Sentences with phrase «in other brains»

Three new studies suggest that the neurological changes in a brain of a suicide victim differ markedly from those in other brains and that these changes develop over the course of a lifetime.

My aim to strike an «e» — or even to type a complete word «the» triggers a burst of physical responses in my brain cells, which in turn mediate these «amplified» feelings to adjacent occasions in other brain cells and in neurons.

«I was very curious at that point what glial cells would be doing in the hypothalamus, since glial cells have been shown in other brain areas to have an influence on regulation of neuronal function,» she says.

Future studies are needed to track changes in free water over longer time spans and in other brain regions and to determine what causes them.

Although tau buildup is found in other brain diseases, like Alzheimer's, in CTE, the protein congregates in brain cells around small blood vessels.

Accumulation of insoluble U1 protein was seen in samples from patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a precursor stage to Alzheimer's, but the U1 pathology was not seen in any other brain diseases that were examined.

Pre-LTP had previously only been seen in other brain regions.

As CaMKII expression has been associated with consolidation and permanence of memories in other brain regions, this switch may reflect the formation of a stronger and more stable opiate reward memory.

This approach has been used in other brain disorders, such as schizophrenia, which has already led to novel insights and alternative treatment approaches in that disorder.

These discoveries could prove important in finding ways to stimulate and improve learning, and in understanding myelin's involvement in other brain processes, such as in cognition.

This rhythm alters the excitability of neurons in other brain areas, and this is how it coordinates them.

The authors also found abnormalities in the subthalamic nucleus occur earlier than in other brain regions, and that subthalamic nucleus nerve cells progressively degenerate as the mice age, mirroring the human pathology of Huntington's disease.

The link between dysfunctional mitochondria and Parkinson's disease is known, but this new research shows that it is also present in other brain disorders.

Many of these «genetic suspects» have been identified in other brain - related disease, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and autism.

He cautions, however, that such therapy would have to be localized, so that it did not interfere with the protein's role in learning in other brain regions.

Other groups soon made similar confirmations in other brain regions.

The next stage of research conducted by Prins and Liau will verify these findings in other brain tumor models.

Using an optical fiber implanted in that region, the researchers were able to stimulate the primary motor cortex near where the stroke had occurred, and then monitor biochemical changes and blood flow there as well as in other brain areas with which this region was in communication.

«Now that we've identified a new principle for how the interneurons can control plasticity, our study is a first step in better understanding the mechanisms involved in other brain regions as well,» said Kreitzer.

Long - term use also causes changes in other brain chemical systems and circuits as well, affecting functions that include:

Interestingly, smoking marijuana increased blood flow in other brain regions, such as the frontal lobes and lateral cerebellum, regions associated with decision making, sensory perception, sexual behavior, and emotion.

Ketone bodies themselves are active signalling metabolites and have demonstrated neuroprotective properties in other brain disorders such as Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease (10).

Or, to put it another way, the art form that you truly love to learn may also lead to improvements in other brain functions».

These results suggest that a partial remediation of language - processing deficits, resulting in improved reading, ameliorates disrupted function in brain regions associated with phonological processing and produces additional compensatory activation in other brain regions.

In addition, there are changes in other brain regions that indirectly affect mothering - related behaviours such as how rewarding mothers find infants and their cues to be, their attitudes towards infants and parenting, their ability to be flexible and playful, to show good memory, as well as their levels of anxiety and depression.

The violent group, when compared with non-violent controls, also exhibited significant reductions in the F / N - difference in other brain areas in addition to the amygdala.

Just to mention some possibilities, it could arise from deficient processing in other brain areas that provide input to the amygdala, abnormal anatomical connectivity to the amygdala and local damage to the amygdala circuitry itself (Blair, 2010; Anderson and Kiehl, 2012).

Not exact matches

«Your brain is wired not only to figure out where you sit in the professional and social pecking order against others, but to reinforce your position in that pecking order,» says writer Steve Errey, who continues: «When you get wrapped up in establishing or maintaining status, the moment your place in the hierarchy drops you're going to feel pretty horrible... Don't get into the status game — there are no winners.»

As we our bombarded with information our brains sift through the small percentage that is necessary for our cognitive functions, or in other words the things that require us to think about, for instance, reading.

When asked to select the articles they'd share, activity in the brain regions associated with assessing value, self - related thinking, and, crucially, considering other people's perspective showed a flurry of activity.

Other studies suggest improved memory retention in fasting individuals through a brain chemical called brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF).

But research published in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience found that «when people viewed pictures of others being loved or cared for, their brains» threat response became muted,» writes Inc.com's Jill Krasny.

Or does it pull in contributions from other parts of the cerebral cortex and even from areas that are involved in emotional behavior, like the amygdala, which lies deep in the brain's core?

As Jill Boite Taylor describes it in her book, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, the «alarm» lasts for 90 seconds and triggers a host of physical effects — rising blood pressure, tensed muscles and the release of adrenaline and other hormones.

While we're programmed to retain information that seems relevant and which we can tie to other facts and sensations we're already storing in our heads, if a piece of data, like a name, is context-less and random there's less for the brain to latch on to.

«Using so much of your brain to lie may make it hard to monitor yourself in other areas.»

In Walsh's case, the disease attacked her brain, setting off a chain reaction of symptoms that mimicked those of other mental illnesses like depression and schizophrenia.

It becomes important in adolescence when a flood of hormones changes the reward centers in the brain and causes lording it over others to suddenly become much more pleasurable.

That means that brain - training programs, intelligence - exercising puzzles, or other efforts to increase IQ in general are largely wasted effort (becoming a subject area expert is another matter entirely).

Implanting computing power in the brain could help humans have near - perfect memory, read books instantaneously and communicate with other implanted humans telepathically, or without speaking, explains Johnson.

«We discovered that, in order to motivate a desire to help others, a story must first sustain attention — a scarce resource in the brain — by developing tension during the narrative.

The agency said there have been recent variations in the number of cases reported in the region and, while the level of risk is unknown, Zika virus infection during pregnancy causes severe birth defects, including microcephaly and other severe brain abnormalities.

All of the technology in the world can't make us anything more than human, but understanding how our own brains work can give us an advantage over other mere mortals.

Other studies, meanwhile, are examining tryp's potential efficacy as an antifungal agent; and as a prognostic indicator in patients with brain cancer (as seen by increased uptake of the amino acid on a PET scan).

If you're curious to learn more of Roberts's takeaways from his extreme experiment in disconnection, New York magazine's Science of Us column also has a fascinating follow - up interview with him in which he delves into the impact of his sabbatical on family life, how long it takes your brain to stop thinking in tweets, and other insights.

Thoughts in your brain look entirely different when you write them down knowing other people will now read them.

Steve's waxing enthusiastic about his trasseur training sticks in your brain because it adheres to other information you already know.

Dopamine is one of the most important chemicals in our brain, driving many of the behaviors that make humans more sophisticated than other species.

In other words, charismatic people speak to people's guts, not to their brains.

Overall, if you include the medical uses of neurotech, other devices, and all the businesses that can benefit from brain - related technologies, this is a field that's generating well over $ 150 billion in revenues annually.