Sentences with phrase «during normal brain function»

The ultimate goal is to better understand how the billions of neurons in the brain communicate with one another during normal brain function, or dysfunction, as result of injury or disease.

The study also discovered that microscopic spasms in capillaries occur, albeit with lower frequency, during normal brain function, too, suggesting that one problem caused by epilepsy is that seizures drive these vasospasms to abnormal levels.

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During the study of a number of aardvarks by researchers of the Brain Function Research Group at the University of the Witwatersrand, all but one of the study animals — as well as other aardvarks in the area — died because of a severe drought, with air temperatures much higher than normal and very dry soil in the area.

Glucose is the sole metabolic fuel used for nearly all brain functions under normal physiological conditions, but the brain will metabolize ketone bodies for energy when access to glucose is limited, as would occur during water - only therapeutic fasting in humans or during calorie restriction in mice.

Developmental trauma research now argues that trauma exposure during childhood affects children's self - regulatory capacities by disrupting the normal functioning of the body and brain stress - response systems, which can affect emotional and cognitive functioning (Putnam, 2006).