Sentences with phrase «future brain researchers»

Not exact matches

For future studies, they suggested, researchers should test the performance of doped chess players given a much longer time limit, so the study could isolate the positive effects of brain drugs.

To amplify slow waves and get them into optimal sync with spindles, researchers plan to apply electrical brain stimulation to the frontal lobe in future experiments.

Your level of self - control, researchers have found, may have to do with a region of the brain that lets us take the perspective of others — including that of our future self.

Psychiatric disorders are in fact brain disorders that involve abnormal activity in brain circuits, so having researchers who understand the brain in a deep and integrated way is going to be critical for the future, says Thomas Insel, director of the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

Researchers say that future studies could look at how changes in these genes may bring about this risk of — or resilience — to brain injury.

In a study being published in the journal Neuron, researchers show that the signal molecule TGF - beta acts as a time signal that regulates the nerve stem cells» potential at different stages of the brain's development — knowledge that may be significant for future pharmaceutical development.

According to Fotini Koutroumpa, lead author of the study and researcher at the UvA's Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), the results point to future research on the tiny but complex moth brain, which will shed light on how the diverse pheromone systems of the thousands of moth species has changed throughout evolution.

In future studies, the researchers hope to determine whether treating the sleep apnea — using CPAP or other methods — returns patients» brain chemicals back to normal levels.

Do this lying in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine and you will have an idea of what researchers instructed 12 female and nine male subjects, all right - handed, to do so they could attempt to determine the regions of the brain exclusively used when humans envision specific future events.

If researchers could acquire more data about brain development during this early stage, she says, «we could make much stronger predictions in the future.»

To be able to target the infection with medications in the future, researchers need to know more about how the organism (technically a yeast), moves from the lungs into the blood stream and through the blood - brain barrier.

The researchers saw a number of regions become active in the brains of the volunteers while thinking of the past and future, but not the present.

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now produced images showing the changes in the brain associated with these symptoms — a development which increases knowledge and could facilitate future diagnostics and treatment.

The researchers say the new techniques developed here will enable them to explore how the disruption of key processes can also cause conditions such as autism, and will be used in future studies to test possible treatments to prevent brain damage.

In future studies, the researchers plan to use brain imaging techniques to determine if it is possible to identify a specific, smaller group of people who can benefit from the clot retrieval therapy seven to 24 hours after stroke onset, said Dr. Reza Jahan, professor of radiology and neurosurgery at UCLA, and a co-author of the study.

The researchers showed that the mTOR pathway correlates with brain improvements observed in their mice and suggest that future studies might test whether the pathway is necessary to mediate such improvements.

This theoretical consistency is important, as it allows researchers to better focus future studies of brain connectivity in schizophrenia, by targeting the brain regions known to be affected.

Although the research indicates it may someday be possible to regenerate neurons from the body's own cells to repair traumatic brain injury or spinal cord damage or to treat conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, the researchers stressed that it is too soon to know whether the neurons created in these initial studies resulted in any functional improvements, a goal for future research.

The research, by a team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, also suggests that the size of the brain's right anterior insula may predict the risk of future bouts of depression, potentially giving researchers an anatomical marker to identify those at high risk for recurrence.

Researchers have identified a novel mechanism by which cells die in Alzheimer's disease, which my aid future therapies targeting cell loss in the brain.

† This is obviously a critical tool for future research: the Michael J. Fox Foundation has recently stepped up with a $ 2 million prize for the first researcher to create a PET tracer for visualizing AS aggregates in the brain).

«Helping to shape research on traumatic brain injury and being involved in training future rehabilitation researchers is fulfilling in itself.

In the future, researchers hope this discovery will serve as a platform for a drug that could prevent brain aging.

The researchers said that in the future, smart fat cells will deliver chemotherapeutic drugs, along with contrast agents, to brain tumor patients so that cancer cells can be detected and wiped out in one step.

The same researchers — from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston — have also studied the crosstalk between brain cells and immune cells, which could help us create better therapies for autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis in the future.

Dr Franco Manes, a neurological researcher, notes in a WebMD interview that there is a possibility that impairments in the brain's pre-frontal cortex make it more difficult for a problem gambler to reasonably consider future consequences.

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.