Sentences with phrase «of brain and»

So it is no surprise that, despite the glow from recent advances in the science of the brain and mind, we still find ourselves squinting in the dark somewhat.

In a recent paper in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, UTMB's research team detailed their investigation on the relationship between inflammation, toxic tau and Alzheimer's onset by performing systematic analyses of brain and retina samples from people with Alzheimer's and a mouse model of Alzheimer's.

The cerebral cortex is outer layer of the brain and is associated with cognition, language and memory.

Normal mice with p16 had fewer neural stem cells in one part of the brain and fewer new neurons in the olfactory bulb, again demonstrating p16's ability to inhibit regeneration.

That gave them a detailed view of the surface of the brain and the nasal cavities.

If someone had blindfolded me on Vassar Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, led me into Building 46 on the campus of MIT, past the sign that says Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, taken me up in the elevator to the fifth floor and whisked off the blindfold in Seung's lab, I still wouldn't have guessed he had anything to do with brains.

«No one committed a real fault or negligence,» says another witness, neurologist Yves Agid, who was formerly in charge of monitoring CJD cases in France and is scientific director at the Institute of Brain and Spinal Cord Disorders here.

This gave us quite a surprise: Timurlengia had the same type of brain and ear as the giant tyrannosaurs such as T. rex.

«We started with alternating periods of sound and no sound in order to create a map of the brain and find areas that produced the highest activity during the sound phase,» Dr. Sherwood said.

But thanks to advances in computing power, scientists» understanding of the brain and the algorithms themselves, neural networks are playing an increasingly important role in neuroscience.

The group plans to study Arp2 / 3's role in different parts of the brain and the role it has in the mouse's other symptoms, such as sociability defects and cognitive abnormalities.

Parents could explain the importance of sleep to their children, for example, how sleep may affect the development of the brain and thus self - control and behavior.

«We have developed a method that lets us reduce the sleep depth in a certain part of the brain and therefore prove the causal connection between deep sleep and learning efficiency,» says Reto Huber.

Every language has this amazing similar ordering of colors, so that reds are more consistently communicated than greens or blues,» says Edward Gibson, an MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences and the first author of the study, which appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of Sept. 18.

Survivors of brain and central nervous system malignancies had the weakest social networks, even weaker than their non-cancer peers.

James DiCarlo is a professor of neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT who researches visual object recognition in primates.

The study also demonstrates that cases born with abnormalities of the brain and spinal cord entail major social and financial burdens.

That circuitry may have formed the basis for the cerebral cortex — the largest part of our brain and perhaps the most critical in shaping the way we think.

MRI, for instance, is a very good tool to study the inner makeup of the brain and to pinpoint precise locations.

Nevertheless, this study provides new information about the size and shape of the brain and skull in the Down syndrome population.

Dodick says they may act at various levels of the brain and brain stem to reduce excitability of the cortex and pain - transmission pathways.

The study described in the second paper used groups of three or four rats whose brains were interconnected via microwire arrays in the somatosensory cortex of the brain and received and transmitted information via those wires.

In a study spanning molecular genetics, stem cells and the sciences of both brain and behavior, researchers at University of California San Diego, with colleagues at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies and elsewhere, have created a neurodevelopmental model of a rare genetic disorder that may provide new insights into the underlying neurobiology of the human social brain.

Studies in animals indicated that in branches of the nerve that exit from the back of the brain and wrap around various parts of the face and head, overactive cells would respond to typically benign lights, sounds and smells by releasing chemicals that transmit pain signals and cause migraine.

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

There are different types of abnormalities of the brain and spinal cord, which may result in varying degrees of disability such as muscular paralysis, water in the head, incontinence and motor disorders.

You can journey through the landmark discoveries in the cosmos, an evolving understanding of our brain and physiology, and the increasing pace of communications and computing.

«The success of the trial is a tribute to over 1,000 families of children who were screened with an MRI of the brain and the almost 200 families of children who committed to monthly visits for three years.

«Like GPS, our visual ability, although quite impressive, has many limitations,» said the study's coauthor, Duje Tadin, associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester.

«A growing amount of scientific research has linked BPA exposure to altered development of the brain and behavioral changes, a predisposition to prostate and breast cancer, reproductive harm, diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease,» reports the non-profit Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

Brain tumors arise in the glia, or supportive cells, of the brain and now are classified by their histology — characteristics visible via microscopy — and their cell of origin, either astrocytes or oligodendrocytes.

In their new paper, Cheyette and his team examined the gene DIXDC1 — a key piece of the WNT signaling pathway that is active in tissues of the brain and interacts with DISC1, a gene implicated in schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, and autism spectrum disorders.

Weeks later, Kapogiannis sends me my results along with pictures of my brain and his interpretations.

Fanuel Muindi Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

These optimal outcomes include increased IQ, increased adaptive and social behaviors as well as promoting the normal development of the brain and behavior that optimizes a child's potential to participate meaningfully in the community into their adult years.

An estimated 17,000 Americans will die this year of brain and other nervous system cancers.

For instance, light therapy inhibits the pineal gland in the centre of the brain and this may allow the production of more testosterone, and there are probably other hormonal effects.

The newly created Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group has selected four initial researchers — Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley, Ethan Bier of UC San Diego, James Collins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and Bassem Hassan of the Brain and Spine Institute in Paris — to receive $ 1.5 million each to study topics ranging from novel techniques for gene editing, how shapes and forms arise over the course of evolution, and how synthetic biology can create microbes that trap and kill dangerous bacteria.

When Schlee compared people who suffer a lot of distress from tinnitus with those who are not much bothered by it, he found that the more distress people felt, the stronger the flow of signals out of the front and back of the brain and into the temporal cortex.

In 2015, Blue Brain published the first digital copy of a piece of the neocortex — the most evolved part of the brain and the seat of our sensations, actions, and consciousness.

It can impact on the health of the brain and plays a key role in language development, for example.

«The brain's ability to take in visual and sensory information and transform that into physical movements requires communication between the parietal area at the back of the brain and the frontal regions,» explains Sergio.

MICHAEL T. ULLMAN is a professor of neuroscience and director of the Brain and Language Laboratory at Georgetown University.

As a tapeworm cyst grows, it may push against a region of the brain and disrupt its function.

Named after the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer it relies on, the Blue Brain Project has started modelling — in every detail — the cellular infrastructure and electrophysiological interactions within the cerebral neocortex, which represents about 80 % of the brain and is believed to house cognitive functions such as language and conscious thought.

With the left or right parietal cortex numbed, the test subjects were less able to detect objects placed in the visual field controlled by the numb side of their brain and did even worse still if there was also an object in the functioning half of the field.

The unexpected presence of the lymphatic vessels raises a tremendous number of questions that now need answers, both about the workings of the brain and the diseases that plague it.

This mutability (or «plasticity,» to use neuroscientists» preferred term) immensely complicates the search for a unified theory of the brain and mind.

But it wasn't clear exactly what parts of the brain and which neurochemicals were responsible.

This as well as the sonar as well as the naval use of dolphins for various purposes... Dolphins use 100 % of their brain and we are causing that to decline rapidly.