Sentences with phrase «entire brain circuits»

Rather, they appear to repair entire brain circuits that had been faulty.

Optogenetics works at micro scale, and fMRI covers wide regions of the brain — together this means that scientists have a way to intervene and experiment with entire brain circuits, to finally see how a certain type of brain cell affects the wider global activity of the entire brain.

Most recently, a technology called optogenetics has allowed experimenters to toggle entire brain circuits «on» or «off» by shining laser light on genetically modified synapses.

Not exact matches

If a traditional microchip is comparable to an electric circuit (remove one piece and the entire system collapses), this newtechnology is more similar to a human brain.

Ultimately, the accumulation of multiple electrical signals throughout the entire circuit of neurons produces brain waves.