Sentences with phrase «called hippocampus»

People who played action video games that involve first - person shooters, such as Call of Duty and Medal of Honor, experienced shrinkage in a brain region called the hippocampus, according to a study published Tuesday in Molecular Psychiatry.

Research of adults in their mid 60s showed that an area of the brain called the hippocampus, the seat of learning and memory, grew in the subjects who walked regularly compared to subjects who did other forms of exercise.

Cortisol over a long period of time is also going to affect a portion of your brain called the hippocampus.

One of the biggest places where testosterone affects both men and women is the cool little shape, a little cool shape that's just a shape of a seahorse deep inside the brain called the hippocampus.

In fact, research suggests aerobic exercise boosts the release of growth factors in the brain that spurs the development of new nerve cell connections, especially in an area of the brain called the hippocampus.

The theory is that this and other approaches to fasting help improve neural connections in a part of the brain called the hippocampus, while protecting against accumulations of amyloid plaque implicated in the genesis of Alzheimer's disease.

The researchers claimed to discover that testosterone alters brain functioning activity in the portion of the brain called the hippocampus.

A region of the brain called the hippocampus is known for its role in memory formation.

This past summer, along with Roy and other colleagues, he reported that — contrary to neuroscience dogma — the neural circuit in the brain structure called the hippocampus that makes a particular memory is not the same circuit that recalls the memory later.

Why is there a special issue on perirhinal cortex in a journal called Hippocampus?

Specifically, two brain regions called the hippocampus and the hypothalamus have been proposed to specifically contribute to depression.

John O'Keefe discovered that certain cells in a region of the brain called the hippocampus preferentially fired, or were activated, when an animal was in a particular environmental location — the first description of «place cells».

Scientists believe that a seahorse - shaped structure in the brain called the hippocampus helps us transform our memories from short - to long - term.

Dr. Collingridge's research, which focuses on a brain region called the hippocampus, which is important for memory storage, helps identify they key players in LTD..

An MRI found the cause: A small area of scar tissue in a structure of the brain called the hippocampus.

And the one storage site where they begin is a structure called the hippocampus.

Columbia University neurologist Scott Small has taken advantage of the increased resolution of fMRI to delve into separate sections within a part of the brain called the hippocampus.

The bacteria may speed up learning because the Raphe nuclei stimulate a brain region called the hippocampus, which handles spatial memory, she says.

Bees don't have the brain structure, called the hippocampus, thought to store the spatial memories underlying mental maps in humans.

Neurons are born in two areas: a memory - and - learning center called the hippocampus and the subventricular zone, which surrounds the two vacant spaces in the middle of the brain.

These pups had memory problems, were more prone to seizures and had fewer neurons in a memory center of the brain called the hippocampus.

Above, individual spots represent acetylated histones in a brain region called the hippocampus.

Memory involving location is stored in an area of the brain called the hippocampus.

They used a somewhat bizarre technique in which two mice were sutured together in such as way that they shared a circulatory system (known as parabiosis), and found old mice joined to their youthful counterparts showed changes in gene activity in a brain region called the hippocampus as well as increased neural connections and enhanced «synaptic plasticity» — a mechanism believed to underlie learning and memory in which the strength of neural connections change in response to experience.

Cory Blaiss, then at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and her colleagues genetically engineered mice such that the researchers could selectively turn neurogenesis on or off in a brain region called the hippocampus, a ribbon of tissue located under the neocortex that is important for learning and memory.

Short - term memory of events is stored in an area of the brain called the hippocampus.

Recently, groups working independently at Yale Medical School; the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire, and Harvard; and the University of California at San Diego reported that in afflicted individuals an important region of the brain called the hippocampus is smaller than average.

Previous studies have shown that a part of the brain called the hippocampus is important to relational memory — the «ability to bind together various items of an event,» said Jim Monti, a University of Illinois postdoctoral research associate who led the work with psychology professor Neal Cohen, who is affiliated with the Beckman Institute at Illinois.

Her research deals with an area of the brain called the hippocampus, which is associated with memory.

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Warm and responsive parenting when a baby rat is stressed - out — in particular, a soothing maternal behavior called licking and grooming — creates methylation effects on the precise segment of the baby rat's DNA that controls the way its hippocampus will process stress hormones in adulthood.

Biologist Ann Cornell - Bell of Viatech Imaging in Ivoryton, Connecticut, put on display star - shaped cells, called astrocytes, from the rat hippocampus, a brain region associated with long - term memory.

The research, authored by a team of neuroscientists, found that a specific part of the hippocampus could play an important role in emotional regulation, a finding that calls into question our understanding of how exactly this part of the brain works.

The transfer of memories from the hippocampus to the neocortex is called memory consolidation, and happens while we sleep.

«You have a nice, fat, juicy hippocampus,» she says, calling to my mind a sirloin steak, yet she's just commenting once more on the visual reproduction.

In the hippocampus and the amygdala, areas of the brain thought to be associated with episodic memory, researchers had shown that the chemical signaling agent called glutamate acts like a key in the lock of some of these protein «flood gates.»

A month after H7N7 or H3N2 infection, mice had fewer nerve cell connectors called dendritic spines on cells in the hippocampus, a brain region involved in memory.

NEW ROLE A kind of brain cell called an astrocyte (shown) may help nerve cells in the hippocampus form traumatic memories, a study in rats suggests.

Using a technique called optogenetics, the researchers blocked a brain oscillation called theta waves in the hippocampus, a brain structure involved in memory, during REM sleep.

A potential bridge is a process called long - term potentiation (LTP), a type of synaptic strengthening that has been scrutinized in slices of rodent hippocampus and is widely considered a likely physiological basis for memory.

The neurons in the hippocampus that store spatial memories (such as the location where you parked your car) are called place cells.

The hippocampus is a structure near the base of the brain in a region called the medial temporal lobe.

When the hippocampus forms a new spatial memory, it receives sensory information about your current location from a brain region called the entorhinal cortex.

When the hippocampus recalls a past location, it retrieves the stored spatial memory from a subregion of the hippocampus called CA3.

They found that elevated levels impaired function of a section of the hippocampus called the dentate gyrus, which is a «hotspot» of age - related impairment, according to study author Scott Small, a neurologist at Columbia University.

In a famous set of experiments in human subjects in 2005, neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga found that pictures of actor Jennifer Aniston activated a single brain cell in the hippocampus region — the so - called Jennifer Aniston neuron.

In the 1960s, researchers showed that adult rats continually produce neurons in a brain region called the dentate gyrus, part of the hippocampus — an area that plays an important role in acquiring new memories.

Moser demonstrated a number of changes in the strength of connections between nerve cells — a phenomenon called synaptic plasticity — in the hippocampus as rats stored information in their long - term memory.

In the study, scientists discovered for the first time that antidepressant drugs such as Prozac and tricyclics target a pathway in the hippocampus called the BMP signaling pathway.

For their analyses, the scientists specifically colored the places of origin of axons of so - called pyramidal cells in the hippocampus.

The emotional aspects of memories are stored separately, in a region called the amygdala — but activating the engram in the hippocampus activates all linked components, bringing back the full memory.