Sentences with phrase «circuit activity»

It doesn't have a straight - line - performance testing function, so we use a separate device for that, but for circuit activity it gives us an invaluable insight.

Through studying these genes, the researchers discovered Stasimon, a novel gene critical for motor circuit activity in fly and zebrafish models of SMA.

For a child to learn to walk or an adult to master a new skill such as juggling, new brain circuit activity is needed and new connections are made across large distances and at high speeds between different parts of the brain and spinal cord.

To map how the same sense can be perceived differently in the brain, the NYU Langone team, led by postdoctoral fellow Kishore Kuchibhotla, PhD, monitored nerve circuit activity in mice when the animals expected, and did not expect, to get a water reward through a straw - like tube (that they see) after the ringing of a familiar musical note.

Brain scans revealed altered circuit activity linked to changes in the sex hormone in women with the gene variant while they performed a working memory task.

Summers is active in Federal Circuit activities, including assisting the judges in recent Joint Judicial Conferences in Japan, China and Korea on U.S. IP rights.

It may ultimately suggest revisions to diagnostic categories over the coming decades ---- and hopefully lead to new treatments targeted on the basis of genetic factors and patterns of abnormal brain circuit activity, said Cuthbert.

Science has proven that social exchanges change the neurotransmitter and circuit activity in your brain which decreases stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms and ups those calm and happy feelings.

Fast - spiking interneurons represent only about 1 percent of the neurons in that brain region, but are known to have an outsized role in organizing the circuit activity.