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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.

Not exact matches

Among the questions researchers are asking: Does the process of innovating activate neuronal circuits in a particular part of the brain, the way that language, say, primarily activates circuits in parts of the brain's left hemisphere?

The brain encourages these contortions, activating reward circuits in response to biased reasoning that gives a high akin to a junkie's.

By collecting sequencing information about cells in the gut, for example, Kallyope can better figure out how they're connected to neurons in the brain in a series of circuits.

Science shows that meditation causes measurable changes in the brain that short circuit panic and speed learning.

For some people, palatable foods invoke such a strong response in the brain's reward circuit — and so dramatically alter their biology — that willpower will rarely, if ever, be sufficient to resist eating those foods once they are around.

Three times I have been felled by lightning pain as seizures short - circuited my brain; Three times, waking in hospitals at dawn all memory of my poetry was gone, and once I'd nearly bitten through my tongue.

The infrastructure mediates inheritance (for instance, in cell division or in the repetition of similar circuit patterns in the excitation of the brain), and inheritance thus has in it that same discontinuity.

A wide variety of vertebrates also are known to have «reward circuits» in their brains.

A mechanistic brain physiologist thinks of the brain in terms of the circuits in a complex computer.

What's happening, the authors suggest, is that as the gay fathers take on the role of independent, hands - on caregivers, their brains change as a result — the «mentalising» circuit connects with and stimulates the «emotional» circuit more commonly found to be active in mothers.

In less than two months my brain has been staunchly rewired; all circuits once devoted to making decisions for myself have now been plugged into a big, blazing marquee blinking «Baby!

I use various Brain Integration Techniques to remove stress from circuits in the brain by using acupressure points, kinesiology, and healing enBrain Integration Techniques to remove stress from circuits in the brain by using acupressure points, kinesiology, and healing enbrain by using acupressure points, kinesiology, and healing energy.

Even the prefrontal cortex (planning, attention, inhibition, multitasking) and brain circuits involved in social development have the onset of rapid development in the first 1000 days.

Hearing my babytalk also encourages me to talk more, which in turn stimulates baby «sneural dendrites and circuits in the brain and causes the lefthemisphere's language centers to grow.

We have long known that interactions with parents, caregivers, and other adults are important in a child's life, but new evidence shows that these relationships actually shape brain circuits and lay the foundation for later developmental outcomes, from academic performance to mental health and interpersonal skills.»

In other words, the sights, sounds, air freshness, smells, and everything that comes with being outside tends to overwhelm their brain circuits — and their little brain tells them to fall asleep so that it can categorize all the information it just took from being outside.

«A baby crying activates the circuits in the mother's brain that are similar to those that become overactive in people with obsessive - compulsive disorder,» Swain says.

Looking inside the brains of animals exposed to chronic social defeat stress, the scientists observed hyperactive firing of neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a critical part of a reward circuit.

Dr. Saper's research has explored circuitry of the brain that controls basic functions such as wake - sleep cycles, feeding, and immune response, and how these circuits are disrupted in neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, in sleep disorders such as narcolepsy and sleep apnea, and during aging.

«I believe ultimately that our behavior is a production of activity in our brain circuits,» Hyman said.

All four of these are active in a brain circuit that links the striatum, thalamus and cortex regions (Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038 / s41467 -017-00831-x).

All four of these are active in a brain circuit that links the striatum, thalamus and cortex regions.

«It's a period in human development in which brain circuits change and reorganize and. . .

Brain scans showed the drug affected the same reward circuit that it did in animals.

Psilocybin, a hallucinogenic compound found in magic mushrooms, may help re-set the activity of neural circuits in the brain that are involved in depression

The mice cranked out this protein in their reward circuits, a brain area that drives us to seek pleasure - inducing experiences and a key component in addiction.

But the brain waves bind together all the neurons in a circuit with every crest, pushing the neurons so close to their firing point that they're primed to respond to just the slightest extra stimulus.

When we hold an item in working memory, these oscillations move through brain circuits in waves that rise and fall scores of times.

Researchers studying the brain have long been interested in its neural oscillations, the rhythmic electrical activity that plays an important role in the transmission of information within the brain's neural circuits.

In that third round, the participants responded positively, activating areas in their brains that some scientists call the «reward circuit» — or the «ventral striatum.&raquIn that third round, the participants responded positively, activating areas in their brains that some scientists call the «reward circuit» — or the «ventral striatum.&raquin their brains that some scientists call the «reward circuit» — or the «ventral striatum.»

Richer and more relevant sensory information from spindles allows for efficient update of the computational circuits in our brain that guide movement.

Correspondingly, they found that neural circuits in the brain that contribute significantly to the control of anxiety and social interactions were significantly affected in the immune - activated mice.

In the hippocampus, a brain region vital for laying down new memories, «stem cells continue to add new circuit elements,» says Stanford University neuroscientist Theo D. Palmer, who helped Monje find out why brain fogginess can persist for years after cancer treatment has ended.

The change in what the volunteers saw was so fast, Dilks says, that it must be due to the brain redirecting signals through pre-existing circuits rather than forging new connections.

Moreover, these women showed greater activity in the brain circuit that enables people to understand the emotions of others.

A previous experiment found that sweat from skydivers activated anxiety circuits in sniffers» brains.

McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that immune system activation during pregnancy and right at birth can cause alterations in the brain's neural circuits during young adulthood that are consistent with behavioral symptoms common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental conditions.

We're funding researchers to investigate how drugs alter what genes are activated such that they modify the function of the cells, and how this, in turn, modifies the functions of brain circuits, and how that modifies behavior.

Gait disturbance in individuals with spinal cord injury is attributed to the interruption of neural pathways from brain to the spinal locomotor center, whereas neural circuits locate below and above the lesion maintain most of their functions.

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 memorIn 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 memorin the brain, which integrated a pup's scent into the father's long - term memory.

The potential for mind - boosting drugs and technologies has increased stunningly over the past decade as neuroscientists have unlocked the secrets of neuronal circuits, neurotransmitters, and specific molecular events triggering brain functions in three interconnected cognitive domains — attention, memory, and creativity.

These differences were reflected in crucial changes in key brain circuits.

«What so amazing is that unlike a circuit in a computer, the brain is self - assembling,» Huberman says.

«How brain circuits are affected by infections in mothers and newborns.»

Recent studies have demonstrated that falling in love — or the love a mother has for an infant, which is so powerful — is driven by these reward processes, and it actually engages the same [brain] circuit that gives priority of that behavior over anything else, just like in addiction.

An earlier study had identified the connection between the thalamus — a brain region that relays incoming signals from the muscles and senses — and the dmPFC, along with the role this neural circuit can play in modifying a mouse's desire for confrontation.

In other research, Gaab and her colleagues have found an intriguing link between children's reading difficulties and neural deficits that prevent them from properly processing fast - changing sounds; they also found that computerized sound - training exercises «rewired» those faulty brain circuits.

In addition, fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) allows the delineation of detailed neural circuits in the brain involved in complex human behavioIn addition, fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) allows the delineation of detailed neural circuits in the brain involved in complex human behavioin the brain involved in complex human behavioin complex human behavior.

Humans may have a brain circuit dedicated to grabbing stuff and putting it in our mouths, and it probably develops in the womb.