Sentences with phrase «neuronal circuits function»

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The potential for mind - boosting drugs and technologies has increased stunningly over the past decade as neuroscientists have unlocked the secrets of neuronal circuits, neurotransmitters, and specific molecular events triggering brain functions in three interconnected cognitive domains — attention, memory, and creativity.

These findings could be a step in grasping how the brain circuit is shaped during this early stage development and how these neuronal circuits contribute to higher cognitive function in adulthood.

Or we may have developed miniature electronic circuits capable of monitoring and stimulating neurons, which might be used to augment memory or maintain neural functions during the replacement of neuronal nuclei.

One disadvantage with these switch - like approaches is that they can mask more subtle functions of neuronal circuits in regulating behaviors.

Jon Storm - Mathisen, Professor of Anatomy at the University of Oslo, and chairman of the Kavli Neuroscience Prize Committee, said: «Major questions in modern brain science are how the complex neuronal circuits of the brain and spinal cord are assembled during development and how they function in the adult.

Unravelling the unique contribution of these specific neuronal populations to the function of neural circuits will advance our understanding of how the brain processes abstract cognitive functions.

This is something that is very difficult to predict, because, of course, if you insert a cell into the circuit, it should acquire very specific neuronal identity in order to exert then also specific functions.

Synapses are essential points of information transfer within neuronal circuits, and the correct formation and maturation of synapses is necessary for the brain to function throughout life.

We could, for example, analyze how single neurons function in a cascade within the neuronal circuit,» Straw emphasizes the potential of his work.

With this tool, neuroscientists can use light to trigger or suppress neuronal firing and precisely manipulate animal behavior, allowing them to map circuits underlying normal brain functions and study their dysfunction in mood and movement disorders.

In order to analyze the function of individual proteins in neuronal circuits or synaptic remodeling, researchers combine the Cre and FLP recombinases to control both knockout of a target gene and expression of a separate gene.

A persistent challenge in unraveling mechanisms that regulate memory function is how to bridge the gap between inter-molecular dynamics of single proteins, activity of individual synapses and emerging properties of neuronal circuits.

D melanogaster represents a useful experimental system for analyzing the functions of neuronal circuits the results from which can translate to neuronal function in other organisms, perhaps even including humans.

In his studies, he uses an inter-disciplinary approach and combines physiological, molecular, viral and computational approaches to reveal the structure and function of retinal neuronal circuits.

We employ genetic tools in an attempt to understand the contribution of mGluR5 signaling in specific neuronal populations to sensory circuit formation, synaptic function / plasticity, and behavior.

«This allows us to identify subtle changes in the functioning of neuronal circuits that we never had access to before.»

Those identified already have been implicated in a variety of functions, including development of the brain's language circuits, neuronal development, signaling, wiring, and synaptic plasticity.