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The fact that the fish behaves like we do, says Wang, could be a sign that it too has a unique brain pathway for face recognition.

Not exact matches

The pathway for emotional intelligence starts in the brain, at the spinal cord.

Exercise could strengthen some of the pathways our brain uses to relay signals for recent events, or boost the size of certain brain regions that are key for learning and storing memories.

When dopamine flows into the brain's reward pathway (the part responsible for pleasure, learning and motivation), we not only feel greater concentration but are inspired to re-experience the activity that caused the chemical release in the first place.

While upside down in what must have been her hundredth attempt to stand on her hands for more than a few seconds, our first grader said, «You know, my teacher told me that every time we try to learn something, a new pathway grows in our brain.»

The pathway for the nerve that controls the MER runs through the brain, so infant sucking or thoughts about your baby can trigger the MER, causing uncomfortable letdown sensations in some women.

The key to learning a second language during your child's baby years is that their brain's networks and pathways haven't fully formed yet, so their brain is able to set up the «network» for both languages at once while they are babies, something that adult brains just can't do.

How we feel during pregnancy, how we give birth and how we care for the baby, are creating neural pathways in her brain, forming who she will become and how she will see the world», says Naomi.

The more you choose a helpful or positive thought over a toxic thought or to step away and take a deep breath when you're angry, the easier it will become for your brain to take that new pathway.

We are now beginning to understand some facets of human emotionality, decision - making, morality, trauma and the drive for political power down to the cellular level, by observing changes in neurochemistry, neural pathways, and neuro - anatomical transformations in the brain.

«It was remarkably serendipitous that when we learned which brain pathway cocaine acts on, we already knew of a compound, CGP3466B, that blocks that specific pathway,» says Solomon Snyder, M.D., a professor of neuroscience in the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«Our findings can help guide the development of technologies to more effectively incorporate DHA into food and exploit this pathway to maximize the potential for improved nutritionals to improve brain growth and function.

In April, researchers led by Hongkui Zeng of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle assembled the first road map of neural pathways — called a connectome — inside the mouse brain (lBrain Science in Seattle assembled the first road map of neural pathways — called a connectome — inside the mouse brain (lbrain (left).

Based on this surprising new information, Dr Silver's team showed that Mfsd2a is the major pathway for the uptake of DHA carried in the chemical form of LPCs by the growing fetal brain and by adult brain.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

And drugs with similar fingerprints tended to tweak the same molecular pathways, which suggests zebrafish behaviour is a good indicator for how a drug will change chemistry in the human brain.

Because the study directly implicates a specific protein pathway in a specific part of a patient's brain, Liu said a strategy for further research could be to deliver a drug that compensates for the lack of CLOCK, or perhaps a protein it affects, directly in that location.

«New pathway for fear discovered deep within brain.»

An emerging understanding of the brain's stress pathways points toward treatments for anxiety and depression beyond Valium and Prozac

For familiar and basic tasks, the aging brain opens new pathways, enlisting untapped regions and neurons, installing patches where needed.

By taking advantage of available pathways, aging brains may find an alternate route to complete the neural computations necessary for functioning,» said Davis.

As a whole, the findings suggest the proteins act on the gut — brain axis — the collection of two - way nerve and chemical pathways that communicate between the digestive tract and the brain — and that GDF15 might be a clinical target for metabolic disorders.

The roots of hydrocephalus remain murky, but for those linked to brain bleeds, the hypothesis was that blood clots — necessary to stop the bleeding — blocked the razor - thin pathways through which cerebrospinal fluid must travel to exit the brain.

«Discovering new pathways and therapies that can be tested in the clinic provides the greatest hope for brain cancer patients and their families,» says Weiss, leader of the university's Brain and Mental Health strategic research priobrain cancer patients and their families,» says Weiss, leader of the university's Brain and Mental Health strategic research prioBrain and Mental Health strategic research priority.

For decades, brain research has focused on the pleasurable effects of cocaine largely by studying the dopamine pathway.

When they measured the concentrations in the same area in chimp brains, the team found that the differences between chimps and normal humans were much greater for those nine than for the 12 metabolites not implicated in schizophrenia, suggesting that energy pathways implicated in schizophrenia were also altered by human evolution, the team reports this week in Genome Biology.

For example, even after balance returns, the brain might still recruit different pathways to compensate for the structural brain changes caused by spacefligFor example, even after balance returns, the brain might still recruit different pathways to compensate for the structural brain changes caused by spacefligfor the structural brain changes caused by spaceflight.

Testing both for odor identification and got the odor detection threshold could determine whether abnormalities could be traced to olfactory neurons in the nasal passages or to the odor processing pathways in the brain.

Her confusion shows for the first time that the brain processes fear and mixed emotions through a different pathway from those used to process other feelings.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified a pathway in the brain responsible for the ability to control this impulsive behavior.

In earlier research, they found that FGF21 acts via the brain's reward pathway in mice to suppress the desire for sugar and alcohol in favor of drinking water.

The new pathway projects to the visual cortex (V1 for short) in the back of the brain, where the features of the object are analyzed (for color, orientation of edges, movement, and so on).

Male offspring showed stronger motivation to self - administer heroin during their adulthood and molecular changes in the glutamatergic system, which is the most important excitatory pathway for neurotransmission in the brain.

Artistic expression has all the earmarks of a genetically evolved capacity: It appears early in life, is enjoyable for its own sake, exists across all cultures, and is mediated by ancient neural pathways in the brain.

In one study the researchers found that high fat feeding reorganizes the gut - to - brain neural pathway and triggers inflammation in brain regions responsible for feeding behavior.

«If you're looking for very specific molecular targets or pathways in the brain, and how drugs might act on them, the difference between human cells and mouse cells is significant.»

This suggests that the areas responsible for music and language share common brain pathways.

For the first time, researchers find that decisions based on unconscious learning, or knowledge we don't know we know, may rely on entirely different brain pathways than the parts of the brain we use when we make conscious, rational choices.

«They have found a smoking gun in the human genome that connects a regulatory element with a proposed pathway for increasing brain size,» says Todd Preuss, a neuroanatomist at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, who was not involved with the work.

«They may have stopped using while incarcerated, but nothing has been done to change the pathways in the brain responsible for addiction,» Rich said.

«We hope this atlas will be a roadmap for the field to explore the relationship between specific cell types, signaling pathways, receptors, and the physiological function of brain circuits,» Kriegstein added.

Led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), the findings suggest that brain networks — the interconnected pathways that link brain circuits to one another — can help guide site selection for brain stimulation therapies.

A scientific disagreement — In an 1881 neuroanatomy atlas, Wernicke, a well - known anatomist who in 1874 discovered «Wernicke's area,» which is essential for language, wrote about a fiber pathway in a monkey brain he was examining.

Dario C. Altieri, M.D., Wistar's President and CEO and lead author of the study, and colleagues showed how the activation of this pathway leads to an unfavorable prognosis for patients with gliomas — a type of brain tumor — and how the pathway could be a valuable therapeutic target in cancer.

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One reason many potential therapies for alcohol abuse have been unsuccessful is because they inhibit the brain's reward pathways, causing an overall decline in the experience of pleasure.

Therefore, miR - 7 / KLF4 pathway may facilitate a reciprocal interaction of CSCs and these brain cells that generates a suitable niche for CSCs, although this hypothesis needs to be experimentally tested.

«People with increased cognitive reserve capabilities may actually heal in a different way that allows them to return to their pre-injury function and / or they may be able to better adapt and form new pathways in their brains to compensate for the injury,» Schneider says.

For nearly a decade, scientists have been trying to fully understand a particular communication pathway inside of cells that contributes to many malignant brain and prostate cancers.

«It's been postulated that the brain could have separate pathways for local and global [information processing], and we wanted to rigorously examine that hypothesis,» says Cembrowski.