Sentences with phrase «neural circuit development»

Zebrafish embryo spinal cord neural circuit development (credit: HHMI Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

Support cells generated from patients with childhood onset schizophrenia stunted neural circuit development when grafted into developing mouse brains.

«New research sheds light on neural circuit development.»

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«The project's goal is to accelerate the development of technologies for mapping the brain's circuitry in animal models, specifically in the marmoset monkey, whose neural circuits are much closer to human compared with rodent models, and to connect the results to the diagnosis and treatment of human neurological disorders and mental illness.»

This study demonstrates that, over development, neural circuits reorganize themselves to decrease noise and improve the fidelity of communication amongst each other.

The critical role these changes play in brain development highlights the importance and urgency in understanding neural circuits in more detail and suggests new avenues for investigating the underlying causes of developmental disorders such as autism.

A team of researchers at the IRCM led by Frédéric Charron, PhD, in collaboration with bioengineers at McGill University, uncovered a new kind of synergy in the development of the nervous system, which explains an important mechanism required for neural circuits to form properly.

During development, axons must follow specific paths in the nervous system in order to properly form neural circuits and allow neurons to communicate with one another.

Understanding the dynamic mechanisms that lead to the emergence of brain functions through the development and continuous remodelling of neural circuits, and the constraints that disease and aging impose to this multi-modal plasticity has important implications that go beyond fundamental neuroscience, from education policies to brain repair.

Because the RNAi wasn't used to dampen FOXP2 activity until 23 days after the birds hatched, the new study shows that the gene has a role beyond embryonic development, says neurogeneticist Simon Fisher of the University of Oxford in the U.K. «The gene, at least in songbirds, may have important active functions in [neural] circuits,» he says.

Pattwell studies the development of the brain, particularly the neural circuits associated with fear, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder using mice as a model.

Anthony Zador Neural circuits; sensory processing, attention and decision making; attention; molecular tool development; connectomics

The findings help explain why the neural circuit identified is a promising target for additional treatment development, including brain stimulation therapies.

Mary Halloran, professor of zoology, works to understand how neural circuits form during embryonic development.

Knowledge about the neural circuits underlying the pathophysiology of depression is beginning to guide the development of novel antidepressant treatments.

In the Lu laboratory, we aim to elucidate the signaling cascades that establish neural circuit connections during brain development, to understand how sensory experiences and environmental factors affect neural circuit wiring and cognitive behaviors, and to identify novel factors required to maintain the health of neural circuits during aging.

Caltech also has been the home of achievements in computational neuroscience such as the development of very - large - scale integrated circuits, their application to machine learning and machine vision, and the establishment in 1986 of the world's first graduate program in Computation and Neural Systems (CNS), which continues to this day.

Development of cortical neural circuits, in particular on activity - dependent remodeling and how to correct mis - wiring in neurological disorders.

Her research focuses on the signaling cascades underlying neural circuit connections during brain development, to understand how sensory experiences affect neural circuit wiring, and to identify novel factors required to maintain the health of neural circuits during aging.

The Lu lab is interested in how activity - dependent processes during brain development fine - tune the establishment of neural circuits and how neural activity affect neural circuit wiring and cognitive behaviors.

These higher - order neural networks are undergoing their most rapid development during the school years, and teachers are in the best position to promote the activation of these circuits.

So in what respect is the Yale graduate in English competent to speak about the development of «neural circuits» amongst his own layperson peers in the Tea Party, and their competence to speak about «scientific topics in particular», versus scientists?

By accelerating the development and application of innovative technologies, researchers will be able to produce a revolutionary new dynamic picture of the brain that, for the first time, shows how individual cells and complex neural circuits interact in both time and space.

Research and development in various projects including non-thermal plasma microbial sterilization, bioheat transfer, nonionizing radiation bioeffects, statistical analysis, radar signal detection, neural simulation system identification, bioagent detection and dose estimation, evoked potential signal acquisition and analysis, biological weapons countermeasures, stereo x-ray image analysis of printed circuit boards, electros...