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.
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.
Understanding how brain injury
disrupts normal brain function will allow scientists and physicians to develop new treatments and therapies to help people recover from post-traumatic epilepsy,» said Cantu.
These chips, which are actually neurotechological hardware designed to read and write neural code, will be used at first for individuals with diseases or deficiencies to
restore normal brain function.
Altogether, scientific evidence suggests that all features of the near - death experience have some basis
in normal brain function gone awry.
By
studying normal brain functioning as well as how brain disease and injury influence behaviors, feelings, and thoughts, researchers are able to come up with new ways of treating potential problems that might arise.
A detailed knowledge on how NMNAT2 maintain neuronal integrity and its role in neuroprotection is critical not only for
understanding normal brain function, but will also provide necessary insights to assist in drug discovery.
Mobile DNA molecules that jump from one location in the genome to another may contribute to neurological diseases and could have subtle influences
on normal brain function and behavior, according to a study published October 30 in Nature.
Early Life Experience Modifies Gene Vital to
Normal Brain Function 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.
In the amnesic studies, for example, it's dangerous to infer too much
about normal brain function from behaviors that are the product of a damaged brain.
To understand how DIXDC1 mutations
put normal brain function at risk, Cheyette's team turned to mutant mice that lacked a functioning copy of the gene.
An improved understanding of the biological background of musical aptitude can contribute new insights into, for instance, genes that
affect normal brain functions, the interactions between genes and the environment and the significance of music as a form of therapy.
With this tool, neuroscientists can use light to trigger or suppress neuronal firing and precisely manipulate animal behavior, allowing them to map circuits
underlying normal brain functions and study their dysfunction in mood and movement disorders.
The drug also shows promise in memory disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, and it gave a «cognitive boost» to healthy mice, which means it could
enhance normal brain function.
Today, researchers in the laboratory of Gladstone Senior Investigator Lennart Mucke, MD, report in Nature Neuroscience that DSBs in neuronal cells in the brain can also be part of
normal brain functions such as learning — as long as the DSBs are tightly controlled and repaired in good time.
This sudden movement causes stretching and tearing of connections between brain cells and creates chemical changes that
alter normal brain function.
[14] T4 also supports normal brain function [15], while calcitonin promotes normal bone growth.
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.
Excitotoxins interfere
with normal brain function by overstimulating neuron receptors in the hypothalamus and causing the death of neurons.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, has confirmed that the agency's definition of clinical trials now includes imaging studies
of normal brain function that do not test new treatments.
Although the work is done in the context of a more general problem — the effect of environmental electromagnetic fields upon cellular functions — Adey is also concerned with the question of how brain waves might play a role
in normal brain function.
The study also discovered that microscopic spasms in capillaries occur, albeit with lower frequency,
during normal brain function, too, suggesting that one problem caused by epilepsy is that seizures drive these vasospasms to abnormal levels.
«What we learn could open up new strategies for treating those diseases, for example, by identifying cellular interactions that
support normal brain function.»
Her work is recognized as providing fundamental new insights not only
into normal brain function, but also some of the abnormalities that underlie disorders such as Huntingdon's chorea, Parkinson's disease, obsessive - compulsive disorder, and drug addiction.
«More importantly, a retrovirus can infect only dividing cells such as reactive glial cells, but it does not affect neurons, which makes it ideal for therapeutic use with minimal side effect
on normal brain functions.»
From a physiological perspective, then, it's clear that dreaming is critical for sustaining life and
normal brain functioning.
A concussion is a traumatic brain injury that interferes with
normal brain function.
Together, confusion and inability to focus attention (both of which affect judgement) are the twin symptoms of a loss or lack of
normal brain function (mentation).
The study included 121 people from Japan and 252 from Australia, and both groups involved individuals with
normal brain function, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's.
Physical activity reorganizes the brain so that its response to stress is reduced and anxiety is less likely to interfere with
normal brain function, according to a research team based at Princeton University.
A research team based at Princeton University found that physical activity reorganizes the brain so that its response to stress is reduced and anxiety is less likely to interfere with
normal brain function.