Sentences with phrase «by the neurons affect»

Signals generated by the neurons affect the behavior of the plane.

Hormonal signals released by neurons affect our moods, emotions, and appetites.

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Mirror neurons pick up on and are affected by the moods of those around us.

So Steven... you are saying that people affected by Asperger's Syndrome — whose mirror neurons are largely of fully disabled — are beyond redemption?

I personally think it is probably something to do with the geometry of our neurons that are greatly affected by our childhood beliefs.

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.

fMRI experiments have shown that our attitudes towards those we perceive as out - groups are affected by the so - called «mirror neurons» (normally responsible for mimicry and empathy), which are «switched off», leading us to resist emotional connections.

Although other neuronal cell types are affected, medium spiny neurons bear the brunt of the damage caused by Huntington's disease.

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.

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

Neurodegenerative diseases are caused by the death of neurons and other cells in the brain, with different diseases affecting different regions of the brain.

The results showed that short - term sensitization to tail touch was absent in aged Aplysia californica, and that the sensory and motor neurons were affected by aging in specific ways, which resulted in an inability of old animals to learn.

Belgian researchers have identified a new strategy for treating an inherited form of dementia after attempting to turn stem cells derived from patients into the neurons most affected by the disease.

Research conducted by Dr Bill Dew at the University of Lethbridge in Canada looked for the first time at the effect of the metal contaminants nickel and copper on specific fish olfactory sensory neurons, and how these affect the fish's ability to detect and swim away from an odour released by other fish of the same species (conspecifics) when a predator attack takes place.

Such atypical antipsychotic medications as Clozaril (clozapine), Risperdal (risperidone) and Zyprexa (olanzapine), most of which were introduced in the 1990s, appear to ameliorate schizophrenia symptoms by affecting the function of neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin, which relay chemical messages between neurons.

However, because the treatments affected the cultures globally and did not precisely target synapses, the researchers next applied substances that increase the firing of glutamate neurons by acting solely at synaptic sites.

Further, the researchers found that MMP - 9 can be detected not just in lumbar 5 neurons, but also in other types of motor neurons affected by ALS.

To understand why only some motor neurons are vulnerable to ALS, the researchers used DNA microarray profiling to compare the activity of tens of thousands of genes in neurons that resist ALS (oculomotor neurons / eye movement and Onuf's nuclei / continence) with neurons affected by ALS (lumbar 5 spinal neurons / leg movement).

The findings, made in mice, explain why most but not all motor neurons are affected by the disease and identify a potential therapeutic target for this still - incurable neurodegenerative disease.

For the first time, scientists found that in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the affected nerve cells that control muscle movement, or motor neurons, have defects in their mitochondria, which generate energy used by the cell.

These can now be «reprogrammed» to assume another fate, such as the neurons affected by mitochondrial disease.

«We hope that in the future, by fully understanding how this gene affects signaling in the brain, we may be able to identify drugs to restore the normal signaling balance in neurons and improve cognitive and social function in patients,» says lead author Dr. M. Chiara Manzini.

These neurons are also affected by spinal cord injury and involved in Friedreich's ataxia, a devastating and currently incurable neurodegenerative disease that largely strikes children.

Now, by dampening the activity of a small group of neurons deep within the mouse brain, researchers have produced cognitive deficits similar to those found in those with schizophrenia, a discovery that they say could potentially lead to new treatments for the disorder, which affects roughly 24 million people worldwide.

Mei's study outlines a previously unknown mechanism found in neurons affected by schizophrenia.

These, such as verapamil, diltiazem, nifedipine, nitrendipine and nimodipine are not only widely used to treat hypertension, and hence might affect cognition by increasing cerebral blood flow, but also block the entry of calcium ions into neurons.

Previous scholarly studies have shown that the mirror neuron system's activation is affected by training and experience that is directly related to the task being observed, yet it has not previously been shown that activation of this system can be influenced through training (e.g. timing training) that is not related at all to the motor task being observed (e.g. a soccer drill).

Cocaine and methamphetamine affect the brain by blocking the normal transport of dopamine back into neurons.

Using mouse and human - derived dopamine neurons, researchers found that dopamine movement is affected by changes in electrical properties of the neurons.

Fortunately, the vast majority of the grafted neurons in all three patients were free of Lewy bodies, which suggests that grafts may still offer some benefit even if they start to become affected by the disease.

«Since cholesterol is required by neurons to form synapses (connections) with other cells, this decrease in cholesterol could affect how nerves function for appetite regulation, behavior, memory and even pain and motor activity,» says Dr. Kahn, who is also Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

The project will focus on the mechanisms by which the three tau - mRNA binding proteins HuD, IMP - 1 and G3BP - 1 affect tau localization and expression in neurons.

Familial Dysautonomia (FD) Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derived PNS Neurons Reveal that Synaptic Vesicular and Neuronal Transport Genes Are Directly or Indirectly Affected by IKBKAP Downregulation.

Building on these extreme examples that emphasize the potential roles played by healthy lysosomes in protecting neurons against the age - dependent accumulation of toxic cellular debris, we ultimately seek to understand how neurons sense and regulate the status of their lysosomes, how lysosomes are affected during age - related disease states and whether lysosomal function can be modulated for therapeutic purposes.

One brain region in which new neurons are born in adults, the hippocampus, is involved in learning and memory and affected severely by Alzheimer's disease.

In the new research, published in Neuron, the scientists found that the apoE4 protein changes the activity of neurons in the hippocampus — an important memory center in the brain that is severely affected by Alzheimer's disease.

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

«The physical symptoms that affect people with Parkinson's — including tremors and rigidity of movement — are caused by an imbalance between two types of medium spiny neurons in the brain,» said Dr. Kreitzer, whose lab studies how Parkinson's disease affects brain functions.

The hippocampus, an important memory center in the brain, is particularly affected by this loss of inhibitory neurons, resulting in an increase in network activation that is thought to contribute to the learning and memory deficits characteristic of Alzheimer's disease.

Studying owl monkeys and squirrel monkeys, he found that damage to a nerve, or loss of one or two fingers caused the portion of the map that had lost its input to be overtaken by neighbouring maps, as neurons in the affected area became responsive to other areas of skin.

The toxins principally affect muscle - controlling motor neurons activated by the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.

It «makes sense» that stimulating neurons in areas of the brain affected by Alzheimer's would be of benefit, but as the researchers state, we won't know for sure until the science is complete.

We are studying the molecular pathways affected by SOX5 partial inactivation in specialized cells in the brain, called corticofugal projection neurons.

The researchers then successfully prodded what they call keratinocyte - derived iPS cells or KiPS cells to distinguish them from fibroblast - derived iPS cells into becoming all the cell types in the human body, including heart muscle cells and dopamine - producing neurons, which are affected by Parkinson's disease.

Stem cells allow researchers to collect blood or skin samples from living patients and turn them into the brain cells affected by the disease — neural progenitor cells (NPCs) and neurons.

We report that targeting miR - 181a regulates axonal growth, and that miR - 181a inhibition may be a novel therapeutic approach for axonal regeneration of neurons affected by PD.

However, in a 2014 study, Dr. Sulzer's lab demonstrated that dopamine neurons (those affected by Parkinson's disease) are vulnerable because they have proteins on the cell surface that help the immune system recognize foreign substances.

It will enable three - dimensional cultures so you can have dopamine neurons projecting through a gradient into the types of neurons affected by Parkinson's disease, for example.

Tau can be modified by chemicals, which affect how the protein is folded, degraded, and trafficked within and outside of neurons.

Aging and the apoE4 protein combine to impair inhibitory neurons in the hippocampus — a key memory center that is among the first regions affected by Alzheimer's.