Sentences with phrase «mouse brain think»

No one knows how many human cells would make a mouse brain think human thoughts — let alone how you'd measure that.

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«If the protein could cross the barrier in healthy mice, we thought it was likely that it could cross in Alzheimer's patients brains, because their barrier is somewhat impaired.»

Glioblastomas in lab dishes and mouse brains are fakes, little Potemkin villages that everyone thought were faithful replicas of human glioblastomas but which, lacking tumor stem cells, were nothing of the kind.

«We included a task which involved moving a computer mouse in the opposite direction of a visual target on the screen, requiring the person's brain to think before and during their hand movements,» says Sergio in the School of Kinesiology & Health Science.

BRANCHING OUT In 1966, researchers thought that the branching ends of nerve cells (mouse neurons shown) might store memories in the human brain.

They found that 65 percent of tubercle cells from 23 anesthetized mice were activated by at least one of five odors — an important finding in its own, because no one knew if tubercle cells could discriminate odors, a process thought to be exclusive to the part of the brain known as the piriform cortex.

The knockout mice also did better on tests of behaviors associated with the brain's prefrontal cortex, the area that regulates complex thinking, emotions, and behavior in humans.

With thoughts of a jolt fresh in their brain, mice with normal levels of α - CaMKII froze up when they returned to the chamber an hour later, while mice with boosted levels remained calm.

She thought she was investigating how mice socialize — but she discovered that in mouse brains, the social and the spatial are inextricably linked.

There is no way to create a «schizophrenic» mouse, Meyer emphasizes, but certain key cognitive deficits and behaviors can be measured in both animals and humans and are thought to rely on similar brain regions and neural circuits.

Researchers recently discovered that adult mouse neurons methylate and demethylate — startling, since experts thought methylation happened only during brain development and then became permanent, to establish cells» identities.

Neural Impulse Actuator ($ 107): This «brain mouse» is marketed as a Windows game - playing accessory that lets you control game functions with your thoughts.

A new Duke University study in mice links three previous and, until now, apparently unrelated hypotheses about the causes of schizophrenia, a debilitating mental disorder appearing in late adolescence that affects how people think, act and perceive reality.The brains of people with the schizophrenia show various abnormalities, including faulty neural connections or an imbalance of certain brain chemicals.

Much of the bioethics focus has been on what would happen if an animal had enough human brain cells to think and feel like a person — but a person inside the body of a monkey, pig, rat, or mouse.

«We've learned a lot about the brain from mice, but I think we can all agree that mice and humans are very different,» says Li - Huei Tsai, a neuroscientist at the Picower Institute for Memory and Learning at MIT who studies the neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease.

By creating HD mice with glowing brain cells, researchers at the University of Nottingham Medical School and the Babraham Institute in the UK have found that some of the earliest changes happen before these cells start to die, in a region of the brain where HD researchers have never before thought to look.

Huang and colleagues previously reported that, during sharp - wave ripples in the hippocampus, patterns of brain activity thought to occur during memory replay and consolidation, gamma waves were disrupted in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

Meanwhile, researchers at the Queensland Brain Institute have shown that noninvasive ultrasound can restore memory in mice with AD, by breaking apart the neurotoxic beta - amyloid plaques in the brain they think cause cognitive decBrain Institute have shown that noninvasive ultrasound can restore memory in mice with AD, by breaking apart the neurotoxic beta - amyloid plaques in the brain they think cause cognitive decbrain they think cause cognitive decline.

«After his experiments demonstrated improvements in memory and «rejuvenation» in the brain in old mice with young blood, we thought to try a small, phase one trial, in patients.»

The drug - treated mice also exhibited deficits in prepulse inhibition, a form of startle plasticity thought to measure the brain's ability to filter out intrusive thoughts, which plague OCD patients.

At JAX's new Alzheimer's Disease Precision Models Center, Howell is genetically manipulating mice to understand how unhealthy lifestyle habits trigger immune responses in the brain, leading to a cascade of events that may ultimately impair thinking and memory, as in Alzheimer's disease.

Having picked up on the brain infection lead, I can identify with the following symptoms (from Paul's «mice» post) on a transitory basis (not continually), which are worse when the groggy feeling on the right hand side of my head is worse from those listed under i) hypoglycaemia: nervousness, irritability, anxiety, restlessness, difficulty in thinking; inability to concentrate, really slow, and ii) serotonin deficiency: anxiety, depression, impaired memory, low self esteem, loss of pleasure, poor impulse control.

Controller is 2nd nature to me, I forget I'm using a device, it's more like an extension of my brain, I'm not even thinking about it when I'm using one, whereas I definitely am thinking about it if it's a keyboard and mouse.

It was like back in the day when you played a point and click adventure game where the clues where usually objects that light up when you got close or hovered the mouse over it, forcing your brain to click it instead of giving your brain a challenge and let you look for clues and Murdered: Soul Suspect does the whole light - up means important ordeal which kind of breaks both the illusion and the interest for me to put any thought into what I am currently finding.

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