Sentences with phrase «essential brain center»

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The nucleus accumbens is generally regarded as one of the brain's essential pleasure centers.

The cortex and its gateway, the thalamus — the quail egg — shaped structure in the center of the brain — on the other hand, are essential for consciousness, providing it with its elaborate content.

Raising cultural awareness among researchers and clinicians is essential to developing patient - centered interventions that reduce health disparities and improve outcomes for all patients with brain injury.

The altered metabolism of two essential amino acids helps drive the development of the most common and lethal form of brain cancer, according to a new study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James).

Building on their previous work that identified and activated memory cells, a group led by RIKEN Brain Science Institute and RIKEN - MIT Center Director Susumu Tonegawa has now shown that spines — small knobs on brain - cell dendrites through which synaptic connections are formed — are essential for memory retrieval in these AD Brain Science Institute and RIKEN - MIT Center Director Susumu Tonegawa has now shown that spines — small knobs on brain - cell dendrites through which synaptic connections are formed — are essential for memory retrieval in these AD brain - cell dendrites through which synaptic connections are formed — are essential for memory retrieval in these AD mice.

University of Hawai'i Cancer Center researchers have identified an essential driver of tumor cell invasion in glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer that can occur at any age.

The work and the researchers involved were supported by grants from the Dystonia Coalition, the Office of Rare Diseases Research at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the Bachmann - Strauss Dystonia & Parkinson Foundation, the Benign Essential Blepharospasm Research Foundation, the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at UCSD, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Science Foundation.

Essential oils change our emotional profile and can help charge our energy centers, not just because their sweet smells charm our senses but also because their small molecules penetrate our blood - brain barrier — which otherwise keeps most everything from coming into contact with our neurons — to effortlessly target our brain on a biochemical level.

When inhaled, odor molecules from essential oils immediately travel up your nose to the limbic lobe of the brain, which is known as the emotional control center.

Foundations of Health: Essential for a Bright and Healthy Future Leading researchers from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University and the Women and Children's Health Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University have collaboratively identified four foundations of health that buffer young children against adverse childhood experiences, allowing their bodies and brains to develop without the lasting effects of toxic stress.