Sentences with phrase «mechanism in learning and memory»

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The mechanisms underlying structural changes that accompany learning and memory have been difficult to investigate in the intact nervous system.

The discovery of a new mechanism that controls the way nerve cells in the brain communicate with each other to regulate our learning and long - term memory could have major benefits to understanding how the brain works and what goes wrong in neurodegenerative disorders such as epilepsy and dementia.

They used a somewhat bizarre technique in which two mice were sutured together in such as way that they shared a circulatory system (known as parabiosis), and found old mice joined to their youthful counterparts showed changes in gene activity in a brain region called the hippocampus as well as increased neural connections and enhanced «synaptic plasticity» — a mechanism believed to underlie learning and memory in which the strength of neural connections change in response to experience.

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham report the discovery of a novel mechanism in the brain involved in the formation of memory and learning.

It is also suggested that further elucidation of the mechanism linking mastication and brain function can lead to novel treatments and preventive measures for memory / learning dysfunction in the future.

A different possible mechanism, proposed by Juan Salinas, a lecturer specializing in the neuropharmacology of learning and memory at the University of Texas at Austin, resembles the neurobiological hypothesis, given that ADHD involves a dysfunctional release of dopamine in the brain.

What's more, the same mechanisms are likely at play in one of the most common forms of epilepsy, called temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), which targets brain regions responsible for learning and memory.

The bottom line, the authors wrote: «these findings hint chemical signaling mechanisms might play a crucial role in memory and learning in task - performing in vivo networks.»

Since morphology changes of synapses underlie synaptic plasticity and our learning and memory, this will provide us with many new insights into mechanisms of how neurons store information in their morphology, how it changes synaptic strength and ultimately how it creates new memory.

Prof. Nicoll's lab is interested in elucidating the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying learning and memory in the mammalian brain.

Theta rhythms are very strong in rodent hippocampi and entorhinal cortex during learning and memory retrieval, and are believed to be vital to the induction of long - term potentiation, a potential cellular mechanism of learning and memory.

Caroni's group focuses on the specific mechanisms that regulate plasticity in identified circuits as a function of experience, and the roles of this plasticity in learning and memory.

Her research interest is in neurodegenerative disease, specifically in the synaptic loss associated with Alzheimer's disease, and mechanisms of learning, memory, and consciousness.

Recently in my Neurobiology class I've been teaching the students about the neural mechanisms underlying learning and memory.

He studies the basic neural mechanisms of learning and memory, particularly emotional learning, in both human and animal subjects, using functional neuroimaging, electrophysiology and immunohistochemistry.

Cognitive and biological: stress, conditioning, learning, and memory in animals and humans, and their biological mechanisms