Sentences with phrase «communication among brain cells»

At the Kavli Institute for Brain Science at Columbia University Medical Center, researchers are developing novel imaging techniques to study this communication among brain cells.

A May study in Nature found that 65 percent of autistic children share a set of mutations that may regulate genes known to influence communication among brain cells.

Not exact matches

In a report in the Sept. 25 issue of Nature Communications, the scientists say mutations in one such autism - linked gene, dubbed NHE9, which is involved in transporting substances in and out of structures within the cell, causes communication problems among brain cells that likely contribute to autism.

-- In their paper published in Nature Neuroscience in January, researchers at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) and Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) report substantial developmental changes in communication among cells that significantly improve the information processing capabilities of the brain.

In the brain, cells are among the units, migratory pathways are the highways or roads, and various electrical or chemical signals, including dopamine, are the communication systems.

Emerging nanoscale implants will play an important role in understanding communication among nerve cells in the brain, while other researchers hope to use the same technology to probe chemical signaling in microbial communities.

While the role of exercise in circulation of blood and hormone production, like insulin, is widely acknowledged in the science community, scientists have only suspected physiological communication among our cells and organs — creating a chain reaction of chatter, with fat cells communicating with muscle cells, muscle cells with brains cells, and so forth.

Effects on Brain Development from Terbutaline, Pesticides Both chemicals independently caused brain injuries not seen in the control rats, including the loss of brain cells and the nerve cell projections critical to communication among neurons; and the effects persisted into adultBrain Development from Terbutaline, Pesticides Both chemicals independently caused brain injuries not seen in the control rats, including the loss of brain cells and the nerve cell projections critical to communication among neurons; and the effects persisted into adultbrain injuries not seen in the control rats, including the loss of brain cells and the nerve cell projections critical to communication among neurons; and the effects persisted into adultbrain cells and the nerve cell projections critical to communication among neurons; and the effects persisted into adulthood.