Sentences with phrase «particular brain circuits»

So, traditional, symptom - based categories make it difficult to relate diagnosis to genes, particular brain circuits, or basic behavioral mechanisms.

This technique uses powerful pulses of electromagnetic radiation beamed into a person's brain to jam or excite particular brain circuits.

There should, for example, be correlations between direct prehensions of a noncontiguous event and activity of particular brain circuits associated with that event.

Not exact matches

Among the questions researchers are asking: Does the process of innovating activate neuronal circuits in a particular part of the brain, the way that language, say, primarily activates circuits in parts of the brain's left hemisphere?

«The circuits in our brain that allow us to focus on a particular task, especially a task that leads to reward, are well known,» said Michael Platt, the James S. Riepe University Professor in Penn's psychology, neuroscience and marketing departments.

The principles of circuit construction that have emerged from Jessell's studies in the spinal cord are now known to apply throughout the brain, and in particular they have helped to explain, in molecular terms, how different parts of the cerebral cortex acquire their specialised character.

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.

The principles of circuit construction that have emerged from Jessell's studies in the spinal cord are now known to apply throughout the brain, and in particular they have helped to explain, in molecular terms, how different parts of the cerebral cortex acquire their specialized character.

Alexei Koulakov and colleagues are trying to determine the mathematical rules by which the brain assembles itself, with particular focus on the formation of sensory circuits such as those involved in visual perception and olfaction.

Sensory systems process their particular stimuli in specific brain circuits and pathways.