Sentences with phrase «neuroscience studies lead»
The emotion control center of the brain, the amygdala, shows significantly higher levels of activation in males viewing sexual visual stimuli than females viewing the same images, according to a Center for Behavioral Neuroscience study led by Emory University psychologists Stephan Hamann and Kim Wallen.
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The lead in NBC's «Blossom» as a kid, Bialek went on to get her bachelor's degree in neuroscience, as well as Hebrew and Jewish studies, from UCLA in 2000, though she had also been accepted to Harvard and Yale.
And that led me to study a type of neuroscience called neurotheology, which is the study of what religious beliefs do to human brains.
In a University of California, San Diego School of Medicine study published July 13 in the online journal Nature Neuroscience, a research team led by Takaki Komiyama, PhD, assistant professor of neurosciences and neurobiology, reports that in mouse models, the brain significantly changed its visual cortex operation modes by implementing top - down processes during learning.
An animal study in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience finds that coffee after alcohol consumption might merely make the drinker feel more capable, which could lead to bad decision making.
«The mistiming prevents older people from being able to effectively hit the save button on new memories, leading to overnight forgetting rather than remembering,» said study senior author Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of neuroscience and psychology and director of the campus's Center for Human Sleep Science.
The study was led by Thomas Denson of the University of New South Wales in Australia in the journal Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience which is an official journal of the Psychonomic Society and is published by Springer.
«The comparison of the MRI images from the two mazes reveals which brain regions were specifically contributing to the formation of spatial memories,» says Svenja Brodt, a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience and lead author of the study.
That piece isn't new,» says Stephen Fleming, lead author of the study and a doctoral student in the Department of Animal Sciences and the neuroscience program at U of I.
The small pilot study was led by Jeff Elias, MD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and also was conducted at Swedish Neuroscience Institute in Seattle.
In addition, while our data suggest that sleep loss impairs working memory in a sex - dependent manner, this does not mean that the sex - differences we observed can be generalised to other mental or physical measures of how we are affected by sleep loss,» says Frida Rångtell, PhD student at the Department of Neuroscience and lead author of the study.
In doing so, we sought to understand if brain network organization mediated the relationship between fatty acids and general intelligence,» said Marta Zamroziewicz, a recent Ph.D. graduate of the neuroscience program at Illinois and lead author of the study.
The 2009 book The Playful Brain: Venturing to the limits of neuroscience, for example, reviewed many studies showing that playful activity leads to the growth of more connections between neurons, particularly in the frontal lobe — the part of the brain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functions.
In a study published in the April issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, Saint Louis University scientists led by professor of pharmacological and physiological sciences Daniela Salvemini, Ph.D., discovered that drugs targeting the A3 adenosine receptor can «turn off» pain signals in the spinal cord to provide relief from chronic pain.
The lead author on the study was Richard A. Slivicki, a graduate student in Hohmann's lab in the IU Program in Neuroscience and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
«Not everyone that tests positive for toxoplasmosis will have aggression issues,» said Dr. Emil Coccaro, a professor and chairman of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the University of Chicago, who led the study.
«We don't get finite clusters of emotions in the map because everything is interconnected,» said study lead author Alan Cowen, a doctoral student in neuroscience at UC Berkeley.
«Solutions to understanding the connections between genes, neural circuits and behavior are now emerging from a unique union of genetics and neuroscience,» says Julie Korenberg, a University of Utah professor and an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute, who led the genetics aspects on the new study.
The study was led by Debra Mills, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Bangor University in Wales.
«Our study shows that a PAM enhances the effects of these pain - killing chemicals without producing tolerance or decreased effectiveness over time, both of which contribute to addiction in people who use opioid - based pain medications,» said Andrea G. Hohmann, a Linda and Jack Gill Chair of Neuroscience and professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences» Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, who led the study.
In another study scheduled to be presented at the neuroscience meeting — 21 brain organoid papers are on tap — researchers led by Dr. Isaac Chen, a neurosurgeon at the University of Pennsylvania, implanted human cerebral organoids into the brains of 11 adult rats, specifically the secondary visual cortex.
The study was led by Dr Amanda Sferruzzi - Perri, a Research Associate at St John's College, University of Cambridge, and is part of a five - year project in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience examining the relationship between the placenta and pregnancy complications.
In the study in Mechanics of Ageing and Development, neuroscience Professor Anne Hart, lead author Edward Anderson and colleagues identify the human chemotherapy drug FUdR as the culprit.
«At present, clinicians can remove clots blocking blood flow to the brain if stroke patients reach hospital early enough,» explains Professor David Attwell of UCL's Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, who led the study.
The team led by Dr Rubén López — of the UAB's Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology and Institute of Neuroscience, and the Centre for Networked Biomedical Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED)-- used a genetically modified mouse that produces the human form of IL - 37 to study the function of this protein.
This latest study led by Professor Jonathan Green at The University of Manchester in collaboration with Professor Mark Johnson's MRC - funded team at Birkbeck, and teams at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience and Evelina London Children's Hospital, aimed to reduce these early symptoms and lower the likelihood of the child developing difficulties associated with autism later on in childhood.
Published in the journal Neuroscience online Nov. 26, and led by researchers at NYU School of Medicine, the new study found that giving the drug to newborn mice 15 minutes after «binge» alcohol consumption eliminated the hyperactivity and sleep deficits seen when rodents exposed to alcohol became adults.
Additionally, since ribosomal RNA has been shown to have specified controlled of cellular fate, this study provides a theoretical basis for disease therapy and neuroscience research and may lead to future advances in treating degenerative diseases or even brain cancers.
The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, was funded by a special research project of the FWF (Austrian Science Fund)(SFB - 35, led by Harald Sitte) and presented as a highlight at the international conference on «Organization for Human Brain Mapping.»
«Some previous research has suggested that treating patients with statins after they suffer hemorrhagic stroke may increase their long - term risk of continued bleeding,» said lead author Alexander Flint, MD, PhD, of the Kaiser Permanente Department of Neuroscience in Redwood City, Calif. «Yet the findings of our study suggest that stopping statin treatments for these patients may carry substantial risks.»
«Addiction is a life - long affliction manifested by episodes of relapse, despite prolonged abstinence,» says Amy Gancarz, PhD, lead author of the study, which was published on June 1 in an Advance Online Publication in Nature Neuroscience.
Published May 4, 2015, in Nature Neuroscience, the new findings may eventually lead to treatment strategies targeted for the underlying causes of schizophrenia and related disorders, said the study's corresponding author Scott Soderling, an associate professor of cell biology and neurobiology in the Duke School of Medicine.
A team led by Dara Ghahremani, an assistant researcher in the department of psychiatry at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior conducted a study on the Youth Empowerment Seminar, or YES!
«The impacts of both Smart Start and More at Four on children persist across the entire elementary school period,» said the study's lead author Kenneth A. Dodge, founding director of the center, William McDougall Professor of Public Policy and a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke.
In a double - blind, placebo - controlled study, a team led by Andrea King, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the University of Chicago, analyzed the subjective response of 104 young adult heavy social drinkers to alcohol and tracked their long - term drinking habits.
A new study conducted at the University of Haifa and published recently in the Journal of Neuroscience has identified activity of brain proteins associated with memory impairments in Alzheimer's disease, and has also found that «repairing» this activity leads to an improvement in memory.
«It seems that smell is integrated at a very early stage,» says cognitive psychologist Jonas Olofsson, who led the new study, published November 5 in the Journal of Neuroscience.
«Our systematic screen offers an important first step toward the comprehensive identification of all miRNAs and their potential targets that serve in gene networks important for normal learning and memory,» said Ron Davis, chair of TSRI's Department of Neuroscience who led the study.
Now a new study led by Wyart, published in this week's issue of The Journal of Neuroscience does just that.
We found that the neural reaction to pain in children of depressed mothers stops earlier than in controls, in an area related to socio - cognitive processing, so that children of depressed mothers seem to reduce mentalizing - related processing of others» pain, perhaps because of difficulty in regulating the high arousal associated with observing distress in others,» said Prof. Ruth Feldman, director of the Developmental Social Neuroscience Lab and the Irving B. Harris Early Childhood Community Clinic at Bar - Ilan University and lead author of the study.
The discovery, reported in the journal Nutrients, adds to the evidence that iron deficiency early in life can have long - lasting consequences for the brain, said University of Illinois animal sciences professor Ryan Dilger, who led the study with Austin Mudd, a graduate student in the neuroscience program at the U. of I.
I wished to see the overall picture and identify the hot research topics in the field,» explains Andy Wai Kan Yeung of the University of Hong Kong, lead author on the study, which was recently published in Frontiers in Neuroscience.
«Our findings show that connector hubs allow for distinct networks to each do their own thing, yet still interact with each other effectively,» said study lead author Maxwell Bertolero, a Ph.D. student in neuroscience at UC Berkeley.
Our findings suggest that frontal network modulation to improve executive and behavioral deficits should be further studied in patients with Alzheimer's disease,» said Rezai, the former director of Ohio State's Neurological Institute who is now leading the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute at West Virginia University.
«Our mouse model exhibits the pathologies and symptoms of ALS and FTD seen in patients with the C9ORF72 mutation,» said the study's lead author, Leonard Petrucelli, Ph.D., chair and Ralph and Ruth Abrams Professor of the Department of Neuroscience at Mayo Clinic, and a senior author of the study.
«Importantly, we have identified psychiatric risks that may develop for extremely low birth weight survivors as they become adults, and this understanding will help us better predict, detect and treat mental disorders in this population,» said Dr. Ryan Van Lieshout, lead author of the study and a professor of psychiatry and behavioural neurosciences for the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster.
The promising results are reported by the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences which led the study, and posted online in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, ahead of print publication.
«We may have discovered a major step toward developing a «dream tool» for remotely controlling neural circuits, by manipulating specific cells using engineered gene products that respond to magnets,» said Ali Deniz Güler, a UVA biology professor who led the study in his neuroscience lab.
A new study by researchers from the Department of Psychology at Uppsala University and Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet shows that people with PTSD have an imbalance between two neurochemical signalling systems of the brain, serotonin and substance P. Professors Mats Fredrikson and Tomas Furmark led the study using a so - called PET scanner to measure the relationship between these systems.
Efrati is lead author of the study, head of the research and development unit at the Assaf Harofeh Medical Center and a member of the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University.