Sentences with phrase «particular neurons»

One of the primary missions of neuroscience is to make connections between particular neurons in the brain and specific behaviors.

Yet a series of pioneering studies have demonstrated that it is possible to lure specific memories into particular neurons, at least in mice.

These tools enable researchers to genetically engineer fruit flies such that it's possible to activate particular neurons with light.

Researchers used to employ a crude technique to figure out what particular neurons do: They zapped them with an electrode and watched which muscles twitched and how the person reacted.

When the electrodes release pulses of electricity they can't target particular neurons; they just blast whatever neurons happen to be nearby.

«Our new pharmacogenetic approach fills an important and unmet need in our ability to understand fly behaviors by allowing us for the first time to conveniently examine behaviors in only partially activated neurons to uncover more subtle roles for particular neurons and circuits in behaviors.»

Therefore, the simple model that gap junction synaptic specificity is determined strictly by differential expression of innexins unique to particular neuron classes seems untenable.

Specifically, the mice lacked the protein ankyrin - G, in particular neurons in the brain, a defect that appears to make the animals both hyperactive and less fearful, a behavioral profile suggestive of a mania - like state for a mouse.

That is to say that although the agent's power is dependent upon the nervous system in that it is performed in and with it, nonetheless that same power is exerted over the nervous system and indeed over any particular neuron that fires or is constrained from firing in the course of the action.

When this series of events occur repeatedly, the particular neurons are then linked together by connections, called synapses.

There are particular neurons that have a «capacity to tell time,» he said.

They found that particular neurons in the visual cortexes of cats — the areas in their brains responsible for processing visual information — didn't respond to simple points of light, but rather to lines.

«What endows these particular neurons with such an innately high re-growth capacity is unknown but will be an extremely important area of research in the future.»

The scientists focused on the production of new neurons in adult mice, in particular those neurons that integrate into the olfactory bulb, the brain region responsible for analyzing odors.

These particular neurons are involved in mood and memory formation.

The team also tested its technology's potential by making a worm lay eggs and by showing that a particular neuron processes information from touch - sensing cells.

The recent discovery, by a Rockefeller University - led team, of a molecular amplification system helps explain how the drugs alter brain signaling in particular neurons, and so produce an antidepressant effect.

We gain some very powerful knowledge by first learning what function a particular neuron performs, and then seeing how it connects with neurons that do similar or dissimilar things.

The new treatments could come in the form of drugs that target these particular neurons, according to Halassa, but deep brain stimulation, which can now be done non-invasively, could also prove helpful.