Sentences with phrase «in normal brains»

These aggregates aren't present in normal brains, and have been taken to suggest that there's something wrong with the cellular recycling bin in HD.

Yet they migrated more than neurons in normal brains, as if trying to make up for their confusion by barreling forward willy - nilly.

Searching for an answer, neuroscientists Henry Paulson, Randall Pittman, and their Pennsylvania colleagues set out 2 years ago to look at the distribution of the MJD gene's protein product in normal brains and those of MJD patients.

Although the work is done in the context of a more general problem — the effect of environmental electromagnetic fields upon cellular functions — Adey is also concerned with the question of how brain waves might play a role in normal brain function.

Dietary Fatty Acids and Cholesterol in Normal Brain Development.

But Barres's team is one of several over the past decade that have not only discovered such molecules exist in the normal brain, but that they play a unique and essential role there.

In the years since Shatz's discovery of MHCI in normal brain cells, other scientists have been studying the action of immune molecules in the brain, as well.

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.

Understanding how threat is processed in a normal brain versus one altered by PTSD is essential to developing effective interventions.

Gong even created the field's first comprehensive expression profile of TIA - 1 in the normal brain.

«Yifan's thesis research, however, found that TIA - 1 does not influence COX - 2 expression in neurons, nor play a role in seizure control in the normal brain.»

«We believe estradiol, a form of estrogen, is very important in normal brain function, specifically in the pre-frontal cortex, which regulates executive function — organization, recall, memory and other cognitive functions,» Epperson says.

«We're beginning to unlock some of the mysteries underlying both the acquisition of a memory in the normal brain, as well as how a normal brain is transformed into an epileptic brain,» said the study's co-senior investigator James McNamara, M.D., a professor in the departments of neurobiology and neurology at Duke University.

«A lot of work that initiated this project stemmed from what we learned about how these pathways work in normal brain development, and as we learn more about how it normally works we think it'll provide us with novel insight about how to target it in disease.»

Altogether, scientific evidence suggests that all features of the near - death experience have some basis in normal brain function gone awry.

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 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.

Many of the insertion sites were located within genes that play key roles in normal brain function.

A major target of such poor development is the gut and thus any abnormality in gut nerve development (the gut contains more neurones than the spinal cord) would have a significant effect not only on gut functions and probably gut microbiome, but also on information flowing back to the brain that may cause interference in normal brain functions, perhaps precipitating ASD - like behaviour in a developmentally challenged brain.

Abnormal clumps of certain proteins in the brain are a prominent feature of Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases, but the role those same proteins might play in the normal brain has been unknown.

Finally, we generate new tools and mouse models to study the role of de novo protein synthesis in normal brain function and in pathophysiology associated with neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disease.

The main objective of the LMN is to advance our understanding of the role of glutamate, as a transmitter substance in the normal brain and as a mediator of excitotoxicity in pathological conditions such as stroke.

However, the main focus of the Institute is on the mechanisms of spatial computation in the normal brain, explains Kavli Institute director Edvard Moser.

The researchers found much higher levels of heparanase in childhood brain tumours than in the normal brain, and furthermore, a molecule that can block this enzyme induces cell death in medulloblastoma cells in culture, while normal brain cells were not affected.

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«By mapping the breakpoints, we were able to identify genes that were disrupted in patients with birth defects, which suggests that these genes play a key role in normal brain development,» she said.

• Optimise omega 3s: Low levels of omega - 3 fatty acids are involved in normal brain cell function, insulin control and inflammation.

In a normal brain, vitamin B12 allows cells to form new connections, a process that allows memory formation.

Not exact matches

No matter what kind of content you create in your business or to promote your business, it's normal, when faced with a blank page, for your brain to try to pull a Sergeant Schultz from the old comedy, Hogan's Heroes;

«There is a reason that light - bulb moments often occur in the shower — the brain is relaxed, distracted, and producing more dopamine than normal.

Thanks to the work of several dogged journalists, and despite the NFL's best efforts to subvert the truth, we now know that repeated blows to the head experienced in the normal course of football play can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a type of brain damage resulting in early onset dementia and severe (and, in the worst cases, suicidal) depression.

But, although some of the specific experiences, such as pains, may be (at least virtually) determined by the brain (at least in what we usually consider «normal,» as distinct from «altered,» states of consciousness), others, such as thoughts and decisions, are not, but are based upon the mind's self - determination.

I'd leave the head normal size (or even larger due to the number of swollen egos one encounters in the Christian world) but have a hatch of some sort for easy removal of the brain or an off switch or something.

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.

In 2003, University of Texas psychoacoustics specialist Dennis McFadden found that when measuring the way the brain reacts to sound, lesbians fell in between heterosexual men and straight women, meaning they are exposed to higher than normal levels of male hormone in uterIn 2003, University of Texas psychoacoustics specialist Dennis McFadden found that when measuring the way the brain reacts to sound, lesbians fell in between heterosexual men and straight women, meaning they are exposed to higher than normal levels of male hormone in uterin between heterosexual men and straight women, meaning they are exposed to higher than normal levels of male hormone in uterin utero.

B6 is therefore needed for normal brain development and function, and helps to make the hormones serotonin and norepinephrine, which influence mood; and melatonin, which helps to keep your body clock in top order.

Two other reports in the same issue of Cancer Causes and Control suggest that children born to mothers who eat at least one hot dog per week during pregnancy have double the normal risk of developing brain tumors, as do children whose fathers ate hot dogs before conception.

A diet rich in Omega - 3 can help the brain increase mental alertness and concentration levels at any age, but can also be shown to help slow the effects of normal age related memory loss and increase resistance to stress and its impact on mood.

These are the questions that taunt my brain when I wake up in the morning and realize all I want for breakfast is rice pudding but then force myself to eat «normal» breakfast food like oatmeal or an egg and toast.

According to the University of Maryland Medical Center polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs)-- also known as omega - 3 fatty acids — play a crucial role in human brain function, as well as normal growth and development, with research showing that they can also reduce inflammation in addition to helping lower the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and arthritis.

The principle fatty acid in coconut cream is lauric acid, which is the same fat found in abundance in mother's milk, and is known to promote normal brain development and promote healthy bones.

That sentence makes my brain sound like its timing belt is going out, and yet somehow it's normal that Hill is an established, rotation - solidifying starter in a crucial postseason game?

«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.

And the behaviors that parents are inclined to do naturally — like eye contact and face - to - face interaction, speaking in «motherese» (higher - pitched and slower than normal speech), and holding — are just the ones shown to grow the right - brain regions in the baby that influence emotional life and especially emotion regulation.

After your milk comes in, it should take three to four days for your hormones to return to their normal levels, indicating to your brain and breasts that no more milk needs to be produced.

Research indicates that blue light reprograms the brain, sending a signal to delay the normal release of melatonin in the evening.

Many researchers still suspect that whether light sleep is vital for the normal development of the brain in all young mammals and infants.

So, I pick her brain about the mechanics of birth, what to have on - hand for unassisted birth, what signs of emergency to keep an eye out for (which would mean transferring to the hospital), the variations in normal birth, pain, pushing, stages of birth, all of that.

When you think about the fact that very young children especially can't exactly tell you that their head hurts or may make an exam difficult because they get cranky or tired or act out in a way that you can't determine «normal» behavior, it makes sense that a CT scan could be especially helpful in diagnosing brain injuries.

Our daughter was more than 2 standard deviations off of normal in several places on the Q — basically a seriously dysregulated brain.