«The beauty of optogenetics is that there is no negative impact
on normal brain activity,» says Dr. Paz.
Not exact matches
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.
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.»
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.»
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.
In
normal people, theta
activity inside the
brain while performing tasks indicates that irrelevant information is being blocked out by the
brain so the individual can concentrate
on the task.