Sentences with phrase «probe animal brains»

Using electron microscopes, for example, we can probe animal brains neuron - by - neuron, connection - by - connection, in the hope of discovering characteristic circuits that repeat themselves throughout the brain.

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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.

Because the molecule must be injected into the brain, this kind of chemical - based fMRI won't be applied to humans anytime soon, says Jasanoff, but it could be used to probe addiction and disease using animals.

The observation of different coping mechanisms led the team to probe the animals» brains, where they discovered that the level of a certain protein in its reward circuitry determines whether the mice will be traumatized for several weeks or only temporarily down.

However, the precise role of the cells, which are thought to serve as a switchboard for routing signals through the brain's cortex, had remained unestablished, partly due to a dearth of methods to probe how lab animals pay attention.