Sentences with phrase «brain structure through»

The fact that we can actually alter our brain structure through mediation is most surprising to me and somewhat reassuring that however we feel and think today isn't permanent.

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Firstly, studies show that grapes help protect the nervous system, due to the unique structure of its antioxidants that allow them to penetrate through the selectively - permeable brain membrane.

The band is designed to address mTBI through the application of light pressure on the neck, which in turn mildly increases blood volume in the vein structure of the brain.

The researchers found that a key brain structure involved in regulating emotions and decision - making is smaller in kids who have lived through three or more adverse experiences before the age of 8, compared with kids whose lives were more stable.

The work, published June 3 in PLoS ONE, suggests self - assessed Internet addiction, primarily through online multiplayer games, rewires structures deep in the brain.

In a study published in the June American Journal of Psychiatry, Saxena reported that hoarders have lower activity in the cingulate gyrus — a structure that runs through the middle of the brain, front to back — particularly in areas known to be involved in decision making and focusing attention.

Agalliu also found that Th17 cells induced by strep opened the BBB only in certain spots: Since strep enters the body through the nose, it made sense that he saw the BBB was pierced near the olfactory bulb, the structure in the front of the brain that processes odors.

They use a special type of neural network called a «deep neural network» to do the processing — so named because its learning is performed through a deep layered structure inspired by the human brain.

Viewed through an electron microscope, however, it's an intricate weave of branching, threadlike membranes whose structure, Stamets notes, resembles a network of brain cells.

The group considered each brain structure's volume, density, and celerity — how fast stress waves propagate through a tissue.

In efforts to develop new treatments for brain cancer, scientists from Johns Hopkins Drug Discovery and the Kimmel Cancer Center's Bloomberg ~ Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy report they have altered the structure of an experimental drug that seems to enhance its ability to slip through the mostly impermeable blood - brain barrier.

The researchers identified the brain subnetworks based on their high degree of interconnectivity — though relatively independent, several structures provide communication routes through which the subnetworks interact.

The structure of this enzyme was elucidated by isolating clones from a bovine brain complementary DNA library through the use of oligonucleotide probes derived from partial amino acid sequence.

They then kill the animal and slice its brain tissue thin enough so that light can shine through it under a microscope, revealing the structure within each slice.

It may be that subjective perceptions of facial emotion are formed through repeated cycles of processing between the amygdala, the temporal cortex and other brain structures that shape a person's values and social perspectives.»

In both primates and rodents, messages from the two eyes enters the brain through a small structure called the lateral geniculate nucleus or LGN, which is made of slivers of nerve cells, arranged like sponge in a layer cake.

Electrodes were placed adjacent to those structures on both sides of the brain through the foramen ovale (FO), naturally occurring openings at the base of the skull.

Scientists injected fluorescent molecules into about 150 mouse brain structures and used a high - resolution microscope to document the molecules as they moved through the brain's «cellular highways,» which need to be in tip - top shape for different parts of the brain to communicate and coordinate behaviors.

The cerebral cortex is the brain's CEO; it regulates higher - order functions such as motor learning and attention through its connections to brain structures such as the dorsal striatum, which is historically divided into just four regions.

At Weizmann, Dr. Spiegel will be establishing his own independent research group which will attempt to identify the molecular and cellular mechanisms through which experience alters the structure and function of neural circuits in the brain in behaviorally relevant ways and to understand how these processes, when they go awry, might give rise to psychiatric disorders.

How does your research shed light on how much of the brain's structure is genetically determined, and how much develops through experience?

That connection may benefit those who have lost vision because of damage in the structures between the eye and the brain — the loss of an eye through trauma, for instance, or damage to the optic nerve.

We know a great deal about the genomic mechanisms through which androgens and estrogens influence behavior; by turning genes on and off and thus affecting levels of proteins in cells, they slowly sculpt the brain circuits and peripheral structures required to produce social output.

AA: Continuing on Terry's earlier thread, in 2004, David Goldberg, a student in my lab did some theoretical work to model information transmission in a spiking axon, the canonical structure in the brain through which neurons communicate with each other over long distance.

Just as your brain influences your interpretation of the world, your world physically influences the structure of your brain through a process called experience - dependent neuroplasticity.

Being lipophilic (having an affinity for lipids), they leave the bloodstream quickly, passing through biological membranes and concentrating in cells, including brain cells.7 Mercury is especially drawn to high - sulfur organelles (specialized cell structures) such as mitochondria.

Sometimes, however, our brains feel discombobulated without the structure or schedules that guide us through the other ten months of the year.

This structure — the tapetum lucidum — reflects light not absorbed by the retina during its first passage through the eye, thus giving the light a second chance to be absorbed and transmitted to the brain.

Enrichment toys and activities are designed to challenge dogs to think, problem solve and stay active through brain games, challenging sensory work, and structured athletics and play.

The next step was to carefully search through the brain, in particular those structures which, on the basis of the clinical signs, were most likely to be involved in CDRM.

For Higgins, an elocution teacher who traded in British class prejudice by offering to improve clients» social standing through posh talk, the education of a woman was essentially a troublesome Alternative Business Structure (ABS)-- he could work with the moving parts but the brain remained a mystery....

In a typical brain, information passes through these structures, and a decision is made.

The brains of males and females could be structured differently (nature); boys could receive more encouragement from adults to engage in activities that promote spatial skills (environment); or boys could have an innate preference for such activities and improve their abilities through greater practice than girls, who prefer other activities (interaction).

Also noteworthy in this context, the prefrontal brain systems that process rewards and support reward - based decision - making undergo a prolonged and vulnerable developmental trajectory, and an impaired capacity of these prefrontal systems to regulate subcortical structures (particularly striatal regions of the basal ganglia) is implicated in risky, impulsive and otherwise disadvantageous decision - making from childhood through later life (for review, Fareri et al.

The engine of achievement in our brains needs that structure, those targets and the «burn the ships» requirement to follow through.