Sentences with phrase «connection between brain cells»
The mutations reveal that every time a person learns something, he has to switch on some of these genes in order to lay down new connections between brain cells.
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Activities that engage your brain like learning and certain kinds of «cognitive training» increase connections between brain cells.
Everything a puppy experiences in these first few weeks of life establishes connections between the brain cells.
They might, for instance, encourage the creation of additional blood vessels or new connections between brain cells or between different parts of the brain.
Further studies showed that THC boosted the number of connections between brain cells in the hippocampus, which is involved in memory formation.
Last year, Gladstone scientists announced a promising new drug candidate that prevents memory deficits and the loss of synaptic connections between brain cells — key features of Alzheimer's — in mice modeling the disease.
«Synapse discovery could lead to new treatments for Alzheimer's disease: Scientists have discovered how connections between brain cells are destroyed in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.»
Shaw and others believe sleep helps the brain reinforce connections between brain cells that encode important memories and cut back connections that encode useless information.
Neuroscientists investigate connections between brain cells.
Visible are the cell's outline and tentacles (filopodia) that form connections between brain cells.
Scientists have proposed that synesthesia represents alterations in pruning, the process of editing connections between brain cells.
Almost all theories of memory propose that memory storage depends on synapses, the tiny connections between brain cells.
Another experiment in the study directly tested the compound's effect on the synaptic signal, the strength of the electrical connection between brain cells.
Then, they inserted electrodes into the neurons to create artificial connections between the brain cells that were based on connections from the hooded nudibranch.
However, trillions of complex connections between their brain cells are still waiting to be formed.
Scientists at VIB, KU Leuven and Janssen Pharmaceutica have demonstrated that the distribution of these aggregates through the brain is facilitated by synaptic connections between brain cells.
A team of researchers led by UNSW Australia scientists has discovered how connections between brain cells are destroyed in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease — work that opens up a new avenue for research on possible treatments for the degenerative brain condition.
promoting new connections between brain cells and giving us the time and space we need to think.
«Severe stress affects the size of the structures in the brain, causes cell death, and affects the number of connections between brain cells,» observes Kalin.
A newborn baby has over 2 billion brain cells, but connections between these brain cells have not yet been developed and will constitute the majority of the 75 percent of the brain left to grow after birth (Sunderland, 2006).
Between ages 1 and 2, the cerebral cortex adds more than 2 million new synapses — the connections between brain cells — every second, according to Zero to Three, a nonprofit educational group.
Memories are created through physical and chemical changes in synapses, the connections between brain cells that are continually remodeled in the ongoing storage and retrieval of information.
Last month, researchers led by Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital reported that a process in which microglia prune excess synapses in the brain during early life can turn on inappropriately later on, possibly triggering Alzheimer's or other disorders marked by damage to connections between brain cells.
But in the case of synapses, which are the connections between brain cells, too many or too few can both disrupt brain function.
Instead, it's the largest map to date of the connections between brain cells — in this case, about 200 from a mouse's visual cortex.
LTP leaves its mark by strengthening some connections between synapses — the connections between brain cells — and not others.
And the images he's creating are part of an ambitious attempt to understand how the connections between those brain cells give rise to the mind.
A new in vitro model Scientists developed a new research tool for this study that enabled them to monitor the spread of Tau aggregates whilst changing the synaptic connections between brain cells.
New research in mice reveals that during sleep the connections between brain cells, which hold information learned throughout the day, undergo massive shrinkage.
Some people's brains can withstand the ravages of the disease by elongating the connections between brain cells — a process that seems to counter mental decline.
The researchers also found that these copy number variants occurred more frequently in genes involved in the function of synapses, the connections between brain cells that transmit chemical messages.
This sudden movement causes stretching and tearing of connections between brain cells and creates chemical changes that alter normal brain function.
Richard Huganir's research focuses on the mechanisms of synaptic plasticity, the constant change in the strength of the connections between brain cells that underlies learning and memory.
One study concluded that magnesium threonate increases the number of synaptic connections between brain cells and boosts the density of synapses (30).
It also repairs brain cell damage and makes the connections between brain cells stronger.
Understanding the connection between brain cells, behavior and disease is important and scientists have developed a variety of new techniques that will help them map brain activity.