Sentences with phrase «memory center of the brain»

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

Throughout life, stimulating activities spark the growth of new nerve connections and may even prompt a key memory center of the brain to produce neurons.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Literally, the hippocampus, the memory center of your brain shrinks.

(NaturalHealth365) Research has established a direct correlation between a decline in the size of the hippocampus — the memory center of the brain — and overall brain health.

Improved Memory Green tea drinkers have been found to have higher function in the memory center of their brains.

Researchers say the blueberries» anthocyanins — pigments that give them their dark blue hue — may reduce inflammation and help the memory centers of the brain fire more efficiently.

Long - term stress actually causes shrinking of some of the memory centers of the brain, like the hippocampus.

The sense of smell is especially powerful and is associated with the memory centers of the brain, so don't be surprised if certain sensations bring back interesting memories.

Not close, not tolerably accurate, but so dead - on precise that the memory center of your brain can't stop cheering, «Oh, yes, I remember!»

Taken once daily, it increases dopamine production in the brain that increases perfusion to the memory centers of the brain.

Dementia in dogs results from age related changes in the brain that lead to reduced perfusion of the memory centers of the brain.

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Yes, it's known that most higher brain functions (such as perception, memory, and intelligence) are centered in the cerebral cortex, that 0.1 - inch - thick infolding of neuron - rich gray matter overlaying both the right and the left hemispheres that would cover some 1.5 square feet if it were laid out like a tablecloth.

With the leadership of Mr. Ruvo, Keep Memory Alive increases awareness and raises funds for the research, management, and treatment of brain disorders at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Hebrain disorders at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain HeBrain Health.

In 1999 van Praag showed that more new nerves formed in the hippocampus — one of the key centers in the brain for memory and learning — in physically active mice than in inactive ones.

«The comparison of the MRI images from the two mazes reveals which brain regions were specifically contributing to the formation of spatial memories,» says Svenja Brodt, a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience and lead author of the study.

A volume decrease in specific parts of the brain's hippocampus — long identified as a hub of mood and memory processing — was linked to bipolar disorder in a study led by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

An assistant professor in the School of Psychology uses the functional MRI scanner at the Georgia State / Georgia Tech Center for Advanced Brain Imaging to measure activity from thousands of neurons in the brain at the same time while subjects try to retrieve episodic memoBrain Imaging to measure activity from thousands of neurons in the brain at the same time while subjects try to retrieve episodic memobrain at the same time while subjects try to retrieve episodic memories.

Seeking additional insight into similar mechanisms at work in other centers of the brain, Donato and his team discovered that the signal to develop one area known to be involved in more abstract functions, including memory and navigation, originated from deep within the brain, in a specific population of neurons that kicks off the maturation of an entire neural network.

The link became firmer after computerized tomography scans of alcoholic people revealed shrinkage in the hippocampus, a brain center that tags information for storage as memories.

«What this study clearly says is at least beginning at 30 weeks and possibly before that, the fetal brain is starting to lay down short - term memories and might even be laying down some long - term memories,» says Rahil Briggs, director of Healthy Steps at Montefiore Medical Center and assistant professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Cory Blaiss, then at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and her colleagues genetically engineered mice such that the researchers could selectively turn neurogenesis on or off in a brain region called the hippocampus, a ribbon of tissue located under the neocortex that is important for learning and memory.

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.

«Understanding the mechanisms that promote aberrant neurogenesis caused by traumatic brain injury and subsequent seizures may open new therapeutic avenues to prevent epilepsy and associated memory problems caused by impact,» said senior author Dr. Jenny Hsieh, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and a member of the UT Southwestern Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine.

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that halting production of new neurons in the brain following traumatic brain injury can help reduce resulting epileptic seizures, cognitive decline, and impaired memory.

Neurons are born in two areas: a memory - and - learning center called the hippocampus and the subventricular zone, which surrounds the two vacant spaces in the middle of the brain.

The Blue Brain and Human Brain Project will take a new step with a Blue Gene / Q augmented by 128 terabytes of flash memory at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center in Lugano, Switzerland.

Therefore, starting an exercise program, regardless of one's age, can not only contribute to the more obvious physical health factors, but may also contribute to memory performance and brain function,» explained corresponding author Scott Hayes, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and the Associate Director of the Neuroimaging Research for Veterans Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System.

At the time, scientists didn't know that the ability to establish long - term memory was centered in a specific part of the brain.

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.

Just as adrenaline sears emotional memories into the brain with the help of the amygdala, drugs of abuse enlist the amygdala and the brain's reward centers to forge unforgettable memories of pleasure.

«In a separate study, we examined the white matter structure of the fornix, a group of nerve fibers at the center of the brain that is important for memory,» she said.

It turns out that the structure and function of brain centers responsible for learning and memory in a wide range of invertebrate species may possibly share the same fundamental characteristics, according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology and performed by University of Arizona neuroscientists Nicholas Strausfeld, Regents» Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, part of the UA's School of Mind, Brain and Behavior, and Gabriella Wbrain centers responsible for learning and memory in a wide range of invertebrate species may possibly share the same fundamental characteristics, according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology and performed by University of Arizona neuroscientists Nicholas Strausfeld, Regents» Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, part of the UA's School of Mind, Brain and Behavior, and Gabriella WBrain and Behavior, and Gabriella Wolff.

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.

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...

A new study published this month in Science, from neuroscientist Susumu Tonegawa and a group of colleagues at the RIKEN — MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics, provides insight into what happens in the brain when a long - term memory is formed, highlighting the critical role of the forward part of the cortex.

Buried deep underneath the folds of the cerebral cortex, neural stem cells in the hippocampus continue to generate new neurons, inciting a struggle between new and old as the new attempts to gain a foothold in memory - forming center of the brain.

Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have demonstrated the successful implementation of a prosthetic system that uses a person's own memory patterns to facilitate the brain's ability to encode and recall memory.

Our brains prioritize rewarding memories over others, and reinforce them by replaying them when we are at rest, according to new research from the University of California, Davis, Center for Neuroscience, published Feb. 11 in the journal Neuron.

«This study, done using a mouse model, expands our understanding of how associative fear memory for a relevant context is encoded in the brain,» said Cho, the lead author of the study and a member of the UCR School of Medicine's Center for Glial - Neuronal Interactions, «and could inform the development of novel therapeutics to reduce pathological fear in PTSD.»

In a new finding with implications to human learning, memory, and speech acquisition, researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center have correlated the simple notes and more complex passages of a bird's song to activity in different areas of the brain.

A Postdoctoral Fellow position is available in the lab of June Liu, Ph.D. in the School of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy at LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans to study synaptic and neural circuitplasticity in brain slices and its role in learning and memory.

This research is transforming our understanding of brain structures at the center of memory, behavior, and cognition.

Researchers from the RIKEN - MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics have found that light stimulation of brain cells can recover memories in mice with Alzheimer's disease - like memory loss.

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.

«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.»