Sentences with phrase «by neurons in»

While the functions of collagens in cartilage and muscle are well established, before this study it was unknown that collagen VI is made by neurons in the brain and that it can fulfill important neuroprotective functions.

This is achieved by neurons in a very old part of the brain, the brainstem, according to a study by Carmen Birchmeier's lab at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC).

This protein is secreted in large quantities by neurons in response to stressors.

Using this method, researchers found that the information of ESP1 was routed differently in males and females by neurons in a region of the brain called the amygdala.

A vital next question is how information about regret encoded by neurons in the OFC influences decision - making in the rest of the brain, Vaughan says.

Using optogenetics, they controlled the amount of dopamine released by neurons in the nucleus accumbens.

The research, published in the current issue of the journal Science, demonstrates that brain cells, known as astrocytes, which play fundamental roles in nearly all aspects of brain function, can be adjusted by neurons in response to injury and disease.

Modafinil also indirectly alters the action of glutamate, the main neurotransmitter used by neurons in the brain to send signals down the line.

Companies trawl the web to gather billions of images and use them to train an algorithm inspired by neurons in the brain, called a deep neural network.

Not exact matches

By collecting sequencing information about cells in the gut, for example, Kallyope can better figure out how they're connected to neurons in the brain in a series of circuits.

A study conducted by researchers at the University of London has revealed some interesting information about neurons in the male brain.

They say that drinking coke really ignites the creative functions in their brain by getting their neurons firing at 100 %.

It is real to me because the firing of neurons in my brain stem are interpreted as real sensory data by my brain.

Patterns in beasts» acts are the sole witness to a design by irony inspired: when scientists mapped how the neurons fired in the cortex of the brain when learning, on - screen a melody was coldly burning.

nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place, humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.

We have mirror neurons in our brain that help us to learn — when we learn to tie our shoelaces by watching someone else, mirror neurons are at work.

We also have mirror neurons in our brain that help us to learn — when we learn to tie our shoelaces by watching someone else, that is those mirror neurons at work.

If we compare the power I exercise by way of sound waves upon your ears (power, sense 1) with the power that I, in action, exercise upon some neuron that fires or is inhibited from firing during the action (power, sense 2), we see a marked difference.

Thus it is possible that a single neuron might be interdependent in the mode of ontic power with a macroscopic feature of action (e.g., conscious understanding) simultaneous with it and also make a contribution by way of its causal power to a later neural occurrence in some other part of the brain.

Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines by Steve Talbott O'Reilly, 281 pages, $ 22.99 As Francis Crick (he of Watson and Crick) put it, «You're nothing but a pack of neurons.»

God and spirituality are feelings created by the bio-chemical firing of neurons and connections within your brain and don't exist in objective reality.

A similar judgment is tendered by William Seager, who points out that if the psychological is supervenient upon the physical, it is so in a way that is crucially different from the way in which liquidity is supervenient upon certain molecular states, because we have no idea as to why the joint activity of insentient neurons should give rise to consciousness (MC 179).

We know from cases of brain damage and the effects of psychoactive drugs, that our experiences are caused by physical chemistry acting on our physical neurons in our brains.

We can compare the diverse tasks performed by a colony to the many proteins generated by gene transcription, to various cell types of a developing embryo, or to the firing patterns of neurons in the brain.

I recently visited a laboratory in which the activities of individual neurons were being monitored by transducing the neural impulses to pulses of sound.

It is considered an inhibitory neurotransmitter, which means it regulates brain and nerve cell activity by inhibiting the number of neurons firing in the brain.

A Canadian study published this year around the same time titled «Coconut oil protects cortical neurons from amyloid beta toxicity by enhancing signaling of cell survival pathways» observed that coconut oil and its medium chain fatty acids (MCFAs) protect against amyloid beta (Aβ) induced neurotoxicity in primary rat cortical neurons.

The findings, published by Cell Press in the March 8 issue of the journal Neuron, may help to explain why young children often struggle to control selfish impulses, even when they know better, and could impact educational strategies designed to promote successful social behavior.

Chen Gu and colleagues at The Ohio State University discovered that they could induce the formation of axonal varicosities in hippocampal neurons grown in the lab by «puffing» them with bursts of liquid from a small pipette.

By using a method like Pick Up, Put Down neurons link together into circuits controlling learning, memory, and social behavior, according to Science News, and in turn, the method affects where neurons end up and the connections they form.

Research has revealed that when your child watches an action performed by someone, neurons are fired in their brains.

The most recent study report described in these same regions decreased tissue levels of 5 - HT and tryptophan hydroxylase, the synthesizing enzyme for serotonin, and no evidence of excessive serotonin degradation as assessed by levels of 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid (the main metabolite of serotonin) or ratios of 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid to serotonin.30 A recent article described a significant association between a decrease in medullary 5 - HT1A receptor immunoreactivity and specific SIDS risk factors, including tobacco smoking.40 These data confirm results from earlier studies in humans39, 41 and are also consistent with studies in piglets that revealed that postnatal exposure to nicotine decreases medullary 5 - HT1A receptor immunoreactivity.42 Animal studies have revealed that serotonergic neurons located in the medullary raphe and adjacent paragigantocellularis lateralis play important roles in many autonomic functions including the control of respiration, blood pressure, heart rate, thermoregulation, sleep and arousal, and upper airway patency.

The team cemented its finding by noting the mice's neurons» ability to undergo long - term potentiation — a type of response to stimulation, which has been implicated in learning processes — after gene function was restored.

The approach pursued by Mount Sinai investigators «has been really novel,» Sapolsky says, «focusing on very reductive mechanisms explaining why VTA neurons become hyperactive in mice destined for stress - induced depression, and not in resistant animals.»

When the researchers gave the mice a drug called lamotrigine, often prescribed for bipolar disorder, the animals» brain activity mimicked that of their resilient counterparts: The neurons in the already hyperactive VTA started firing even more intensely, followed by a lull and abatement of depression symptoms.

Transplanted neurons controlled by light can drive muscle function in damaged mouse sciatic nerves.

Scientists at Southern Methodist University, led by Professor and Chair of Biological Sciences Santosh D'Mello, have used RNA - Seq to conduct transcriptome profiling of gene expression changes in dying neurons.

The discovery, reported in June in Cell, completely breaks with the standard model of facial recognition, which claims each face you recognize is represented by a single neuron (one cell firing when you see your grandmother, another when you see Jennifer Aniston).

It is a big step toward the goal of pain science, which is to zero in on the brain region or regions altered by chronic pain and devise a treatment (a drug or maybe electrical stimulation) that can correct the malfunctioning neurons in that zone.

In the new study, led by graduate student Steven Briscoe, the team found that other populations of neurons in the bird DVR share molecular signatures with neocortical intratelencephalic cells, or IT neuronIn the new study, led by graduate student Steven Briscoe, the team found that other populations of neurons in the bird DVR share molecular signatures with neocortical intratelencephalic cells, or IT neuronin the bird DVR share molecular signatures with neocortical intratelencephalic cells, or IT neurons.

In individuals affected by SMA, the survival motor neuron - 1 (SMN1) gene is mutated and lacks the ability to process a key protein that helps neurons function.

By resorting to modern imaging tools, hundreds of neurons in the surrounding area could also be observed as the mouse learned the neuroprosthetic task.

By projecting angled lines onto the surface of the animal's retina, they demonstrated that each neuron in this thin sheet at the back of the head has a distinct function.

Leptin circulates in the blood and crosses into the brain, where it is sensed by leptin receptors expressed on neurons in the hypothalamus.

USING YOUR BRAIN In «The Limits of Intelligence,» Douglas Fox points out that human intelligence is limited by communication among neurons in the brain, which is limited in turn by the size of our neuronIn «The Limits of Intelligence,» Douglas Fox points out that human intelligence is limited by communication among neurons in the brain, which is limited in turn by the size of our neuronin the brain, which is limited in turn by the size of our neuronin turn by the size of our neurons.

A neuron by itself, or even in a network of nerves, is not conscious — whole brain complexity is needed.

In GluR - A — deficient mice, plasticity could be restored by controlled expression of green fluorescent protein (GFP)-- tagged GluR - A, which contributes to channel formation and displayed the developmental redistribution of AMPA receptors in CA1 pyramidal neuronIn GluR - A — deficient mice, plasticity could be restored by controlled expression of green fluorescent protein (GFP)-- tagged GluR - A, which contributes to channel formation and displayed the developmental redistribution of AMPA receptors in CA1 pyramidal neuronin CA1 pyramidal neurons.

To transmit electrical signals along a neuron, a strong difference in charge between the interior and exterior of the cell is needed, which is created by pumping positive ions into the cell.

Each neuron maintains the tempo set by the oscillation but, like the individual musicians in an orchestra, plays a melody that is different for each smell.

The hope is to find the equivalent neurons in people, and then to work out how to suppress them, via drugs or electrical pulses, in order to relieve itchiness caused by skin problems such as scabies, eczema and psoriasis.