Sentences with phrase «processing brain tissue»

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(Females have more white matter, the tissue that connects different parts of the brain while men have more grey matter, which handles information processing.)

Writing in the journal Neuron, the scientists found that reading increased the quality of white matter, the brain tissue that carries signals between areas of gray matter, where information is processed.

Developing brain tissue results in cognitive processes that are...

But when it runs amok, as it does in schizophrenia, the process destroys healthy brain tissue.

Nervous Tissue and Computation If we accept that computers will eventually become powerful enough to simulate the mind, the question that naturally arises is: What processing rate will be necessary to yield performance on a par with the human brain?

By carefully controlling this process, researchers can interrupt faulty brain circuits or destroy unwanted tissue.

The researchers also focused on the two - way nature of the process: how gut dysfunction may worsen brain inflammation and tissue loss after TBI.

A postmortem analysis of human brain tissue, for example, conducted by Witelson and her colleagues at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster, revealed that women's neurons were 11 percent denser than men's in the prefrontal cortex and in a region of the temporal cortex that is involved with language processing, comprehension, and memory.

The process would be much more efficient — and less ethically contentious - if large numbers of dopamine neurons could be grown in the laboratory from a tiny amount of fetal brain tissue.

Glioblastoma is the most lethal form of primary brain tumor and leads to death in patients by invading the brain tissue in a process that allows single cells to move through normal brain tissue, which makes complete surgical removal of the tumor impossible.

In an analysis of postmortem human brain tissue from 137 control subjects, they also found an association between the ECR47 risk variant and reduced ADGRL3 expression in the thalamus, a key brain region for coordinating sensory processing in the brain.

After image processing, even an area appears that is in transition between healthy and affected tissue: this may give an indication how the disease is spreading in the brain.

Already, complaints that NIH priorities do not include creating repositories of brain tissue, called brain banks, and that clinicians were not sufficiently involved in the planning process, have surfaced.

These «mini brains» offer insight into the processes with which individual nerve cells organize themselves into our highly complex tissues.

The electrical signals must then be sent to another processing chip that converts the strength of the signals to a digital stream of pulses that is only then sent on to peripheral nerves or brain tissue.

This process explains why schizophrenics gradually lose brain tissue.

The team describes pathological processes in the brain tissue in developmental disorders of the cerebral cortex.

«Our study seems to suggest that multilingual people are able to compensate for AD - related tissue loss by accessing alternative networks or other brain regions for memory processing.

The cerebral cortex is the outer layer of brain tissue, a folded region about 2 - 4 millimeters thick, that is involved in many important aspects of brain function including sensory and cognitive processes.

The process, which was done by way of a rat triad, which included a donor, recipient, and blood supply rat, provided a continuous blood supply to the donor brain throughout the transplant, avoiding brain tissue hypothermia — a condition where the brain suffers in absence of a blood supply.

Challenges stem from the kinetic nature and mechanical softness of brain tissue, tissue responses to implanted foreign bodies as well as our limited ability to control neural circuits and regenerative processes in situ.

One new way that scientists study this process of cellular development — and a way in which they hope to grow replacement tissue for medical treatments in the future — is by recreating the essential features of human brains, eyes, lungs, and guts in a petri dish.

For the study, Hill compared brain tissue from normal and Parkinson's - like rats using ion mobility — mass spectrometry (IMMS), a process that analyzes both the weight and speed of chemical molecules.

The cerebral cortex is the outer layer of brain tissue, and is responsible for many «higher - order» functions like language and information processing.

Studying mice and tissue samples from the arteries of patients, researchers atWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggest this accumulation is driven, at least in part, by processes similar to the plaque formation implicated in brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Sleeping is the time when many regenerating processes are occurring inside your body, mainly repairing damaged cells and tissue, as well as helping the brain sort out important information it has acquired throughout the day.

This suggests the importance of zinc in the normal and pathological processes of the cerebral cortex.37 Furthermore, age - related tissue zinc deficiency may contribute to brain cell death in Alzheimer's dementia.38

Sulfate is essential for many biological processes, helping to flush toxins and helping form proteins in joints, brain tissue and mucin proteins.

Everything in your body, from the tissue that supports your skeleton to the neurons that fire signals from your brain to your feet run on the energy that's created by the food we eat, and I personally would prefer to have body tissue made from real, whole foods than tissue constantly bombarded by chemical byproducts of food processing from something that came out of a box and went through a factory full of chemicals and processes I'd never even see or hear about.

Some fascinating new research showed that the same process that makes Vitamin K helpful for preventing calcification of the arteries and muscle tissue might also make it beneficial for protecting the brain against Alzheimers and other diseases.

That's one of the things that I investigated as I figured out from [reading 00:21:35] that likely, mitochondria were the root cause of my fatigue, my brain fog, and the atrophy or shrinkage of brain tissue in MS, Parkinson's, Lou Gehrig's, Huntington's, all these neurodegenerative processes.

Sleep deprivation can even hinder the process of memory consolidation, as well as the development of new brain tissue.

«By directly interacting with melatonin receptors in the brain and peripheral tissues, environmental chemicals, such as carbaryl, may disrupt key physiological processes leading to misaligned circadian rhythms, sleep patterns, and altered metabolic functions increasing the risk for chronic diseases such as diabetes and metabolic disorders,» said Dubocovich.

You need protein to build lean muscle tissue, as well as to add structure to cells, to support brain processes and to give you energy if carbohydrates and fats aren't around.

Research has shown that these curcuminoids communicate with 160 mechanisms and pathways in the body to support a wide range of processes, including brain health, cardiovascular health, tissue health, and more.

When consumed by humans, these molecules help to protect brain function and tissue from the aging process, repair DNA damage and increase life span.

These processes are facilitated by the instantaneous delivery of electrical signals that are transmitted, via the peripheral nervous system, from tissues throughout a cat's entire body to its spinal cord and brain.

The trauma from the injury causes brain tissue to swell, which can halt normal processes like breathing and digestion.