Sentences with phrase «how brain circuits»

James Kozloski at IBM research uses computer models to understand complex phenomenon - including how brain circuits dysfunction in HD.

Both studies are helping scientists better understand how brain circuits work.

Next, the researchers will study how brain circuits are disturbed by the amyloid plaques seen in Alzheimer's disease.

Such a tool will help researchers better understand how brain circuits process information, and this knowledge then can be applied to humans.

«If you want to understand how brain circuits work, you first need to know how many pieces there are, of what types, and how are they distributed.

Denis Jabaudon concludes: «Our results allow us to better understand how the brain circuits which build our representation of the world assemble during development.

«How brain circuits are affected by infections in mothers and newborns.»

These findings could be a step in grasping how the brain circuit is shaped during this early stage development and how these neuronal circuits contribute to higher cognitive function in adulthood.

«This study moves researchers to the next level to help them understand how the brain circuit is disrupted,» Dong said.

Not exact matches

By collecting sequencing information about cells in the gut, for example, Kallyope can better figure out how they're connected to neurons in the brain in a series of circuits.

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage bBrain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage bbrain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage bbrain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brainbrain.

Dr. Saper's research has explored circuitry of the brain that controls basic functions such as wake - sleep cycles, feeding, and immune response, and how these circuits are disrupted in neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, in sleep disorders such as narcolepsy and sleep apnea, and during aging.

Panksepp saw that human emotions and emotional problems could be explored by studying other mammals — how their brains generated emotions akin to the anger, sadness and joy that humans describe, what neurons and neural circuits were involved.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have created a map that shows how specific schizophrenia symptoms are linked to distinct brain circuits.

«While previous studies at McLean and elsewhere have focused on the behavioral symptoms produced by such immune activation, this study goes deeper, going to the cellular level to show how the brain's neural circuits are affected.»

We're funding researchers to investigate how drugs alter what genes are activated such that they modify the function of the cells, and how this, in turn, modifies the functions of brain circuits, and how that modifies behavior.

«We now know much more about how the cells work and how they best become integrated into the circuits in the brain.»

Knowing how these cells mature during development might lead to a better grasp of just how to replicate that process in the adult brain, which could eventually pave the way to strategies that rejuvenate aging circuits, Donato said.

Gaiti Hasan's team from NCBS has now uncovered how this happens — the researchers have discovered an integrative circuit of nerve cells in fruit fly brains that allows them to ignore the lack of proteins in their food to enter the pupal stage.

He has heard all the platitudes about the coming age of brain - computer interfaces, and how advanced neurotechnology will soon upgrade his ailing neural circuits.

Now, an international team of scientists has made inroads to understanding how genes influence brain structure and cognitive abilities and how neural circuits produce language.

«This is a step in understanding how the neuronal mechanisms of memory and early sensory experiences form brain circuits in the early developmental stage, not only in birds, but also in humans and other species.»

Understanding how the brain's corticothalamic complex creates any one conscious sensation necessitates delineating these underlying circuits for the 100 billion cells in the brain.

But «the circuits in the brain that control gaze direction affect how the brain processes auditory information.»

Whatever is the goal, I work on that and I think about what types of brain circuits are going to be involved and how to most effectively engage them.

Findings about the brain circuits that control the behavioral and physiological responses are assumed to explain how humans experience fear.

The researchers also investigated how pheromone signals are transmitted through the olfactory circuit in the brain.

«This gives us quite an exciting springboard to fully map out this decision - making circuit from all the sensory inputs leading into the brain and how the brain parses and compares these signals, and comes to a decision,» states Schinaman.

This kind of progressive speech impairment is associated with dysfunction in the cortical - basal ganglia brain circuit in both humans and songbirds, so Liu could make assumptions based on this trial about how the human brain circuit changes.

We were surprised how quickly we saw differences in the ability of mice from each group to learn how to run on complex wheel, which shows just how fast the brain can respond to wrap newly - activated circuits in myelin and how this improves learning.

Scientists in recent years have made great strides in the quest to understand the brain by using implanted probes to explore how specific neural circuits work.

«Hunting for the brain's opioid addiction switch: Expert investigates how drug addiction changes circuits in the brain.»

To map how the same sense can be perceived differently in the brain, the NYU Langone team, led by postdoctoral fellow Kishore Kuchibhotla, PhD, monitored nerve circuit activity in mice when the animals expected, and did not expect, to get a water reward through a straw - like tube (that they see) after the ringing of a familiar musical note.

«The evolution in songbirds of an identifiable circuit for a single complex behavior gives us a tremendous advantage as we try to parse out exactly what these parts of the brain do and how they do it,» says Woolley.

«Any new rules, circuits, or understanding of how the brain works will allow us to design neuromorphic machines that are much more powerful in terms of cognitive power, energy efficiency, and packaging,» Curioni said.

Optogenetics has revolutionized how neuroscientists study the brain by allowing them to directly manipulate specific neural circuits.

Understanding how networks of cells in circuits work together to give rise to behaviors, thoughts, and emotions requires new technology, he said, and optogenetics is starting to provide new approaches for mapping and repairing the brain.

Neuroscientists at Duke University have introduced a new paradigm for brain - machine interfaces that investigates the physiological properties and adaptability of brain circuits, and how the brains of two or more animals can work together to complete simple tasks.

Understanding how common brain circuits for decision - making contribute to seemingly unrelated disorders will allow researchers to focus on core disturbances and leverage treatment advances across different disorders.»

Furthermore, activation in fronto - striatal brain circuits during the experiment predicted how many calories they chose to consume in a meal the following day.

«Our goal is to understand how specific brain circuits bias attention to food cues, as these biases are powerful drivers of food consumption,» said corresponding author Mark L. Andermann, PhD, of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at BIDMC and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

New research presented by Dr. Jonathan Britt, from McGill University, helps to better understand how reward signals, such as those produced by addictive drugs, travel through the brain and modify brain circuits.

«We're interested in learning more about what other proteins LRP6 interacts with, as well as how it acts in different types of brain cells at different developmental stages of circuit development and refinement.»

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.

Researchers study the brain to learn how its specialized circuits process information in seconds to distinguish whether faces are real or fake.

One goal in neurobiology is to understand how the flow of electrical signals through brain circuits gives rise to perception, action, thought, learning and memories.

Now a team of researchers has used computer - vision and machine - learning techniques in fruit flies to create behavior anatomy maps that will help us understand how specific brain circuits generate Drosophila aggression, wing extension, or grooming.

«Study reveals how brain multitasks: Findings help explain how the brain pays attention to what; s important and how neural circuits may be «broken» in attention - deficit disorders.»

According to Halassa, the new research sets the stage for ever more detailed studies on the complex behavior involved in how the mammalian brain pays attention to what's important, and especially how those neural circuits are broken in cases of attention - deficit diseases, such as ADHD, autism, and schizophrenia.

Yuste hopes that seeing how the circuits work in real time might lead to new insights into the human brain and tell us more about mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, for example.