Sentences with phrase «new brain systems»

On the bright side, some people appear to overcome the ravages of a rotting brain by recruiting new brain systems or structures to take over functions of old ones.

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Both Humber River and Mackenzie Health have adopted Ambiant as their figurative brains and central nervous systems; new customers in British Columbia and Alberta are also about to come on board, according to ThoughtWire co-founder and chief executive Mike Monteith.

MEG TIRRELL, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: Since they were approved in 2014, drugs that stimulate the immune system have been giving new hope to patients with melanoma, kidney cancer, lymphoma and other cancers, including famously to President Jimmy Carter, who credited the drug called Keytruda with shrinking tumors that had spread to his brain.

Among other functions, it is part of the brain's reflexive system and it is good at quickly generating emotions like fear and anger when we're presented with new, out of place, or scary stimuli.

If human brains are like body's cells, there is a natural point of specialization, in which new systems break away and form similar but slightly different branches, as cells in a body become fingers, feet, hands, etc..

Consuming artificial sweeteners can increase our appetites by as much as 30 %, according to new research, which has identified a system in the brain that senses and integrates the sweetness and energy content of food.

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

we have become so reliant upon one individual to run the whole operation that our once relevant scouting department has become so stagnant that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once... when this occurs the management team, who by this juncture is little more than a congregation of spefically chosen «yes» men, making it incredibly difficult for new ideas to emerge and / or transfers / contract renegotiations to be dealt with in a timely and effective manner... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

But you want to add into that coordination challenges at the same time, because that involves turning more of your brain on, engaging more of your brain, to be involved; not just to get your heart rate up but also to learn a skill, to learn a new dance step, to train your attention system.

SIGNA ™ Premier is a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system developed through the GE - NFL Head Health Initiative, which aimed to develop new imaging tools, particularly to aid in the detection of biomarkers for the potential diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury.

Today's frantic new media systems can generate huge waves of alarmist communications which invade countries and alarm the citizens about two main issues that bypass the logical part of the brain: racial threat and sex... both topics are used by media to command human attention because they bypass conscious brain structures to ensure a fast response, the same as a deja vu is seen before it is noticed, so to speak.

When it comes to executive agencies, including the state and city university systems, however, New York's highest - paid employee in 2016 was psychiatrist and brain researcher Dr. Carlos N. Pato, who earned $ 748,991 as dean of the SUNY Downstate Medical Center.

The Rudin family, one of New York's real estate dynasties, is getting into tech by launching a company called Prescriptive Data that offers an operating system designed to be a building's «brain.»

In the process, they are uncovering new roles for the cardiovascular system, including ones that go beyond supplying the brain with plenty of oxygen - rich blood.

«We argue that conscious experiences, regardless of their content, arise from one system in the brain,» explains LeDoux, a professor in New York University's Center for Neural Science.

Among its five new scanners, CUBRIC boasts Europe's most powerful microstructural brain scanner, the Siemens 3 Tesla Connectome magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, a specially adapted MRI scanner of which there is only one other in the world, located at Harvard University in the United States.

BRAIN POWER A new artificial intelligence system can learn how to navigate the shortest route on the London Underground based on other examples, instead of being programmed to do so like a traditional computer.

The reward system of the teenage brain may make adolescents more willing to face the risks that come with this daunting new stage of life.

«Steep funding cuts for the federal health agencies are counterproductive at a time when innovative research is moving us closer to identifying solutions for rare diseases, new prevention strategies to protect Americans from deadly and costly conditions, advances in gene therapy, new technologies for understanding the brain, and treatments that harness the ability of our immune system to fight cancer.»

A relatively new area is to look at the developing nervous system by scanning infants, children, and adults at rest, to chart changes in activity patterns as the brain matures.

The researchers caution that their findings, described online on May 4 in npj Schizophrenia — a new publication from Nature Publishing Group — do not establish a cause - and - effect relationship between mental illness and yeast infections but may support a more detailed examination into the role of lifestyle, immune system weaknesses and gut - brain connections as contributing factors to the risk of psychiatric disorders and memory impairment.

Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.

He says the new results represent only a minor advance, but Miller counters that the new system uses more brain electrodes, allowing better control.

The new system, developed by neurologist Niels Birbaumer and his team at the University of Tübingen in Germany, consists of a computer screen in front of a locked - in patient and connected to electrodes that register the person's brain activity.

The signs of CTE (which can only be diagnosed postmortem) in the brains of blast - exposed military veterans were indistinguishable from those found in the deceased athletes, according to the researchers, led by Lee Goldstein, an associate professor at Boston University School of Medicine (B.U.S.M.) and Boston University College of Engineering, and Ann McKee, a B.U.S.M. professor and director of the Neuropathology Service for the VA New England Healthcare System.

He says the new results represent only a minor advance, but Miller counters that the new system uses more brain electrodes than Moritz's — 100 rather than 12 — allowing better control.

The number of veterans at risk is large: traumatic brain injury caused by explosive blasts is thought to afflict about 20 percent of the 2.3 million servicemen and women deployed in combat since 2001, according to a team of researchers from Boston University, New York Medical College and the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System.

«Classic video game system used to improve understanding of the brain: Researchers use Donkey Kong to help guide new approaches in neuroscience.»

A new discovery about the immune system may allow doctors to treat harmful inflammation that damages the brain in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.

The discovery provides new insight into clinical conditions where body representation in the brain is disrupted due to changes in the central or peripheral nervous systems e.g. stroke, schizophrenia and phantom limb syndrome following amputation.

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.

Even short - term blockages of this kind can lead to remarkable changes in the auditory system, altering the behavior and structure of nerve cells that relay information from the ear to the brain, according to a new University at Buffalo study.

«We expect that our new method will become an attractive tool to study energy requirements of living systems with subcellular resolution,» says Min, «especially in brain and malignant tumors that are in high demand of energy.»

The new study discovered that the brain is connected to the lymphatic system after all.

Researchers based in New York City can pursue a study that requires a highly sensitive device for measuring magnetic fields of the brain — despite the potentially disruptive effect of the subway system — by locating the device in another country.

Kidney disease will be the main application of the research working in collaboration with the Centre for Kidney Research and Innovation (CKRI), but the team believes that Sodium MRI can also be used for more accurate diagnosis and monitoring of other diseases, and perhaps will give new insights into disease mechanisms as sodium management is important in the brain, lung, liver, and musculoskeletal system.

Jaak Panksepp, a neuroscientist at the Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics at Northwestern University, calls the dopamine system the brain's «seeking» circuitry, which propels us to explore new avenues for reward in our environment.

A new study appearing in the Journal of Neuroinflammation suggests that the brain's immune system could potentially be harnessed to help clear the amyloid plaques that are a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.

This work also sheds new light on the still poorly known functioning of the olfactory system, and notably how information is processed in the brain.

At the meeting, attendees discussed four broad goals for the proposed Observatory: expanding access to large scale electron microscopes; providing fabrication facilities for new, nanosized electrode systems; developing new optical and magnetic resonance brain activity imaging technologies; and finding new ways to analyze and store the staggering amount of data detailed brain studies can produce.

«It's the first time you can see the inhibitors of serotonin reuptake, like antidepressants, working in different parts of the brain, and you can use this information to analyze all sorts of antidepressant drugs, discover new ones, and see how those drugs affect the serotonin system across the brain.»

To test that scenario's accuracy, fisheries ecologist Karin Limburg of the State University of New York, Syracuse, studied the animals» otolith, a little bone under the brain that is part of its hearing and balance system.

Now, Cardiff scientists have engineered a new duel «homing» agent which, when given to mice, inactivated the complement system in the brain, reduced inflammation and aided recovery.

A new way to link artificial arms and hands to the nervous system could allow the brain to control prostheses as smoothly as if they were natural limbs

What's even more remarkable about our brains is that they actually search for new things to make part of this feedback system.

Now, to enable widespread gene delivery throughout the central and peripheral nervous systems, Caltech researchers have developed two new variants of a vector based on an adeno - associated virus (AAV): one that can efficiently ferry genetic cargo past the blood - brain barrier; and another that is efficiently picked up by peripheral neurons residing outside the brain and spinal cord, such as those that sense pain and regulate heart rate, respiration, and digestion.

A new study now suggests that hijacking another natural system in the brain may help overcome drug addiction.

«This system also offers a new paradigm to study basic questions of how the brain encodes information.

A new new brain imaging system that can identify a subject's simple thoughts may lead to clearer diagnoses for Alzheimer's disease or schizophrenia — as well as possibly paving the way for reading people's minds.

Thanks to a new four - year $ 15.8 M grant from the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Columbia Engineering Professor Ken Shepard, a pioneer in the development of electronics that interface with biological systems, is leading a team to do just that: invent an implanted brain - interface device that could transform the lives of people with neurodegenerative diseases or people who are hearing and visually impaired.