Sentences with phrase «most brain researchers»

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What continues to be lost, in my view, in much of what the media has reported over the last six years about the results of autopsies conducted by researchers at the Sports Legacy Institute in Boston on the brains of athletes - autopsies which show the presence of the dark splotches of tau protein which are the tell - tale sign of CTE - which is that they provide, at most, anecdotal evidence suggesting a possible connection.

Most recently, he noted, researchers reported in Science that sleep functions as a kind of «sewer system» for the brain, at least in mice, by flushing beta - amyloid, which is known to accumulate in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

This approach allowed researchers to look for differences in the brain that are not a consequence of the depression itself, since the disorder had not yet manifested in most of the individuals.

Moreover, researchers found that the aging brain's failure to coordinate deep - sleep brainwaves is most likely due to degradation or atrophy of the medial frontal cortex, a key region of the brain's frontal lobe that generates the deep, restorative slumber that we enjoy in our youth.

Researchers from the University of Southampton have discovered a potential way of stopping one of the most aggressive types of brain tumor from spreading, which could lead the way to better patient survival.

Although the researchers do not yet know how disruptions in TOP3B affect brain development, they say the most likely explanation is that it changes the shape of the RNA, and thereby disturbs which RNA molecules get copied into proteins.

The human brain may be the most complex piece of organized matter in the known universe, but Allen Institute researchers have begun to unravel the genetic code underlying its function.

These micro quasi-brains are revolutionizing research on human brain development and diseases from Alzheimer's to Zika, but the headlong rush to grow the most realistic, most highly - developed brain organoids has thrown researchers into uncharted ethical waters.

Researchers screened brains, along with other tissues, for antibacterial activity on the grounds that the brain is the most vital organ for locusts to protect.

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University's Vollum Institute have uncovered remarkably detailed 3 - D views of one of the most important transporters in the brain — the serotonin transporter.

After the PET scans were complete, the researchers calculated how much glucose was being consumed by the most active hemisphere of the patients» brains relative to the healthy controls.

Moreover, some researchers say, the observation that MCPH patients can speak, and that they suffer at most from moderate retardation, indicates that the ASPM gene is not key to intelligence itself — whether or not it might have played a role in scaling up the hominid brain to modern dimensions.

Together with clinical researchers, they are preparing treatments for glioblastoma — the most aggressive brain cancer in adults — , Friedreich's Ataxia — a hereditary neurodegenerative disease — , and a type of paediatric brain cancer.

Researchers at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) and Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute (SACRI) have made a discovery that could prolong the life of people living with glioblastoma — the most aggressive type of brain caBrain Institute (HBI) and Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute (SACRI) have made a discovery that could prolong the life of people living with glioblastoma — the most aggressive type of brain cabrain cancer.

In most other measures of brain anatomy, the researchers found no significant differences.

In October researchers in Canada found that the depressed who commit suicide have an abnormal distribution of receptors for the chemical GABA, one of the most abundant neurotransmitters in the brain.

Researchers studying how these birds fashion tools for foraging have found that most of them prefer using their right eye and the left part of their brain — just like most humans do.

After an average hit, the researchers» computer model suggests the brain shakes back and forth around 30 times a second in a fairly uniform way; that is, most parts of the brain move in unison.

A molecule in cells that shuts down the expression of genes might be a promising target for new drugs designed to treat the most frequent and lethal form of brain cancer, according to a new study by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James).

In a study published in the Journal of NeuroOncology, TGen researchers report that PPF works to limit the spread of glioblastoma multiforme, or GBM — the most common primary tumor of the brain and central nervous system — by targeting a protein called TROY.

Most researchers interpret this activity as the brain slowly reinforcing synaptic connections that already exist, but Tononi noticed that after each wave, the brain goes completely silent, which never happens when we're awake.

In new research, published in PLOS Computational Biology, neuroscience researchers have created an algorithm to reveal key insight into why the brain can sometimes muddle up one of the most fundamental aspects of the human experience.

During autopsies, researchers found that their brains had the lowest amount of amyloid deposits and contained the most antibodies.

In the current study, researchers found to their surprise that most of the nerve cells in auditory cortex neurons that stimulate brain activity (excitatory) had signaled less (had «weaker» activity) when the mice expected and got a reward.

Next steps for the researchers are to explore different regions of the brain with this sensor, including the dorsal raphe, which produces most of the brain's serotonin.

One of the two brain - training methods most scientists use in research is significantly better in improving memory and attention, Johns Hopkins University researchers found.

Researchers most commonly study the effect of antidepressants using a technique known as microdialysis, in which they insert a probe into the brain to take tiny chemical samples from the tissue.

The process, which located a genetic site for the most common form of prostate cancer, has potential for developing precision therapy for other cancers, such as breast, brain and colorectal, say researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Researchers from Northwestern Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago have revealed new insight into how the most deadly pediatric brain tumor, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), may develop.

Despite differences in brain size, the researchers found striking similarities between primate species of gene expression in 16 regions of the brain — even in the prefrontal cortex, the seat of higher order learning that most distinguishes humans from other apes.

Determining this moment with pupil dilation, which Lewis thinks is most likely a basic arousal response, could aid researchers who investigate humor - related brain activity with MRI or electroencephalography.

Researchers ranked the players based on heading frequency and then compared the DTI brain images of the most frequent headers with those of the remaining players.

Researchers have isolated stem cells from only some of the body's organs and tissues, including the blood, brain, skeletal muscle, heart muscle and most recently from skin.

Researchers with Oregon Health & Science University's Vollum Institute have given science a new and unprecedented 3 - D view of one of the most important receptors in the brain — a receptor that allows us to learn and remember, and whose dysfunction is involved in a wide range of neurological diseases and conditions, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, schizophrenia and depression.

Researchers at the University of Liège in Belgium reported at a conference in France this week that a study of 13 patients in comas of varying degrees indicated that those with the most activity in these pathways (in the cortex, or brain processing center) had suffered the least brain damage and thereby were most likely to recover if given the correct treatment.

«Though the «blind brain» wiring may change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi, associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Cabrain» wiring may change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi, associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - CaBrain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Canada.

Because of his expertise and this ambition, Annese was chosen by a group of researchers to cut, archive, and curate the most famous brain in neuroscience, that of Henry Molaison — better known to students and researchers worldwide as the legendary amnesiac patient «H. M.»

What most interested the researchers, though, was that the MEG recordings clearly showed the participants» brains handled the sound source (clap versus pole versus ball) task differently than the room size task.

While most researchers use Brainbow to visualize connections between nerve cells in the brain, Alain Chédotal of the Institut de la Vision in

It took six years and 20 other researchers to complete the model — the most detailed brain reconstruction to date.

«Most students have disappeared at the level of the master or Ph.D. thesis, and the ones that survived are as good as those from other educational directions,» says Emanuel Dupoux, a researcher in cognitive and brain science at the ENS.

The study, published in the journal Human Brain Mapping, is one of the largest and most comprehensive experiments of individual differences in decision - making conducted to date, the researchers said, with 304 healthy adult participants.

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have demonstrated that distinct types of glioblastoma, the most common form of brain cancer in adults, tend to develop in different regions of the brain.

Researchers investigating pediatric low - grade gliomas (PLGG), the most common type of brain tumor in children, have discovered key biological differences in how mutated genes combine with other genes to drive this childhood cancer.

What the researchers found is that a brain region involved in analytical thought was most active when the subject was deciding whether the perpetrator was actually guilty.

«Patients with the least recruitment of prefrontal emotion regulatory brain regions may benefit most from treatment with SSRIs, which appear to augment activity in these regions,» the researchers wrote.

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have discovered two potential treatments for traumatic brain injury that are most effective when given at different stages after the injury has occurred.

In a study out today, researchers provide the most detailed picture yet of how the brain reorganizes itself to accommodate foreign appendages.

A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is giving researchers a first look at the early stages of brain development in patients with Fragile X syndrome, a disorder that causes mild to severe intellectual disability and is the most common genetic cause of autism spectrum disorder.

The researchers saw that among the PTSD group, who were all taking the drug paroxetine (sold as Paxil), the patients who showed the most improvement from the SSRI were those who showed the least activation, prior to treatment, of a brain area called the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, also known as the inferior frontal gyrus.