"Brain rhythms" refers to the electrical activity happening in our brains. It refers to the patterns of waves produced by the neurons, or brain cells, communicating with each other. These rhythms help regulate various functions in the brain, such as attention, memory, and even sleep.
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Previous research, including studies by his group, have revealed that groups of neurons create a complex pattern
using brain rhythms.
We established formal partnerships with major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to develop compounds or identify targets that enhance interneuron function or
restore brain rhythms in models of AD and epilepsy.
On the possible role of
brain rhythms in speech perception: intelligibility of time - compressed speech with periodic and aperiodic insertions of silence.
Despite a 15,000-fold brain volume increase from the smallest to the largest mammal, «the dynamics
of brain rhythms vary remarkable little across species,» he says.
«Moreover, it might be even used to enhance other
brain rhythms with obvious functional significance — like rhythms that occur during wakefulness and are involved in the regulation of attention,» says Dr. Born.
We are currently focused on understanding the role of inhibitory interneurons and
oscillatory brain rhythms in cognitive functions in health and disease.
The current study considered the possibility that a live musical experience, i.e., the presence of live performers as well as an audience, might change the way
brain rhythms synchronize across audience members, thereby changing audience members» musical and affiliative experiences.
By varying the stimulation parameters, they found the minimum electric field strength needed to trigger neuronal firing or to
alter brain rhythms.
Moreover, individuals
whose brain rhythms were more synched up with other audience members enjoyed the concert more and felt more connected to the performers.
In new work she will be presenting at the CNS meeting today, Henry used the LIVELab at McMaster University to test how the presence of live performers and an audience changes the experience of concert - goers at a neural level, Specifically, she and colleagues looked
at brain rhythm synchronization.
«A 100 % result is unusual and very remarkable,» says Ming Zhou Ding, a biophysicist at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, who uses wavelet analysis to
study brain rhythms.
A study published on February 2 in Nature Communications ups the ante, reporting that conventional TES techniques do not deliver enough current to activate brain circuits or
modulate brain rhythms.
«Like a conductor in an orchestra, PV cells
regulate brain rhythms by precisely controlling excitatory brain activity,» said Laure Verret, PhD, postdoctoral fellow and lead author.
A team from the University of California, Berkeley conducted a research to see
how brain rhythms during sleep can impact memory loss.
«These properties make interneurons a promising therapeutic target for cognitive disorders associated with
brain rhythm abnormalities and epileptic activity.»
Moreover, network connectivity measures based on delta -
band brain rhythms predicted individuals» experience of the concert — individuals with more connections to other audience members enjoyed the concert more and felt more connected to the performers.
Detailed description of the phase synchronization calculation [29] is widely used in neurophysiology since the analysis can be restricted to certain frequency bands reflecting
specific brain rhythms, which allows relating the results to cognitive processes [38].
The paper «Nav1.1 - Overexpressing Interneuron Transplants
Restore Brain Rhythms and Cognition in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease» was published online by Neuron on March 15, 2018.
His primary goal is to understand the role of impaired inhibitory interneurons in network hypersynchrony, altered
oscillatory brain rhythms, and cognitive dysfunction in AD.
«I was extremely excited to see that across the live audience,
brain rhythms were synchronized in exactly the frequency range that corresponds to the «beat» of the music, so it looks as if the beat is driving audience brain rhythms,» Henry says.
«Music and rhythm are human universals but do not appear to be shared by most other species,» says Jessica Grahn of the University of Western Ontario who is chairing the CNS session on musical rhythm and who co-authored a new study of live music and
brain rhythms.
While
these brain rhythms, occurring hundreds of times a night, move in perfect lockstep in young adults, findings published in the journal Neuron show that, in old age, slow waves during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep fail to make timely contact with speedy electrical bursts known as «spindles.»
His work has found that nearly
all brain rhythms are preserved through mammalian evolution.
Live music increases intersubject synchronization of audience members»
brain rhythms.
Previous research by Mehta showed that the hippocampal circuit rapidly evolves with learning and that
brain rhythms are crucial for this process.
Neurosystems:
brain rhythms and cognitive processing.
They showed that these enhanced interneurons, when transplanted into the abnormal brain of Alzheimer mice, can properly control the activity of excitatory cells and restore
brain rhythms.