Sentences with phrase «in brain disorders»

For years, scientists have known that mitochondria in brain cells play a role in brain disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and stress responses.

In her academic research, she specializes in brain disorders, brain intervention and emotional regulation.

Rony Paz, PhD, director of the Lab for Neural Mechanisms of Learning at the Weizmann Institute of Science, added, «The goal for the alliance is to demonstrate how collaboration can accelerate understanding of the mechanisms involved in brain disorders and translate that learning into care advances for patients and their families.»

«There are case reports for the Zika virus where they show that certain brain areas appear to have developed normally, but it is mostly the cortical structures that are missing,» says Ming, a neuroscientist interested in brain disorders like microcephaly.

One possible solution to the shortage of neuropsychologists (and the expense that hiring them would entail) would be to include school psychologists already on staff in school districts, and who already have some training in brain disorders and neurocognitive testing, as part of a school's concussion care team.

Chronic UPR activation and excessive cell death has been implicated in brain disorders like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.»

Using Positron Emission Tomography (PET) from nuclear medicine, it is possible to quantify receptors, transporters and enzymes, in order to diagnose neurochemical differences in brain disorders but also to make a detailed analysis of the effects a drug has on the brain.

Thus, we are identifying molecular and circuit mechanisms of brain dysfunction and exploring the therapeutic implications of enhancing inhibitory functions and / or restoring oscillatory rhythms in brain disorders associated with abnormal synchronization of neuronal networks, such as AD, schizophrenia, autism, or epilepsy.

«We're at a juncture in science that will change our understanding of the causes in brain disorders, and how to treat them,» Dr. Goldberg says.

«The implications of being able to manipulate the health of the blood - brain barrier by making changes in the gut bacteria offers up, for the first time, a powerful therapeutic tool that may have incredibly wide application in brain disorders,» Perlmutter said in response to the study.

Dr. Nour is a Neurologist (specialist in brain disorders) who is certified in both Neurology and Neurophysiology (electric studies of the brain) by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Great Expectations: International Collaboration Holds Great Promise for the Future of Psychiatric Care In an unprecedented move, McLean Hospital and Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science have launched an alliance with the goal of demonstrating how collaboration can accelerate understanding of the mechanisms involved in brain disorders, and translating that learning into care advances for patients and their families.

Because the BHR also includes longitudinal data from many healthy adults, the collaboration may also increase knowledge about the basic functioning of the olfactory system beyond its role in brain disorders.