Sentences with phrase «measure brain neurotransmitters»
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«Basically, what we've seen in this work is a method for measuring how much of a neurotransmitter is being [absorbed], and how that amount, or rate, is affected by different drugs... in a highly parallel fashion across much of the brain,» Jasanoff says.
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«The distinct neural markers associated with cognitive performance and GWI revealed in our study can be useful for future research to objectively measure the efficacy of treatments for GWI as well as other brain disorders related to the same neurotransmitter system, like Alzheimer's disease.»
Participants listened to their songs of choice in a PET scanner, which detects the release of the feel - good neurotransmitter dopamine, and again in an fMRI scanner, which measures brain activity.
«We were able to develop this very novel method to go to a single neuron and manipulate how it computes» by using drugs to block neurotransmitters at the level of a single nerve cell in a frog brain, and then measuring what happens to that neuron in response to frog calls, Alluri says.
The authors of the new study — a multicenter effort led by Kent State University anthropologists C. Owen Lovejoy and Mary Ann Raghanti and published January 22 in PNAS — began by measuring neurotransmitter levels in brain samples from humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, baboons and monkeys, all of whom had died of natural causes.
Although this study did not measure it directly, these interactions were likely related to release of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is released in the brain when we expect rewards.
Then they measured several proxies of serotonin production, since it's very difficult to directly measure neurotransmitters in the brain.
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