Sentences with word «neurons»

He found that the gene is active in the worm's intestines, as well as in neurons in the animal's head and tail.

The activity of neurons in other areas in the brain might only take note of what something is — is it apple?

The technique makes it possible to study motor neurons of the human central nervous system in the lab.

It has important implications for facilitating the production of motor neurons from stem cells in the lab.

That Brain is a Swedish cluster of neurons with the sole purpose of thinking up amazing ideas and realizing them in the form of interactive entertainment.

The unsuccessful search for new neurons in adult human and monkey brains is disappointing to many.

When a critical mass of neurons fire in concert, the input is perceived by the cognitive regions of the brain.

The ~ 200 GB of data for each brain was then analyzed with machine learning algorithms that identify individual neurons by type, according to parameters «learned» from human experts.

These neural precursor cells will develop into neurons when they reach the gut.

Humans can smell so many different odors because they have over 1000 different receptor proteins on neurons in the nose, each of which recognizes a particular chemical feature of some odor molecules.

More blood in the brain should also boost mental function by delivering the nutrients needed for neurons and cells to fire.

Our lips are among the most sensitive parts of our bodies, packed with sensory neurons linked to the brain's pleasure centres.

«Between cats and dogs, you could expect a similar type of difference where dogs have twice as many neurons as cats,» she says.

Next the researchers showed these images to monkeys while recording the electrical activity from individual neurons in three separate face patches.

That job is to communicate with other neurons by sending tiny chemical messages from one cell to another.

Although numerous studies have provided insights into factors impacting neural process migration, there is little understanding of how neurons make their final target selection.

This would allow him to record when neurons fired or shut down, indicating whether they were responding to light.

What is of interest is which neurons connect, or fail to connect, to which.

We are at an infant stage in this quest right now: mostly still describing how single neurons respond under different conditions.

Now, recent advances allow scientists to record from many hundreds of neurons at once from several parts of the brain of behaving animals.

- This study shows that we can now produce fully functioning dopamine neurons from stem cells.

Many serotonin producing neurons also have oxytocin receptors; when oxytocin is released, serotonin gets a boost too.

With our travel software training example, you could activate the mirror neurons by showing an animated video of a character leaving his hotel room and forgetting to take the receipt with him.

Scientists are able to record the simultaneous activity of more and more neurons in more and more organisms.

A specific location will activate a set of neurons called place cells to represent the particular place.

Obviously, scanning and mapping that many neurons on an individualized basis is going to be extremely difficult.

Based on those discoveries, researchers turned their attention to investigating the environmental cues or behaviors that make neurons fire.

The way networks of neurons connect and how individual cells react to incoming pulses in principle makes communication over large distances impossible.

The idea of grandmother cells emerged from provocative studies showing that different neurons respond to different stimuli.

Drug addiction results from adaptations in specific brain neurons caused by repeated exposure to a drug of abuse.

The result: In the planning phase of the movement, the activity of most neurons did not differ between the normal and the reversed - view hand movement.

More recently, the scientists wondered if they could alter the way a mouse remembered a setting by activating neurons associated with it.

But they had no way of knowing exactly which neurons within these regions were driving a particular behavior.

Images of interacting immune cells reveal structured connections similar to the ones neurons use to communicate.

This stress sets of a cascade of actions that protect neurons from damage and death in animal models.

These disruptions cause neurons in the brain to stop working properly, lose connections with other cells, and then die.

If the insects thought they were heading north, the scientists used a laser to stimulate neurons on the south side of the ring.

Together, these specialized proteins are believed to help neurons grow during brain development.

But little is known about what determines which cells become neurons and which become other cell types.

Human neurons differentiated from skin - derived stem cells.

It affects neurons in the brain that produce dopamine.

This increases the proportion of healthy motor neurons derived from stem cells (from 30 to 70 percent) and cuts in half the time required to do so.

All these diseases are characterized by excessive build up of proteins inside neurons leading to dysfunction and ultimately disease.

But new neurons formed only if the father had physical contact in the nest with the pups.

Although the protein's functions are not fully understood, what is certain is that motor neurons die in its absence.

In those studies, the researchers genetically engineered mice so that certain neurons produced light - sensitive proteins.

It's been suggested that too much chemical talk between neurons through these channels might be a problem in the HD brain.

The more his motor neurons communicated with the muscles in his lower body, the more he remembered how to move.

The new discovery may lead to more effective treatments for chronic itching that target activity in neurons involved in both pain and itch.