Sentences with phrase «memory center»

These compounds which are almost exclusively found in berries cross the blood - brain barrier and locate in learning and memory centers of the brain.

«They clearly demonstrate that drugs can be used to improve the development of newborn neurons in memory centers of the adult brain, even in the presence of toxic factors widely presumed to cause AD.»

It's like a deconstructed childhood memory centered around summer camp lunchboxes and snacks eaten on the grass.

My best childhood memories center around Fall!

The reshuffling seems to take place starting before birth and continuing throughout life in places like the short - term memory center.

In the new research, published in Neuron, the scientists found that the apoE4 protein changes the activity of neurons in the hippocampus — an important memory center in the brain that is severely affected by Alzheimer's disease.

One of my earliest Christmas memories centers on the chaos that ensued after I asked my parents if the gift I had just opened could be exchanged for a pair of My Little Pony dress - up heels with sequins embedded...

Although an octopus brain differs from a typical vertebrate's brain — it wraps around the esophagus instead of resting in a cranium — it also shares key features such as folded lobes, a hallmark of complexity, and distinct visual and tactile memory centers.

«Loss of cells in brain's memory center linked to schizophrenia: Deterioration of tiny brain region offers clues to onset of psychiatric disorder.»

Another set of neurons grew in the hippocampus, a crucial memory center in the brain, which helped to consolidate the smell of his pups into a long - term memory.

Memory centers called mushroom bodies in the forebrain of a scorpion, revealed here by antibodies.

Raising protein production in one of the brain's learning and memory centers erased the forgetfulness that comes with sleep deprivation, neuroscientist Jennifer Tudor of the University of Pennsylvania reported November 17 at the annual meeting of the Society for...

Although the two conditions are similar, FTD is associated with greater injury to cells in the frontal cortex, causing behavioral and personality changes, whereas Alzheimer's disease predominantly affects memory centers in the hippocampus and temporal cortex.

The Drosophila mushroom body (MB) is a key associative memory center that has also been implicated in the control of sleep.

The researchers believe that the presence of the MCT's allowed omega 3's to be liberated from fat stores & utilized in the brain where they are most needed to help form solid memory centers.

DANNY: I think all of my fondest childhood gaming memories center around whenever my parents would play the games with me and my little brother.

The video will be presented at the NY Memory Center and Morbid Anatomy Museum.

To determine if low EphB2 levels actually contribute to the development of memory problems, the investigators used gene therapy to experimentally alter EphB2 levels in memory centers of mice.

Humans with Alzheimer's disease and mice genetically engineered to simulate the disease have abnormally low levels of an enzyme called EphB2 in memory centers of the brain.

The researchers had assumed that the amnesiacs ¿ dreams — especially those during the hypnagogic phase — would have nothing to do with recent events, if they occurred at all, due to the damage to their short - term memory centers.

The hippocampus, an important memory center in the brain, is particularly affected by this loss of inhibitory neurons, resulting in an increase in network activation that is thought to contribute to the learning and memory deficits characteristic of Alzheimer's disease.

His childhood memories center on «escaping» during the night before his Dad would arrive home, and the drunken rage and chaos that would follow when he and his Mom didn't make it out.

Toxins from the algae mangle a key memory center, likely making it difficult for sick animals to hunt or navigate effectively, Cook and his colleagues report today.

Charla's favorite childhood memories center around her cat Crayola who was her constant companion from kindergarten through high school, until she passed away when Charla was 20.

Which, again, helps to protect against neural tube defects and also plays an important role in developing the brain's memory center.

All of my memories center around food!

Tau collects in other brain areas as part of the normal aging process but appears to spell trouble when found outside of memory centers, Jagust says.

Scientists at Columbia University's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), and the Université Paris Descartes have found that deficits in social memory — a crucial yet poorly understood feature of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia — may be due to a decrease in the number of a particular class of brain cells, called inhibitory neurons, in a little - explored region within the brain's memory center.

By blocking the effect that dNPF has on neurons that interact with drosophila's memory center, the researchers found they could halt the flies» feeding frenzy, and trick them into thinking they were full, even though they had not eaten.

Some of the newly spotted genes regulate how nerve cells talk to each other in the brain's memory centers, such as the hippocampus; others are related to immune response and inflammation.

Theta wave activity starts in the back of the brain, in it's fear center — the amygdala — and then interacts with brain's memory center — the hippocampus — before traveling to the frontal lobe where thought processing areas are engaged.

These pups had memory problems, were more prone to seizures and had fewer neurons in a memory center of the brain called the hippocampus.

«To solve this puzzle, we worked with a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease focusing on the genetic changes that seizures might trigger in the memory center of the brain, the hippocampus, that could lead to loss of memory or other cognitive deficits.»

«If we wanted to emulate a learning and memory center in an artificial intelligence or a robot, this is where we would start.»

Neuroscientists Jing Wang and Freda Miller, both then at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, showed that when nondiabetic mice are given metformin, their memory improves, thanks to an increase in the neural stem cell population and in the number of these cells that develop into healthy neurons in the hippocampus, the brain's memory center.

A college football player who has been diagnosed with a concussion is likely to have a smaller hippocampus, the memory center of the brain, than a player who hasn't been so diagnosed, a new study finds.

TAKING A HIT The memory center of the brain is smaller in college football players than in other men who don't play football or soccer, apparently due to head trauma, a study finds.

The researchers started by studying electrical signals in slices of the hippocampus — the brain's memory center — from sleep - deprived mice.

Research shows that this risk calculator balances input from emotional and memory centers of the brain with information from the prefrontal cortex, which regulates how we make decisions and inhibits impulsive behavior.

By using flies genetically altered to knock out the FMRP gene, the researchers documented in microscopic detail the impact that the lack of the FMRP protein has on the way that neurons grow and the connections they form within the learning / memory center of the brain during this critical remodeling period.

To shed new light on this question, the researchers focused on the development of the fly's smell circuit — the neurons that carry olfactory information from its antenna to the memory center of its brain — during the first few days after it is hatched.

Network hypersynchrony in AD and related mouse models: We discovered that aberrant patterns of neuronal network activity result in profound anatomical and physiological alterations of learning and memory centers and may contribute to cognitive deficits in mouse models of AD (hAPP mice).

Discovered that aberrant patterns of neuronal network activity result in profound anatomical and physiological alterations of learning and memory centers and may contribute to cognitive deficits in humans with AD and related mouse models.

Previous research has shown that the gray matter in the memory centers of London cab drivers increases during the 3 - to -4-year period of training in which they learn all London's 25,000 streets and countless landmarks, resulting in the hippocampus of these drivers being larger than normal.

«For example, scientists recently discovered that Arc is depleted in the hippocampus, the brain's memory center, in Alzheimer's disease patients.

In a study published today online in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers led by Yadong Huang, MD, PhD, reported that apoE4 - dependent learning and memory deficits are caused by loss of a specific type of neuron in the learning and memory center of the brain.

As its name implies, FTD is a fatal disease that destroys cells, or neurons, that comprise the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain — as opposed to Alzheimer's which mainly affects brain's memory centers in the hippocampus.