Sentences with phrase «of brain slices»

She suggests coloring different parts of brain slices (from dead people) using specific dyes and viewing them under a microscope.

So Yang Shi and her PhD advisor, neurologist David Holtzman at Washington University were in for a surprise when they peeked at a set of brain slices from mice engineered to produce tau pathology.

«The angle and thickness of a brain slice are very important, and the direction of a column can change even within a single slice, which could be the reason why they weren't noticed before,» says Hosoya.

Not exact matches

A Toronto - based company hopes to capture a slice of the $ 1 - billion brain fitness market by helping baby boomers answer that question.

A stroll down a real street called Memory Lane in London leads you to the London Institute of Psychiatry, where J.A.N. «Nick» Corsellis sliced into the brains of three corpses and found the first evidence of AE.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

All those nasty ingredients trick the stomach and brain and don't make you feel full, that's why it's so easy to eat four slices of sugary cake.

Mother Nature tries to drop us subtle hints... walnuts are good for brain health and they resemble a brain, carrots are good for eye health and when sliced crosswise resemble an eye, a bulb of ginger root mimics the shape of the stomach and ginger is great for settling an upset stomach.

We then did a drive - by of Pizza Brain (a slice shop / pizza memorabilia museum that Tony helped open a few years ago; he's immortalized in a backyard mural)[Amiel: What, you're not going to mention the Last Supper — style oil painting of my friends and me that's hanging at 12 Steps Down?]

In other words, any way you choose to look at it, no matter how carefully you slice and dice the data, there is simply no getting around the fact that homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage.

understanding of why added sugar isn't ideal for a school kid about to start their day of learning and the function of oats as a good fuel for brain power PLUS the taste acceptance of say a bowl of plain cheerios sweetened with a banana slices (which means the kids couldn't pick juice) is a lot to ask a 5 or 8 year old to accomplish in 5 days.

I asked my partner to ensure we had a steady supply of avocados, bananas, oats, nuts and seeds, turkey slices and whole - grains, all of which are good sources of tryptophan, which builds serotonin (the happy hormone) in the brain.

«The moment I first dropped an electrode into a slice of brain and heard all these neurons firing away like a thunderstorm, I was hooked,» Miller recalls.

Within hours of his demise in 1955, Albert Einstein's brain was salvaged, sliced into 240 pieces and stored in jars for safekeeping.

A two - week - old animal is ideal, actually, because at that stage slices of the brain preserve extremely well for 24 to 48 hours.

Five years ago Viviana Gradinaru was slicing thin pieces of mouse brain in a neurobiology lab, slowly compiling images of the two - dimensional slivers for a three - dimensional computer rendering.

To create these cubes, Sebastian Seung of MIT and Daniel Berger, a postdoc in his lab, shaved 256 microscopically thin slices off the outermost layer of a mouse brain.

Then they prepared mouse brain slices from a group of neurons in the dopamine production center, at 24 hours and every day thereafter.

He then took slices of each mouse's brain and measured whether it led to an increase in the amount of electricity passing between neurons in the accumbens and the prefrontal cortex.

Indeed, by examining brain tissue and slices from the cocaine - addicted rats at various stages of withdrawal and craving, Wolf and her colleagues discovered that the incubation period and the subsequent spike in craving appeared to correlate with the appearance of atypical AMPA receptors on the surface of neurons in the NAc, which could help explain cocaine craving.

The researchers will image each slice under an electron microscope and then build a 3 - D picture of all of the brain's connections.

To figure out how the neurotrophins might shape the brain, Kimberly McAllister, Lawrence Katz, and Donald Lo, all at Duke University, examined the effects of two of them, brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and neurotrophin - 3 (NT - 3), on slices of the cerebral cortex from the developing brains of young ferrets.

My project was in neuroscience, working on a model of epilepsy using electrophysiological recordings from brain slices.

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A CT scan uses X-rays to take pictures of the brain in slices.

Using them as a kind of grid reference, he slices the brain in two with what resembles a large bread knife.

New Scientist visits the lab where brains are sliced in search of the underlying mechanisms of multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's

We needed some way to look at this 3D structure in all of its dimensions without preliminary slicing of the brain.»

Brain tissue is spread out over the table in neat 10 millimetre slices, like some kind of macabre deli counter.

In this study, the researchers from Imperial's Department of Surgery and Cancer and the Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies, applied xenon to slices of mouse brain tissue after exposing them to blast shockwaves that emulated those produced by improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

As he's about to leave, he notices the image on the far - left computer screen: It looks like someone has sliced his head open and imprinted a grid of green lines on his brain.

Studies of individual neurons in dishes of cultured neurons and in brain slices by co-first author Robert E. Stanley, a graduate student in the lab, revealed that neurons in the mutant mice had decreased numbers of dendritic spines, an important part of the synapses that neurons use to communicate with one another.

The brain images Brewer shows me — views from the side, back, and top — look like a cross between a nice, fat slice of sausage and a Rorschach inkblot test.

In 1898, Italian biologist Camillo Golgi saw something odd in the slices of brain tissue he examined under his microscope: weblike lattices surrounding many neurons.

These findings were confirmed by two - photon imaging of neurons in the brains of living mice by the lab of collaborator Yi Zuo, PhD, a neuroscientist at UC Santa Cruz, as well as electrophysiological recordings from neurons in brain slices by the lab of collaborator Vikaas Sohal, MD, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry at UCSF.

STED nanoscopy of actin dynamics in synapses deep inside living brain slices.

To test his theory, he looked at slices of human brain tissue.

IF YOU have a smartphone, you probably have a slice of Steve Furber «s brain in your pocket.

Most of the 2,401 slices of H. M.'s brain are now floating in a cryogenic solution, sequestered in numbered vials inside a locked freezer at — 30ºC.

The Brain Observatory team has sectioned about a dozen brains already, and another handful of donors have already agreed to allow Annese to slice up their brains after their death.

Annese is one of the world's few experts in dissecting and slicing entire human brains; he has been practicing this craft since 1994.

His dream is to create the world's most complete open - access neuroanatomy library, featuring high - resolution digital images of whole human brain slices.

In a brain slice, Olivia Masseck measures the activity of nerve cells in which she switches on their receptors using light stimulation.

No other researcher had found evidence that neurons can breach the wall between these regions, but developmental neurobiologist Pasko Rakic thought he saw hints of such a migration in brain slices he examined in 1969.

Spaced every centimetre along the film are tiny dots, each of which is a slice of mouse brain, one - thousandth the thickness of a sheet of aluminium foil.

This particular roll of film contains 6000 slices, representing a speck of brain the size of a grain of salt.

The slices of brain will be turned into digital images by an automated electron microscope.

Using electron microscopy to look at thousands of ultrathin brain slices taken from awake and sleeping mice, they found that after sleep, the size of most synapses — specifically, the surface area where two neurons touch each other — shrank by about 18 percent.

These are scans that use x-rays to produce «virtual slices» of the brain.

To make such a detailed model, researchers took specks of brain tissue and cut them into slices thousands of times thinner than a human hair.