Sentences with phrase «in brain and»

The paper's other first author is Jakob Voigts, an MIT graduate student in brain and cognitive sciences.

A recent study from the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas shows that a certain type of instructor - led brain training protocol can stimulate structural changes in the brain and neural connections even years after a traumatic brain injury (TBI).

They found that microglia, the first and primary immune response cells in the brain and spinal cord, are essential for dealing with TDP -43-associated neuron death.

The findings, published in Brain and Behavior, further suggest that changes in cortical thickness and neural network connectivity may prove an effective way to quantitatively measure treatment efficacy, an ability that has not existed until now.

An imaging technique called diffusion MRI measures the diffusion of water and has been a standard imaging technique in the brain and an emerging technique in the prostate.

He's joined on the paper by several other members of both the CBMM and the McGovern Institute: first author Joel Leibo, a researcher at Google DeepMind, who earned his PhD in brain and cognitive sciences from MIT with Poggio as his advisor; Qianli Liao, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science; Fabio Anselmi, a postdoc in the IIT@MIT Laboratory for Computational and Statistical Learning, a joint venture of MIT and the Italian Institute of Technology; and Winrich Freiwald, an associate professor at the Rockefeller University.

A, RT - PCR showing the presence of 5 - HT3A transcripts in brain and geniculate ganglion of WT mice, but the lack of 5 - HT3A mRNA in geniculate ganglion of 5 - HT3AKO mice.

«Astrocytes are abundant and widely distributed both in the brain and in the spinal cord.

These protein deposits disrupt the communication of the nerve cells in the brain and contribute to their degeneration.

The FUS protein normally plays a key role in the healthy functioning of neurons, which transmit nerve signals in the brain and spinal cord.

This region has the highest oxytocin levels in the brain and has high levels of oxytocin receptors across all species from mice to humans.

Many cases of ALS are sparked by a toxic build - up of certain proteins, which cause neurons in the brain and spinal cord to die.

Damaged axons in the brain and spinal cord of mammals don't regenerate, and spinal cord injuries can therefore lead to permanent paralysis.

NPAS1 and NPAS3 control genes involved in brain and spinal cord development.

These are the same scientists, though, who admit that no one knows for sure what the threshold dose is that causes mercury to subtly poison cells in the brain and the liver, two organs where it tends to accumulate.

«We also know vitamin D activates and deactivates enzymes in the brain and the cerebrospinal fluid that are involved in neurotransmitter synthesis and nerve growth.»

The condition is caused by the immune system malfunctioning and mistakenly attacking nerves in the brain and spinal cord.

The next step is to determine how and why ER stress occurs in the brain and how it causes fat build up in the liver.

Barberger - Gateau suspects the polyunsaturated fatty acids in fish reduce inflammation in the brain and may aid neural regeneration.

Myelin disorders can affect nerve signal transmission in the brain and spinal cord, leading to cognitive, motor and sensory problems.

«By mapping the network of activity in the brain and how it changes over time,» Bassett said, «we aim to quantify the reconfiguration of this network that leads to different stages of a seizure.»

Now the team is trying to figure out what the fatty acids do in the brain and how differences in their concentration might affect function.

Scientists have been attempting such a feat for years, refining their methods along the way, and the Irvine team finally saw success: the cells were integrated in the brain and caused large - scale rewiring, restoring the high - level plasticity of early development.

Half of them had moderate - to - severe head injuries, which caused lesions in the brain and required a hospital stay of three days or more.

Dopamine is a chemical messenger aiding the transmission of signals in the brain and other areas of the body.

Curiously, the mutant yeast seems to cause more infections in the brain and central nervous system than unaltered C. albicans.

«Cellular stress in the brain may contribute to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: connection between cellular stress in brain and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.»

Struggling to balance on one leg for 20 seconds or longer was linked to an increased risk for small blood vessel damage in the brain and reduced cognitive function in otherwise healthy people with no clinical symptoms, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Stroke.

These problems are caused by a type of white blood cells called T cells that, after becoming activated, find their way into the brain and attack the protective covering — myelin — of neurons in the brain and spinal cord, causing inflammation and damage to the central nervous system.

They found a gene — dubbed Dscam (Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule)-- that appears to give every nerve cell a unique identity during prebirth development, making sure that each cell ends up in the right location in the brain and body.

ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects neuronal cells in the brain and the spinal cord, which send signals to control muscles throughout the body.

Gammie and his colleagues studied mice a few days after they gave birth and tested how the animals reacted to differing levels of corticotropin - releasing hormone (CRH), which is released in the brain and helps control behavior.

«If a paraplegic wants to control a computer or a robotic arm, you would just implant this electrode in the brain and it would last essentially a lifetime.»

DHA in brain and retinal cells also builds reservoirs for molecules called into action when normal functions are disrupted, resulting in such conditions as retinal degeneration, Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease.

Damage to astrocytes — star - shaped cells found in the brain and spinal cord — is found in many neurodegenerative conditions, but it's been unclear exactly what role astrocyte dysfunction plays in the development of disease.

Hoping to do good for science, they have enrolled in the Brain and Body Donation Program of the Banner Sun Health Research Institute — widely considered the world's preeminent brain bank.

Motor neuron disease (MND) is a group of diseases in which the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord controlling the muscles that enable us to move, speak, breathe and swallow slowly degenerate and die.

To conduct the study, Salas and her colleagues from the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which painlessly and noninvasively delivers electromagnetic currents to precise locations in the brain and can temporarily and safely disrupt the function of the targeted area.

As for the future, LaJoie believes that magnetoencephalography, a technique that records the magnetic activity in the brain and helps determine the origin of the seizures, may be beneficial.

But where neuroscientists are accustomed to seeing only vanilla when it comes to astrocytes — viewing all of them as similar despite their different locations in brain and spinal cord — they now will have to imagine «31 flavors» or more.

Scientists at the Science Foundation Ireland - funded APC Microbiome Institute at University College Cork, Ireland, have shown that, at least in mice, gut bacteria play a key role in regulating abdominal pain and its associated changes in the brain and spinal cord.

Also, research in other animal models, such as rodents, has shown anesthesia exposure early in life can lead to cell death in the brain and cognitive impairments.

One of the primary missions of neuroscience is to make connections between particular neurons in the brain and specific behaviors.

Amdam's theory is that when older individuals participate in tasks typically handled by a younger generation — whether in a hive or in our own society — antioxidant levels increase in the brain and turn back the clock.

«Semantic information is represented in the same place in the brain and the same pattern of intensities for everyone.

Aalto University neuroscientists, in collaboration with researchers at Helsinki University Hospital and Harvard Medical School, have found a novel connection between the size of the choroid plexus in the brain and complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS).

«We were very excited to discover that when we used a typical genetic mutation that was more susceptible to electroconvulsive seizures, we were able to actually rescue these worms by treating them with FDA approved human antiepileptic drugs beforehand,» said Monica Risley, co-lead author and a Ph.D. student in FAU's Integrative Biology and Neuroscience program, as well as a student in the new International Max Planck Research School in Brain and Behavior.

Only eight glowing green cells appeared elsewhere in the body — one in the brain and seven in the liver — out of 15 million examined.

The newly fingered SNP lies in a gene for a protein called LINGO1 that is present only in the brain and spinal cord — a distribution consistent with a role in neurological disorders, says neurologist Dietrich Haubenberger of the Medical University of Vienna in Austria, one of the study's authors.

The aim of future research activities will thus be to investigate the neurobiological processes that occur in the brain and that lead it to see a specific situation or potential threat in a more positive light.