Sentences with phrase «overactive neurons»
The medicine is believed to calm overactive neurons as well as possibly influence the release of neurotransmitters.
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Overactive neurons in the front of the mouse brain, shown in green, trigger excessive release of the brain chemical dopamine, which causes motor abnormalities.
The mice also have overactive neurons in the prefrontal cortex.
A GABA - AT — blocking drug called vigabatrin is already on the market to treat epilepsy by calming overactive neurons.
In the naturally resilient animals the higher neural activity seemed to induce a counterreaction that resulted in the subsequent quieting of overactive neurons.
Not exact matches
«We reasoned if we could take inhibitory neurons and directly place them into the spinal cord in the regions that are overactive, they might integrate into those circuits and suppress the activity,» says Kriegstein.
«What we found at the cellular level correlates with the behaviors we saw in the less - anxious, hyper - active mice, which means having overactive pyramidal neurons with their brakes removed could be contributing to these behaviors,» says Zhu.
An overactive immune system due to dysfunctional PINK1 and Parkin genes could explain why dopaminergic neurons die in Parkinson's patients.