Sentences with phrase «of brain circuitry»

«Anorexia remains the psychiatric disorder with the highest mortality rate, and there is an urgent need to develop safe, effective, evidence - driven treatments that are informed by a growing understanding of brain circuitry,» said study author, Professor Andres Lozano, University of Toronto, Canada.

Research from the 1970s in rodents on the overlapping functions of this brain circuitry showed that opiates tended to quell not only painful stimuli but also the tiny squeaks that signal distress.

He predicts that prefrontal lobe activity will turn out to be a key part of that brain circuitry.

So, the question is: What kind of brain circuitry are they using?»

He counters that mysteries of brain circuitry will be resolved as the project moves forward over the years.

«Thus, a short and transient period of visual deprivation early in life leads to enduring large - scale crossmodal reorganization of the brain circuitry typically dedicated to vision.

«It's like remote control of the brain circuitry to create a pair bond,» says Robert Liu at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and a member of the team using technology to play Eros.

Now, researchers have developed the first diagram of the brain circuitry that enables this complex interplay between the motor system and the auditory system to occur.

It is based on a model of the brain circuitry found in the mammalian visual system by Torsten Wiesel and the late David H. Hubel, both then at Harvard University, in the late 1950s and early 1960s (work for which they would later be awarded a Nobel Prize).

The study supports the importance of the serotonin which is specified and maintained by a specific gene, the Pet - 1 gene — for normal functioning of the neurons, synapses and networks in the cortex, as well as proper development of brain circuitry.

WRATH It may not have been the original sin, but rage is certainly primordial: You would think that lust and gluttony would predate any emotion, but much of the brain circuitry active during anger is very basic and very fast.

Their efforts have produced 3D maps of brain circuitry in stunning detail.

New techniques combining various staining methods with electron and light microscopy make it possible to investigate in detail the connections among nerve cells and the circuitry of the brain

While many aspects of brain circuitry are hard - wired, it is also dynamic: the connections between neurons in the brain change with experience to store information, and in this way nature and nurture combine to define our identities.

In 2013, MIT organized a competition that called on researchers to develop automated computer algorithms that could speed up image analysis, decode and understand images of brain circuitry.

UNC scientists conduct seminal experiments to unveil how early - in - life visual experiences — simply trying to see — sculpt a particular subnetwork of brain circuitry we need in order to see properly.

The neuroscientific research about learning has revealed the negative impact of stress and anxiety and the qualitative improvement of the brain circuitry involved in memory and executive function that accompanies positive motivation and engagement.

One is about understanding how the function of the brain circuitry is altered by different movement - related disease processes, such as stroke and Parkinson's disease.

Since the brain circuitry is highly plastic, also in adult life, these reactions will lead to changes in the properties in these connected parts of the brain circuitry that can become emented, which may inhibit recovery.

These interventions are beginning to make use of our rudimentary understanding of brain circuitry, but understanding the language of the brain with a high level of precision will sharply boost researchers» capabilities to recreate some of its more complex functions.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of brain circuitry, with an eye toward clinical applications for personalized medicine.