Sentences with phrase «cells in the brain areas»

Do you 3 even use your gray cells in the brain area to imagine what heights this current Arsenal squad can reach uninjured if Fabregas sticks with us for a few more years?

The problems can be traced to loss of nerve cells in the brain areas responsible for those capabilities — such as the basal ganglia, brain stem and cerebral cortex.

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During a blackout, the brain cells in that area cease their activity until it is restored.

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.

These symptoms arise because nerve cells producing the neurotransmitter dopamine, located in an area of the brain known as the substantia nigra, slowly die.

Images from a mouse study show the male brain (top) has many more cells in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, an area that regulates anxiety and response to stress.

«Each area of the brain is different with distinct cell types and connectivity, so if we can confirm that one area of circuitry is more involved in a particular symptom than another, we may eventually be able to treat a depression patient more efficiently than treating everyone the same way.»

The nerve cells involved in this integration process and control of hormonal signals reside in an area of the insect brain known as the mid-Ventral Ganglion (mVG), which in turn communicates with a region of the central brain that is akin to the mammalian hypothalamus.

«I was very curious at that point what glial cells would be doing in the hypothalamus, since glial cells have been shown in other brain areas to have an influence on regulation of neuronal function,» she says.

Also surprising was that while male and female brains did not differ in cell counts in cortical regions, the study identified 11 subcortical areas with gender - specific differences.

«Opioids have both analgesic and rewarding effects and they have these effects through mu opioid receptors and these receptors are expressed in pain terminals in the spinal cord and in areas of the brain that regulate pain but are also expressed in areas that regulate reward and a sense of pleasure,» Boyle said, referring to cells found in a person's central nervous system that bind to naturally occurring opioid compounds and reduce pain and make people feel much better.

This delicate structure is a single brain cell (neuron) from the hippocampus, the area in the brain that contributes to memory formation and recall and learning.

Gene switches have been identified that work in specific brain areas, potentially enabling targeted treatment of unhealthy cells.

«Only by understanding the complexities of what happens in specific cell - types found in specific areas of the brain during this disease can targeted treatments for Parkinson's disease be produced.»

What's more, they managed to disable the gene in 65 per cent of cells in the key area of the animals» brains.

Ghrelin and leptin both have receptors in the area of the brain where dopamine cell bodies are located.

Working with an animal model, the researchers found that a type of cell present in the brain's primary processing area during early development, long thought to form structural scaffolding with no role in transmitting sensory information, may conduct such signals after all.

The scientists noted that in the area of the brain containing the serotonin - producing nerve cells, miR135 levels increased when antidepressant compounds were introduced.

Florescent cells in the prelimbic prefrontal cortex brain regions, with inset of cells in olfactory brain regions that project to the prelimbic prefrontal area.

Cell Phones Alter Brain Metabolism: A 50 - minute phone call boosts metabolism in the brain regions closest to the antenna, including areas involved in language, decision making, and emotional procesBrain Metabolism: A 50 - minute phone call boosts metabolism in the brain regions closest to the antenna, including areas involved in language, decision making, and emotional procesbrain regions closest to the antenna, including areas involved in language, decision making, and emotional processing.

Some glial cells congregate near lesions, for instance, and in areas of the brain where learning is going on.

But in MJD patients, it collects in large clumps, clogging cell nuclei in the affected brain areas.

To do this, we observed neurons in this area, some of which encourage activity in their fellow brain cells, so - called excitatory neurons, and others that tamp down activity, known as inhibitory neurons.

The researchers traced these changes to a decrease in brain cells that release the hormone oxytocin in the hypothalamus, an area of the brain associated with food intake.

Our studies help us to understand how the nerve cells in the entorhinal cortex operate and how electrical activities might get interrupted in this area of the brain.»

«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.»

In research that builds upon the Nobel Prize - winning science, UC San Diego scientists have developed a micro-surgical procedure that makes it possible to remove the area of the rat's brain that contains grid cells and show what happens to this hard - wired navigational system when these grid cells are wiped out.

In addition, the two genes are turned on in areas that are part of the cortico - striatal - thalamo - cortical circuit, a loop of brain cells connecting the cortex to specific regions involved in processing emotions and movemenIn addition, the two genes are turned on in areas that are part of the cortico - striatal - thalamo - cortical circuit, a loop of brain cells connecting the cortex to specific regions involved in processing emotions and movemenin areas that are part of the cortico - striatal - thalamo - cortical circuit, a loop of brain cells connecting the cortex to specific regions involved in processing emotions and movemenin processing emotions and movement.

The effort, as yet confined to animal studies, is only about a decade old but has become one of the hottest areas of neuroscience research because it promises a more precise understanding of the hugely complex network of cells in the brain.

The brain researchers observed that nerve cells in the sensory cortex that con - nect to distinct brain areas are activated differentially depending on the task to be solved.

What's more, these nets of proteins and carbohydrates blanket nerve cells across the brain, not just in select areas.

«The surprising result is that even though only a very localized population of cells is used in the brain - computer interface, the brain recruits many other areas that aren't directly involved to get the job done.»

These are neurotensin cells in the medial preoptic brain area, imaged by Jenna McHenry, PhD, through a 2 - photon microscope attached to a live mouse.

Nerve cells in two brain areas important to working memory use different strategies to filter out distractions.

Measurements of the electrical activity of nerve cells in two key areas of the brain showed a surprising result: nerve cells in the prefrontal cortex signaled the distraction while it was being presented, but immediately restored the remembered information (the number of dots) once the distraction was switched off.

Gene switches have been identified that work in very specific brain areas, potentially enabling light to target unhealthy cells without disrupting healthy ones.

A new study of brain cells in this area finds that firing these neurons at one frequency makes the brain treat novel images as old hat.

Andersen was studying the activity of neurons in the hippocampus — a brain area associated with memory — and the two students wanted to try to link this precise activity of cells with the behaviour of animals.

«This work is exciting because they've shown that pre-stimulating an area of the brain necessary for the task makes processing faster,» says Arnd Pralle of the State University of New York at Buffalo, who uses magnetism instead of light to activate brain cells in worms.

Brain cells in those areas did not have identical DNA.

Given that lot of those brain cells seemed to form down in the area of the hippocampus, which is involved with the memory and with learning, it was an easy jump to naturally assume that they must be involved with that in some way.

Researchers have long known that in patients with Alzheimer's, the areas of the human brain clogged with senility - associated plaques also bristle with inflammatory cells and cytokines.

Another provocative observation from the new study was that transient gene expression events during brain development set up broad distinctions in neural fate between cells in different areas in the cerebral cortex.

«It really hasn't been explored when these activity networks — these collections of brain areas that start to work together in the brain — emerge and what types of cells and tissues they emerge in,» says Colin Studholme, Ph.D., a professor with joint appointments in pediatrics and bioengineering at the University of Washington and senior author of the paper.

After concluding that increased stem cell production in a certain area of the brain had a positive effect on behavioral deficits of Alzheimer's, Prof. Offen has moved to research into the area of the brain that controls memory.

What's more, in rodents the two - eye cells hook into sub-cortical areas of the brain such as the amygdala that help process emotion and fear responses, and areas that play a role in an animal's ability to spot salient events in its environment — an approaching cat for instance.

Changes in DNA methylation in brain cells has been an extremely active research area since these epigenetic changes were shown to alter the expression of genes needed to form and maintain long - term memories.

The firing of the anxiety cells sends messages to other parts of the brain that turn on anxious behaviors — in mice, those include avoiding the dangerous area or fleeing to a safe zone.

Chen and his team began by studying how reactive glial cells respond to a specific protein, NeuroD1, which is known to be important in the formation of nerve cells in the hippocampus area of adult brains.

In studies of neural development in mice, Stahl found that TRNP1 produces a protein that determines whether neural stem cells self - replicate, leading to a balloonlike expansion of cortical surface area, or whether they differentiate into a plethora of intermediate stem cell types and neurons, thickening the cortex and forming more complex brain structureIn studies of neural development in mice, Stahl found that TRNP1 produces a protein that determines whether neural stem cells self - replicate, leading to a balloonlike expansion of cortical surface area, or whether they differentiate into a plethora of intermediate stem cell types and neurons, thickening the cortex and forming more complex brain structurein mice, Stahl found that TRNP1 produces a protein that determines whether neural stem cells self - replicate, leading to a balloonlike expansion of cortical surface area, or whether they differentiate into a plethora of intermediate stem cell types and neurons, thickening the cortex and forming more complex brain structures.