The technique has been especially useful in studying connectivity
in normal brains.
Some experts have a theory that the chemicals mimic thyroid hormones, upsetting the balance needed in pregnant women
for normal brain development of their children.
A traumatic injury to the brain causes disruption
of normal brain function.
It precisely delivers a high dose of radiation to a very focal area in the brain while avoiding
normal brain tissue.
As brain tumors grow, they can cause a wide array of challenging symptoms for patients due to pressure in the brain and / or interference
with normal brain function.
If the drug kills the cancer cells, you might try the drug on
normal brain cells in another test tube.
The ultimate goal is to better understand how the billions of neurons in the brain communicate with one another
during normal brain function, or dysfunction, as result of injury or disease.
During metabolic stress, ketones serve as an alternative energy source to
maintain normal brain cell metabolism.
But new research shows that these problems with memory and thinking ability keep getting worse for years afterward — and happen faster than
normal brain aging.
Another is that breast feeding
promotes normal brain development and it's the baby's brain that controls function such as breathing and the heart rate and all those kinds of things.
Early life stress, such as an extreme lack of parental affection, has lasting effects on a gene important to
normal brain processes and is also tied to mental disorders.
It is
n't normal brain development for a puppy to do that to people or other dogs.
Yes it does, it makes an
otherwise normal brain stop functioning properly and makes one a very lazy person unable to take responsibility for ones own actions.
Furthermore, we assumed above that all neurons of one type behave in the same way in
all normal brains, just as all polar bears hunt seals under normal circumstances.
Even normal brains can vary enormously in size and structure, so it was hard to see what, if anything, set autistic brains apart.
They found that infants who were breastfed by depressed mothers still had
normal brain wave patterns.
For example, some twins who had undergone the operation and had
apparently normal brains when screened using ultrasound showed differences in brain volume when screened using the more sensitive MRI technique.
The goal is to help surgeons remove as much cancer as possible while safely
leaving normal brain tissue intact.
If you want to know
what normal brain function feels like, sit and listen to your favorite crystal bowls for 15 minutes.
It shows that ears are absolutely amazing in differentiating between the sound of a seizure and
normal brain activity.
Although immune cells can clearly be a liability, they are likely also essential for
normal brain development and function and for recovery from trauma.
Specifically, the dying cells produced seven times as much of the protein as
normal brain cells did.
And they found that in white participants, each stressful event added about a year and a half to
normal brain aging.
It also helps your immune system function and appears to be needed for
normal brain function and digestion.
It is now possible to test whether proteins sent from the hibernating parasite into a host neuron
disrupt normal brain function and contribute to development of these diseases,» he said.
«The Raman spectroscopy probe has a greater than 92 % accuracy in identifying cancer cells that have invaded
into normal brain.»
«Often it is impossible to visually distinguish cancer
from normal brain, so invasive brain cancer cells frequently remain after surgery, leading to cancer recurrence and a worse prognosis,» says Dr. Kevin Petrecca, Chief of Neurosurgery and brain cancer researcher at The Neuro, and co-senior author of the study published today in Science Translational Medicine.
«We are talking about fast - growing tumors that
invade normal brain tissue and are very difficult to treat,» said Orin Bloch, MD, a neurosurgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and lead author of the study.
Recapitulating features of the cerebral cortex in a dish opens up a window to explore the impact of drugs that, if added at the right time and at the right concentration, could potentially
restore normal brain development.
«The beauty of optogenetics is that there is no negative impact
on normal brain activity,» says Dr. Paz.
The Nobel Prizing — winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel of Columbia University thinks it will take at least a century to
understand normal brain processes, as well as major disorders like schizophrenia and depression.
Their in vivo studies in mice have shown that neural stem cells can be genetically modified in the lab to secrete anticancer agents, like interleukin - 12, so that they will track down and kill cancer cells in both the tumor and its satellites without
harming normal brain tissue.
These changes
affect normal brain processes, such as development or memory, and abnormal brain processes, such as depression, drug dependence, and other psychiatric disease — and can pass down to subsequent generations.
Glioblastoma is the most lethal form of primary brain tumor and leads to death in patients by invading the brain tissue in a process that allows single cells to move
through normal brain tissue, which makes complete surgical removal of the tumor impossible.
«Our goal was to see if the high - risk individuals
showed normal brain activity during these executive tasks or whether or not they showed some of the pathology of individuals who already have schizophrenia,» Belger said.
It is now apparent that traumatic and neglectful developmental experiences
alter normal brain development in all parts of the brain depending on the nature of the maltreatment, developmental stage of the child, and the quality of the nurturing environment.
Interestingly, patients with schizophrenia have lower than
normal brain levels of KMO, which may be linked to lower levels of glutamate.
The tumor grows by
turning normal brain cells into stem cells, which continuously replicate and regrow.
Breastfeeding keeps your baby safe and warm, promotes normal sleep patterns,
allows normal brain development, and develops his immune system (including his thymus gland).
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