Sentences with phrase «on deep brain»

In a 2013 TED talk, Dr. Andres Lozano, a neurosurgeon from the University of Toronto, talked about his research and work on deep brain stimulation, a technology used to treat Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and other neurological disorders.

Not exact matches

Without a central hub for academics to branch out on their work in Canada, deep learning's southbound pioneers served as pied pipers, bringing their students with them, creating a brain drain.

Hamilton, he writes, «had learned through experience that doing anything worthwhile with your brain requires a foundation built on thousands of hours of deep work.

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

But it also means there's none of the mind - melding brain - fog of ecstatic sleeplessness overlayed by the irrational fear that a bird is going to fly in through the window and take the baby hostage *, along with the never - ending ride on the hair - raising postnatal emotional rollercoaster, with happy joy followed with the deep panic that you have no idea what you're doing and are going to break them and why am I crying again?!.

Drawing on stunning new findings in neurobiology and attachment research, they explain how interpersonal relationships directly impact the development of the brain, and offer parents a step - by - step approach to forming a deeper understanding of their own life stories, which will help them raise compassionate and resilient children.

Armed with a deeper understanding of brain development and the impact on a child's behavior who has had a tough start in life, parents can better explore how to best help their child heal.

For instance, if our children are emotional or if we are emotional we look a certain way on the outside but what's going in the brain is connections, regulatory centers, and the deep limbic system and we use affect to describe the whole thing.

Another clinical trial, which Kaplitt is not involved in, is testing the effect on depression of a deep brain stimulator implanted into the same brain area.

As another crucial part of the new study on Internet addiction, the research team zeroed in on tissue deep in the brain called white matter, which links together its various regions.

Under this induced deep hypothermia, surgeons are able to briefly stop the heart while performing procedures on the heart or large vessels close to the heart without increasing the risk of permanent brain damage.

«While previous studies at McLean and elsewhere have focused on the behavioral symptoms produced by such immune activation, this study goes deeper, going to the cellular level to show how the brain's neural circuits are affected.»

By claiming that he could pry information from the brain without drilling deep inside it — information that could allow a subject to move a computer cursor, play computer games, and even move a prosthetic limb — Schalk was taking on «a very strong existing dogma in the field that the only way to know about how the brain works is by recording individual neurons,» Schmeisser vividly recalls of that day.

A new, noninvasive method could one day replace treatments for Parkinson's disease and — experimentally — Tourette syndrome that rely on electrodes implanted deep in the brain.

While the Johns Hopkins team studies the likely effects of radiation on the brain during a deep space mission, other NASA - funded research groups are looking at the potential effects of radiation on other parts of the body and on whether it increases cancer risks.

For instance, the globus pallidus — dual almond - shaped structures deep in the brain — puts a brake on muscle contractions to keep movements smooth.

The findings, if found to hold true in humans, suggest it may be possible to develop a biological marker to predict sensitivity to radiation's effects on the human brain before deployment to deep space.

Boyden, who codirects that center, says traditional neuroscience graduate programs typically focus on hypothesis - driven research — asking and answering «profound, deep mysteries of the brain.»

To do those things, the program relies on «deep neural networks» — computer programs that mimic the connections of neurons in the brain and have the capacity to learn, as the team reports online today in Nature.

Among the awardees are researchers working on ultrasound methods for measuring brain activity, and the use of deep brain stimulation to treat traumatic brain injuries.

When this article was first published on 26 February 2014, it did not acknowledge that the first trial of deep brain stimulation in a minimally conscious person was a team effort.

While deep brain stimulation may improve function compared with those who do not receive it, little evidence exists on whether the treatment has any benefits to life expectancy.

The researchers found that patients treated with deep brain stimulation survived an average of 6.3 years after the surgery, versus 5.7 years for the non-DBS patients after the date they might have gotten surgery based on their match to a surgery patient — a difference of eight months.

Instead of the brain moving largely in unison, an area deep in the brain called the corpus callosum - which connects the left and right halves of the brain — shakes more rapidly than the surrounding areas, placing significant strain on those tissues.

«We have begun doing X-ray tomography on large brain tissues, then we've gone deeper into specific tiny regions of interest in the same tissue with an electron microscope to see the full connectome there,» Dyer said.

In keeping with earlier studies, the older adults performed less well than the younger ones on the memory test, and showed significant reductions in the slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.

AI is all around us — think: Siri, the iPhone - based personal assistant, or Watson, IBM's supercomputer that famously beat human contestants on Jeopardy! Both are examples of «deep learning» in which a computer absorbs and processes information via artificial neural networks that operate like the human brain.

Amygdalae Sometimes called the body's «emotional thermostat,» these two structures are deep in the brain, one on each side.

Previous research using the combination of EEGs and deep learning, was on sleep analysis, responds to music or early detection of brain diseases.

Dr. Gradinaru's research interests focus on developing tools and methods for neuroscience (optogenetic actuators and sensors; tissue clearing and imaging) as well as on investigating the mechanisms underlying deep brain stimulation (DBS) and on the long - term effects of DBS on neuronal health, function, and ultimately behavior.

The BROADEN trial, which implanted metal electrodes deep in the brain in a region called area 25, failed early on to show a statistically significant effect on depression and was halted after just 90 participants were treated.

Prof. Kathleen Cullen and her PhD student Jess Brooks of the Dept of Physiology have been able to identify a distinct and surprisingly small cluster of cells deep within the brain that react within milliseconds to readjust our movements when something unexpected happens, whether it is slipping on ice or hitting a rock when skiing.

«Our study suggests that a focal brain intervention, deep brain stimulation, may have an impact on the circuitry of symptoms that serve to maintain anorexia and make it so difficult to treat.»

The on - screen transformation violated the unwritten rules of what was allegedly possible to be seen and provided a deep, wrenching pleasure somewhere in the back of the viewer's brain.

For example, records of electrical activity in the brain showed that, on average, they experienced deep, non-rapid eye movement sleep for 30 per cent less time compared with participants who slept during a new moon.

Patients affected by Parkinson's disease often show marked changes in body weight: they may gain or lose a lot of weight depending on the stage of the disease, or they may put on up to ten kilos after deep brain stimulation (a treatment to alleviate the symptoms).

And at a local restaurant on a recent summer evening, they are still deep into a back - and - forth about how their own brains know where they are and will guide them home.

Here, cells in different layers of the visual cortex show up as brilliant pink, yellow, and blue, depending on how deep they are in the brain (the colors are artificial).

The TGen team performed deep genomic profiling, integrating gene copy number, gene expression and DNA methylation datasets on a collection of 35 breast - brain metastases samples.

It is also the first to demonstrate that a deep convolutional neural network — a computing system modelled after the neuron activity in animal brains that can basically learn on its own — can effectively differentiate between similar plants with an amazing accuracy of nearly 100 %.

They next listed the stimulation sites, either deep in the brain or on the surface of the brain, thought to be effective for the treatment of each of the 14 diseases.

At least half of his research efforts during the past 10 years have focused on regions of the brain activated during moments of deep creativity.

«But, by looking at the brain's own network connectivity, we can identify sites on the surface of the brain that connect with this deep site, and stimulate those sites noninvasively.»

Researchers used a variation on deep - brain stimulation (DBS) in their experiments, a well - established treatment to diminish the shaking present in Parkinson's disease that is also showing promise in other conditions including depression and obsessive - compulsive disorder.

At least half of his studies during the past 10 years have focused on regions of the brain activated during moments of deep creativity.

Working with a group of six sleeping men, Tononi and his team located a spot on the skull that they could zap to induce the brain waves characteristic of deep, non-REM sleep.

By simulating electrical brain activity and relating the behavior of single neurons to brain waves, the researchers aim to bridge this gap, opening the way to better tools for diagnosing mental disorders, and on a deeper level, offering a better understanding of ourselves.

And ultimately, he wants to install these light - sensitive receptors on neurons deep in the brain as well.

However, it has been established that the ability of deep - brain stimulation to modify brain functions depends on the application of stimulation at specific sites in the complex neuronal circuitry underlying these functions.2 - 5

For example, during each of the first three blocks of the test, Subject 1 received deep - brain stimulation while navigating to stores 1, 3, and 5 but not to stores 2, 4, and 6; Subject 2, on the other hand, received deep - brain stimulation while navigating to stores 2, 4, and 6 but not to stores 1, 3, and 5.