Sentences with phrase «brain samples at»

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Maja Pantic, a professor of affective and behavioral computing at Imperial College in London, tells Sample she is worried about a one - way brain drain from schools to tech companies:

Days after the report was released, the NFL released an official statement acknowledging the findings, but also suggesting that they may not be representative of all of the league's players: «The report doesn't confirm that the condition is common in all football players; it reflects high occurrence in samples at the Boston brain bank that studies CTE,» they wrote.

I totally have pesto on the brain after recently giving out samples of one of my pesto recipes with The Foodstand at a local famers»...

Researchers looked at 133 babies using specialized, «baby - friendly» magnetic resonance imaging to analyze brain growth in a sample of children under the age of 4.

«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.

Whereas analyses of the brain were once limited to autopsy samples at the time of a person's death, advances in an imaging technique known as positron emission tomography (PET) now enable researchers to detect amyloid and tau in the brains of living people.

HBI member V. Wee Yong, PhD and research associate Susobhan Sarkar, PhD, and their team including researchers from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and the university's Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, looked at human brain tumor samples and discovered that specialized immune cells in brain tumor patients are compromised.

At Cox's urging, Mash set out to conduct an independent study of ALS and Alzheimer's brains using samples from her own human brain bank.

Ronald Kahn and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School in Boston compared gene expression in brain samples from mice with type 1 or type 2 diabetes against those of healthy mice.

These samples were collected primarily by Gianluigi Zanusso, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Verona in Italy, who developed the technique of brushing the inside of the nose to collect olfactory neurons connected to the brain.

Ron Duman and colleagues at Yale University began their search for a mechanism behind depression by comparing post-mortem brain samples from 21 people who had been depressed and 18 people of the same age.

Working in Morrison's Neurotrauma and Repair Laboratory at Columbia Engineering, the team developed a blast injury model using a shock tube and custom - designed sample receiver to simulate a primary blast event and applied it to an isolated, living model of the BBB that consisted of brain endothelial cells.

In addition, the researchers looked at brain samples of deceased patients with MS and found increased numbers of GM - CSF - producing cells in comparison to normal brain samples.

By labeling and collecting samples of Lynx1 and its precursors from the brains of mice at different ages, the researchers tracked how its levels changed over time.

But these previous studies looked at average levels of methylation within a sample of each insect type — taking, for instance, a group of worker ants, mixing their DNA together, and measuring the average amount of methylation among all their brains.

«It is the first study with such a large sample of individuals and includes the entire range of language variability implemented in the brain,» explains Nathalie Tzourio - Mazoyer, head of the Neurofunctional Imaging Group at the Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases of the University of Bordeaux (France) and principal author of the work, to Sinc.

Analysis of the brain samples for this study began in 2013 in Raghanti's lab at Kent State.

The Raman images now show protein activity at neural cell level, but the sensitivity is high enough for detecting areas that are even smaller — as is the case with the brain sample of the healthy person.

By studying brain samples from the mice, the researchers learned how neuregulin 3 works at the cellular level.

In 15 of the brain samples, researchers found that one copy of DRD2 was producing at least 50 percent more mRNA than the other one; in the remaining brains, they discovered that both alleles produced equal amounts.

George decided to take a closer look at the VTA and worked closely with Paul Sawchenko, professor at the Salk Institute who was part of the group that originally discovered CRF, to use radioactive RNA markers to detect CRF in brain samples from rodents.

Still, when the brain cells and spinal cord cells of these babies were examined at autopsy, there was clear evidence that nusinersen had tricked SMN2 into producing a great deal more of the full length, motor neuron - protecting protein: two to six times more copies of SMN's messenger RNA were found in spinal cord samples from nusinersen - treated babies than in autopsy samples from untreated infants.

Interestingly, many of the genes identified in this study have been shown to have lower gene activity at the molecular level in autistic post mortem brain tissue samples.

Here, in samples of mouse hypothalamus — the brain center that detects and regulates internal temperature — Kun Song and colleagues identified neurons that were uniquely activated in response to warming at temperatures above the physiological set point of 37 °C.

Scientists at the University of Luxembourg have succeeded in turning human stem cells derived from skin samples into tiny, 3 - D, brain - like cultures that behave very similarly to cells in the human midbrain.

We sampled the bees from the surface of the bee ball at 0, 30, and 60 min after formation of the bee ball and examined the Acks - expressing brain regions using in situ hybridization (n = 5, 7 and 7 for 0, 30 and 60 min, respectively).

Using clinical brain tumor samples, Natalia Filippova and colleagues at the University of Alabama show in a paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry that increasing tumor severity was associated with increased multimerization and aggregation of HuR.

The only sure way to confirm an Alzheimer's diagnosis is to look at samples of brain tissue after a victim has died.

Studying mice and tissue samples from the arteries of patients, researchers atWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggest this accumulation is driven, at least in part, by processes similar to the plaque formation implicated in brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

«In this study, we scanned people's brains before and after the retreat, as well as took blood samples at the beginning of the study before the retreat, and then four months later,» says Emily Lindsay, Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University and lead study author.

He awakens as a digital demigod, his face a pixelated avatar, his voice an electronic sample, and his brain a mighty hard drive, sucking up global intel at an alarming rate.

The only way at present to positively diagnose NCL in an Aussie is with a necropsy sample of brain tissue.

To investigate whether birth weight exerted differential effects on brain development at different ages, age and birth weight variables were standardized to the whole sample, and regression analyses with these variables, along with their interaction term (birth weight × age), sex, household income, GAF, and scanner, were repeated.

Studies were included in our meta - analyses if the following criteria were given: (I) included at least one clinical group with described aggressive behaviour, (II) in combination with a healthy control sample, (III) conducted during adolescence, (IV) reported whole brain gray matter volume alterations or whole brain functional neuroimaging data, (V) results are described using a standard reference space (Talairach or MNI) and (VI) the same threshold was used throughout the whole brain analysis.