Sentences with phrase «carry brain signals»

The spinal cord carries the brain signals that control movement of the limbs.

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Writing in the journal Neuron, the scientists found that reading increased the quality of white matter, the brain tissue that carries signals between areas of gray matter, where information is processed.

Levels of NAD dropped, and the neural stem cells stopped dividing; they stopped renewing themselves; and they stopped being able to create important cells that insulate axons, the «wires» that carry electrical signals throughout the brain.

As SNX27 plays an important role in shuttling the AMPA - receptor to the brain cell surface, lower levels of SNX27 means fewer receptors are carried to the surface, which consequently interrupts the signal transmission and impairs memory.

These thin, tubelike structures transmit electrical and chemical signals that are vital for carrying information among different regions of the brain.

The slow signal, carried to the brain by so - called C - tactile fibers, part of the peripheral nervous system, reminded the body to protect the injured site until it could heal.

Different neuronal oscillations carry signals from the brain's command center, ready to direct the eyes to the next spot.

The question that carried him from vision research to autism had to do with what happens after light hits the human retina: How are the incoming signals transformed into data that are ultimately processed as images in the brain?

These kinds of injuries can snap fragile nerves in the brain that carry signals from one part of the body to another.

The Salk and TSRI scientists used a range of neuro - genetic, gene therapy, biochemical and structural biology research techniques to discover that the mutant GlyRS enzyme blocked molecular signals important for maintaining the health of motor neurons, the cells that carry messages from the brain to the muscles of the extremities.

For the new study, researchers looked at the brain's structural connectome, a map of white matter tracts that carry signals between different areas of the brain.

Although traveling bursts of voltage can carry signals across the brain quickly, those electrical spikes may not be the only — or even the main — way that information is carried in nervous systems.

A self - learning algorithm defined important characteristics within the complex brain signals, enabling the researchers to predict how well a given participant would carry out the movement.

A better understanding of the nerve fibers that carry signals from the brain to fat tissues could lead to new obesity drugs

Researchers used genetically modified mice in which the axons in the corticospinal tract, a bundle of nerves carrying signals from the brain to the spinal cord, were «stained» with fluorescent matter visible under a powerful microscope.

It has demonstrated that physical changes in myelin itself - the coating of the auditory nerve carrying sound signals to the brain — affect our ability to hear.

The peripheral nervous system carries electrical signals from the brain to the rest of the body.

Rose and neuroscience doctoral student Rishi Alluri used a novel combination of recording electrical activity of single brain cells and blocking neurotransmitter chemicals that carry nerve signals from one nerve cell or neuron to the next.

«We believe that signals carried by the VOF play a role in many perceptual processes, from recognizing a friend's face to rapidly reading a page of text,» said Yeatman, who is now studying brain mechanisms involved in learning to read.

Nearly 20 percent of children with NF1 develop brain tumors that involve the optic pathway, affecting the nerves that carry vision - related signals from the eye to the brain.

The brain is composed of many different types of neurons, each of which carry electrical signals.

The basic process by which signals pass through the brain involves neurotransmitters, which are carried inside the synaptic vesicles, being passed across synapses — the junctions between neurons.

On the other hand, animals that received CSCs carrying miR -7-2 showed significantly less signals in the brain, suggesting that miR -7-2 was indeed capable of suppressing brain metastasis of CSCs (Fig. 3B and C).

Millions of electrical signals travel throughout the brain, carrying information from cell to cell and region to region.

In recent years, scientists have started to learn how nerve cells carry itchy signals from there to the spinal cord and on up to the brain.

nerve A whitish fiber or bundle of fibers that carries signals to the brain or spinal cord, or from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and organs

White matter appears white because of the density of axons, the signal - carrying cables allowing communication between different brain regions responsible for complicated tasks such as language and memory.

Glutamate plays an important role in the brain as a molecule that carries signals between cells.

Apart from assisting in the metabolic reactions that make you feel alert, B12 is thought to protect the sheaths that cover nerves, so having inadequate levels is like letting the wires that run from the computer in your brain get frayed — the signals they carry won't get relayed efficiently.

He feels that sleeping clears away the information signals that build up in our brain during the day as our nerve cells fire away and buildup messenger molecules that carry information.

It is found in the brain and spinal cord and is associated with inflammatory processes and pain — it acts as a neurotransmitter to carry pain signals to the nervous system.

15 In fact, type 2 diabetes (T2D)-- a condition stemming from broken glucose metabolism and insulin signaling — has been identified as an additional risk factor for developing AD.16, 17 Moreover, the pathological changes that occur in AD in the brain physically resemble those seen in the pancreas and vasculature in T2D.9, 18 Type 2 diabetics who carry ApoE4 alleles are at the greatest risk for AD, with an even more severe risk reserved for those treated with exogenous insulin.19 This suggests that either T2D or related features of the metabolic syndrome bring about AD, or that they are separate consequences of the same underlying cause — and moreover, that insulin is a key factor.

These neurotransmitters are the signals that carry thoughts, feelings, and commands around our brains and throughout our nervous system.

Serotonin is one of the chemical messengers (neurotransmitters) that carry signals between brain cells.

Some amino acids control our moods — they cross the blood - brain barrier, carrying the chemical signals in our brains.

In PI - IBS the nerves that carry pain signals from the gut to the brain are more active than typical.

The reasons for this may be lesions in the prefrontal cortex, problems in the neurotransmitters that carry signals through the brain or lesions in other parts of the brain that receive signals from the prefrontal cortex.

These injuries disrupt the signals that are carried back and forth between the body and the brain, which comprises the central nervous system (CNS).