Sentences with phrase «into brain and nerve»

One of the single largest gifts in University history will drive research into brain and nerve disorders and establish one of the best - endowed brain institutes in the country.

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«The human brain is divided into two hemispheres, the left and right, connected by a bundle of nerve fibers called the corpus callosum.

because the stress hormones that are released from distressed crying, destroy nerve connections in critical portions of an infant's developing brain and if repeated, can alter their brain structure and responses to stress into adulthood.

Your ears register the vibration and transmit it as nerve impulses to your brain, which converts it into the sound you hear.

Brain cells translate that genomic gobbledygook into rogue proteins, which do bad things inside nerve cells and eventually trigger symptoms, such as involuntary movements.

Scores of laboratories at universities and in private industry are uncovering how to use these cells, which transform into neurons, astrocytes (the cells that regulate transmission of electrical impulses in the brain) and oligodendrocytes (which insulate nerve fibers with a fatty coating).

This thin layer of tissue at the back of the eye detects light and then converts it into nerve impulses that travel to the brain's vision centers to form images.

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.

Anatomical studies confirmed the importance of the right rehabilitation schedule: Depending on the therapeutic design, different patterns of new nerve fibers that sprouted into the cervical spinal cord from the healthy part of the brain and thus aid functional recovery to varying degrees were apparent.

«The challenge of brain simulation is that the nerve cells enter into a temporary relationship with other neurons depending on the task at hand,» says Prof. Dr. Markus Diesmann, director of Juelich's institute Computational and Systems Neuroscience (INM - 6).

In both mouse and fruit fly embryos, Detlev Arendt, an evolutionary biologist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, has found that cells involved in forming the brain and nerve cord divide into three columns of cells.

Most of these trials involve stem cell - derived neural progenitor cells, which can turn into several different types of brain or spinal cord cells, or oligodendrocyte progenitor cells, which create the myelin sheaths that insulate and protect nerve cells.

Shenoy's lab pioneered the algorithms used to decode the complex volleys of electrical signals fired by nerve cells in the motor cortex, the brain's command center for movement, and convert them in real time into actions ordinarily executed by spinal cord and muscles.

Action potentials, also known as nerve impulses, are electrical messages sent from our brains to other organs and muscles; for instance, nerves in the brain transmit action potentials through neural networks to direct our arm muscles to contract in order to call into action our hands to lift or hold an item, a primary research focus at the Columbia Motor Neuron Center, to which both the Zhang and Wichterle labs are affiliated.

An intracortical BCI uses a tiny silicon chip, just over one - sixth of an inch square, from which protrude 100 electrodes that penetrate the brain to about the thickness of a quarter and tap into the electrical activity of individual nerve cells in the motor cortex.

Some nerve cells are killed off, others are pruned back and still others are locked into place, a restyling that moves the brain closer to its adult form.

Some of the cells in this layer (the photoreceptors) convert light into an electrical signal that is then amplified and processed by other cells before being sent to the brain via the optic nerve.

There is a sensory branch of the vagus in the outer ear and, by sending electrical current down the nerves and into the brain, researchers were able to influence outflows from the brain that regulate the heart.

They are then converted into electrical signals within the inner ear and transmitted to the brain by the auditory nerve.

In one -, four - and 10 - week - old animals, the donor cells not only took, but actually migrated to the right place, started assuming the characteristics of retinal cells and extended into the optic nerve, which links the eye to the brain.

When a subject — a Franciscan nun, in one case — feels her ordinary self «dissolving into Christ consciousness,» as she describes it, a radioactive fluid is injected into her body through an intravenous tube; the fluid travels to her brain and becomes trapped in nerve cells there.

Neuroscience is a field of study that deals with the structure, function, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system, divided into the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord), and the peripheral nervous system, consisting of the myriad nerve pathways running throughout the body.

Most of these trials involve stem cell — derived neural progenitor cells, which can turn into several different types of brain or spinal cord cells, or oligodendrocyte progenitor cells, which create the myelin sheaths that insulate and protect nerve cells.

Apparently the NGF injected into the brain diffused through the motor and sensory roots of the spinal cord and reached the sympathetic chain ganglia flanking the cord, where it induced the outgrowth of nerve fibers.

A normally functioning adult human brain has the ability to partially replenish or repair itself through neurogenesis, the proliferation and development of adult neural progenitor / stem cells (aNPCs) into new nerve cells.

The information gathered by your senses is transmitted by nerve cells, or neurons, to specific brain regions where the signal is routed through circuits and sent downstream to areas that essentially translate the information into behavior and get you back on track.

We are now able to look into the brain of an animal and see how nerve cell connections are made or broken, and how that relates to learning or other adaptive changes.

The Kavli Laureates received their awards for research that made it possible to look more deeply and clearly into the universe, to control matter on the nano scale, and to understand how the brain's nerve cells communicate.

Deep inside your brain, a legion of stem cells lies ready to turn into new brain and nerve cells when you need them.

At the forefront of this race are three neuroscientists who have spent their careers studying how the brain develops from a tiny sphere of unspecialized cells into an adult brain with its billions of nerve cells and characteristic form.

Stem cells from the bone marrow can develop into cardiac muscle, as well as liver, brain, nerve, fat and skin tissue.

These cells have the ability to cross the blood - brain barrier and travel directly into the nervous system to improve blood flow to the brain and repair some of the nerve damage which has occurred as a result of your degenerative disease or neurological injury.

Here the axons going down the optic nerve, across the optic chiasm, and into the expected targets in the brain: the lateral geniculate and the superior colliculus.

The macula is densely packed with photoreceptor cells called rods and cones that react to light and send electrical nerve impulses to the optic nerve and into the brain.

Replacing rods and cones is challenging, because these cells have to establish connections with nerve fibers that feed signals into the optic nerve, which sends those signals to the brain to interpret.

For example, deep brain stimulation (DBS)-- delivering an electrical current into the brain to modify nerve activity — has become a standard therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD), and it is now being adapted to treat a range of other conditions including depression and obsessive - compulsive disorder.

Describing the brain as a big circuit board in which each new experience creates a new circuit, Hopkins neuroscience professor Richard Huganir, Ph.D. says that he and his team found that during emotional peaks, the hormone norepinephrine dramatically sensitizes synapses - the site where nerve cells make an electro - chemical connection - to enhance the sculpting of a memory into the big board.

But biopsying tumors in the retina, the thin layer of nerve cells in the back of the eye, risks spreading cancer by unleashing tumor particles into the rest of the body and the brain.

It is now almost routine to grow skin cells from a patient with, say, a neurological disease; turn them into pluripotent cells in a Petri dish; convert the cells into nerve cells to study the disease process; and contemplate using the cells to repair the same patient's damaged brain.

B1 is necessary for the transmission of specific nerve signals between the brain and spinal cord and helps to convert glucose into energy.

Ditch the beginners» nerves; believe it or not, as your arms, legs and breathing fall into a rhythm, your brain is eventually lulled into a meditative «no - stress zone» in which bills and bosses fade away.

And new research from the Cleveland Clinic shows that music can even reach into deep brain structures unrelated to hearing and memory to literally soothe nervAnd new research from the Cleveland Clinic shows that music can even reach into deep brain structures unrelated to hearing and memory to literally soothe nervand memory to literally soothe nerves.

Dr. Lindsey Berkson: There is a nerve growth factor that is very rich in semen that access one of those same trophic or growth factor family and it's because it normally enters the brain in women and helps ovulation, but it also really is brain care taking released into the women from making love.

These foods lead to spikes in blood sugar and the production of excitotoxins — a reaction that causes your gut's nerve cells to send a signal to your brain that sounds an alarm, putting you into fight or flight mode.

Every voluntary contraction starts as a signal that the brain sends down the nerves and into the muscle.

When heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium and lead cross into the brain, they can damage the sheaths of nerves and also brain cells.

Rather, the body breaks down carbohydrates into glucose, which is carried to the brain through the blood stream and used immediately by nerve cells for energy.

The inner ear includes not only the nerve endings that transform mechanical movement into electrical impulses and carry auditory messages to the brain, but it also includes the organ of balance.

Once the nerve endings that are present in the stomach and mostly in the proximal small intestine are irritated by any agent, like toxins, acids, microbes, chemicals, poisons or even rapid and strong digestive activity, this results into a triggering note for the vomit center in brain or for CTZ.

The virus travels up the nerves to the spinal cord and finally into the brain.