Sentences with phrase «cell in the hippocampus region»

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.

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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.

In the hippocampus, a brain region vital for laying down new memories, «stem cells continue to add new circuit elements,» says Stanford University neuroscientist Theo D. Palmer, who helped Monje find out why brain fogginess can persist for years after cancer treatment has ended.

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.

In May researchers at McGill University reported that the gene responsible for creating cells» protein - building machinery is more frequently methylated in the hippocampus — the brain region responsible for short - term memory and spatial navigation — of depressed suicide victims who suffered child abuse than in the brains of nonsuicide victims who were not abuseIn May researchers at McGill University reported that the gene responsible for creating cells» protein - building machinery is more frequently methylated in the hippocampus — the brain region responsible for short - term memory and spatial navigation — of depressed suicide victims who suffered child abuse than in the brains of nonsuicide victims who were not abusein the hippocampus — the brain region responsible for short - term memory and spatial navigation — of depressed suicide victims who suffered child abuse than in the brains of nonsuicide victims who were not abusein the brains of nonsuicide victims who were not abused.

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».

The scientists implanted neural stem cells into the hippocampus, which is a brain region involved in making new memories and connecting them to emotions.

The researchers studied the hippocampus, taking a closer look at the newly formed brain cells and the state of blood vessels in the region of the brain that plays an important role in emotions, spatial navigation, and memory.

One of Frankland's own studies in mice, for example, found that as new brain cells are formed in the hippocampus — a region of the brain associated with learning new things — those new connections overwrite old memories and make them harder to access.

It also kills brain cells, particularly in the hippocampus, the region of the brain for learning and memory.