Sentences with phrase «brain researchers demonstrated»

Recently, brain researchers demonstrated that our visual acuity is at its best when a visual stimulus appears as the alpha wave is near a certain peak.

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Researchers from the University of Houston have demonstrated how brain activity is used to identify different terrains — level ground and stairs, for example — a key step in developing prosthetics that allow the user's prosthesis to automatically adjust to changing ground conditions in real time.

The international team of researchers succeeded in demonstrating for the first time that the brain is able to compensate even massive changes in neuronal activity within a period of two days, and can return to an activity level similar to that before the change.

Now, researchers have demonstrated for the first time that even an organism without a brain — a kind of jellyfish — shows sleep - like behaviour, suggesting that the origins of sleep are more primitive than thought.

Brazilian researchers from the D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR) and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) have demonstrated the harmful effects of ZIKA virus (ZIKV) in human neural stem cells, neurospheres and brain organoids.

These researchers say they have demonstrated that exposure to a single blast equivalent to that generated by a typical improvised explosive device (IED) can result in CTE and long - term brain impairments that accompany the disease.

Researchers said the work, done at the University's Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory, is the first to demonstrate that a brain - computer interface can promote and enhance cortical involvement during walBrain - Machine Interface System Laboratory, is the first to demonstrate that a brain - computer interface can promote and enhance cortical involvement during walbrain - computer interface can promote and enhance cortical involvement during walking.

Researchers have demonstrated how to decode what the human brain is seeing by using artificial intelligence to interpret fMRI scans from people watching videos, representing a sort of mind - reading technology.

Researchers also demonstrated that if you produced lesions in the brain's supply center of dopamine, the rats lost interest in amphetamines.

But Holtzman and other researchers previously demonstrated that plaques of amyloid - beta protein build up faster in the brains of APOE4 carriers (SN: 7/30/11, p. 9).

New findings by researchers at the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I - LABS) at the University of Washington demonstrate for the first time that an early social behavior called gaze shifting is linked to infants» ability to learn new language sounds.

While previous research has indicated that sleep disruption and psychiatric disorders often occur together, this latest study is the first to causally demonstrate that sleep loss triggers excessive anticipatory brain activity associated with anxiety, researchers said.

Researchers at the University Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the MedUni Vienna have now demonstrated by means of a meta - analysis of functional image data that increased activations in the involuntary attention system in the brain are responsible for these disorders in MS patients.

Using an in vitro human blood brain barrier model, the researchers demonstrated that radiolabeled mAb2556 could cross the blood brain barrier and kill HIV - infected cells without any overt damage to the barrier itself.

In a study to be published in Psychological Science, researchers from Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen demonstrate that brain cells in what is called the mirror system help people make sense of the actions they see other people perform in everyday life.

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.

This is completely new knowledge, as researchers have not previously demonstrated that there is a form of inflammation of the brain in patients who are at risk of developing Parkinson's disease.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have demonstrated a method to accelerate motor skill recovery after a stroke by helping the brain reorganize itself more quickly.

Now, University of Washington researchers have demonstrated that when humans use this technology — called a brain - computer interface — the brain behaves much like it does when completing simple motor skills such as kicking a ball, typing or waving a hand.

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have demonstrated that distinct types of glioblastoma, the most common form of brain cancer in adults, tend to develop in different regions of the brain.

Researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (INc - UAB) and the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) are the first to demonstrate that regulation of the brain's Klotho gene using gene therapy protects against age - related learning and memory problems in mice.

The researchers» fMRI findings backed these assessments, demonstrating that such stereotypical biases may be entrenched in the brain's visual system, specifically in the fusiform cortex, a region involved in the visual processing of faces.

Researchers at Radboud University use visual illusions to demonstrate to what extent the brain interprets visual signals.

Researchers demonstrated that the drugs pemetrexed and gemcitabine killed cells from mouse and human brain tumors, called group 3 medulloblastoma, growing in the laboratory.

Researchers from the INc - UAB and the VHIR are the first to demonstrate that regulation of the brain's Klotho gene using gene therapy protects against age - related learning and memory problems in mice.

Newswise — Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have demonstrated that distinct types of glioblastoma, the most common form of brain cancer in adults, tend to develop in different regions of the brain.

A new study by Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers strongly supports the latter, demonstrating that abnormal tau protein, a key feature of the neurofibrillary tangles seen in the brains of those with Alzheimer's, propagates along linked brain circuits, «jumping» from neuron to neuron.

Summary: In a finding with implications to human speech acquisition, University of Chicago researchers have shown how a bird's brain controls singing and demonstrated for the first time that structures higher up in the brain directly control the more abstract information, while the component bits are managed by lower brain centers.

Recently, researchers demonstrated that pyramidal cells may exhibit heterogeneity within the subiculum; in other words, subclasses of these cells may relay different signals to different areas of the brain.

UC San Francisco researchers have identified cells» unique features within the developing human brain, using the latest technologies for analyzing gene activity in individual cells, and have demonstrated that large - scale cell surveys can be done much more efficiently and cheaply than was previously thought possible.

The researchers demonstrate that they can measure brain activity while people make natural movements, including nodding, stretching, drinking tea and even playing ping pong.

Further supporting this conclusion, the researchers demonstrated that accumulation of amyloid - beta in the brains of mice also reduced neuronal BRCA1 levels.

Demonstrated in Science in 2015, the system represents a noninvasive prototype that could help researchers unravel the neuronal underpinnings of brain disorders and someday help treat recalcitrant psychiatric and neurological diseases — without resorting to the bulky electrodes currently used for deep brain stimulation in the treatment of Parkinson's disease and some forms of depression.

Kessler Foundation researchers published results of their TBI - MEM trial, the first study to demonstrate significant changes in cerebral activation after memory retraining in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI).

McGehee and his colleague, post-doctoral researcher Huibert Mansvelder, PhD, working with brain tissue from rats, demonstrated how nicotine takes control of the reward pathways.

It's possible to glean private information like PIN numbers, credit cards, addresses, and birthdays «leaked» from brain signals, as researchers demonstrated in a 2013 paper on the privacy and security implications of brain - controlled consumer products.

In one study presented to the Radiological Society of North America, researchers found that young people with a so - called internet and smartphone addition actually demonstrated imbalances in brain chemistry compared to a control group.

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that probiotics have a direct effect on brain chemistry under normal conditions.

The researchers also showed that regular feeding with the Lactobacillus strain caused changes in the expression of receptors for the neurotransmitter GABA in the mouse brain, which is the first time that it has been demonstrated that potential probiotics have a direct effect on brain chemistry in normal situations.

The researchers demonstrated that when we have a prolonged habit of negative thinking, it can cause a decline in the brain's ability to think, reason, and form memories thus contributing to AD

Researchers of cognitive psychology in Quebec, Canada exploring the effect of stress on our brains have found an important link: numerous studies have demonstrated significant connections between stress, anxiety, distractibility, and the functioning of short term memory.