Sentences with phrase «multiple animal brains»

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Finally, the study provides an example of a highly integrative approach to understanding brain function at multiple scales, «linking genes and gene networks to the properties of single neurons and populations of neuron subtypes, all the way up to the level of animal behaviors,» said Okaty.

Animal studies have shown that lengthy or multiple experiences with anesthesia can lead to cell death and problems with the formation of connections among brain cells.

The prize is for discovering «the brain's navigation system»: place cells, cells in the hippocampus which are active whenever a rat is in a particular place, and grid cells, cells in the entorhinal cortex which are active when the animal is at multiple locations in a grid pattern.

The brain of any animal has to operate on multiple timescales at once.

In both humans and animals, multiple brain regions have been proposed to contribute to depression, and understanding which of these regions is dysfunctional might let us treat it better.

The lab has examined MRI cell tracking in animal models of dysmyelination, multiple sclerosis, brain tumors, spinal cord, stroke, and diabetes.

These exosomes contain specific microRNAs that promote myelination of aging brain as well as brain damaged by multiple sclerosis modeled in animal brain tissues.

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«Compared to normal animals, these mice have very small brains, and multiple behavioral abnormalities,» says Ferris.

Magnetic resonance imaging techniques, including structural imaging (MRI), functional imaging (fMRI), and spectroscopy (MRS), which measures brain chemistry, are noninvasive and thus can be used both in humans and in animals to study multiple aspects of brain structure and function.

«Multiple studies have shown that if you take two mammals, say rats, and put them in boxes side by side, then give the first one electric shocks, the reaction of the second one — in terms of brain - wave and nervous - system activity — will be identical,» says Stephen Zawistowski, a certified applied animal behaviorist and an executive vice president of the ASPCA.