Sentences with phrase «modulates brain responses»

We are also exploring how intranasal vasopressin, which crosses the blood brain barrier in humans, influences subjective responses to faces in men and women and, through a collaboration with James Rilling at Emory University, how vasopressin modulates brain responses to those stimuli.

Other approaches use sound to mask the phantom sounds or attempt to modulate the brain response.

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A third group first got an injection of a compound known to block the effects of interleukin - 1 beta (IL - 1), a protein involved in activating the inflammatory immune response and shown in previous research to be a key player in modulating fetal brain injury following exposure to inflammation in the womb.

Intranasal NPY also modulated the response of the brain noradrenergic system to the traumatic stress of SPS.

The data suggests that modulating the immune response in the brain may help ameliorate the Alzheimer's pathology.

Recent results obtained by researchers from Turku PET Centre and Aalto University have revealed how the human brain's opioid system modulates responses to other people's pain.

And Ewers adds, «If this response is indeed protective, then therapeutically modulating the activity of microglia could be beneficial in late - stage Alzheimer's patients as well as other brain disorders.»

«The Y6 gene is highly expressed in a part of the brain called the «hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus», which is known to control the body's circadian rhythm and may also critically modulate metabolic processes in response to food.

«Our research shows that combination treatment with the two compounds can promote resilience against stress - mediated depression - like phenotypes by modulating systemic inflammatory responses and brain synaptic plasticity in a mouse model of depression,» says Jun Wang, PhD, Associate Professor of the Department of Neurology and first author on the paper.

The second aim was to develop and validate a method that would allow such patients to functionally communicate yes - or - no responses by modulating their own brain activity, without training and without the need for any motor response.

Of the 54 patients, 5 with traumatic brain injuries were able to modulate their brain activity by generating voluntary, reliable, and repeatable blood - oxygenation - level — dependent responses in predefined neuroanatomical regions when prompted to perform imagery tasks.

Nutritional information is mostly perceived by peripheral organs before being relayed to the brain, which modulates physiological responses.

Nutritional information is mostly perceived by peripheral organs, particularly metabolic organs such as adipose tissue and gut, before being relayed to the brain, which modulates physiological responses.

The hormone cortisol modulates metabolism, the immune system and brain function in response to stress.

Emerging scientific investigation is improving our understanding of the causal biological pathways for these robust associations.46 Early childhood trauma, including physical abuse, leads to the production of stress hormones, such as cortisol and adrenaline that are normally protective, but with severe or persistent trauma can become toxic.47, 48 These stress hormones regulate neural circuits that are important in modulating an individual's response to stress, and over time, are associated with structural and functional changes in the brain and other organs.

Perhaps this brain response is not modulated by relatively transient social contextual factors (see above) but can be influenced by certain ingrained personality traits.

It has been shown that a brain network including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and lateral prefrontal cortex areas, mostly modulated by the neurotransmitter dopamine, subserves the function of regulating thoughts, emotions and responses.13 Patterns of activation of these brain structures are related to the efficiency of resolving conflict14 and variations in the size and structure of the ACC have been related to the EC score obtained in temperament questionnaires.15