Sentences with phrase «of brain circuits»
Advances in our understanding of the brain circuits of emotion, for example, will help us to understand and treat psychiatric disorders.
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Research shows that excessive experience with toxic stress can disrupt the development of brain circuits related to stress response — and to learning and memory.
In the longer term, new treatments for devastating brain diseases are likely to emerge from a deeper understanding of brain circuits.
This mechanism allows them to position themselves correctly in the different layers of the cortex, a key step in the development of brain circuits.
Pass it on: Depressed patients may have problems with the function of a brain circuit thought to be involved in feelings of hate.
Cerebellar granule cells form part of a brain circuit with a strikingly regular, almost crystalline, structure.
In order to better understand serotonin's influence in the developing brain, Alexandre Dayer's team in the Psychiatry and Fundamental Neuroscience Departments of UNIGE's Faculty of medicine examined a particular receptor for this neurotransmitter, and its role in the formation of brain circuits.
The Obama administration's neuroscience initiative highlights new technologies to better understand the workings of brain circuits on both a small and large scale.
«New study of brain circuits finds key links to symptoms of depression: Altering distinct brain pathways found to aid symptoms such as social withdrawal and helplessness behavior.»
«When writing interferes with hearing: For deaf people, the reorganization of brain circuits impacts on the success of cochlear implants.»
Whatever is the goal, I work on that and I think about what types of brain circuits are going to be involved and how to most effectively engage them.
«Precise control of brain circuit alters mood: Pacemaker circuit keeps emotional centers working together.»
Christianson said the findings set the stage for a large - scale investigation of the brain circuits that work together to orchestrate responses to social emotional information with the hope that such research will lead to better treatment for people with conditions marked by aberrant social cognition, such as autism or schizophrenia.
«Revised view of brain circuit reveals how we avoid being overwhelmed by powerful odors.»
«Our goal was to characterize the development of brain circuits involved in appetite regulation, using a mouse model for Prader - Willi syndrome.
«When other portions of the brain circuit related to speech were also affected according to our blood flow measurements, we saw more severe stuttering in both children and adults,» said first author Jay Desai, MD, a clinical neurologist at CHLA.
Neuroscientists at Duke University have introduced a new paradigm for brain - machine interfaces that investigates the physiological properties and adaptability of brain circuits, and how the brains of two or more animals can work together to complete simple tasks.
Through the activation of brain circuits with light, female voles were tricked into selecting specific partners
«In essence, this points to a relative immaturity of brain circuits in FXS,» added Tiago Gonçalves, a former post-doc in Portera - Cailliau's lab and first author of the study.
«The cortical folding pattern itself may not be so important, but the disturbances in connections between brain regions implicated by the changes in cortical folding could provide critical clues to deficits in the integrity of brain circuits that contribute to symptoms and functional impairment in schizophrenia,» commented Dr. John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.
«We wanted to find the link between the abnormal structure of synapses in the FXS mouse, and the behavioral abnormalities at the level of brain circuits; that had not been previously established,» said senior author Dr. Carlos Portera - Cailliau, an associate professor in the departments of neurology and neurobiology.
«Serotonin's early role in assembly of brain circuits.»
In the study, HaDi MaBouDi of Queen Mary University of London and colleagues built a realistic computational model of the brain circuits used by bees to process olfactory information.
Yin's lab has built a very detailed map of the brain circuits that control the direction and velocity of movements.
An MRI Fingerprint of Brain Circuit Breakdown in Alzheimer's Terrance Kummer, MD, PhD Washington University School of Medicine (Saint Louis, MO)
«We hope this atlas will be a roadmap for the field to explore the relationship between specific cell types, signaling pathways, receptors, and the physiological function of brain circuits,» Kriegstein added.
Chronic stress associated with lack of safe and secure attachment can impair the formation of brain circuits and alter levels of stress hormones, resulting in emotional and biological dysregulation, anxiety, and depression.
«To understand and address the causes of speech disorders requires a fundamental understanding of the brain circuits and computations involved in learning and controlling speech,» said Dr. Roberts, a Thomas O. Hicks Scholar in Medical Research.
We're funding researchers to investigate how drugs alter what genes are activated such that they modify the function of the cells, and how this, in turn, modifies the functions of brain circuits, and how that modifies behavior.
«Absence of serotonin alters development, function of brain circuits: Researchers create first complete model of serotonin's role.»
Some of these brain circuits also appeared to be sensitive to the fly's internal clock, as post-meal sleepiness happened less around dusk than at other times of day.