Other brain researchers had identified certain cell types and areas of the brain associated with fear, reward, addiction, and depression.
Not exact matches
However, when the
researchers damaged a more central
brain region called the limbic system, which is the source of emotions and pleasure (among
other things), the hamsters» maternal behaviors — like nest - building, picking up pups, and nursing — never developed.
She joins a number of
other top AI
researchers coming out of University of Toronto who have gone on to secure positions of importance at major tech firms; U of T AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who heads Google
Brain's Canadian operations, is another.
A version of the speed training program developed for this trial is now commercially available through the
brain fitness company Posit Science, but the
researchers are working on making
other types of training available as well.
While it has shown promise for some types of tumors and become standard of care for
others,
researchers are just beginning to explore how different immunotherapy technologies can be applied to
brain cancer.
Now,
researchers who have measured the
brain responses of 125 infants — including babies who were born prematurely and
others who went full - term — show that a baby's earliest experiences of touch have lasting effects on the way their young
brains respond to gentle touch when they go home.
A study by Luby and
other WUSM
researchers showed that a mother's love had a physical effect on the size of her child's hippocampus — the area of the
brain responsible for memory.
When
researchers looked at their
brain activity during these times, they saw that one hemisphere of the
brain had electrical patterns resembling nighttime sleep, whereas patterns from the
other hemisphere indicated wakefulness.
For more consistent results, the
researchers only recruited women, and the participants completed surveys to see if there were any
other factors at work that could affect
brain structure, such as depression or level of formal education.
Among 22 patients, the
researchers found enhanced memory performance in the four patients with stimulation of the lateral temporal cortex but not among those with the
other brain regions stimulated.
Endocast
researchers need to study the range of
brain surface characteristics in a larger sample of living chimps and
other apes to make more accurate comparisons, Falk says.
Compared with postmortem
brain tissue taken from healthy people and those with Alzheimer's, tissue from people who had CTE had higher levels of an inflammation protein called CCL11, Mez and
other researchers reported in September in PLOS ONE.
In 2011
researchers found that these waves of electricity cause neurons in the hippocampus, the main
brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to
other cells.
This work could guide medical science by pointing
researchers in the direction of
other molecules that could be used to treat disorders of the
brain, Slot said.
As they studied
brain activity in the knockout mice, the
researchers also found prominent changes in a receptor in the
brain known as mGluR5 and
other proteins that support the function of neurons and synapses, said co-lead author Xiaoming Wang, M.D., Ph.D., senior research associate in Duke's department of pediatrics.
Other researchers, such as Elizabeth Phelps and Joe LeDoux (he of the goatee and guitar), were describing the way emotions influenced learning and memory, focusing on how the
brain detects, analyzes and remembers threats.
Given how widespread many of these problems are, watching the
Brain Gain initiative unfold could be instructive for
researchers from
other countries.
The cells also underwent tiny zaps of electricity, which allowed
researchers to see how the neurons might have communicated with
other nerve cells in the
brain.
Johns Hopkins
researchers report that fetal mice — especially males — show signs of
brain damage that lasts into their adulthood when they are exposed in the womb to a maternal immune system kicked into high gear by a serious infection or
other malady.
Meanwhile,
other researchers are studying serum to garner clues about links between traumatic
brain injury (TBI) and DNA methylation among individuals who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, gleaning information from samples on 150 service members with mild to severe TBI, along with 50 control subjects.
When the mice were at various ages, the
researchers isolated mitochondria from their synapses and from
other brain regions.
Dr. Lobo said that this latest research could help
researchers better understand changes in
brain cells and mitochondria from
other addictive disorders.
A community of «tele - immersion»
researchers suspect a deeper answer: Maybe there is something about how our
brains are fine - tuned to perceive
other people that video telecommunications have simply not picked up.
Your level of self - control,
researchers have found, may have to do with a region of the
brain that lets us take the perspective of
others — including that of our future self.
fMRI scanners also allow Raichle and
other researchers to study the
brain's «dark energy» — baseline activities that are unrelated to external stimuli or the performance of overtly visible tasks, yet consume the vast majority of the
brain's energy.
In addition to applying direct current to the scalp,
brain - hacking
researchers and DIYers are experimenting with
other methods including alternating current and random noise stimulation.
Such insights inspired Wingeier and
other researchers working to target tDCS to specific
brain areas.
«These findings suggest that even neurons we previously thought were «useless» because they didn't individually encode information have a purpose when working in concert with
other neurons,» said
researcher Julio Martinez - Trujillo, based at the Robarts Research Institute and the
Brain and Mind Institute at Western University.
There are
researchers who argue that dreams originate as early as in the mother's womb, whereas
others posit that they first occur when a child's
brain becomes more developed, around five to seven years old.
Until very recently,
researchers in the modern era found no evidence of a lymphatic system in the
brain, leaving some puzzled about how the
brain drains waste, and
others to conclude that
brain is an exceptional organ.
Lieberman got similar results when he showed a group of subjects pictures of
other people's faces while the
researchers scanned their
brains.
«Neuroscientists have learned a lot about
brain circuits using the technique,» Zhou said, «and now
researchers in many
other fields are giving it a try.»
On the organization's Web site it says: «The
Brain Observatory is committed to maintaining the highest standards in open science, sharing all the images and data that are created in our laboratories with
other researchers and the public.»
Researchers specifically analyzed how different areas of the
brain activate in sync with each
other — a property called functional connectivity — during a period of rest.
Last month,
researchers led by Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital reported that a process in which microglia prune excess synapses in the
brain during early life can turn on inappropriately later on, possibly triggering Alzheimer's or
other disorders marked by damage to connections between
brain cells.
Now, the
researchers have visualized
brain activity in awake mice as they interacted normally with mice and
other stimuli.
Other researchers have used optogenetics to transmit artificial skin sensations into the brains of mice, but Ko plans to investigate other technologies to find a technique that's best suited for his lab's e-
Other researchers have used optogenetics to transmit artificial skin sensations into the
brains of mice, but Ko plans to investigate
other technologies to find a technique that's best suited for his lab's e-
other technologies to find a technique that's best suited for his lab's e-skin.
The
researchers discovered that in
brain regions involved in regulating anxiety — the amygdala and prefrontal cortex — microbe - free mice had an overabundance of some types of microRNA and a shortage of
others compared with normal mice.
The
researchers traced blood flow — and, with it, functional connections — between the hypothalamus and
other parts of the
brain.
Yet
researchers are still trying to understand how activity in this hypothalamus - adjacent area could conjure the condition — and to determine what
other glitches in
brain structure, metabolism or interactions contribute to sufferers» throbbing noggins.
Although the technique is not yet refined enough to reveal the smallest projections from neurons, says Smith, it allows
researchers to spot interesting regions that they can then cut out and examine more closely using
other techniques — which will improve our understanding of the
brain.
The Duke
researchers who made this discovery say it may help explain how a relatively small number of genes can create the dazzling array of different cell types found in human
brains and the nervous systems in
other animals.
The more
researchers may attempt to look at a single processing question, the more it turns out to be interrelated with many
other things going on in the
brain.
Previously,
researchers had two theories about how neurons in the motor cortex might control movement: One was that these neurons fired in patterns that represent more abstract commands, such as «move your arm to the right,» and then neurons in different
brain areas would translate those instructions to guide the muscle contractions that make the arm move; the
other was that the motor cortex neurons would actually send directions to the arm muscles, telling them how to contract.
The study of Honnold's
brain was strictly observational, but the
researcher involved said it raises intriguing questions about
brain control and regulation that might be applicable to
other conditions such as anxiety disorders.
Instead of focusing on how the pitcher manipulates the ball, a team of
researchers led by neuroscientist Arthur Shapiro of American University in Washington, D.C., attacked the question from the
other side: how the human eye and
brain perceive the ball's movement.
Researchers screened
brains, along with
other tissues, for antibacterial activity on the grounds that the
brain is the most vital organ for locusts to protect.
Researchers from the University of Houston have shown for the first time that the use of a
brain - computer interface augmented with a virtual walking avatar can control gait, suggesting the protocol may help patients recover the ability to walk after stroke, some spinal cord injuries and certain
other gait disabilities.
Researchers traced the hormone's path from the skeleton to the hypothalamus — a
brain structure that maintains blood sugar levels and body temperature and regulates
other processes.
In 2007 and 2010,
other researchers found evidence that the
brains of symptomatic veterans showed distinctive anatomical changes.