Sentences with phrase «of normal brain activity»

«But the close link between neuronal stimulation and DSBs, and the finding that these DSBs were repaired after the mice returned to their home environment, suggest that DSBs are an integral part of normal brain activity.

When they occurred during wakefulness, they were accompanied by complete behavioral arrest — a period of no movement throughout the body — and immediately followed by recovery of normal brain activity and movement.

Not exact matches

If we could but restore or bring about the normal functioning of brain cells and nerve tissues, as well as their own subsidiary chemical activity in such cases, then mental life would come flooding back in fullness and richness.

The small surge of electricity penetrates the disrupted activity of the brain, jarring the neurotransmitters into normal action.

«This worry has become irrational to the point that they are afraid to engage in normal activities for fear of further brain damage, even when it is clear to us that they have recovered.

When kids with dyscalculia were presented with a series of items to count, their brain activity was indistinguishable from that of normal kids.

It shows that ears are absolutely amazing in differentiating between the sound of a seizure and normal brain activity.

The behavioral tests used here modeled one dimension of the disease — an inability to experience pleasure from normal activities — but not others, such as stress and anxiety, and probably tap into different brain mechanisms in mice than in humans, he says.

The current increased the activity of normal beta waves, a kind of brain wave that is usually active during sustained muscle activities, such as holding a book.

To investigate the longer - term effects of higher - than - normal acetylcholine levels on the brain, Hermona Soreq of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her colleagues first induced high levels of acetylcholine by forcing 26 mice to swim, an activity stressful to mice.

The scientists compared recordings from normal periods to those just before and during seizures; their yardstick was an algorithm developed from chaos theory to measure the degree of complexity in brain activity.

This large - scale epileptic network comprises various areas of the brain involved in normal brain activity during both seizure - free intervals and those involved in so - called pathophysiological activities such as seizures.

Brain measurements have revealed that LSD, ketamine and psilocybin cause patterns of brain activity that are far more diverse than normal consciouBrain measurements have revealed that LSD, ketamine and psilocybin cause patterns of brain activity that are far more diverse than normal conscioubrain activity that are far more diverse than normal consciousness

This allows researchers to identify peaks of activity in different regions of normal people's brains while they carry out particular mental tasks.

Cognitive neuroscientist Frederique Liegeois of University College London is using fMRI scans to compare the brain activity of members of the KE family who have a mutated copy of FOXP2 with those who have a normal version.

Lee's research team and collaborators in South Korea then used computer models of brain activity to compare stimulus responses of fibromyalgia patients to the normal condition.

Also, the patterns of brain activity that we see on imaging when they are lying down may not be the patterns that the brain produces during normal upright activity.»

«What this is leading to is not just collecting data from individual babies but also understanding and building a four - dimensional map of brain activity and how it should emerge in a normal baby.»

In a normal brain, imagining tennis activates the supplementary motor area of the cortex, and picturing one's home prompts activity in regions involved in spatial perception, such as the posterior parietal cortex.

In a normal brain, the neurons of the central thalamus crackle with electrical activity when we struggle to pay attention to the world around us, and they accelerate their action as we emerge from sleep.

«We think it may be possible to tamp down UBE3A in Dup15q patients to restore normal levels of enzyme activity in the brain,» Zylka said.

One even showed greater dopamine activity in the injured side of the brain than on the normal side, indicating, says Jaenisch, that «these IPS cells could be used also for generating function of dopaminergic neurons that could have therapeutic value.»

Using a new class of mathematical models that do not make many assumptions about how behavior is organized, we will deconstruct the mouse's normal behavior into motifs, or syllables, and correlate those with brain activity.

In neurons, though, such breaks can occur even under normal circumstances, for example, after increased brain activity, as shown by the team of Gladstone scientists in an earlier study.

A balance of excitatory and inhibitory activity in the brain is essential for normal function.

This study investigated the influence of chronically administered curcumin on normal ageing - related parameters: lipid peroxidation, lipofuscin concentration and intraneuronal lipofuscin accumulation, activities of the enzymes superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), and Na (+), K (+), - adenosine triphosphatase (Na (+), K (+), - ATPase) in different brain regions (cerebral cortex, hippocampus, cerebellum and medulla) of 6 - and 24 - month - old rats.

«Our goal was to see if the high - risk individuals showed normal brain activity during these executive tasks or whether or not they showed some of the pathology of individuals who already have schizophrenia,» Belger said.

«The beauty of optogenetics is that there is no negative impact on normal brain activity,» says Dr. Paz.

The combination technique developed by Yang et al. will likely be used by other scientists to further study the role of NMDA receptors in specific brain cells during addiction and normal brain activity.

Eating a healthy diet, getting regular physical activity, and maintaining a normal weight appear to reduce protein buildups in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

In addition, the increase in stress hormones ramps up cellular activity and causes excessive production of free radicals which damage brain cells and further reduce normal GABA production (9).

This is a normal activity of the brain, and with all its busyness there are only five types of mental events that you can engage in (according to Patanjali's Yoga Sutras).

In a study involving rats, researchers discovered that young male rats respond to normal episodes of hypoxia, or brief periods of oxygen deprivation, during sleep by increasing brain activity to take deeper and more frequent breaths.

It is known that plaque exists as a normal byproduct of metabolic activity in the brain and is not properly cleared in those exhibiting symptoms of dementia.

Seizures occur when excessive activity goes beyond the normal threshold for brain function, many factors contribute to that level of activity, and therefore, mutations in numerous genes may collectively contribute to increased activity until that threshold is exceeded, resulting in epilepsy.

Significance of the Thalamic Reticular Nucleus GABAergic Neurons in Normal and Pathological Activity of the Brain