Sentences with phrase «nerve cell connections»

The ability to form new nerve cell connections helps you better adapt and respond to stressful situations.

Much of the effort to explain the brain involves mapping the electrical signaling throughout the entire network of nerve cell connections.

The protein may cause people with schizophrenia to lose nerve cell connections, researchers propose.

We are now able to look into the brain of an animal and see how nerve cell connections are made or broken, and how that relates to learning or other adaptive changes.

«Specific Brain Protein Required For Nerve Cell Connections To Form And Function.»

Color can play an important role in your baby's development, stimulating the brain and creating important nerve cell connections.

Earlier studies by Darnell and others showed that FMRP manages the production of a slew of proteins found at nerve cell connections called synapses.

It may, for example, partly account for the differences in brain structure and behavior between identical twins, and could even affect thought processes by subtly influencing the changes in nerve cell connections that occur with experience.

In fact, research suggests aerobic exercise boosts the release of growth factors in the brain that spurs the development of new nerve cell connections, especially in an area of the brain called the hippocampus.

Ben - Jacob points out that previous attempts to develop memories on brain cell cultures (neurons along with their supporting and insulating glial cells) have often involved stimulating the synapses (nerve cell connections).

Disruptions to these nerve cell connections are also believed to cause neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington disease.

Now scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have shown that a protein called neurexin is required for these nerve cell connections to form and function correctly.