Sentences with phrase «brain researchers say»

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A «brain training» iPad game developed in Britain may improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia, helping them in their daily lives at home and at work, researchers said on Monday.

Among the questions researchers are asking: Does the process of innovating activate neuronal circuits in a particular part of the brain, the way that language, say, primarily activates circuits in parts of the brain's left hemisphere?

Though the researcher said there needs to be more research into the exact mechanisms of why that is, they concluded that «healthy sleep appears to play an important role in maintaining brain health with age, and may play a key role in [Alzheimer's disease] prevention.»

When Harvard - trained brain researcher Dr. Jill Bolte says she had a stroke of insight, she means it literally.

«If they could figure out a way to streamline, it would be a lot better,» said Kim Janda, a professor of chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who leads a team of researchers developing a vaccine that would prevent fentanyl overdoses by keeping the drug from reaching the brain.

The lead researcher, Dr. Matthew Walker... said the findings support the idea that sleep is a necessary process that clears the brain's short term memory storage so there is room to absorb new information.

As Fred Wolf of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self - Organization further explains, that «extraordinarily high deletion rate came as a huge surprise,» and it effectively means that information is lost in the brain as quickly as it can be delivered — something the researchers say has «fundamental consequences for our understanding of the neural code of the cerebral cortex.»

Says head researcher Alan Mackay - Sim, «Apart from neural and brain cells, they look like they can turn into blood cells, heart muscles, and skeletal muscle.»

for the man that says prayer is for the weak Harvard medical school researchers show prayer absolutely changes brain waves, much like running.

Researchers say 131 out of 165 of the football players» brains they studied — which works out to 79 percent — showed signs of CTE.

And some scientists say researchers are over eager to use brain science to prove the that meditation «works.»

«Kelly says she would get a daily list of the parts researchers wanted (eyes, livers, brains), and she understood that she was to procure the best, defect - free specimens.

Society isn't happy with single moms; according to a 2011 Pew Research Center study, nearly seven out of 10 said the trend toward single mothers was bad for society (although writer Tracy Mayor in Brain, Child magazine calls out the actual question asked by Pew researchers — how people felt about «more single women deciding to have children without a male partner to help raise them,» not whether they think single mothers per se are bad for society.

* Update: A 2012 study in the journal Neurology by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic (2) also found no link between intentional heading and acute brain damage (e.g. concussion), but said that it was at least theoretically possible that it could represent a form of repetitive subthreshold mild brain injury over time and could be the cause of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

«The study, which the researchers say is the first to link brain activity with maternal behavior, is likely to reinforce the convictions of breast - feeding mothers that they're doing right by their babies».

Players using current football helmets aren't adequately protected against hits to the side of the head, which can lead to sometimes - lethal concussions and brain swelling, researchers said.

Additionally, researchers say free play can significantly improve kids» problem - solving skills and is one of the best ways to stimulate children's brain development, while make - believe play

«For the first time, we have found that a sample of randomly assigned young adults showed less activation in certain frontal brain regions following a week of playing violent video games at home,» said one researcher.

Those changes in brain activity may inspire new ways to help insomniacs, the researchers say.

Limitations in tools used to track early development and subtle differences in brain development that become more noticeable with age may also help explain the lack of observable developmental differences before 24 months, researchers say.

The study, which the researchers say is the first to link brain activity with maternal behavior, is likely to reinforce the convictions of breast - feeding mothers that they're doing right by their babies and make formula - feeding moms squirm a little.

«It's disappointing that so many young athletes with apparent concussions choose not to report their symptoms to coaches or even parents, but they are often highly motivated to avoid being removed from play,» Keith O. Yeates, a pediatric traumatic brain injury researcher at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, said.

Harvard researchers Michael Commons and Patrice Miller say that when children are left to cry for long intervals, their little brains are flooded with a harmful hormone called cortisol.

«We found greater thickness in the left prefrontal cortex in the yoginis, in brain regions associated with cognitive functions such as attention and memory,» says Rui Afonso, another researcher involved in the study.

Endocast researchers need to study the range of brain surface characteristics in a larger sample of living chimps and other apes to make more accurate comparisons, Falk says.

As prescription opioid painkillers claim an alarming number of lives every year, researchers are racing to better understand the brain's response to stress, and to identify alternate interventions, speakers said 18 September at AAAS.

The brains of the super-agers showed less cortical thinning, or neuron loss in certain areas, said lead researcher Emily Rogalski, research associate professor at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Because its powerful technology can measure microstructural features in the brain, such as the diameter of nerve cell axons, it enables researchers to answer entirely new questions, says CUBRIC director Derek Jones.

This work could guide medical science by pointing researchers in the direction of other molecules that could be used to treat disorders of the brain, Slot said.

As they studied brain activity in the knockout mice, the researchers also found prominent changes in a receptor in the brain known as mGluR5 and other proteins that support the function of neurons and synapses, said co-lead author Xiaoming Wang, M.D., Ph.D., senior research associate in Duke's department of pediatrics.

The finding provides more evidence that the repetitive injuries to the brain sustained while playing American football are associated with the disease, researchers say.

The researchers collected the brain activity — five additional sensors were placed on the volunteers» faces to allow researchers to screen for the impact of random movement, including eye blinks — and then mapped the signals back to the brain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory abrain activity — five additional sensors were placed on the volunteers» faces to allow researchers to screen for the impact of random movement, including eye blinks — and then mapped the signals back to the brain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory abrain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory abrain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory aBrain - Machine Interface System Laboratory at UH.

But it is not just the function of immunological molecules in the developing brain that the new findings might help illuminate — they could also help explain the molecular processes involved in neurodegeneration, the researchers say.

Researchers were identifying neurotransmitters and their receptors, but «there was a tremendous amount that we didn't know about the brain,» says Sonntag — including exactly where those neurotransmitters were located and how they controlled behavior.

The researchers, reporting online March 5 in the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology, also say they found that an anti-inflammatory drug that is FDA - approved for rheumatoid arthritis and is believed to be safe for humans to take during pregnancy halted the brain injury in mouse offspring.

But the monkeys» brains aren't up to the task of enabling their airways to articulate words, researchers say.

Dr. Lobo said that this latest research could help researchers better understand changes in brain cells and mitochondria from other addictive disorders.

The researchers say that blocking IL - 1 halted a cascade of inflammatory responses that would otherwise lead to the activation of neuronal nitric oxide synthase in the fetal brain, an enzyme implicated in neurotoxicity.

«They may not look like a big deal from the outside, but if you listen in to the brain of a patient having one of these seizures, you can hear that the brain is in seizure,» says Josef Parvizi, a Stanford neuroscientist and epilepsy specialist who developed the brain stethoscope with colleague Chris Chafe, a music researcher at Stanford.

When the researchers tracked the stem cells in the mice's brains, they saw that only about 5 percent of them actually developed into neurons, suggesting the cells did not rescue memory by replacing dead neurons, LaFerla says.

«These findings suggest that even neurons we previously thought were «useless» because they didn't individually encode information have a purpose when working in concert with other neurons,» said researcher Julio Martinez - Trujillo, based at the Robarts Research Institute and the Brain and Mind Institute at Western University.

This represents real progress for many children, some of whom were hearing fewer than 6,000 words a day, well below the 19,000 to 21,000 words that researchers have said are optimal for brain development, she noted.

«Neuroscientists have learned a lot about brain circuits using the technique,» Zhou said, «and now researchers in many other fields are giving it a try.»

After imaging defiant metastatic cells in the brains of mice, researchers noticed that the cells that were able to survive grew on top of blood capillaries, each cell sticking closely to its vessel «like a panda bear hugging a tree trunk,» Dr. Massagué says.

On the organization's Web site it says: «The Brain Observatory is committed to maintaining the highest standards in open science, sharing all the images and data that are created in our laboratories with other researchers and the public.»

However, some mice experienced dangerous levels of brain swelling, a side effect of the immune response triggered by the engineered cells, the researchers said, adding that extreme caution will be needed to introduce the approach in human clinical trials.

When infants in the Dartmouth study were shown a moving picture of a starfish, the left and right hemispheres of their brains lit up (dark red indicates high brain activity; dark blue, low activity)-- but not as much as when researchers spoke to them, saying: «Hello, baby.

«This is the first demonstration that cells carrying a genetic disease are capable of spreading into the normal mammalian brain and lead to the manifestation of behavioral abnormalities associated with the disease,» says Francesca Cicchetti, professor at the Université Laval Faculty of Medecine and researcher at Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec - Université Laval.

Visual processing is likely to be similar to how the brain processes smells, touch or sounds, the researchers say, so the work could elucidate processing of data from these areas as well.

Psychiatric disorders are in fact brain disorders that involve abnormal activity in brain circuits, so having researchers who understand the brain in a deep and integrated way is going to be critical for the future, says Thomas Insel, director of the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).