Sentences with phrase «other circuits in the brain»

This activates other circuits in the brain, hereby releasing the blockages and allowing the person to continue walking.

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We have long known that interactions with parents, caregivers, and other adults are important in a child's life, but new evidence shows that these relationships actually shape brain circuits and lay the foundation for later developmental outcomes, from academic performance to mental health and interpersonal skills.»

In other words, the sights, sounds, air freshness, smells, and everything that comes with being outside tends to overwhelm their brain circuits — and their little brain tells them to fall asleep so that it can categorize all the information it just took from being outside.

Moreover, these women showed greater activity in the brain circuit that enables people to understand the emotions of others.

McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that immune system activation during pregnancy and right at birth can cause alterations in the brain's neural circuits during young adulthood that are consistent with behavioral symptoms common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental conditions.

In other research, Gaab and her colleagues have found an intriguing link between children's reading difficulties and neural deficits that prevent them from properly processing fast - changing sounds; they also found that computerized sound - training exercises «rewired» those faulty brain circuits.

«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.»

«This is a step in understanding how the neuronal mechanisms of memory and early sensory experiences form brain circuits in the early developmental stage, not only in birds, but also in humans and other species.»

Stevens and her colleagues manipulated mice to make one eye more active than the other, creating a disparity in activity between the two neural circuits linking the eyes to the brain.

The emerging picture from this study and others is of a brain built of multi-part circuits that respond in concert and regulate one another.

This new combination of electronics and drugs to intervene in an individual brain circuit might be used to create mouse models of other mood disorders for other studies, Dzirasa said.

If scientists can study accurate models of working neural circuits in these brain bits, he and others say, researchers might finally get a handle on uniquely human neurological conditions.

Autism and other specific mental disorders may be caused in part by «specific circuits or regions of the brain [that] had problems with connectivity,» Krienen says.

«When other portions of the brain circuit related to speech were also affected according to our blood flow measurements, we saw more severe stuttering in both children and adults,» said first author Jay Desai, MD, a clinical neurologist at CHLA.

Scientists have discovered key details of a brain - to - body signaling circuit that enables roundworms to lose weight independently of food intake, and there are reasons to suspect the circuit exists in a similar form in humans and other mammals.

«We're interested in learning more about what other proteins LRP6 interacts with, as well as how it acts in different types of brain cells at different developmental stages of circuit development and refinement.»

Several years ago, Yuste and other scientists originally pitched BRAIN to U.S. government officials as the Brain Activity Map, a 10 - year, $ 3 billion effort to develop tools in nanotechnology, optogenetics, and synthetic biology that could measure «every spike from every neuron» in a neural cirBRAIN to U.S. government officials as the Brain Activity Map, a 10 - year, $ 3 billion effort to develop tools in nanotechnology, optogenetics, and synthetic biology that could measure «every spike from every neuron» in a neural cirBrain Activity Map, a 10 - year, $ 3 billion effort to develop tools in nanotechnology, optogenetics, and synthetic biology that could measure «every spike from every neuron» in a neural circuit.

Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new computational model of a neural circuit in the brain, which could shed light on the biological role of inhibitory neurons — neurons that keep other neurons from firing.

The neurons were also less well connected to other neurons that form important circuits in the brain compared to mice with the protein.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

This past summer, along with Roy and other colleagues, he reported that — contrary to neuroscience dogma — the neural circuit in the brain structure called the hippocampus that makes a particular memory is not the same circuit that recalls the memory later.

For example, two distant hubs in the circuit, one at the front of the brain (right circle) and the other at the rear side (left circle), showed varying amounts of synchrony in their brain waves, depending on what object a monkey was holding in memory.

He hopes it will also inspire neuroscientists to pursue other kinds of robotic automation — such as in optogenetics, the use of light to perturb targeted neural circuits and determine the causal role that neurons play in brain functions.

Her postdoctoral research focuses on the defective circuits in the brain that could contribute to autism and other intellectual disabilities.

Long - term use also causes changes in other brain chemical systems and circuits as well, affecting functions that include:

If we can see all the neurons that are electrically active in a circuit at one time, we can get a better idea of how our brains are organized, how the neurons are communicating with each other, and how these circuits give rise to different brain functions.

The technology, demonstrated for the first time in mice, one day may be used to treat pain, depression, epilepsy and other neurological disorders in people by targeting therapies to specific brain circuits.

Feng's group is focusing first on conditions with the strongest human genetic data, such as Huntington's disease, in which a single gene causes a disorder, and using advanced neuroimaging technology and other tools to understand how the mutation causes brain circuits to misfire.

Thank the anthocyanins (antioxidants that lend berries their hues); these substances may work with other compounds in the fruit to block enzymes that short - circuit normal communication between brain cells.

«Annie Hopper understands that in order for our brains to cope with the world, the «feeling», «thinking», «integrating» and «doing» circuits need to talk to each other.

Emerging scientific investigation is improving our understanding of the causal biological pathways for these robust associations.46 Early childhood trauma, including physical abuse, leads to the production of stress hormones, such as cortisol and adrenaline that are normally protective, but with severe or persistent trauma can become toxic.47, 48 These stress hormones regulate neural circuits that are important in modulating an individual's response to stress, and over time, are associated with structural and functional changes in the brain and other organs.

The circuits of mindsight are integrative in that they connect the body itself into the brain - created sense of awareness; they link what is going on inside of you with what is happening inside of someone else, and they help the two sides of your brain collaborate with each other.

Each need originates from nerve - based circuits in the brain that connect electrochemical signals, meaning nerve cells transmit messages to each other until specific parts of your body receive the information needed to perform the behavior to get your need met.