Sentences with phrase «into brain»

In other words, if a goat's skull were a rigid bony cage, this imbalance of forces would tear it apart: the horns would be ripped backwards and the roof of the skull would be forced into the brain.

«This is very useful because when the fiber is inserted into the brain, it may affect the function of neurons very close to the fiber,» explained Ohayon.

Understanding these differences and their causes can yield insights into brain organization

The camera was then removed, and the fiber placed into the brain for imaging.

Although this didn't affect the experiments described in the paper because the fiber was kept straight as it was pushed into the brain, solving the bending problem could greatly expand the applications for the device.

Studying mouse communication and behavior can produce great insight into brain mechanics and systems and possibly give researchers valuable insight into how human brains work.

«Small molecules are much easier to make than larger compounds, they are easier to get into cells and their potential for getting into the brain is higher,» he said.

Previous brain - machine interface systems have made it possible for people to control robots, cursors, or prosthetics with conscious thought, but they often take a lot of effort and concentration, says José del R. Millán, a biomedical engineer at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, who develops brain - machine interface systems that don't need to be implanted into the brain.

The other opsins might do the trick, but because his goal — putting them into a brain and getting that brain to respond — was so tricky and success so improbable, he needed to try as many options as possible.

First, researchers showed that they could create visual images in a blind woman by implanting electrodes directly into her brain.

This is important, because the model can be used to test drive the difficult way into the brain.

While nerve transplantation isn't novel, van Horne's trial is the first of its kind to transplant peripheral nerve tissue into the brain in conjunction with DBS.

Today in Angewandte Chemie, scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) have presented a shuttle able to cross the blood - brain barrier and transport various substances into the brain.

«If this hypothesis is true, and this is strong evidence that it is, it means we have a deep insight into the brain.»

This research also could lead to work that will identify how somatosensory information is coded, which could be used to incorporate sensory information into brain - machine interfaces.

Injections into the brain of rodents attenuated some of the behavioral responses related to stress associated neuropsychiatric disorders.

In recent years, however, Australia has begun to turn a brain drain into a brain gain.

Zheng, together with Leah Boyer, then a researcher in Gage's lab and now director of Salk's Stem Cell Core, generated diseased neurons by taking skin cells from patients with Leigh syndrome, reprogramming them into stem cells in culture and then coaxing them to develop into brain cells in a dish.

The research into brain size and pregnancy started with women who developed pre-eclampsia, a syndrome involving high blood pressure and fluid build - up that affects some pregnant women, causing their faces, legs and arms to swell.

Scientists enrolled patients with Parkinson's disease who were scheduled to have deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery, a commonly used procedure that involves placing electrodes into the brain.

Scientists are hopeful that ultimately these cells could be transformed in the laboratory to yield specific cell types needed for a particular treatment, or to cross the «blood - brain barrier» by expressing specific therapeutic agents that are released directly into the brain.

A different set of genes have been associated with hemorrhagic stroke (bleeding into the brain).

An illustration showing the integration of neurons transplanted into the brain following injury, two months after transplantation.

The cells that make up the walls of blood capillaries are joined together more tightly in the brain than elsewhere in the body, preventing proteins and cells getting into the brain.

Injecting acetate into the brain also curbed the rodents» appetites.

«This study used humanized mice with tissue extracts directly inoculated into the brain, so the system was highly primed for infection.

We don't know why he acted that way, but it's clear that some kind of deception was involved — he did not accept, at face value, the information flowing into his brain.

«There are lots of different ways to go into the brain,» says Hirsch, «and if you can tell the surgeon that you put a language function more at risk by going in from this direction, they'll have a real advantage.»

The work aims to improve artificial intelligence and lead to new insights into brain function.

Earlier animal studies have shown that A-beta can move into the brain if it's injected into the bloodstream, but scientists didn't know whether A-beta from the blood can be plentiful enough to form plaques in the brain.

The advance could aid efforts to improve artificial intelligence and lead to new insights into brain function.

Some researchers have been trying an alternative route: engineering gene - delivery vehicles such as viruses to transfer neurotrophic - factor genes directly into brain cells.

[I] hope I don't run into a brain problem because I am stuck if I do.

But H1N1 and H3N2 don't typically get into the brain (and Korte and colleagues confirmed that in their experiments).

One key to the microscope's success is its powerful 2 - photon laser, which emits pulses that probe up to 300 microns deep into the brain.

That barrier protects the brain from dangers such as bacteria or toxins in the blood, but it also makes it very difficult to get drugs into the brain.

When you look at a scene, the first half of the time it takes to stare is spent on visual information streaming into your brain.

Ultrasound focused within the skull can trigger movement in animals — could it give us a safe way to plug technology into the brain?

«These studies are a window into the brain - body connection,» says Poldrack.

But these powerful instincts are not commands from a higher power, they are just emotions hardwired into the brain.

Madhavan and her coworkers study how the brain changes in response to stroke, and how to tap into the brain's potential to help in a functional recovery.

They were passing from the bloodstream into the brain — something once considered rare — and attacking not just the infection, but the brain structures, too.

Reading Minds From the Outside To tap into the brain activity of his subjects, Klaus - Robert Müller, a computer scientist at the Technical University of Berlin, does not need to get inside their heads.

Once they break into the brain, the autoantibodies attack the basal ganglia, causing the afflicted to jerk and writhe in a manner resembling the worst cases of the tic syndrome Tourette's.

The best microscopes currently available can detect light from 3 to 4 millimetres into the brain, enough to see light signals coming from the cortex of a small animal, but not enough to see deep - seated structures such as the hippocampus.

To do so, researchers will need to find non-invasive ways to record the firing of individual neurons, because all current methods involve opening the skull and, often, sticking electrodes into brain tissue.

Chemical messengers from the immune system can wreak emotional havoc if they cross into the brain — even in people who otherwise seem healthy

Robert Lee Hotz, a science writer for the The Wall Street Journal said MacKinnon's story «lights up with the joy of great reporting and ambitious enterprise: Who else would put the world's most adventurous free climber into a brain scanner to probe the neural circuits that make most of us shudder, squirm and squeal with panic?»

«It was crazy to think that injecting it straight into the brain would work,» says Szyf.

The transparency made it possible for them to identify peripheral nerves — tiny bundles of nerves that are poorly understood — and to map the spread of viruses across the mouse's blood - brain barrier, which they did by marking the virus with a fluorescent agent, injecting it into the mouse's tail and watching it spread into the brain.