cord that appears to be capable of sending erroneous pain signals to the brain.

But in the study being published, researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Karolinska Institutet present a molecular time mechanism that can help explain neuronal stem cell regulation and therefore also the occurrence of cellular diversity in the brain.

«They've used these natural mechanisms to make the vesicles [polymersomes] mobile, and the delivery rate of the vesicles into the brain is astounding,» says William Banks, a professor of internal medicine at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System at the University of Washington, who was not involved in the research.

Scientists at the Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit at the University of Oxford have pinpointed two distinct mechanisms in the human brain that control the balance between speed and accuracy when making decisBrain Network Dynamics Unit at the University of Oxford have pinpointed two distinct mechanisms in the human brain that control the balance between speed and accuracy when making decisbrain that control the balance between speed and accuracy when making decisions.

Most interestingly, the insight that users» brains can subconsciously detect phishing attacks, even though users themselves may fail at detecting them, can be used to build future automated phishing detection mechanisms based on neural activity.

«This work is exciting in that it highlights a brain - based mechanism that supports a human's use of reactive control — the rapid and flexible deployment of attention to reduce susceptibility to distraction,» said Julie Bugg, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Washington University who was not an author on the study.

At high triglyceride contents, the brain adapts to obtain its reward, similar to the mechanisms observed when people consume drugs.

A different possible mechanism, proposed by Juan Salinas, a lecturer specializing in the neuropharmacology of learning and memory at the University of Texas at Austin, resembles the neurobiological hypothesis, given that ADHD involves a dysfunctional release of dopamine in the brain.

«We wanted to understand the mechanism by which the brain circuit operates,» explained senior author Assistant Professor Shawn Je, from the Neuroscience and Behavioural Disorders Programme at Duke - NUS.

Today at the 93rd General Session and Exhibition of the International Association for Dental Research, researcher Michael L. Meier, Center for Dental Medicine, University of Zürich, Switzerland, will present a study titled «Distinct Brain Mechanisms Related to Dental Pain Relief.»

While there was evidence to support the theory that there were homeostatic mechanisms at work in the brain to stabilize neuronal activity, it was unclear which precise properties were regulated.»

At a time when brain researchers thought nothing could be learned from invertebrates, Kandel stunned the fledgling world of neuroscience by uncovering the mechanisms of memory in sea slugs, which earned him a Nobel Prize in 2000.

«Our findings reveal, for the first time, that DNA methylation, acting as a dynamic mechanism in the mammalian brain, plays a central role in the animal's psychological and physiological orientation to the length of the day,» said co-author Brian Prendergast, professor in psychology at the University of Chicago.

To Francis Heylighen, who studies consciousness and artificial intelligence at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) in Belgium, consciousness is merely a system of mechanisms for making information processing more efficient by adding a level of control over which of the brain's processes get the most resources.

«Almost nothing is known» about the molecular and cellular mechanism by which water is detected in the mouth and throat, and the neural pathway by which that signal is transmitted to the brain, says Zachary Knight, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco.

«We're trying to get at the heart of the mechanism behind neurodegenerative diseases and with this research believe we've found one that seems to be commonly disrupted in many of them, suggesting that similar drugs may work for some or all of these disorders,» says Jeffrey Rothstein, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of neurology and neuroscience, and director of the Brain Science Institute and the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

A previously unknown mechanism through which the brain produces new nerve cells after a stroke has been discovered at Lund University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.

«These findings provide new insight into the mechanisms and timing of the brain disruption caused by Zika infection, and the sequence of developmental anomalies that may occur,» said del Campo, who also serves as a medical geneticist at Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego.

What's more, the same mechanisms are likely at play in one of the most common forms of epilepsy, called temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), which targets brain regions responsible for learning and memory.

As a Ph.D. candidate in cognitive and neural systems at Boston University, he began developing large - scale models of the brain that could be used to understand neural mechanisms.

In 2014, researchers at Karolinska Institutet reported that they had discovered a mechanism behind the beneficial effect of exercise training on the brain.

The study, published May 6, 2016 in Cell Stem Cell, also shows that inhibiting this mechanism reduces brain cell damage, hinting at a new therapeutic approach to mitigating the effects of prenatal Zika virus infection.

It is widely accepted that self - control is regulated by mechanisms in the brain area called the «prefrontal cortex,» with the ability to keep oneself at bay when tempted by immediately appealing offers.

Scientists at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have identified a possible biochemical mechanism by which the specialized brain cells known as neurons create and maintain a long - term memory from a fleeting experience.

He and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin — Madison have begun to explore how fruit flies could help uncover the cellular mechanisms behind traumatic brain injury (TBI) in humans.

«This study gives a glimpse into the mechanism by which different mutations within the same gene can cause distinct defects in the brain, and may help to explain how they may contribute to different disorders,» says Guoping Feng, the James W. and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, a member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, and the senior author of the sbrain, and may help to explain how they may contribute to different disorders,» says Guoping Feng, the James W. and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, a member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, and the senior author of the sBrain Research, a member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, and the senior author of the study.

Meanwhile, in a separate study published online today in Science, an overlapping team at Genentech led by biologist Frederic de Sauvage describes the mechanism by which the man's brain tumor developed resistance.

Richard Mayeux at Columbia University in New York, US, says that the new findings make him more confident that brain injury can lead to Alzheimer's: «Until you know the mechanism, you always have to worry that there is no real direct link between the two diseases.»

Eye movements and the mechanisms by which the brain controls and processes what we choose to look at have been a major focus of neuroscience researchers for decades.

Researchers at OIST have successfully isolated and recorded the activity of a subset of neurons in the striatum in the brain, shedding light on one mechanism underlying learning and decision making in animals.

Recognising a need to better understand the biology that produces ASD symptoms, scientists at Duke - NUS Medical School (Duke - NUS) and the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI), Singapore, have teamed up and identified a novel mechanism that potentially links abnormal brain development to the cause of ASDs.

Using data from blood and brain tissue, a team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that they could gain insights into mechanisms that might help explain autism by analyzing the interplay between genes and chemical tags that control whether genes are used to make a protein, called epigenetic marks.

It also points to new mechanisms at work in the brain development of individuals and in species like humans over evolutionary time.