Sentences with phrase «causing areas in the brains»

The Utah team miniaturized electrocorticography electrodes — sensors developed in the 1960s to locate the seizure - causing areas in the brains of epileptics — and encased them in thin sheets of silicon.

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Glutamate is the No. 1 excitatory transmitter in the brain,» Melillo said, adding that it can excite certain areas of the brain more than others, causing an imbalance.

Holding did ok but Chambers was very cocky how many miss passes in dangerous areas did he miss place why didn't he booted the ball way down the field and take the pressure off at the first half the commentator spook of the inexperience of the defense and that liverpool did nt put enough pressure klopp rectified that straight away bang bang bang with runners and no protection while wenger face went all red with nothing to say the only thing that saved us really was the injuries for the game to take a change MR wenger is far to slow to fix things what is wrong with him he most not be in good health or something personnel worrying him cause after all he is the manager his got to have a fast thinking brain smell danger and act fast not seat and debate the issue with bold

Holding did ok but Chambers was very cocky how many miss passes in dangerous areas did he miss place why didn't he booted the ball way down the field and take the pressure off at the first half the commentator spook of the inexperience of the defense and that liverpool did nt put enough pressure klopp rectified that straight away bang bang bang while wenger face went all red with nothing to say the only thing that saved us really was the injuries for the game to take a change MR is far to slow to fix things what is wrong with him he most not be in good health cause after all he is the manager his got to have a fast thinking brain smell danger and act fast not seat and debate the issue with bold

I have a genetic condition that causes problems in the motor sensory areas of the brain, and it ain't fun, lady.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

Apnea is usually caused by immaturity in the area of the brain that controls the drive to breathe.

In 2011 researchers found that these waves of electricity cause neurons in the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cellIn 2011 researchers found that these waves of electricity cause neurons in the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cellin the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cells.

Research finds that increased brain activity in key areas is tightly linked to an ability to control the tics caused by Tourette syndrome.

By recording neuronal activity in monkeys as they performed tasks that caused saccades, Dr. Christopher Pack has shown that there are waves of activity that cross specific vision processing areas of the brain in defined patterns, and that these patterns are reorganized by saccadic eye movements.

The causes of blindness in children are varied, but cerebral visual impairment (damage to areas of the brain associated with vision) is among the most common.

They found that, in both groups, stimulation of the hand and breast caused areas of the secondary somatosensory cortex to buzz with activity — unsurprising, as this part of the brain is involved in the conscious awareness of touch.

In the case of Parkinson's disease, the brain areas targeted are those whose hyperactivity cause the condition's distressing symptoms.

Pavlovian memories Addictive drugs cause dopamine neurons, which synthesize and store the neurotransmitter dopamine, to release it, signaling to other brain areas to take note of the context surrounding the drug — the better to replicate the experience in the future.

Although any cyst in a susceptible area of the brain can cause seizures, those lodged near regions that issue commands to muscles can trigger violent convulsions.

«Not only did we confirm that the presence of blood in the brain recruits peripheral immune cells to the area, which is sufficient to cause myelin destruction, we also identified fibrinogen as the critical protein driving this process.»

The present blood flow study adds significantly to the findings from that prior study and furthermore suggests that disturbances in the speech processing areas of the brain are likely of central importance as a cause of stuttering.

Previous studies have found that exposure to neonicotinoid pesticides can cause changes in the brain, more specifically in the areas associated with learning and memory in honeybees.

When we think of Parkinson's disease, we often focus on its motor symptoms, such as stiffness and trembling, which are caused by a gradual decrease in the dopamine supply to a brain area called the striatum, the primary input nucleus of the basal ganglia.

Then for HARE5, the most active enhancer in an area of the brain called the cortex, they made minigenes containing either the chimp or human version of the enhancer linked to a «reporter» gene that caused the developing mouse embryo to turn blue wherever the enhancer turned the gene on.

«The overall decrease in stroke was driven by men having fewer ischemic strokes, a type of stroke caused by a lack of blood flow to a specific area of the brain,» said Madsen.

The researchers think that a junk diet causes lasting changes in the reward circuit parts of the rats» brain, for example, the orbitofrontal cortex, an area of the brain responsible for decision - making.

Alien hand seems to be caused by damage to a small area at the front of the brain, suggesting that this region has a role in motor control.

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

The finding is an important step forward in efforts to learn how the developing brain is built, an area of research essential to understanding the causes of intellectual disability and autism.

In addition to causing memory impairment, adolescent sugar - sweetened beverage consumption also produced inflammation in the hippocampus, an area of the brain that controls many learning and memory functionIn addition to causing memory impairment, adolescent sugar - sweetened beverage consumption also produced inflammation in the hippocampus, an area of the brain that controls many learning and memory functionin the hippocampus, an area of the brain that controls many learning and memory functions.

The researchers scanned the entire brain and discovered that memories of alcohol consumption — often prompted by external stimuli — caused activation of this protein in specific regions of the frontal cortex, the area of the brain related to memory processing, as well as in the nucleus of the amygdala, which is responsible for emotional memories and involved in the emotional symptoms related to withdrawal.

As an Associate Professor at OSU, my research has been concentrated in the areas of aging, neuroimmunology, and neurotrauma.Overall, my research aim is to determine the degree to which the bi-directional communication between the brain and the immune system is affected by age, stress, and traumatic CNS injury and to delineate the mechanism by which inflammatory cytokine pathways cause long - lasting complications (e.g., cognitive decline and depression).

This group of symptoms is caused by the progressive loss of a group of neurons in an area of the brain called the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc).

The problem is that these probes are typically much larger in size than neurons and capillaries (they usually have a cross-sectional area of 103 μm2) and can thus cause significant damage to brain tissue when implanted.

There may be a slow - growing tumor in certain areas of the brain that can cause dementia symptoms.

New studies by Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers at The Rockefeller University show that the appetite - regulating hormone leptin causes rewiring of neurons in areas of the brain that...

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder of unknown cause that particularly affects areas of the brain which are involved in movement control.

It's caused by multiple factors acting in different areas of the brain at the same time.

Brief exposure to low levels of nicotine, as little as that provided by a single cigarette, can cause lasting changes in the brain's «reward» areas, report two University of Chicago scientists in the August 2000 issue of Neuron.

Nicotine appears to cause addiction by strengthening the excitatory connections on the neurons that make dopamine, which are found in the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) of the brain reward center.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder of unknown cause that particularly affects areas of the brain which are involved in movement control.

This led Wild and his team to hypothesize that increasing damage to the brain areas affected by HD would cause higher levels of NfL to accumulate in the blood.

«A tiny variation in the gene that makes the enzyme that breaks down dopamine causes a complete flipflop — not a mere difference in degree — in dopamine activity in these two brain areas,» explained NIMH's Dr. Andreas Meyer - Lindenberg, who, along with Dr. Karen Berman and colleagues, reported their findings in the April 10, 2005 online edition of Nature Neuroscience.

Published in Neuron, scientists led by Gladstone associate investigator Anatol Kreitzer, PhD, discovered that dopamine depletion causes a miscommunication between the BG and another region called the thalamus, an area thought to relay sensory information to the brain.

Experts suspect the disorder is caused by abnormalities in certain areas of the brain, the circuits that connect them, and the neurotransmitters (brain chemicals) that transmit messages among brain cells.

If it is determined that the part of the brain causing seizures is not responsible for critical neurological functions, surgical removal of this area is an option and can be highly successful in controlling a child's seizures.

Meditation may also cause positive changes in the brain itself: in a Harvard - affiliated study in 2011, MRI scans of participants in a mindfulness meditation program showed greater gray - matter density in the hippocampus, a brain area associated with stress, empathy, memory and sense of self.

«All these hormones and signals come to an area in the brain, which integrates this information and makes an interpretation — so when ghrelin is high, and all the appetite - suppressing signals are low, this can cause hunger,» he says.

It is due to a problem in another area of the brain that causes people to develop a pattern of abnormal, compulsive use.

A magnesium deficiency affects the receptions in the brain that cause migraines; therefore, applying magnesium oil to areas such as the neck and shoulders can heal aches, tension and debilitating headaches.

The primary question when you have symptoms of depression is, «What is causing neurons not to fire in areas of the brain associated with mood?»

If too much caffeine is being chronically absorbed, there is a high likelihood that similar to MSG, it could cause glutamate toxicity and related damage in certain areas of your brain.»

Some theories suggest that fibromyalgia may result from stress - induced changes in the hippocampal area of the brain; others from stress - induced disruptions of the hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal (HPA) axis (which affects adrenal function and cortisol production); and still others from low levels of the neurotransmitter, dopamine, caused by genetic factors and triggered by exposure to stressors, such as emotional distress, physical trauma, viral infections or inflammatory disorders.

It suppresses the immune system, redistributes fat, shrinks certain areas of our brain involved in learning and emotional regulation, causes painful muscle contraction, impairs digestion, and affects our sleep.