Sentences with phrase «of electrophysiology»

1) Basics of electrophysiology in small animals medicine.

«Seeing the dynamics of the electrophysiology allowed us to understand that the timing of the spike is important is determining the fly's choice of escape behavior,» Card says.

Their answer, garnered through a series of electrophysiology, dendritic spine density and immunohistochemistry experiments with mice that were genetically altered to produce either more new neurons or kill off newborn neurons, supports the second model — some of the cortical neurons transfer their connections from mature granule cells to the new granule cells.

«A new era» of electrophysiology is now upon us, says Josef Parvizi of Stanford University who is chairing the CNS symposium on the topic.

In a set of electrophysiology experiments published in 2009, Bikson and some of his colleagues demonstrated that a mild electric field can synchronize activity in a neural network.

We generated knockout mice lacking synaptobrevin / VAMP 2, the vesicular SNARE protein responsible for synaptic vesicle fusion in forebrain synapses, to make use of the exquisite temporal resolution of electrophysiology in measuring fusion.

Not exact matches

In AFib — which affects as many as 3 % of the population, with most cases occurring in those over 65 — the electrophysiology of the heart is out of whack, and its two upper chambers (the atria) fibrillate, or quiver, instead of contracting fully.

New York State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker signed off on the plan to establish two cardiac catheterization laboratories, electrophysiology suites and a rooftop helipad at the Riverhead hospital, which is part of Northwell Health, according to a press release from the hospital on Tuesday.

Technological advancements — for example, more portable electroencephalography (EEG) and electrophysiology set - ups and - are allowing cognitive neuroscientists to study music in a variety of situations, from mother - child interactions to live concert halls.

While the group that received the combined maternal and postnatal treatment showed the largest behavioral effects, electrophysiology tests easily distinguished the pathway effects in each of the four treatment groups.

Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to detect electrical activity in the brain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, associate research professor in FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of touch.

They used shared datasets from the International Epilepsy Electrophysiology Portal (http://ieeg.org), an NINDS - funded platform for collaborative research, data and algorithm sharing in the neurosciences run by Drs. Zack Ives and Joost Wagenaar at the University of Pennsylvania.

«Because sudden cardiac arrest is usually fatal, we are constantly looking for ways to predict which patients are susceptible so we can concentrate on prevention,» said Sumeet Chugh, MD, director of the Heart Rhythm Center in the Cedars - Sinai Heart Institute and the Pauline and Harold Price Chair in Cardiac Electrophysiology Research.

Wilber is director of Loyola's Division of Cardiology and Section of Clinical Electrophysiology.

The leader of the research team, Associate Professor Takeshi Kawano said: «Our silicon needle technology offers low invasive neuronal recordings and provides novel methodologies for electrophysiology; therefore, it has the potential to enhance experimental neuroscience.»

Peter Stern Senior Editor Education: M.D., University of Frankfurt Medical School; Ph.D., University of Heidelberg Areas of responsibility: Cellular and molecular neurobiology, cognitive neurobiology, systems neurobiology, ion channels, electrophysiology, neurological diseases, neuropharmacology E-Mail: [email protected]

Electrophysiology and structural studies were performed on an annexin V variant containing a mutation of glutamic acid - 95 to serine in the center of the pore region.

The very unique properties of the arginine pump led her to contact an expert in electrophysiology, Dr. Pablo Artigas, who invited her to study in his laboratory.

The new study — published October 18, 2016 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry — combined genetic analysis of more than 9,000 human psychiatric patients with brain imaging, electrophysiology, and pharmacological experiments in mutant mice to suggest that mutations in the gene DIXDC1 may act as a general risk factor for psychiatric disease by interfering with the way the brain regulates connections between neurons.

«Because sudden cardiac arrest is usually fatal, we have to prevent it before it strikes,» said Chugh, senior author and associate director of the Cedars - Sinai Heart Institute and the Pauline and Harold Price Professor of Cardiac Electrophysiology.

C.elegans has been used for decades as a model animal to study the genetic and molecular underpinnings of neurological disorders through a number of techniques including bio imaging, electrophysiology and behavior.

«The behavioral measures give you perspective on whether a treatment could actually work in helping improve the communicative abilities of older adults, while biological or auditory electrophysiology measures give you an indication of the actual mechanistic pathways that the training may be affecting,» says Frank Lin, an otolaryngologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, who was not involved in the study.

«We're showing for the first time that Müller glia in the adult mouse can give rise to new neurons after injury, and these neurons have the gene expression pattern, the morphology, the electrophysiology, and the epigenetic program to look like interneurons instead of glia,» Reh said.

A whole series of experiments based on two - photon microscopy, electrophysiology and behavioural analyses have shown that Tm cells are activated specifically by «light OFF» brightness changes.

Both groups presented their findings in Boston last week at a meeting of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology.

«The current trial showed an absolute survival benefit of almost 10 percentage points, eclipsing any effect of drug intervention,» wrote Dr. Joglar, who holds the Elizabeth Thaxton and Ellis Batten Page Professorship in Cardiac Electrophysiology Research.

JACC is the flagship for a family of journals — JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, JACC: Heart Failure, JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology and JACC: Basic to Translational Science — that prides themselves in publishing the top peer - reviewed research on all aspects of cardiovascular disease.

The work combines remote control of action potential firing and synaptic signaling combined with imaging of activity with genetically encoded calcium and voltage sensors and electrophysiology.

These studies use a combination of cell biology, molecular biology and electrophysiology in cultured sensory - motor neurons from the marine invertebrate Aplysia californica, and cultured neurons from mouse hippocampus, and involve investigation of the function of specific molecules in neurons.

«We have a lot of guided hypotheses about what causes these differences in electrophysiology and how those differences are related to information processing,» Cembrowski says.

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The Division of Pediatric Cardiology is responsible for the diagnosis of congenital heart defects, performing diagnostic procedures such as echocardiograms, cardiac catheterizations, and electrophysiology studies, and for the ongoing management of the sequelae of heart disease in infants, children and adolescents.

March 17, 2016 Roderick Tung, MD, named director of cardiac electrophysiology program at the University of Chicago Medicine Roderick Tung, MD, an authority on the management of heart rhythm disorders, with a particular focus on advanced therapies for atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmias, has been appointed associate professor of medicine and medical director of the cardiac electrophysiology program at the Center for Arrhythmia Care at the University of Chicago Medicine.

Our strategy is based on the combination of genetics, imaging, electrophysiology and biochemistry in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (for more information on C. elegans see «an overview of the model organism C. elegans»).

We will discuss the electrical system of the heart, how it can be thwarted to produce arrhythmias and the field of cardiac electrophysiology, which is the study and treatment of arrhythmias.

She integrates morphological and biochemical analysis and state - of - the - art techniques in optogenetic and electrophysiology to better characterize the pathological condition of schizophrenia and develop clinical treatments.

In 2006, he earned his doctoral degree in the department of neurobiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where he utilized electrophysiology and imaging techniques to understand fundamental elements underlying learning and memory.

We utilize FRET spectroscopy, high - resolution optical imaging, electrophysiology, molecular biology and biochemistry to explore experience - dependent mechanisms regulating the number and plasticity of hippocampal synapses under physiological and pathological conditions.

We were one of the first labs in the world to combine fMRI with electrophysiology.

This is a highly multidisciplinary endeavor in which we employ a broad range of techniques including electrophysiology, biochemistry, imaging, anatomy, molecular biology, and behavioral techniques.

The study uses imaging technology and electrophysiology to understand what happens between neurons at synapses to make sense of how fruit fly brains process odors.

After finishing his PhD with Prof Axel Mecklinger in Saarbrücken, he worked for several years as a Research Fellow and a Senior Research Fellow at University College London, UK with Prof Neil Burgess at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience / Institute of Neurology and in close collaboration with the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging (FIL) and Prof John O'Keefe «s electrophysiology group at the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology.

She has served on federal grant review panels, the NIH / NEI National Advisory Eye Council, and she is a fellow of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (FARVO), American Academy of Optometry (FAAO) and a board member of the International Society for the Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (ISCEV).

«This research allows us to measure two functions of the heart, contraction and electrophysiology, for the first time.

Single action potential resolution will be feasible after a future extension of the system, as well as combination of optical imaging with different measurement techniques like electrophysiology.

I am trying to answer questions like these using a number of different techniques including behavioural experiments, electrophysiology, neuroanatomy, and phylogenetics.

After 3 - 5 hours, Mao conducted electrophysiology experiments to detect the presence of synaptic plasticity and determine which neurotransmitter receptors were involved in its development.

Experimental approach: To use patient - specific induce pluripotent cell models from a (i) storage disease (NCL), (ii) aggregate prone disease (ALS) and (iii) a disease with no aggregates but hyperexcitability (ChAc) combined with state of the art live cell imaging techniques, electrophysiology and biophysical tools (PIV, laser ablation for cortex tension measurements, AFM).

We then combined confocal microscopy and electrophysiology to explore the interactions between temperature, adrenergic stimulation and contraction frequency on the temporal and spatial properties of Δ [Ca2 +] i, and the excitation profiles of AP and ICa in isolated myocytes.