If scientists can study accurate models of working neural
circuits in these brain bits, he and others say, researchers might finally get a handle on uniquely human neurological conditions.
It has been known for a number of years that particular genetic variations are of importance for the functioning of
neural circuits in the brain.
The results of their work, the researchers say, may advance scientific understanding of how genes linked to the risk of human bipolar disorder change
neuronal circuits in the brain, and may offer an animal model for testing new treatments.
According to an article published in the United Kingdom, scientists studying the physical nature of hate found that some of the nervous
circuits in the brain responsible for it are the same as those that are used during the feeling of romantic love.
I use various Brain Integration Techniques to remove stress from
circuits in the brain by using acupressure points, kinesiology, and healing energy.
At Weizmann, Dr. Spiegel will be establishing his own independent research group which will attempt to identify the molecular and cellular mechanisms through which experience alters the structure and function of neural
circuits in the brain in behaviorally relevant ways and to understand how these processes, when they go awry, might give rise to psychiatric disorders.
Optogenetics also may provide an improved understanding of Parkinson's disease, which involves haywire processing in certain motor -
control circuits in the brain.
This study, led by Garret D. Stuber, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and cell biology & physiology, and Jenna A. McHenry, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in Stuber's lab, identified a hormone -
sensitive circuit in the brain that controls social motivation in female mice.
When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict»
circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.
By simply activating certain
circuits in the brains of female prairie voles, researchers made them «fall in love» with specific males.
In addition, fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) allows the delineation of detailed neural
circuits in the brain involved in complex human behavior.
When we cultivate the ability to have mindsight, we can use the focus of our awareness on the inner world of feelings, memories, and thoughts to actually
integrate circuits in the brain.
It also offered a potential solution to the trolley problem: Although the two scenarios have similar outcomes, they trigger
different circuits in the brain.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) and Stanford University have shown how
key circuits in the brain control movement.
Sripada and colleagues suggest that methylphenidate may help to boost performance of the
specific circuits in the brain's prefrontal cortex that are normally compromised after sustained exertion of self - control.
This presents a significant advance in understanding that
circuits in the brain regulate amyloid - beta protein composition, showing that Alzheimer's is also driven by physiological mechanisms and just by genetic mutations.
In the fathers, a surge of prolactin helped the neurons form a
permanent circuit in the brain, which integrated a pup's scent into the father's long - term memory.
«Our findings show that bisphenol A can promote obesity in mice by altering the
hypothalamic circuits in the brain that regulate feeding behavior and energy balance,» said the study's senior author, Alfonso Abizaid, Ph.D., of the Department of Neuroscience at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
According to a study published in January by neuroscientist Valorie Salimpoor at the Montreal Neurological Institute, music can activate the same reward
circuits in the brain as food and sex.
«Once we unravel the different working patterns and
circuits in the brain during memory formation and decision - making, we can begin to look for differences in connectivity patterns that underlie abnormalities,» Harvey said.
Now an imaging study finds that psychopathic inmates have deficits in a key
empathy circuit in the brain, pointing to a potential therapeutic target.
With this data, we can reconstruct the behavior of large neural
circuits in brain areas involved in memory and navigation.
He is an expert in chemically
defined circuits in the brain and have detailed the dopamine and norepinephrine system, as well as the distribution of opioid peptide and growth factor systems, especially in the basal ganglia, limbic system and cortex in the developing and adult brain.
This past summer, along with Roy and other colleagues, he reported that — contrary to neuroscience dogma — the neural
circuit in the brain structure called the hippocampus that makes a particular memory is not the same circuit that recalls the memory later.
Here's a tantalizing prospect, hinted at by a long - running thread of brain research: compounds that boost the function of certain
acetylcholine circuits in the brain might also modify production of toxic beta - amyloid protein.
If you want to exercise the
happy circuits in your brain, you would do well to spend a few minutes every morning (you can do this over a cup of coffee or tea, if you'd like) thinking about, or writing down, five things you have in your life that you're grateful for.
Reading is not intuitive, but must be learned and each time a person reads, they have to form a new
reading circuit in the brain to do so - why the reading levels of adults frops when they leave school and do not continue a reading habit.
Srini Pillay, in his book Tinker, Dabble, Doodle, Try: Unlock the Power of the Unfocused Mind describes that our brain needs both the focus and
un-focus circuits in the brain to complete tasks efficiently.