Sentences with phrase «linking circuit function»
By combining cell physiology with pharmacology, behavioral analysis, and computer modeling, he has deciphered the existence of a central pattern generator for locomotion in the spinal cord, thereby linking circuit function to behavior.
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Previous research has linked social function to the prefrontal region of the brain, but circuits that affect prefrontal control of social behavior were unknown.
They then attached strips of gold to both ends of each nanotube, creating a transistor, and linked up to three such devices in various ways to make circuits that would execute simple logical functions: flipping a signal from off to on or vice versa, turning two off signals into an on, storing a unit of information or creating an oscillating signal.
We know that a number of structural changes also occur during this developmental period, and we now can attempt to link those changes to the changes in circuit function.
Thus, early adversity and later developmental health are linked through the structural and functional development of specific brain and nervous system circuits, from executive function to responses to stress.
Findings from neuropsychological studies suggest that the frontal cortex and the circuits linking them to the basal ganglia are critical for executive function and, therefore, to attention and exercising inhibition.