Sentences with phrase «new brain cells during»

Not exact matches

His research largely focuses on new means to incorporate imaging methods to view cells of brain tumors with a hand held instrument that a neurosurgeon can use to visualize the individual cells during the progress of the operation.

Some evidence suggested brain cells form new connections during sleep; other evidence suggested sleep pares away existing connections.

The size of the brain's ventricles — cerebrospinal fluid - filled spaces deep within the brain — became progressively larger during the course of treatment, and changes were also seen within the subventricular zone, one of two structures in which new brain cells are generated in adults.

The active periods might be providing brief windows during which nerve cells can easily connect to other cells, and the slower, more relaxed periods might allow the brain to then cement those new connections in place.

New research by University of Rochester neurologist Maiken Nedergaard suggests that during sleep, brain cells shrink, expanding the space between them to allow fluids to pass through and remove toxic waste.

New research in mice reveals that during sleep the connections between brain cells, which hold information learned throughout the day, undergo massive shrinkage.

Our investigations also open a new route for understanding how different physiological states of the body influence stem cells in the brain during health and disease, and opens new ways for thinking about therapy,» says Fiona Doetsch.

Another provocative observation from the new study was that transient gene expression events during brain development set up broad distinctions in neural fate between cells in different areas in the cerebral cortex.

In the new study, the researchers discovered that during the second trimester of human brain development, oRG cells express genes related to a fundamental signaling pathway called mTOR, defects in which have previously been implicated in autism and several other psychiatric disorders.

The goal of the Huberman Lab is to understand how the retinal and brain circuits that underlie vision wire up during development and to develop new strategies to monitor, prevent, and treat retinal ganglion cell loss in glaucoma.

Describing the brain as a big circuit board in which each new experience creates a new circuit, Hopkins neuroscience professor Richard Huganir, Ph.D. says that he and his team found that during emotional peaks, the hormone norepinephrine dramatically sensitizes synapses - the site where nerve cells make an electro - chemical connection - to enhance the sculpting of a memory into the big board.

The greater the distance that a runner had covered during the experiment, the more new cells its brain now contained.

New Recommendations from the National Sleep Foundation - The Atlantic January 2015 - Poor Sleep in Adolescence Predicts Future Problems, Study Says - Los Angeles Times January 2015 - How Sleep Keeps You Healthy, Helps You Heal - Discovery News September 2014 - Lack of Sleep Increases Risk of Failure in School Among Teens - Science World Report, from Sleep Medicine August 2014 - Sleep Woes in Old Age May Be Linked to Brain Cell Loss - Health magazine August 2014 — University of Chicago Study: Getting More Sleep Could Cut Junk Food Cravings in Half — CBS News August 2014 — University of Montreal Study Shows Learning Is Best Enhanced During Sleep - Jewish Business News February 2014 - Link Found between Sleep Duration and Depression - Psych Central February 2014 - Less Sleep, More Time Online, Raises Risk for Teen Depression — National Public Radio