Sentences with phrase «new brain circuit»
However, when the threat is persistent and the stress response system does not return to its resting state, continuous elevations of the stress hormone cortisol actually disrupt the formation of new brain circuits and suppress immune function.
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The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage bBrain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage bbrain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage bbrain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage branew problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage braNew York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brainbrain.
The developing brain is more flexible and better able to create new neural circuits for cognitive, motor, and language skills.
We have long known that interactions with parents, caregivers, and other adults are important in a child's life, but new evidence shows that these relationships actually shape brain circuits and lay the foundation for later developmental outcomes, from academic performance to mental health and interpersonal skills.»
In the hippocampus, a brain region vital for laying down new memories, «stem cells continue to add new circuit elements,» says Stanford University neuroscientist Theo D. Palmer, who helped Monje find out why brain fogginess can persist for years after cancer treatment has ended.
The change in what the volunteers saw was so fast, Dilks says, that it must be due to the brain redirecting signals through pre-existing circuits rather than forging new connections.
«New study of brain circuits finds key links to symptoms of depression: Altering distinct brain pathways found to aid symptoms such as social withdrawal and helplessness behavior.»
They found that this fear - inducing chemical, a new class of molecules called sulfolipids, could activate four redundant brain circuits that led to this behavior.
«Modeling the rhythmic electrical activities of the brain: A new mathematical tool has been developed to help computational neuroscientists explore neural circuits» dynamic responses to stimuli.»
Today, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) announce the discovery of a new neural circuit in the brain that directly links the site of fear memory with an area of the brainstem that controls behavior.
A team of CSHL scientists have discovered a new neural circuit in the brain that directly links the site of fear memory with an area of the brainstem that controls behavior.
The Obama administration's neuroscience initiative highlights new technologies to better understand the workings of brain circuits on both a small and large scale.
By reversibly deactivating the new nerve fibers that grow, the neurobiologists were ultimately able to demonstrate for the first time that a group of these fibers is essential for the recovery of the motor function observed: Nerve fibers that grew into the spinal cord from the intact front half of the brain — changing sides — can reconnect the spinal cord circuits of the rats» paralyzed limbs to the brain, enabling the animals to grip again.
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A new study by researchers at Roche in Basel, Switzerland has identified a key brain region of the neural circuit that controls social behavior.
«The brain is quite «plastic» and changeable in the very young, and if we know why circuits are miswired, it may be possible to correct those pathways, allowing the brain to build new, functional wiring,» he says.
Among their goals for this system are: a higher density electrode array to allow for more precise targeting on neurons, new recording circuits that vastly increase the volume of data captured, and a new wireless power and telemetry technology that allows for real - time data transmission from the brain.
Injury to the brain stimulates the production of new neurons, but these new cells are sometimes hyperexcitable, disrupting neural circuits and causing recurring seizures, researchers with UT Southwestern's Texas Institute for Brain Injury and Repair reported in Nature Communicatbrain stimulates the production of new neurons, but these new cells are sometimes hyperexcitable, disrupting neural circuits and causing recurring seizures, researchers with UT Southwestern's Texas Institute for Brain Injury and Repair reported in Nature CommunicatBrain Injury and Repair reported in Nature Communications.
This new combination of electronics and drugs to intervene in an individual brain circuit might be used to create mouse models of other mood disorders for other studies, Dzirasa said.
«Any new rules, circuits, or understanding of how the brain works will allow us to design neuromorphic machines that are much more powerful in terms of cognitive power, energy efficiency, and packaging,» Curioni said.
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.
Understanding how networks of cells in circuits work together to give rise to behaviors, thoughts, and emotions requires new technology, he said, and optogenetics is starting to provide new approaches for mapping and repairing the brain.
Neuroscientists at Duke University have introduced a new paradigm for brain - machine interfaces that investigates the physiological properties and adaptability of brain circuits, and how the brains of two or more animals can work together to complete simple tasks.
«The concept of tuning brain circuits is a new strategy,» she says.
New research presented by Dr. Jonathan Britt, from McGill University, helps to better understand how reward signals, such as those produced by addictive drugs, travel through the brain and modify brain circuits.
As our brain evolved to process more and more complex emotions, the theory goes, there was no need for new neural machinery: our emotions simply piggybacked onto the circuits that handle basic sensory perceptions.
Our method is a first step toward developing a new mathematical toolkit to uncover the structure of neural circuits with unknown function in the brain.»
Scientists studying brain diseases may need to look beyond nerve cells and start paying attention to the star - shaped cells known as «astrocytes,» because they play specialized roles in the development and maintenance of nerve circuits and may contribute to a wide range of disorders, according to a new study by UC San Francisco researchers.
According to Halassa, the new research sets the stage for ever more detailed studies on the complex behavior involved in how the mammalian brain pays attention to what's important, and especially how those neural circuits are broken in cases of attention - deficit diseases, such as ADHD, autism, and schizophrenia.
«Delivering more GDF10 markedly enhances the formation of new connections and does so mostly in a specific brain circuit.
Yuste hopes that seeing how the circuits work in real time might lead to new insights into the human brain and tell us more about mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, for example.
But a new study suggests that caring for children awakens a parenting network in the brain — even turning on some of the same circuits in men as it does in women.
Neuroscientists have long noted that if certain brain cells are destroyed by, say, a stroke, new circuits may be laid in another location to compensate, essentially rewiring the brain.
The results of their work, the researchers say, may advance scientific understanding of how genes linked to the risk of human bipolar disorder change neuronal circuits in the brain, and may offer an animal model for testing new treatments.
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new computational model of a neural circuit in the brain, which could shed light on the biological role of inhibitory neurons — neurons that keep other neurons from firing.
The findings point to new players in a complex circuit activated in the fly brain during courtship.
These findings, which will be published online Aug. 18 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could help identify important brain circuits involved in stroke recovery and usher in new clinical therapies for stroke, including the placement of electrical brain - stimulating devices similar to those used for treating Parkinson's disease, chronic pain and epilepsy.
A revolutionary technique that switches brain circuits on and off has taken neuroscience by storm and is now undergoing a new round of innovation
A new study published this month in Science, from neuroscientist Susumu Tonegawa and a group of colleagues at the RIKEN — MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics, provides insight into what happens in the brain when a long - term memory is formed, highlighting the critical role of the forward part of the cortex.
Ultimately, the enhanced understanding of central nervous system organization that has derived from the research of these three scientists may lead to new and more effective ways to repair diseased or damaged circuits embedded in the human brain and spinal cord.
A new study by Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers strongly supports the latter, demonstrating that abnormal tau protein, a key feature of the neurofibrillary tangles seen in the brains of those with Alzheimer's, propagates along linked brain circuits, «jumping» from neuron to neuron.
Finally, we will combine our data with detailed descriptions of the brain's wiring and apply new mathematical techniques to analyze how the observed neural signals are processed and transformed by these brain circuits.
Researchers from Stanford have successfully created a new circuit board that can mimic the human brain to some extent.
A thorough understanding of the underlying chemistry and electrical activity of the brain will lead to a new suite of approaches for precise diagnosis and effective treatments that allow clinicians to restore disrupted or damaged neuronal circuits.
Scientists discover a brain circuit that controls walking and identify a new target for treating Parkinson's disease
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.
«How do adult brain circuits regulate new neuron production?.»
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.
In the new study, Song and colleagues discovered that this hippocampal PV interneuron - signaling is regulated by a GABA circuit coming from the medial septum, a cluster of neurons near the front of the brain.
When a neural stem cell becomes activated, it begins a process of cell division that ultimately yields new neurons that connect to existing brain circuits.