Sentences with phrase «in brains of»

This neurotransmitter is depleted in the brains of people with Parkinson's, and is vital for mobility.

He and his colleagues also reported that the improperly folded proteins found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients aren't what cause cells to die.

Penn State researchers were the first to discover increased iron levels in the brains of some patients with the late - onset neurodegenerative disorders Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Crucially, the researchers had access to detailed family trees for the chimpanzees, allowing them to measure similarity in the brains of genetically related individuals.

Importantly, haloperidol alleviated the abnormal movements, but it did not restore the missing spines in the brains of Arp2 / 3 mice.

They also showed in mice studies and in the laboratory that NCAM2 was broken down by another protein called beta - amyloid, which is the main component of the plaques that build up in the brains of people with the disease.

Black said it's not possible to know yet whether the extra gray matter is transmitting information that somehow contributes to tics or whether reduced amounts of white matter elsewhere in the brains of kids with Tourette's may somehow influence the movements and vocalizations that characterize the disorder.

In the brains of patients with Alzheimer's, amyloid peptides aggregate to form oligomers and plaques that are thought to be responsible for the disease symptoms.

The researchers found that the same «mapping» divisions - of - labor present in the normally sighted brain are also present in the brains of people born blind as reflected from their resting state connectivity patterns.

Importantly, levels of total tau and tau tangles in the brains of treated 12 - month - old mice were lower than in untreated 9 - month - old mice, suggesting that the treatment not only had stopped but reversed the buildup of tau.

He was discussing how the league could donate $ 1 million or more to the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University, whose discoveries of brain damage commonly associated with boxers in the brains of deceased football players were regularly discredited by the N.F.L.

Scientists recorded electrical activity in the brains of rat pups as their mamas nursed, licked and cared for their offspring.

This knob is sometimes seen in the brains of right - handed string players who train from a young age.

Then Seung could see if the patterns of connections are different in the brains of healthy people and those with autism, schizophrenia, and other disorders.

Using MRIs, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified areas in the brains of children with Tourette's syndrome that appear markedly different from the same areas in the brains of children who don't have the neuropsychiatric disorder.

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 have identified a neural circuit in the brains of mice that plays a role in social dominance.

BDNF levels have also been shown to be reduced in the brains of individuals with Rett syndrome and in multiple brain areas of Mecp2 - deficient mice.

The researchers are now examining changes in the brains of individuals who go on to develop psychotic disorders, as well as potential environmental and genetic risk factors that may predispose individuals to poor cognition.

Previously, researchers have shown that treating cells with neuregulin - 1, for example, dampens levels of amyloid precursor protein, a molecule that generates amyloid beta, which aggregate and form plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.

So we aim at molecules that could work better in this to support suffering neurons in the brains of Parkinson's disease patiens,» says Professor Mart Saarma.

A recent wave of studies are starting to bear fruit: We are now learning that in the first few days after birth, changes occur in the brains of both the dad and the baby, depending on whether the father is around or not.

Detlev Arendt and Joachim Wittbrodt, developmental biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, jumped into the fray after Arendt noticed some vertebrate - like photoreceptor cells in the brains of ragworms, a marine species that hasn't changed much for 500 million years.

ARTIFICIAL intelligence can identify changes in the brains of people likely to get Alzheimer's almost a decade before doctors can diagnose the disease from symptoms alone.

Researchers at Rice's Center for Theoretical Biological Physics used computer models to analyze proteins suspected of misfolding and forming plaques in the brains of patients with neurological diseases.

This happens in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease as well, but the two conditions are distinct.

Scientists have long used an imaging technique called positron emission tomography (PET) to visualize ß - amyloid deposits marked by radioactive chemical tags in the brains of people with AD.

Heijtz, Pettersson, and colleagues then analyzed the chemistry and gene activity in the brains of these mice.

Given these insights, amyloids» role in Alzheimer's may be much more complex than researchers thought years ago, when they first discovered the clumps, or plaque, in the brains of Alzheimer's patients during autopsy.

«Study reveals effects of chemoradiation in brains of glioblastoma patients: Reduced grey matter volume, enlargement of ventricular space appear to be early, progressive.»

LeDoux suspects those traumatic memories will persist in the brains of New Yorkers.

b - secretase acts like a pair of molecular scissors, snipping a piece off a large protein to produce b - amyloid, a smaller protein that builds up in plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's patients and is thought to kill neurons.

To test whether the hippocampus could actually form spatial maps using only visual landmarks, Mehta's team devised a noninvasive virtual reality environment and studied how the hippocampal neurons in the brains of rats reacted in the virtual world without the ability to use smells and sounds as cues.

Researchers also identified structural differences in the brains of children who responded best to tutoring.

Several of the altered epigenetic patterns were also found in the brains of individuals with autism, giving credence to the idea that they might be related to autism.

To begin to understand how the connectivity patterns in the brains of memory athletes influence memory performance, Dresler and colleagues looked at the 25 connections that most differentiate memory athletes from others.

Such an epigenetic change might permanently alter which genes are active in the brains of those mice.

University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have found that amounts of this microRNA are significantly elevated in the brains of experimental rats with induced depression from corticosterone treatment, in the post-death brains of humans diagnosed with MDD and in peripheral blood serum from living patients with MDD, according to a study by led by Yogesh Dwivedi, Ph.D., the Elesabeth Ridgely Shook Endowed Professor and director of Translational Research, UAB Mood Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry.

«We found a big difference between the amount of molecules present in the brains of active rats compared to the brains of lazy rats.

For instance, Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University and his colleagues put electrodes in the brains of monkeys to link them to a robot arm.

These findings were confirmed by two - photon imaging of neurons in the brains of living mice by the lab of collaborator Yi Zuo, PhD, a neuroscientist at UC Santa Cruz, as well as electrophysiological recordings from neurons in brain slices by the lab of collaborator Vikaas Sohal, MD, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry at UCSF.

It has been observed that blood flow in the brains of people with the disorder is impaired when compared to healthy brains.

In the brains of all vertebrates, information is transmitted through synapses, a mechanism that allows an electric or chemical signal to be passed from one brain cell to another.

A study of gene activity in the brains of people who suffered from depression reveals that their daily clocks were probably out of whack.

The experiment, Dulac adds, implies that the neuronal circuits for «male» behavior exist in the brains of female mice and that the animals» VNO, by sensing pheromones, controls which sexual behavior repertoire is expressed.

This work is the largest, most comprehensive investigation of differences in the brains of compulsive video game players to date, says first author Doug Hyun Han, M.D., Ph.D., professor at Chung - Ang University School of Medicine and adjunct associate professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

Neuropeptides are small proteins in the brains of all animals that bind to receptor proteins and cause activity in cells.

Previous research had found methylation differences in the brains of insect queens and workers — making many scientists believe these differences cause the animals to take on different social roles.

Schlee and his colleagues find widespread differences in the brains of people with tinnitus and those without it.

Researchers at Osaka University found that B immune cells reside in the brains of developing mice, and play a key role in the myelination of neurons by oligodendrocytes.