Sentences with phrase «own brain circuitry»

It's because the distance between synapses carrying similar messages — positive or negative — shortens to make it easier for information to be shared via brain circuitry.

Simply put, it's the idea that when people share their personal stories with another, both people see changes in their brain circuitry.

Imaging various sections of white matter from different angles can help researchers focus on the brain circuitry important for proper neuron communication.

At 4 months, he has both the motor development to handle the task and the maturity in his brain circuitry to coordinate all the moves needed to accomplish it.

Imaging various sections of white matter from different angles can help researchers focus on the underlying brain circuitry important for proper neuron communication.

Often their brain circuitry for emotional regulation is dysfunctional in which it takes less to trigger an anger episode that lasts for a longer periods of time than other children.

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To probe the brain circuitry involved in this signal, and to assess the role of the cerebellum, the team turned to an animal model.

Throw a bear hug into the mix — and the accompanying flood of oxytocin — and that old brain circuitry lit up like fireworks.

He counters that mysteries of brain circuitry will be resolved as the project moves forward over the years.

Hormones drive many of these sex differences, while major life events — such as puberty, pregnancy, parenthood or even traumas — also help shape male and female brain circuitry.

This suggests that the brain circuitry in these regions may be particularly susceptible to a lack of sleep.

«This is one of the first studies providing clear evidence showing that different brain circuitry is involved in different types of depressive behavior with specific symptoms,» said Lim.

The idea that brain circuitries devoted to affiliation and social bonds may well be as sophisticated as our fear mechanisms had been percolating for almost a decade.

«The microchip technology also allows us to extract signals from the brain in order to reverse - engineer brain circuitry and decode the information that is in the subject's mind.

What it gives us is the template for brain circuitry.

«It is exciting to find a correlation between brain circuitry and gene expression by combining high quality data from these two large - scale projects,» says David Van Essen, Ph.D., professor at Washington University in St. Louis and a leader of the Human Connectome Project.

One framed artwork, however, connects Shatz to her childhood, and the earliest influences on her own brain circuitry.

For his part, Collins, who has led NIH since 2009 and been kept on by the Trump administration, pointed to an array of promising NIH activities, including the development of new technologies to provide insights into human brain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disease.

This aberrant brain circuitry — the amyloid plaques and tau tangles — became the twin hallmarks of the disease that bears his name.

«It's like remote control of the brain circuitry to create a pair bond,» says Robert Liu at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and a member of the team using technology to play Eros.

The observation could explain how a gene that specifies a particular behavior can adapt to accommodate changes in brain circuitry that happen over evolutionary time.

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that acts within certain brain circuitries to help manage functions ranging from movement to emotion.

Now, researchers have developed the first diagram of the brain circuitry that enables this complex interplay between the motor system and the auditory system to occur.

«This discovery not only will lead to new insight into how brain circuitry develops but to new insight into declining brain function that occurs with aging.»

What brain circuitry may be involved in the development of hoarding?

The authors of the study said the key question moving forward is to understand what specific changes in brain circuitry give rise to the effects observed in this study.

Changing the brain circuitry improves or restores vision.

If lamprey software can help people with spinal injuries, it will be in the shape of animal brain circuitry realised on a chip wired into a human being — a kind of cyborg sandwich.

Karl Deisseroth, an optogenetics pioneer at Stanford University, has used the technique with animals to learn more about the nature of the disordered brain circuitry in Parkinson's.

It is based on a model of the brain circuitry found in the mammalian visual system by Torsten Wiesel and the late David H. Hubel, both then at Harvard University, in the late 1950s and early 1960s (work for which they would later be awarded a Nobel Prize).

The researchers were able to zero in on the Broca's area as well as related brain circuitry specifically linked to speech, using regional cerebral blood flow as a measure of brain activity, since blood flow is typically coupled with neural activity.

The scientists suggest this same brain circuitry could be involved in integrating other motivational drive states such as thirst.

The study supports the importance of the serotonin which is specified and maintained by a specific gene, the Pet - 1 gene — for normal functioning of the neurons, synapses and networks in the cortex, as well as proper development of brain circuitry.

«Our goal in the project was to close the gap in knowledge that exists on role of serotonin in the brain cortex, particularly as it concerns brain circuitry, its electrical activity and function,» said Roberto Fernández Galán, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

«Gene found to be crucial for formation of certain brain circuitry.»

The abnormal brain circuitry of LKS patients renders the brain incapable of imprinting memory, further impairing brain function.

WRATH It may not have been the original sin, but rage is certainly primordial: You would think that lust and gluttony would predate any emotion, but much of the brain circuitry active during anger is very basic and very fast.

He predicts that prefrontal lobe activity will turn out to be a key part of that brain circuitry.

«You've got to meet someone in person to trigger the brain circuitry for romantic love,» Fisher says.

«Grape - derived compounds may promote resilience against depression, researchers find: New study used DNA epigenetic mapping to analyze novel inflammatory mechanisms influencing brain circuitry associated with depression.»

Their efforts have produced 3D maps of brain circuitry in stunning detail.

Using our detailed insights into how the brain circuitry is organized, both globally and locally, makes it possible to describe brain function at a computational level.

PULLMAN, Wash. — A WSU research team for the first time has developed a computer algorithm that is nearly as accurate as people are at mapping brain neural networks — a breakthrough that could speed up the image analysis that researchers use to understand brain circuitry.

Since the brain circuitry is highly plastic, also in adult life, these reactions will lead to changes in the properties in these connected parts of the brain circuitry that can become emented, which may inhibit recovery.

For more than a generation, people have been trying to improve understanding of human brain circuitry, but are challenged by its vast complexity.

An important key to cure or alleviate the symptoms of these diseases therefore lies in understanding these global changes in the brain circuitry.

We hope that our work will provide new insight into the signaling mechanisms responsible for establishing brain circuitry, and ultimately suggest therapeutic interventions for disorders in which these signaling mechanisms are perturbed.

For example, scientists could confirm or disprove whether an experience was truly linked with specific brain circuitry by first identifying networks activated when a rat encounters, say, an anxiety - provoking event, and afterwards stimulating that same network directly to determine whether the animal shows evidence of experiencing the same mental state.

UNC scientists conduct seminal experiments to unveil how early - in - life visual experiences — simply trying to see — sculpt a particular subnetwork of brain circuitry we need in order to see properly.