Sentences with phrase «in normal brain activity»

This large - scale epileptic network comprises various areas of the brain involved in normal brain activity during both seizure - free intervals and those involved in so - called pathophysiological activities such as seizures.

Not exact matches

If we could but restore or bring about the normal functioning of brain cells and nerve tissues, as well as their own subsidiary chemical activity in such cases, then mental life would come flooding back in fullness and richness.

«This worry has become irrational to the point that they are afraid to engage in normal activities for fear of further brain damage, even when it is clear to us that they have recovered.

It shows that ears are absolutely amazing in differentiating between the sound of a seizure and normal brain activity.

The behavioral tests used here modeled one dimension of the disease — an inability to experience pleasure from normal activities — but not others, such as stress and anxiety, and probably tap into different brain mechanisms in mice than in humans, he says.

Their brain metabolism rates were comparable to the activity seen in normal weight women.

But the customary setup in such experiments — fiber - optic cables implanted in the brain and a heavy helmet linked to a laser — is invasive and cumbersome for mice, the usual subjects, severely hampering researchers» ability to observe normal activity and social behavior.

The team continued to monitor brain activity while the volunteers went about their normal activity in hospital.

The scientists compared recordings from normal periods to those just before and during seizures; their yardstick was an algorithm developed from chaos theory to measure the degree of complexity in brain activity.

This allows researchers to identify peaks of activity in different regions of normal people's brains while they carry out particular mental tasks.

Lee's research team and collaborators in South Korea then used computer models of brain activity to compare stimulus responses of fibromyalgia patients to the normal condition.

«It was particularly exciting to see plasticity in the neurons impaired by mHTT,» said Davidson, noting that in the HD mice, brain areas that had begun to atrophy recovered volume and permitted better motor function after the researchers restored mTORC1 activity to more normal levels.

Activity in the amygdala, a brain region associated with emotional processing, was lower in the tinnitus and hearing - loss patients than in people with normal hearing.

Compared with stimulation from traditional cochlear implant electrodes, the light produced more precise neural activity in the brain stem, similar to normal hearing.

«What this is leading to is not just collecting data from individual babies but also understanding and building a four - dimensional map of brain activity and how it should emerge in a normal baby.»

This device, called the NeuroPace RNS ® System, has also made it possible for Rao's team to record seizure - related brain activity for many months or even years in patients as they go about their normal lives.

In a normal brain, imagining tennis activates the supplementary motor area of the cortex, and picturing one's home prompts activity in regions involved in spatial perception, such as the posterior parietal corteIn a normal brain, imagining tennis activates the supplementary motor area of the cortex, and picturing one's home prompts activity in regions involved in spatial perception, such as the posterior parietal cortein regions involved in spatial perception, such as the posterior parietal cortein spatial perception, such as the posterior parietal cortex.

In a normal brain, the neurons of the central thalamus crackle with electrical activity when we struggle to pay attention to the world around us, and they accelerate their action as we emerge from sleep.

They found these neuronal networks showed too much activity, firing too often and in synch, much more than a normal brain.

«We think it may be possible to tamp down UBE3A in Dup15q patients to restore normal levels of enzyme activity in the brain,» Zylka said.

One even showed greater dopamine activity in the injured side of the brain than on the normal side, indicating, says Jaenisch, that «these IPS cells could be used also for generating function of dopaminergic neurons that could have therapeutic value.»

In neurons, though, such breaks can occur even under normal circumstances, for example, after increased brain activity, as shown by the team of Gladstone scientists in an earlier studIn neurons, though, such breaks can occur even under normal circumstances, for example, after increased brain activity, as shown by the team of Gladstone scientists in an earlier studin an earlier study.

A balance of excitatory and inhibitory activity in the brain is essential for normal function.

This study investigated the influence of chronically administered curcumin on normal ageing - related parameters: lipid peroxidation, lipofuscin concentration and intraneuronal lipofuscin accumulation, activities of the enzymes superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), and Na (+), K (+), - adenosine triphosphatase (Na (+), K (+), - ATPase) in different brain regions (cerebral cortex, hippocampus, cerebellum and medulla) of 6 - and 24 - month - old rats.

But when they looked at the activity in the bad NMDA channels, they found more in HD mouse brains than normal mouse brains.

The combination technique developed by Yang et al. will likely be used by other scientists to further study the role of NMDA receptors in specific brain cells during addiction and normal brain activity.

The researchers measured an increase in blood flow in the brain's prefrontal cortex during all 3 activities, in comparison with rest times where blood flow decreased to normal rates.

Eating a healthy diet, getting regular physical activity, and maintaining a normal weight appear to reduce protein buildups in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

In normal people, theta activity inside the brain while performing tasks indicates that irrelevant information is being blocked out by the brain so the individual can concentrate on the task.

In addition, the increase in stress hormones ramps up cellular activity and causes excessive production of free radicals which damage brain cells and further reduce normal GABA production (9In addition, the increase in stress hormones ramps up cellular activity and causes excessive production of free radicals which damage brain cells and further reduce normal GABA production (9in stress hormones ramps up cellular activity and causes excessive production of free radicals which damage brain cells and further reduce normal GABA production (9).

This is a normal activity of the brain, and with all its busyness there are only five types of mental events that you can engage in (according to Patanjali's Yoga Sutras).

In a study involving rats, researchers discovered that young male rats respond to normal episodes of hypoxia, or brief periods of oxygen deprivation, during sleep by increasing brain activity to take deeper and more frequent breaths.

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder that is associated with a disruption in the normal electrical activity within the brain.

It is known that plaque exists as a normal byproduct of metabolic activity in the brain and is not properly cleared in those exhibiting symptoms of dementia.

Seizures occur when excessive activity goes beyond the normal threshold for brain function, many factors contribute to that level of activity, and therefore, mutations in numerous genes may collectively contribute to increased activity until that threshold is exceeded, resulting in epilepsy.

Significance of the Thalamic Reticular Nucleus GABAergic Neurons in Normal and Pathological Activity of the Brain