Sentences with phrase «make brain cells»

Cholesterol is an important organic compound that the body uses to make brain cells, sex hormones (like testosterone), and fat - digesting bile.

But this time, the researchers applied transcranial direct current stimulation over a region in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to make the brain cells more sensitive.

In mice with a version of Alzheimer's, the antibodies make brain cells hyperactive, and the cells ultimately die.

Adapting a method previously used to make brain cells, Masatoshi Suzuki, an assistant professor of comparative biosciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine, has directed those universal stem cells to become both adult muscle cells and muscle progenitors.

The discovery may make brain cell transplants less controversial and more widely available.

«Cocaine makes brain cells cannibalize themselves, new evidence in mice shows: Compound counteracts the process.»

This metabolic demand makes brain cells particularly vulnerable to damage from oxidative stress, in which reactive oxygen species (ROS), sometimes called free radicals, exert toxic effects on cellular components.

Obesity causes leptin levels to be chronically high, making brain cells less sensitive to its actions, which contributes to the molecular switch that leads to the overproduction of orexin.

Huntington's is a fatal and incurable brain condition whereby a faulty gene makes brain cells commit suicide en masse.

The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that making the brain cells in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (rDLPFC) more active can positively affect the deliberation process between honesty and self - interest.

The discovery was made when researchers added concentrated quantities of lysine and arginine into brain cells, and then any microscopic reactions were made visible by making the brain cells fluorescent.

Not exact matches

And you'll also feel smarter; exercise creates new brain cells and makes those new cells more effective.

Recent insights into learning - oriented brain cells called mirror neurons even hold out the possibility that someday we will have pills that will impart particular types of skills, such as computer programming or business decision making.

Intelligence is all about chemicals made and passed around by your brain cells.

It IS all interpretation, and even if it weren't, just the fact that it ALL gets filtered human brain cells, MAKES it all interpretation, including YOUR «S.

This depends upon there being a brain, an arrangement of cells in a particular part of the body which by reason of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know» in a distinctively human manner — quite different from, although certainly continuous with, the sort of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades of animal life.

My problem is with people like you superimposing your beliefs on people like me who believe that until the brain is distinguished from the other cells making up the embyo, it does not possess enough human quality to warrant protection under the law.

Your posts have only made the rest of us more dumb and we recovering alcoholics can not afford to lose more brain cells.

Modern psychosomatic medicine has made some progress in analyzing along these lines; for example, it seems quite possible that the emotional tone of my soul may directly alter the patterns of physical feeling in my stomach.4 Still, we should not suppose too quickly that the aims of a human personality have any very effective direct influence on the molecules of body cells, other than those in the brain.

«Thinking machines» are made of microchips, wires and the like, all of which are aggregates of molecules as contrasted with individual entities that constitute a brain — namely brain cells that are composite individuals.

I didn't do polka dots as Helen (my less evil twin) made polka dots the very same day I made the first cake... we really do share the same brain cell some days (she seems to get it more than I do though:P).

Plant based fats like those found in nuts, seeds and coconut oil, contain fatty acids that make up our cell membranes, help with brain function, are necessary for the absorption of fat soluble vitamins (including A, C, E, D & K) and for the production of energy and hormones.

Made up of essential fatty acids and B vitamins, lecithin supports healthy function of the brain, nervous system and cell membranes.

All cell membranes are made of fat, but the only polyunsaturated fats the cell membranes in the brain can use are DHA (a type of omega 3) and arachadonic acid.

What makes me laugh is that you think that you know it all with your remarks to other fan's comments, but if you had more than 2 brain cells you would know that Sky sports and the BBC are the most reliable regarding transfer news!

Theres also a competing theory that getting concussions actually makes you smarter since it kills off the weaker brain cells first - making your brain more operate effecent as a whole.

The truth is that we don't know what happens behind the scenes, we only get to see ninety minutes each week; but after near twenty years of incredible service (if you have to brain cells to clang together you would see the incredible success of merely surviving stadium move years), I think we can trust that Wenger is doing everything he can to make us winners.

Are some of you on here missing a few brain cells as fans There is nothing Arsenal or Wenger can do with the Sanchez situation He wants to leave and has been offered 400k a week in wages who in their right mind is going to turn that down as a player As for blaming wenger who has been our most successful manager helped us build a stadium gave us 20 years of cl football and some of the best teams the ol has seen Including the invincible and you all have the Gaul to trash the man as if he has done nothing for the club I suggest you should look at the plastic fans in the Arsenal blogs that have created a toxic atmosphere at the club They attack their own players in a daily basis why would any top player come to s club where the manager the owners and players are shamelessly attached constantly Yet Wenger wins trophies regularly even them that is derided Look at Spurs Liverpool they win fuk all every year yet their fans back then Look at yourselves and all the negativity that you have created striking the club before you blame Wenger for everything I have been a season ticket holder since the 70s and never have I seen our fanbase been so full of entitled morons who have stopped backing the club and constantly deride the club snd attack it We have the worst fanbase in football you have made this great club a lagging stock in world football All you now us fans constantly moaning If you don't like Arsenal fc then buy out kronke and run the club or fuk off and support someone else You won't be missed Coyg

The point I was making is that Arsenal is owned and run by billionaires that would sooner take money out than put money in and while you might not need a cash injection at this moment in time, anyone with half a brain cell will know that your club has had financial leg - ups in the past so to accuse City of being somehow different to what's gone on in your history is both hypocritical and incorrect.

This damages some of the nerve cells in the brain, and affects my dad's memory, decision - making and personality.

A study shows, for the first time, how these functional impairments arise: Social isolation during early life prevents the cells that make up the brain's white matter from maturing and producing the right amount of myelin, the fatty «insulation» on nerve fibers that helps them transmit long - distance messages within the brain.

-- Each time you are playing Peek - a-boo thousands more connections are being made between the brain neurons cells.

Resistance to stop using the brain cells that are currently firing within his or her head to find and engage some whole other set of brain cells necessary to make your request, no matter how valid it is, happen.

Your baby's brain cells make important connections during sleep, which help with learning, movement, and thought.

Especially during active sleep, key neuronal (brain cell) connections are made — the brain literally lays down the tracks for everything it learns, and it also prunes away little - used connections.

That success represents a dilemma for neuroscience, said bioethicist Hank Greely of Stanford University: «When you make a chimera with human cells in its brain, the closer the resulting brain is to human» in structure and function and «the greater the ethical and public concern.»

Tiny balls of brain tissue made from donated stem cells from children with autism or a condition that makes them hyper - sociable show intriguing differences

STOP SIGNS Brainlike structures grown from autistic patients» stem cells (right) produced greater numbers of brain cells that make other brain cells less active (green and red) compared with structures grown from the cells of a non-autistic family member (left).

In animal models, the researchers found that using microRNA to disrupt cells in the brain's prefrontal cortex — a region associated with complex planning and decision - making — affected learning and memory later in life.

To figure out how the cells find their way from the eye to their final destination in the brain, Osterhout and her colleagues examined mice that had been bred to make green fluorescent protein, or GFP.

When injected into mice engineered with a tau mutation that makes the protein clump abnormally in brain cells, triggering memory and motor problems, the antibodies reduced the clumping and improved the animals» behavior.

She found that cells born early reach for many areas of the brain and make lots of connections.

Yang said the study not only indicated which genes are affected by traumatic brain injury and linked to serious disease, but also might point to the genes that govern metabolism, cell communication and inflammation — which might make them the best targets for new treatments for brain disorders.

At the same time, researchers have found that much smaller protein clusters called oligomers — made of only a few copies of these proteins — can be highly toxic to motor neuron - like cells grown in the lab and thus are more likely to be the chief causes of brain - cell death in these diseases.

A major obstacle to improving treatment for the 3,470 cases of the disease expected in the United States this year is the blood - brain barrier, the name given to the tight fit of cells that make up the blood vessels in the brain.

One reason for this is that the tumour cells invade surrounding, healthy brain tissue, which makes the surgical removal of the tumour virtually impossible.

«Opioids have both analgesic and rewarding effects and they have these effects through mu opioid receptors and these receptors are expressed in pain terminals in the spinal cord and in areas of the brain that regulate pain but are also expressed in areas that regulate reward and a sense of pleasure,» Boyle said, referring to cells found in a person's central nervous system that bind to naturally occurring opioid compounds and reduce pain and make people feel much better.

But scientists are making progress in refining these therapies, and the first ever trial of fetal stem cells injected directly into the brain is currently under way in children with Batten disease, a rare and fatal illness of the nervous system.

Neurons make up less than 50 percent of all brain cells.

In another group, the disabled gene made it difficult for fly brain cells to reinforce new connections that encode memories.