Sentences with phrase «led brain scientists»

Freud put the unconscious on the throne of the mental kingdom, but the subjectivity problem led brain scientists to ignore the plentiful evidence of unconscious mental processing for nearly a century.

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University of Toronto brain scientist Cheryl Grady has led the way in studying the performance of the dorolateral prefrontal cortex, key to our ability to concentrate.

The connection between the temporal lobes of the brain and religious feeling has led one Canadian scientist to try stimulating them.

They include structural differences in the skeleton, the muscles, the skin, and the brain; differences in posture as - 0sociated with a unique method of locomotion; differences in social or - ganization; and finally the acquisition of speech and tool - using, together with the dramatic increase in intellectual ability which has led scientists to name their own species Ho - m - o sapiens sapiens — wise wise man.

Cq... Many similar experiences are literally happening «after death», and have scientists baffled, since there is no brain activity that could possibly lead to a hallucination.

@ steve, I could also get into some of the «higher brain functions» that lead scientists to better understand why we have compassion and such; however, I think that many people don't really give compassion or morals a lot of thought or care as to where they come from, they are simply a part of who we are as a species.

In August New Scientist reported that Aaron Schurger, leading a research team in France, had tested the assumption that the readiness potential is the signature of the brain preparing to act.

Rugby and soccer players who suffer multiple knocks to the head during their careers are at added risk of brain damage that could lead to dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases, brain scientists are warning.

Scientists have discovered why a single mutated protein can lead to serious mental retardation in men with a common genetic disorder called fragile - X syndrome: The healthy protein is essential for establishing during childhood the adult pattern of connections between nerve cells in the brain.

In a revolutionary first, Cancer Research UK - funded scientists will test whether the Zika virus can destroy brain tumour cells, potentially leading to new treatments for one of the hardest to treat cancers.

To answer these questions, a team of MUSC investigators led by stroke neurologist and physician - scientist Wayne Feng, M.D., MS, attempted something that has never before been tried — they directly measured tDCS - generated EFs in vivo using deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes that were already implanted in patients with Parkinson's disease.

The mind reader is Gerwin Schalk, a 39 - year - old biomedical scientist and a leading expert on brain - computer interfaces at the New York State Department of Health's Wadsworth Center at Albany Medical College.

Scientists said the new findings are a sign that cadmium could have dangerous properties similar to lead that alter the way children's brains develop.

So a research team led by scientists at Children's National Health System in Washington, D.C., delivered subpar levels of oxygen to newborn piglets, whose course of brain development and whose highly evolved brain structure mirrors in many respects those of humans.

An international team of scientists led by Duke University researchers has uncovered key structural differences in the brains of parrots that may explain the birds» unparalleled ability to imitate sounds and human speech.

«Our hope is that our findings will help other scientists and engineers more precisely capture the emotional states that underlie moods, brain activity and expressive signals, leading to improved psychiatric treatments, an understanding of the brain basis of emotion and technology responsive to our emotional needs,» he added.

Contrary to Song's assumption, for instance, another leading scientist has reportedly connected brain organoids in a dish to retinal cells, which perceive light and therefore produce vision.

So say a group of leading scientists who propose to track the activity of the entire brain, neuron by neuron, millisecond by millisecond.

For decades, a respected but beleaguered group of scientists had gathered increasing evidence that one particular bacterial infection — strep — led to the body pumping out antibodies that attacked the brain, causing OCD and tics.

Using new types of experiments on neuronal cultures, a group of scientists, led by Prof. Ido Kanter, of the Department of Physics at Bar - Ilan University, has demonstrated that this century - old assumption regarding brain activity is mistaken.

Powerful, new high - resolution visualization tools can peer deep inside a living brain, allowing scientists to track the cascade of events that leads to Alzheimer's.

For example, scientists have known for decades that the hippocampus, a structure in the middle of the brain, has the lead role in the formation and preservation of memories, and is one of the regions that shape a person's identity.

Using new theoretical results and experiments on neuronal cultures, a group of scientists, led by Prof. Ido Kanter, of the Department of Physics and the Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar - Ilan University, has demonstrated that the central assumption for nearly 70 years that learning occurs only in the synapses is mistaken.

For a long time, scientists presumed that emotional factors caused Persistent Developmental Stuttering (PDS), but a team of researchers, led by Anne Foundas of Tulane University, has discovered interesting patterns that suggest otherwise in the brains of PDS patients.

New research, led by scientists at the University of Southampton, has found that neurogenesis, the self - repairing mechanism of the adult brain, can help to preserve brain function in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Prion or Parkinson's.

Scientists from Juelich also have a leading role here: the Juelich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) is developing exascale computers to perform the complex simulations in the Human Brain Project.

Children with tuberculosis meningitis — a brain and spinal cord infection that leads to disability and death — have a biological fingerprint that can be used to assess the severity of the condition, help decide the best course of treatment, and provide clues for novel treatments, scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London and the University of Cape Town reveal.

Today, a team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) led by Professor Partha Mitra describes a new mathematical model that combines large data sets to predict where different types of cells are located within the brain, based on their molecular identity.

The excessive burst of new brain cells after a traumatic head injury that scientists have traditionally believed helped in recovery could instead lead to epileptic seizures and long - term cognitive decline, according to a new Rutgers New Jersey Medical School study.

Resolving these questions may someday lead scientists and medical professionals to a better understanding of how to preserve the natural organization of the auditory structures in the brain for those who are born with profound hearing loss.

Long - term brain damage caused by stroke could be reduced by saving cells called pericytes that control blood flow in capillaries, reports a new study led by scientists from UCL (University College London).

Led by Matthew P. Anderson, MD, PhD, Director of Neuropathology at BIDMC, the scientists determined how a gene linked to one common form of autism works in a specific population of brain cells to impair sociability.

The nature of senior moments led scientists to believe they stem from disruptions in the hippocampus — an area that, among other roles, acts as the brain's «save» button, allowing us to retain new information.

In a study led by Duke Health and published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, scientists demonstrate in rats that a short duration of the drug donepezil can reverse both structural and genetic damage that bouts of alcohol use causes in neurons, or nerve cells, in the young brain.

The project is led by Clifford Saron, research scientist at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, in collaboration with a large group of researchers.

Dr. Michael Motes, senior research scientist at the Center for BrainHealth and one of the lead authors of the study, said, «Finding a nonpharmacological intervention that can help the aging brain to perform like a younger brain is a welcome finding that potentially advances understanding of ways to enhance brain health and longevity.

New research led by UC San Francisco scientists has revealed that mutations in a gene linked with brain development may dispose people to multiple forms of psychiatric disease by changing the way brain cells communicate.

A team led by scientists at Duke Clinical Research Institute finds that in North Carolina from 2010 to 2013, brain damage — free survival rose from 7.1 to 9.7 percent in cardiac arrest patients — mainly due to bystanders doing chest compression before medical personnel arrived.

The research by leading early learning scientists looked at children from a wide variety of backgrounds, including those from advantaged and disadvantaged families, and those who had suffered brain injury.

«Synapse discovery could lead to new treatments for Alzheimer's disease: Scientists have discovered how connections between brain cells are destroyed in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.»

«When we are learning new information, our brain has two different ways to remember the material for a short period of time, either by mentally rehearsing the sounds of the words or thinking about the meaning of the words,» says Dr. Jed Meltzer, lead author and neurorehabilitation scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute.

A weight - loss drug dampened the response to food cues in regions of the brain associated with attention and emotion, leading to decreases in caloric intake, weight and body mass index (BMI), a team led by scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) reported.

A team of researchers led by UNSW Australia scientists has discovered how connections between brain cells are destroyed in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease — work that opens up a new avenue for research on possible treatments for the degenerative brain condition.

A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is giving researchers a first look at the early stages of brain development in patients with Fragile X syndrome, a disorder that causes mild to severe intellectual disability and is the most common genetic cause of autism spectrum disorder.

«The findings of the study indicate that simple causal relationships between the evolution of brain size, tool use and tooth size are unlikely to hold true when considering the complex scenarios of hominin evolution and the extended time periods during which evolutionary change has occurred,» said Aida Gómez - Robles, lead author of the paper and a postdoctoral scientist at GW's CASHP.

But scientists understand little about what's happening in the gut — the ingestion of environmental toxins or germs, perhaps — that leads to brain damage and the hallmarks of Parkinson's such as tremors, stiffness and trouble walking.

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Although scientists have long considered the brain systems that govern these two types of deficits as separate, a growing body of evidence suggests that they are actually deeply intertwined, says Patricia Kuhl, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, and lead author of the new study.

«Comparing human, chimpanzee and bonobo cells can give us clues to understand biological processes, such as infection, diseases, brain evolution, adaptation or genetic diversity,» says senior research associate Iñigo Narvaiza, who led the study with senior staff scientist Carol Marchetto at the Salk Institute in La Jolla.

«Essentially, they cause acetylcholine to build up in the brain, causing hyperexcitability of neurons as well as the death of some neurons, which leads to inflammation in the brain,» said Ashok K. Shetty, PhD, a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine at the Texas A&M College of Medicine, associate director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, research career scientist at the Olin E. Teague Veterans Medical Center, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System and senior author of the paper.