Sentences with phrase «brain pathways involved»

After all, the brain pathways involved in paying attention have also been linked to sleep.

Erenumab is an antibody that blocks a brain pathway involving a molecule called CGRP, which becomes more abundant during migraines.

Not exact matches

«The pathway mainly involves signalling via the brains» immune cells, and thus differs from how today's drugs operate.

The olfactory system comprises six million to 10 million receptor cells (of which there are nearly 400 different types) and links to multiple brain structures and neural pathways, including those involved in memory, emotion and movement.

Because opioid pathways are involved in diverse processes in the brain that aren't all directly related to pain, he says, «I didn't come away with the impression that this definitively means that empathy and pain share fundamental processes.»

The team demonstrated that GPR158 affects key signaling pathways involved in mood regulation in the region of the brain called prefrontal cortex, though the researchers emphasized that the exact mechanisms remain to be established.

Their findings may turn out to be important when it comes to research into cerebral cancer, since it is known that components of the Hippo signaling pathway, such as neurofibromin 2, are involved in the generation of brain tumors.

The researchers plan on imaging the brains of these monkeys to find neural pathways that are involved in autism.

«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.

There needn't be an actual competition between two or more pathways, at least not in the areas of the brain thought to be involved in decision - making.»

When the researchers used optogenetics, a biological technique which involves the use of light to control neurons, to inhibit the key social - spatial pathway they had identified in the brain, the test mouse wandered freely through the space.

A new study using different brain imaging techniques linked the intensity of an individual's placebo effect to the amount of dopamine (a neurotransmitter involved in the pleasure and reward pathway) released in a midbrain region called the nucleus accumbens.

Researchers aiming to understand why autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are more common in boys have discovered differences in a brain signaling pathway involved in reward learning and motivation that make male mice more vulnerable to an autism - causing genetic glitch.

«It is unclear how young plasma benefits old brains, but it is likely that multiple pathways are involved,» he says.

Nearly 20 percent of children with NF1 develop brain tumors that involve the optic pathway, affecting the nerves that carry vision - related signals from the eye to the brain.

When the scientists tried to trigger LTP in these brain slices with electrical stimulation or chemicals, they found that methods that fired up cellular pathways involving the molecule cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) didn't work.

Using a series of electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies, Park plans to go beyond naming the brain region where magnitude processing takes place to identify the anatomy and function of neural pathways involved in magnitude processing and reveal neural mechanisms that support mathematical thinking.

«While the field has focused on some obvious receptor pathways in the brain, these are involved in many different functions and side effects are impossible to avoid.

Moreover, PHENONIM - ICS is involved in European projects presenting a strong impact on human health: Interreg CARDIOGENE (Genetic mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases), GENCODYS (Genetic and epigenetic networks involved in cognitive dysfunctions), AgedBrainSYSBIO (Basic studies of brain aging), as well as projects in partnership with industry: MAGenTA (an Industrial Strategic Innovation project supported by Bpifrance about the treatment of major urogenital diseases) and CanPathPro (H2020 program), to develop a predictive modeling platform of signaling pathways involved in cancers.

Why it matters: Parkinson's disease is marked by the loss of dopamine in the brain's nigrostriatal neural pathway, which is one of four major pathways for this hormone and neurotransmitter in the brain; the disease primarily affects part of the motor system involved in the production and coordination of movement.

His work seeks to identify how different kinds of stressful information reach the brain and to unravel the pathways and molecules involved in conveying this information to brain centers.

«Learning a new habit involves the brain developing neural pathways for that action.

While you're asleep, your body works to repair tissues (including those involved in muscle growth and healing injuries), regulate hormone levels, and form new pathways in your brain for learning and memory.

It is intriguing that the same neurotransmitter pathway is involved in the regulation of both food intake, bone remodeling, and behavioral brain functions.

The Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility reported the novel finding that this bacteria's effect on anxiety involves modulating the vagal pathways within the gut - brain:

Central adaptations might involve the reduction of the eccentric - specific voluntary activation deficit, perhaps by either increased net excitability of the spinal reflex pathway, or by increased motor learning through increased functional connectivity between the primary motor cortex and other parts of the brain.

These likely contribute to inflammaging and alteration of redox status, which can exert effects on the brain through the age - related increase in bacteria involved in the tryptophan metabolism pathway; findings supported by the demonstrated reduction of tryptophan in the serum of centenarians.

In a stressful situation that involves a perceived threat, the amygdala causes a surge of cortisol, a stress hormone, and shuts down the neural pathway to the pre-frontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking and complex decision making.

, Levitin insists on informing us repeatedly and in detail about how various regions or pathways in the brain are «involved in» the various cognitive and behavioral phenomena he surveys.

Supporting Seligman's idea that well - being ultimately comes through psychological pathways, Csikszentmihalyi noted in his book, Flow: The psychology of optimal experience., that «flow can not be a purely physical process: muscles and brain must be equally involved.»

They say we have an inordinate number of neural pathways in the brain that are involved in that mask we call a face.

Neural activity within brain regions innervated by serotonergic neural pathways, such as the human amygdala, may serve as another likely information processing mechanism involved in the storage and transmission of cultural values of individualism and collectivism.

Regardless of what's triggering this emotional condition — sad experiences, a genetic predisposition, or biological causes — the fact remains that there is a common pathway involving changes in brain chemistry causing depression.