Sentences with phrase «other brains»

He cautions, however, that such therapy would have to be localized, so that it did not interfere with the protein's role in learning in other brain regions.
The researchers also hope to apply this technique to scans of patients with other brain disorders.
Future studies are needed to track changes in free water over longer time spans and in other brain regions and to determine what causes them.
In their next project, the scientists want to expand their study to include a number of other brain areas that are also active for body recognition.
The neurons have to connect with other brain cells in order to work.
They let you prove your puzzle solving skills as you compete with other brain games fans over the globe.
The suggestion is that repeated traumatic brain injuries may cause other brain diseases, too.
In this blog he shares his experiences and gives tips to help other brain injury survivors.
They also plan to examine the potential role of other brain regions involved learning and memory.
The visual cortex receives this additional information from other brain areas and uses it to allow us to understand and interpret the visual world.
While omega 3s are great, there are many other brain boosting nutrients in fatty fish.
However, effective treatments would also have to affect other brain functions.
They work on other brain chemistry systems and appear to work better than just nicotine replacement — nicotine patches and gums.
The new study shows a possible solution, and one that could in principle be adapted for other brain disorders, he says.
Following an initial brain injury, the dying cells produce substances that go on to damage other brain cells.
Such a combination of devices could be used to treat depression and other brain conditions that are difficult to treat.
Brain inflammation has also been linked with autism and other brain development disorders in children.
Numerous sleep researchers noticed the similarity of the K - complex to other brain waves, namely those that the brain produces during its most restful periods — slow wave sleep.
A similar approach may work for enhancing other brain skills, such as vision or movement, says the team behind the work.
Other brain changes are likely also involved in cognitive decline in PD.
It gives instructions and enables chatter among other brain regions.
Other brain researchers had identified certain cell types and areas of the brain associated with fear, reward, addiction, and depression.
In intelligent persons, certain brain regions are more strongly involved in the flow of information between brain regions, while other brain regions are less engaged.
We usually left out the faces, because other brain cells are responsible for recognizing those.
And research suggests other brain regions play a role in contagious itching in people, he says.
Those who took the powder (the equivalent of 1 cup of berries) improved their memory and other brain performance.
Although he had to literally learn to walk again, today he is physically active, healthy, and determined to help other brain - trauma victims.
She has always activated her dogs a lot, with tracking and other brain building exercises.
Other brain injuries, known as open head injuries are often the result of bullet wounds, falls and high - speed collisions.
However surgery is permanent and has the potential to damage other brain areas.
This approach has been used in other brain disorders, such as schizophrenia, which has already led to novel insights and alternative treatment approaches in that disorder.
Three new studies suggest that the neurological changes in a brain of a suicide victim differ markedly from those in other brains and that these changes develop over the course of a lifetime.
In this way, it protects the neurons and other brain cells from oxidative damage.
The bottom line is a low - carb diet like keto diet is now being studied for other brain disorders.
These neurons are connected to other brain regions via long - range projections.
«It also negatively affects many other brain chemicals that are involved in appetite suppression.
The Kamens claim the main thing that distinguishes their foundation from other brain tumor foundations is their focus on pediatric brain cancer specifically, as well as their close ties with pharmaceutical and biotech companies working in the fields of immunotherapy and target gene therapy.
«Our findings suggest early problems in the subthalamic nucleus not only contribute to the symptoms of Huntington's disease, but are also likely to impair the processing capacity and health of other brain structures, more traditionally associated with the disease,» Bevan said.
A key problem has been separating these precise brain signals from those associated with other brain activity, and the highly artificial signals generated by the exoskeleton.
«The distinct neural markers associated with cognitive performance and GWI revealed in our study can be useful for future research to objectively measure the efficacy of treatments for GWI as well as other brain disorders related to the same neurotransmitter system, like Alzheimer's disease.»
It also increases levels of a brain hormone called brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)(32, 34, 35), a deficiency of which has been implicated in depression and various other brain problems (36).
Some scientists believe the amygdala doesn't have its own discrete storage system for emotionally charged memories but rather marks memories created by other brain systems as being somehow emotionally significant.
My husband died by suicide and I'm appalled at the number of ignorant people in the world and in the church who believe «you just have to change your thinking» to overcome depression, anxiety or other brain related diseases, and even take to blaming the family for the problem.
«These brain areas are thought to play an important role in controlling and optimising the activity of other brain systems.
Boahen and his students have developed increasingly realistic silicon chips for the retina, which provides primary input to the visual cortex (which identifies objects that we see) and several other brain areas.
But he and others warn that the results should be considered preliminary, as the effects of low - frequency TMS are not well understood, and the treatment may affect other brain areas near V1, or even cause a fleeting general disruption of brain function.
The chemical tells individual neurons to fire off a signal or not, influencing other brain signals and pathways, and essentially serves as a traffic cop of motivation, emotion, and social behavior.
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