Sentences with word «brainstem»

Dougherty et al. [21] reported that acupuncture produced more activation in the medial orbitofrontal cortex and more deactivation in brainstem and insula, while the Streitberger needle showed higher activation in the language area (Wernicke), pons, operculum and insula.

It stands for Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response and will save animals and owners from frustration, she explained.

While much has been known about the initiation and maintenance mechanisms of activity for some time now, with regard to the stopping of activity there was only the assumption that the result of the termination of activity was from brainstem neurons.

The group examined a small chunk of rodent brainstem called the pre-Bötzinger complex (PBC), which regulates breathing.

The protein first moved from the midbrain to the «medulla oblongata,» the lowest brainstem region; in the medulla oblongata, it was detected within neurons whose long fibers form the «vagus nerve.»

8 Patrick CM Wong et al, «Musical Experience Shapes Human Brainstem Encoding of Linguistic Pitch Patterns» (2007) 10:4 Nature Neuroscience 420.

Given the small size (~ mm) of AAN brainstem nuclei, the structural complexity of neural circuits within the highly interconnected AAN network, and technical limitations of conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, the field of human AAN connectomics is in its infancy.

(Kennel Club Press Release) The Kennel Club has approved a new health testing programme for Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response (BAER) testing for deafness in Dalmatians, following consultation with the Dalmatian breed clubs.

Brainstem strokes can be serious or even fatal.

As well as to raise awareness for DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma) or Pediatric Brainstem Cancer.

The cascade of whole / part shifts over evolutionary growth planes in the brain leads from a core in upper brainstem through limbic formations to the neocortical rim.

- The Paxinos 2011 Brainstem Atlas was used as a reference for confirmation of the neuroanatomic localization, contours, borders, and size for each ROI in the Harvard AAN Atlas.

As well as to raise awareness for DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma) or Pediatric Brainstem Cancer.

They rarely explore why people, including scientists and bioethicists, hold certain views, such as criticism or support for the theory of brainstem death, which permits the removal of the heart from «donor» bodies that still function.

«Our research suggests that alterations in these neurochemicals may contribute to brainstem dysfunction during a critical postnatal developmental period.

In mice whose brainstems were implanted with human DIPG, engineered immune cells known as chimeric antigen receptor T cells — or CAR - T cells — were able to eliminate tumors, leaving very few residual cancer cells.

Launched in March 2014, the three - year study has enrolled five of 10 participants and successfully implanted an auditory brainstem implant (ABI) device in four children who previously could not hear.

The rACC activation encompassed the cytoarchitectonic subdivisions of Brodmann areas 32 and 24c, which have known connections to the amygdala, mObfc, PAG, and brainstem reticular formation; these regions are critical to autonomic, visceromotor, and opioidergic functioning (11).

Denial is apparently caused by our lizard brainstem.

«The data shows mGluRs on brainstem vagal nerve circuits that regulate pancreatic functions are organized in a very specific manner,» Travagli said.

However, we observed more substantial differences in an area called periaqueductal gray matter, located in the upper brainstem.

«Serotonin is a key neurochemical that plays an important role in the control and management of the complex respiratory, cardiovascular and autonomic systems within the human infant brainstem.

A collaborative effort between Duke Medicine researchers and neurosurgeons and scientists in China has produced new genetic insights into a rare and deadly form of childhood and young adult brain cancer called brainstem glioma.

Intriguingly, the infralimbic vmPFC inhibits stress - induced neural activity in the rodent brainstem and is important in facilitating escape and extinction learning (18, 26).

Understanding the balance between forebrain and midbrain responses to threat might illuminate the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disturbances, including chronic anxiety and panic disorder, where brainstem involvement has long been suspected.

In their study, Dr. Laurent Juvin and Swantje Grätsch in collaboration with Prof. Réjean Dubuc, Prof. Ansgar Büschges and other colleagues were able to characterize similar brainstem neurons («stop cells») using a lamprey.

The hippocampal theta rhythm depends critically on projections from the medial septal area, which in turn receives input from the hypothalamus and several brainstem areas.

Lichtman's Brainbow technique was used here to color code the wires in a mouse's (a) ear muscle, (b) brainstem axon tract, and (c) hippocampal dentate gyrus, as part of a 2008 study

TYPE 2 — involves the extension of both the cerebellar and brainstem tissue into the foramen magnum.

High calorie malnutrition can create «irritable brainstem» since that is the tissue that demands highly efficient oxidative metabolism.

Among exhibitions he has curated include Video Invitational at f a Projects, London in 2003, The Last Laugh: Humour and Contemporary Video Art, Painting as Process: Re-evaluating Painting and Jason Salavon: Brainstem Still Life at the Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE - SIA College of the Arts, Singapore in 2004.

«Leaky calcium triggers brainstem blackout that results in sudden cardiac death.»

This ambiguity was explained by JJ Noval at NAMRL in Pensacola, when he showed that magnetic fields that vibrated in the ELF range would increase the levels of acetylcholine in the rat brainstem directly.

CKCS had a relatively larger Cerebellar volume (and a similar brainstem volume) when compared to small breed dogs and Labradors, supporting hypothesis i)(that CKCS have increased cerebellar volume compared to other breeds of dog).

Serotonergenic brainstem abnormalities in Northern Plains Indians with the sudden infant death syndrome.

Multiple serotonergenic brainstem abnormalities in sudden infant death syndrome.

The health risks associated with formula feeding for premature infants include increased incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis, 5 delayed brainstem maturation, 6 decreased scoring on cognitive and developmental tests,7 - 10 and decreased visual development.11, 12 Thus, human - milk feeding of premature infants is desirable, and effective strategies to increase breastfeeding rates in this population are needed.

The study, published online April 16 in Nature Medicine, represents the first time a severe brainstem cancer, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, has been eradicated in mice with the tumor.

Now, for the first time, researchers have observed the lamprey's brainstem converting a sensory input — a bump on the snout — into a command to swim away.

«New brainstem changes identified in Parkinson's disease.»