Sentences with phrase «into normal brain»

Her work is recognized as providing fundamental new insights not only into normal brain function, but also some of the abnormalities that underlie disorders such as Huntingdon's chorea, Parkinson's disease, obsessive - compulsive disorder, and drug addiction.

Recent large - scale efforts have launched a new generation of studies that aim to identify the molecular and cellular characteristics of the brain and how these translate into normal brain function — or, in the case of disease, dysfunction.

«The Raman spectroscopy probe has a greater than 92 % accuracy in identifying cancer cells that have invaded into normal brain.»

Not exact matches

The small surge of electricity penetrates the disrupted activity of the brain, jarring the neurotransmitters into normal action.

Personal attacks to someone who is challenging society's views are normal and I actually acknoledge that the reporter had the «cojones» to publish something that she knew would have controversy but would inject knowledge into our brains.

These mice performed better than their normal counterparts on learning tests well into old age, and their brains did not exhibit the decline in neurogenesis typically seen in aged mice.

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.

The researchers have now provided further evidence for this new theory by showing that the abnormal protein coded for this genetic disorder can be transmitted to normal animals by the injection of diseased cells into their brain.

«This is the first demonstration that cells carrying a genetic disease are capable of spreading into the normal mammalian brain and lead to the manifestation of behavioral abnormalities associated with the disease,» says Francesca Cicchetti, professor at the Université Laval Faculty of Medecine and researcher at Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec - Université Laval.

Chen agrees: He said his experiment «carries much less risk of creating animals with greater «brain power» than normal» because the human organoid goes into «a specific region of already developed brain.»

Infants can sustain massive brain damage, up to the loss of an entire cerebral hemisphere, and still develop into nearly normal adults; any adult who loses half the brain, by contrast, is a goner.

«If you look at the «normal» brains that come into the bank, about 15 per cent actually aren't normal — they've got early stages of a neurodegenerative disease.»

This approach parallels our study of «normal» illusions — by understanding misperceptions, whether for intact or damaged systems, we gain insight into brain processes involved in perception.

All the ApoE proteins have the same normal function: carrying fats, cholesterols and vitamins throughout the body, including into the brain.

They then showed that only the normal, reproducing parasite made its way into the functional brain tissue.

These optimal outcomes include increased IQ, increased adaptive and social behaviors as well as promoting the normal development of the brain and behavior that optimizes a child's potential to participate meaningfully in the community into their adult years.

Listening to scans may also give new insights into the differences and similarities between normal and dysfunctional brains.

«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.

The new strategy enables investigations into both normal brain development and the effects of a mother's diet or environment on the functional development of the fetal brain.

DHA in brain and retinal cells also builds reservoirs for molecules called into action when normal functions are disrupted, resulting in such conditions as retinal degeneration, Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease.

Cocaine and methamphetamine affect the brain by blocking the normal transport of dopamine back into neurons.

But he adds that the study does not show that human astrocytes are genetically normal when engrafted into the mouse brain, and it does not rule out the idea that the improved learning and memory «could be due to the persisting progenitor cells.»

Scientists now believe that the brain - wasting disease scrapie is caused by prions, warped proteins that trick normal proteins into

In normal vision, light hitting the retina provokes electrical impulses that the brain translates into images.

An improved understanding of the biological background of musical aptitude can contribute new insights into, for instance, genes that affect normal brain functions, the interactions between genes and the environment and the significance of music as a form of therapy.

«We were able to use a set of cutting - edge tools to gain insight into a critical cellular process for normal brain development, the dysregulation of which may be a manifestation of a genetic predisposition for schizophrenia,» says senior author Dr. Guo - li Ming, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Treatment of the mice with insulin, either by normal injection or injection into the fluid surrounding the brain, reversed the process.

Using a new class of mathematical models that do not make many assumptions about how behavior is organized, we will deconstruct the mouse's normal behavior into motifs, or syllables, and correlate those with brain activity.

If they were permanent, ES cells would never be able to differentiate into heart, kidney, brain, bone, skin and the other specialize cells crucial to normal human functioning.

This early hint that age - related changes in EP2 action in microglia might be promoting some of the neuropathological features implicated in Alzheimer's was borne out in subsequent experiments for which Andreasson's team used mice genetically predisposed to get the mouse equivalent of Alzheimer's, as well as otherwise normal mice into whose brains the scientists injected either A-beta or a control solution.

In addition to the normal tools of the cell biologist's trade, Simona's lab uses intravital imaging to peer into the brains of mice.

In this segment, Dr. House and Dr. Barrett talk about why the brain «fools us» into thinking our functional vision and movement is normal in the presence of neurological disease, and what this means for professional caregivers, families, and our medical culture and society, since patient self - reporting is now a major source of information about public health needs and treatment efficacy.

Falk's group claims that the hobbit brain fell neatly into the normal human group used for comparison, not with the microcephalic sample.

This fluid keeps the brain from banging into the skull during normal activity.

This so - called reversion to normal, which has been seen in other studies, may indicate that in some cases the brain actually repairs some of the damage it incurs — and this may be where sex differences come into play, says Kenneth Rockwood, M.D., a professor of geriatric medicine at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

It's normal — humans have a «negativity bias» built into our brains.

«These results suggest that phytoestrogens can interfere with the normal estrogen feedback mechanisms with respect to release of gonadotropin in the ewe... although most studies into the effects of phytoestrogens have concentrated on changes in the reproductive tract, there are indications that they interfere with the hormone balance between the ovaries and the hypothalamo - adenohypophysical system... ewes on phytoestrogens have shown follicular abnormalities such as numerous small follicles, deficient antrum formation and signs of early atresia... it is possible that the permanent changes brought about by phytoestrogens in the brain are a result of these compounds interacting with estrogen receptors in this tissue, and subsequently influencing the re-synthesis or replenishment of cyto - plasmic estrogen receptors... phytoestrogens can interfere with the delicate feedback mechanisms involved in the release of the gonadotrophins.»

In a normal diet that contains high amounts of carbohydrate, the body converts carbs into glucose, which is used by the body, as well as the brain, for fuel and any leftover glucose that is not used is then stored as fat.

Aβ results from the normal cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP), but its accumulation and aggregation into plaques represents the quintessential feature of AD.27 Aβ is found in orders of magnitude greater in AD brains than in healthy brains.28 This fact is noteworthy because lower concentrations of Aβ tend to stay soluble; higher concentrations form plaques more readily.29

I will say that when I used to take it my brain / mind seemed to go into a little overdrive where I seemed to be extra alert and able to focus a little more than normal.

There has been a lot of research to show that the six small meals a day advice is nonsense; it just turns us into grazers and keeps food on the brain; fine if you are normal, not fine if you have an addiction - prone brain like I do.

The drug implanted in her body inadvertently leaks into her system, changing her into a superhuman, due to accessing much more than the normal 10 % of her brain capacity.

The series follows a married couple in Santa Clarita, CA, as the wife (Drew Barrymore) transforms into a zombie and her husband (Timothy Olyphant) tries to help her survive by finding brains for her to eat, all while attempting to lead normal lives as real - estate agents.

After six weeks he plopped me back in kindergarten, and just as it started looking like I might have a normal life after all, suddenly, in the second week of first grade, he walked right into the classroom and yanked me out once again, because he'd been overcome with the fear that he was leaving my impressionable brain «in the folds of Satan's underpants.»

This causes the fluid that surrounds the brain to be forced through a smaller - than - normal opening into the spinal cord.

CMs may develop when the bony space, caudal occipital bone, is smaller than normal, causing the cerebellum and brain stem to be pushed downward into the foramen to the level of the foramen magnum (mild CM) or through the foramen magnum (severe CM) into the upper spinal canal.

The brain then sends a signal back down the spinal cord to the muscles that innervate the foot telling them to contract and put the foot back into normal position.

Like the bizarre issue of the hindquarters of some of our German Shepherd Dogs, or the neurological problems caused by cramming a normal brain into the brachycephalic skull of the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.