Sentences with phrase «certain brain neurons»

The researchers also wanted to see how the beneficial effects of cannabidiol may depend on changes in the molecular signaling processes that certain brain neurons use to communicate with each other.

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BlueRock's first two programs are treatments that could regenerate heart muscle cells after heart attacks and help replace certain neurons in the brain as they decline in people with Parkinson's disease.

The integration of certain atoms and complicated molecules into neurons in the course of phylogeny, and further on into nervous systems and brains, could produce psychic processes.

The brains of the super-agers showed less cortical thinning, or neuron loss in certain areas, said lead researcher Emily Rogalski, research associate professor at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

While they don't have definite answers, besides having good genes, Kawas said, the answer is probably a combination of being resilient to Alzheimer's Disease and also that they did not develop other dementia - causing conditions, such as microscopic infarctions that occur when blood flow is blocked from certain regions of the brain and hippocampal sclerosis, which causes neuron loss.

Further study revealed that these so - called immune proteins are actually present on the surface of certain nerve cells, but that they functioned differently in the brain than they did in the rest of the body; rather than scouting for germs, they influenced signals sent between neurons.

For most animals, the team found the expected numbers of neurons, given a certain brain size.

Richard Rogers of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University and colleagues used a drug called fluorocitrate to knock out the function of certain astrocytes and neurons in the brains of rats, blocking the sensation of hunger.

The specifics have yet to be ironed out, but the Amgen team has uncovered a few clues in their rodent studies: They found treated animals had increased activation of certain neurons in the brain that detect blood sugar, and this may have helped them sense when it was time to stop eating.

Late in life the human brain suffers attrition of certain neurons and undergoes chemical alterations.

That observation «suggests a reason why only certain regions of the adult brain retain the ability to generate new neurons,» says Ben Barres of Stanford University.

Like misdirected letters and packages at the post office, the neurons made from bipolar disorder patients also differed in how they were «addressed» during development for delivery to certain areas of the brain.

Caffeine might help jog memories by influencing the levels of certain chemical messengers in the brain or the behavior of neurons in the hippocampus, a brain region important for memory, the researchers write.

As you navigate a landscape, certain neurons in the brain fire at multiple locations, marking out a hexagonal grid on a mental map.

In addition, the neurons in the CA3 region of the same as well as the neighbouring brain hemisphere communicate via certain fibres — i.e. associative / commissural (AC) fibres via the AC - CA3 synapses, and are likely to support retrieval of established memories, a process that is called «pattern retrieval.»

Further research determined that certain components of the cone snail venom, called conotoxins, targeted voltage-gated calcium channels, which, like sodium channels, handle communication between pain - sensing neurons and the brain.

«This suggests that certain neurons in the brain may be specialized to prefer social rewards over nonsocial rewards, and that the processing of social cues is sensitive to circulating hormones,» McHenry said.

What the researchers think is happening is that the stroke kills neurons in a part of the brain called the dorsal lateral striatum, and they stop inhibiting certain neurons in the midbrain.

They then shine light into the mice's brains to turn certain neurons on or off.

Spence and colleagues use functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) technology to determine whether someone is fibbing by tracing blood flow to certain areas of the brain, which indicates changes in neuronal activity at the synapses (gaps between the neurons).

Previous studies from George's lab had shown that nicotine activates certain «reward» neurons in the brain — giving positive reinforcement to keep smoking.

Turning certain neurons on or off in fly brains creates wildly erotic or sexually withdrawn animals, a new study shows.

Many cases of ALS are sparked by a toxic build - up of certain proteins, which cause neurons in the brain and spinal cord to die.

Retrotransposons are normally silenced to prevent harmful mutations from occurring in egg and sperm cells, but are mobilized during certain stages of brain development, when neurons are being produced from dividing stem cells.

In addition, other teams at the O'Donnell Brain Institute are designing tests for the early detection of patients who will develop dementia, and seeking methods to slow or stop the spread of toxic proteins associated with the disease such as beta - amyloid and tau, which are blamed for destroying certain groups of neurons in the bBrain Institute are designing tests for the early detection of patients who will develop dementia, and seeking methods to slow or stop the spread of toxic proteins associated with the disease such as beta - amyloid and tau, which are blamed for destroying certain groups of neurons in the brainbrain.

«If yawning cools certain parts of the brain, it makes sense that larger brains with more cortical neurons require longer yawns and more influx of air,» Elainie Alenkær Madsen of Lund University in Sweden who was not part of the study told The Atlantic.

Neir Eshel, psychiatry resident at Stanford University, has discovered how interactions between brain neurons make us able to predict the consequence of a certain behavior.

These findings suggested that neural activity of the KCs, especially the Class II KCs and a certain subpopulation of neurons located between the DLs and the OLs, was increased in the brains of workers during formation of the hot defensive bee ball.

And the new research published this week leans towards the latter: Certain anaesthetics apparently induce mutant protein aggregation in neurons and cause stress responses in those brain cells.

Certain anaesthetics apparently induce mutant protein aggregation in neurons and cause stress responses in those brain cells.

She disproved the theory that neurons are assigned a certain identity in the embryo, discovered that neurons don't all myelinate their axons in the same way, and is now a pioneer in creating brain organoids to study basic aspects of development.

The group's previous research showed that drinking alcohol changes the physical structure and function of certain neurons known as medium spiny neurons, which are located in the brain's dorsomedial striatum.

In her rat studies, opsins in their brains cause certain neurons to fire only in response to blue light.

Many scientists believe that certain neurons, deep inside the brains of people with the HD mutation, are undergoing something like standing next a jet plane, and that HD happens when those neurons are over-excited to death.

Seiden, 72, was one of the world's experts on how drugs, especially the amphetamines, could selectively damage certain neurons, particularly those that produced the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin — chemical signals that relay messages within the brain.

In the brain, however, certain neurons have the ability to switch properties depending on neural network activity, researchers have found.

Then UC San Francisco's Arturo Alvarez - Buylla, PhD, and other neuroscientists discovered in birds and mice that stem cells in certain parts of the brain do produce new neurons throughout the animal's life.

Using lasers and computers, the tool can precisely target and activate certain neurons in the thorax and brain of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster raising its temperature and stirring up its courtship behaviors.

Whether one says the measurement occurs when the dial on the instrument moves, when the data is displayed on the computer screen, or when certain neurons in the scientist's brain fire — the ultimate numbers will come out the same.

Those genes now make certain proteins in their brain cells when those neurons fire.

One 2015 study reported that brains of super agers are thicker in certain areas than normal brains, and also have fewer tangles (a type of protein associated with Alzheimer's disease), and a large supply of neurons linked to social intelligence.

While you're awake, certain neurons in the brain are actively producing a chemical called adenosine, which is a by - product of cell activities.

In many neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's, neurons in certain regions of the brain have become insulin resistant.

The researchers do not know exactly how vitamin D and mental agility may be connected, but it could be connected to the vitamin's role in increasing certain hormonal activity, or it could have a protective effect on brain neurons.

They still don't know exactly how vitamin D and mental agility may be connected, but suggest it could be connected to vitamin D's role in increasing certain hormonal activity, or it could have a protective effect on brain neurons.

Ketones appear to be the preferred source of energy for the brain in people affected by diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and maybe even ALS, because in these diseases, certain neurons have become insulin resistant or have lost the ability to efficiently utilize glucose.

Ketones are the preferred source of energy for your brain in general, but especially for those affected by diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and maybe even ALS, because in these diseases certain neurons have become insulin resistant or have lost the ability to efficiently utilize glucose, which causes the neurons to die off.

For half of the last century, various experiments (including our own 7 + years of dream food research) have proven that eating certain foods raises the bioavailability of precursor nutrients accessing corresponding neurons; and in fact, enhances the natural release of neurotransmitters in neurons that are actively firing at the time of consumption due to neural networks linking the gut biome to the brain.

Essentially, the fiery capsaicin triggers certain pain neurons, making the brain think that there is actually something burning the body and causing it to trigger reactions designed to cool things down.17

Whenever Deadpool 2 tosses out one of its multitudinous references, causing you to recognize something onscreen that is occurring outside of its familiar context, a certain set of neurons fire in your brain.