Sentences with phrase «circuitry at»

A small Noctua fan mounted to the rear panel spins quietly at low rpm to gently draw air through the chassis, keeping the circuitry at a comfortable operating temperature while extending the life of the electronic components.

«By discovering how the removal of RGS4 affects brain circuitry at the molecular level, we gained a deeper understanding of the protein's role — both normally and in Parkinson's disease,» said Dr. Lerner.

«Importantly, the investigation also demonstrates that newly generated cells in the mouse retina not only look and behave like neurons, they also wire correctly to the existing neural circuitry at the back of the eye.»

Not exact matches

At 4 months, he has both the motor development to handle the task and the maturity in his brain circuitry to coordinate all the moves needed to accomplish it.

As I have written before, power is addictive and manifests at neurochemical level through a reward circuitry of dopamine flow, the same transmitter responsible for producing a sense of pleasure.

The shiny plastic surface seen at the top of the image is known as the web; it will be formed into the circuitry that controls the flexible display.

This gives just enough time for light signals from the baseball to hit the batter's eye, work through the circuitry of the retina, activate successions of cells along the loopy superhighways of the visual system at the back of the head, cross vast territories to the motor areas, and modify the contraction of the muscles swinging the bat.

«It is exciting to find a correlation between brain circuitry and gene expression by combining high quality data from these two large - scale projects,» says David Van Essen, Ph.D., professor at Washington University in St. Louis and a leader of the Human Connectome Project.

Produced by a technique called fiber tractography, the image helped doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital Center in Quebec avoid cutting vital circuitry during brain surgery: The reddest nerve fibers were those most likely to be severed by incisions to remove the tumor.

Jürgen Steimle at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is already developing «redundant» circuit layouts with this capability, including circuitry for touchpad - like devices that work even if one part has been cut out.

But shrinking optical gadgets is harder than shrinking electronic circuitry: Light balks at a tight curve and won't flow through lightguides that are too small.

«It's like remote control of the brain circuitry to create a pair bond,» says Robert Liu at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and a member of the team using technology to play Eros.

The new approach could be a boon for incorporating various types of circuitry into textiles, says Barry DeCristofano, a chemical engineer and electrical textiles expert at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center in Massachusetts.

The amygdala is an almond - shaped structure at a crossroads in the brain's circuitry: it links the cortex, which is responsible for conscious thought, with regions of the brain that control the body's emotional responses.

So Olle Inganäs, a chemist at Linköping University in Sweden, and his colleagues decided to see if they could make their electronic circuitry out of a textile's own threads.

At the heart of the tutor is speech - recognition circuitry that plugs into a personal computer.

Now, a preclinical study, from the lab of Olivier Berton, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of Psychiatry, in collaboration with Sheryl Beck, PhD, a professor in the department of Anesthesiology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, found that bullying and other social stresses triggered symptoms of depression in mice by activating GABA neurons, in a never - before - seen direct relationship between social stimuli and this neural circuitry.

In a paper published in the journal Neuron, researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) identified specific neural circuitry responsible for rousing the brain of mice in simulated apnea conditions.

At the same time, animal studies exploring the biochemistry of the postpartum brain are uncovering changes in neural circuitry and areas in need of repair.

Jaak Panksepp, a neuroscientist at the Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics at Northwestern University, calls the dopamine system the brain's «seeking» circuitry, which propels us to explore new avenues for reward in our environment.

«Our goal was to identify the circuitry responsible for waking the brain up during sleep apnea, which is distinct from the part of the brain that controls breathing,» said Saper, who is also the James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School.

In a novel animal study design that mimicked human clinical trials, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that long - term treatment using a small molecule drug that reduces activity of the brain's stress circuitry significantly reduces Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology and prevents onset of cognitive impairment in a mouse model of the neurodegenerative condition.

Karl Deisseroth, an optogenetics pioneer at Stanford University, has used the technique with animals to learn more about the nature of the disordered brain circuitry in Parkinson's.

He notes that the genetic and environmental influences at play are far more complex in people, but he thinks the study will facilitate further investigation of how early alcohol exposure could alter decision - making circuitry in the brain.

It is based on a model of the brain circuitry found in the mammalian visual system by Torsten Wiesel and the late David H. Hubel, both then at Harvard University, in the late 1950s and early 1960s (work for which they would later be awarded a Nobel Prize).

With a name like Squishy Circuits, it was clearly invented with kids in mind — but that didn't stop this novel method of DIY circuitry from being a hit with adults at Maker Faire too.

«Our goal in the project was to close the gap in knowledge that exists on role of serotonin in the brain cortex, particularly as it concerns brain circuitry, its electrical activity and function,» said Roberto Fernández Galán, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Using a powerful gene - hunting technique for the first time in mammalian brain cells, researchers at Johns Hopkins report they have identified a gene involved in building the circuitry that relays signals through the brain.

He has joined the Mosers at the Trondheim Kavli Institute, which is now buzzing with six additional research groups, each working on different aspects of neural circuitry and coding.

While the subjects pondered how loud to set the volume, the dorsal striatum, part of the brain's reward circuitry, lit up at the prospect of retaliation.

Martha Farah, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, says it is crucial to figure out what neural circuitry is behind «free won't,» as she refers the ability to control impulses, because it is one «of the many psychiatric disorders for which self - control problems figure prominently.»

«We know from animal models that there are critical periods during early development when cells are rapidly dividing and forming the circuitry through which cells will communicate with each other to form various tissues of the body,» said Retha Newbold, a reproductive biologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina.

Radiologist Shumei Li at Guangdong No. 2 Provincial People's Hospital in Guangzhou, China, and her team scanned the brains of 30 healthy sleepers and 23 severe insomniacs using diffusion tensor imaging MRI, a technique that lights up the white matter circuitry.

They have to piece together such molecular data to reveal whether cell circuitry is disrupted at low radiation doses.

To better understand how the neurons in the basal ganglia behave in Parkinson's, Gittis and colleagues looked at the inner circuitry of the basal ganglia.

Researchers at the Broad are working to gain a complete understanding of this complex biological circuitry and how it functions in human health and disease.

However, it has been established that the ability of deep - brain stimulation to modify brain functions depends on the application of stimulation at specific sites in the complex neuronal circuitry underlying these functions.2 - 5

Professor Bass said: «Coupling of vocal and pectoral - gestural circuitry starts to get at the evolutionary origins of the coupling between vocalization (speech) and gestural signalling (hand movements).

Andrew Todd at the University of Glasgow, UK, is excited by the newly identified circuitry.

Using our detailed insights into how the brain circuitry is organized, both globally and locally, makes it possible to describe brain function at a computational level.

PULLMAN, Wash. — A WSU research team for the first time has developed a computer algorithm that is nearly as accurate as people are at mapping brain neural networks — a breakthrough that could speed up the image analysis that researchers use to understand brain circuitry.

«Once we start to correlate particular patterns of activity to behaviors or mental states,» says Rafael Yuste, a neuroscientist at Columbia University who studies mammalian brain circuitry, «we will reinvent neuroscience as a field.»

At any given instant it can be argued that the cell is in a «state» defined by its components — their concentrations and locations, the interactions between components — that are modulated in space and time, and the complex circuitry — that involves a large number of interacting networks and a snapshot of the dynamical processes — such as gene expression, cell cycle, transport of components, etc..

Led by Dr. Daniel Geschwind at UCLA, researchers will work with counterparts at Stanford University to assess the specific impact of genetic mutations on alterations in molecular, cellular and neural circuitry.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — April 29, 2012 — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have determined how specific circuitry in the brain controls not only body movement but also motivation and learning, providing new insight into neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease — and psychiatric disorders such as addiction and depression.

Annegret Falkner is a post-doctoral fellow at New York University working on the neural circuitry of aggression.

«This new data indicate that latency is far from an accident — it is encoded in the virus's circuitry and is an evolutionarily advantageous strategy, likely increasing the odds of infection by a substantial amount,» Leor Weinberger, a coauthor and researcher at the Gladstone Institutes, a nonprofit focused on biomedical research, said in a statement.

«The sequencer takes the voltage the eel produces and operates circuitry that flashes the lights, fast or slow, based on the level of voltage he puts out,» says Terry Smith, project manager at Cache Valley Electric, in a press release.

Thomas Jessell, Ph.D., Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Director of the Neuroscience Institute at Columbia University, is focused on defining the molecular mechanisms that control motor neuron differentiation and the formation of sensory - motor circuitry in the developing spinal cord.

«If humans have similar circuitry, it should be possible to adjust to jet lag during a west - to - east flight by having a period of starvation, followed by refeeding at 7 a.m. or 8 a.m. in your new time zone.»