Sentences with phrase «record electrical activity in the brain»

Sleep was assessed in the children during one night with in - home electroencephalography (EEG)-- a method used to record electrical activity in the brain and makes it possible to identify different sleep stages — whilst parents reported their own insomnia symptoms and their children's sleep problems.

Lionel Velly, an anesthesiologist at Mediterranean University in Marseille, France, ran an experiment in which he used the electrodes in the other direction, to record electrical activity in the brain.

The researchers recorded electrical activity in the brains of 10 female participants with fibromyalgia.

Scientists recorded electrical activity in the brains of rat pups as their mamas nursed, licked and cared for their offspring.

We will record the electrical activity in the brains as animals perform a visual decision - making task.

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So Miguel Nicolelis at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and his colleagues recorded the electrical activity in almost 500 neurons in the somatosensory and motor cortex of a monkey's brain while it thought about using both its forelimbs.

Microfabricated silicon needle - electrode devices were expected to be an innovation that would be able to record and analyze the electrical activities of the microscale neuronal circuits in the brain.

In deep, slow - wave sleep, recordings of the brain's electrical activity show sparse bursts of big, slow waves.

To go further, the pair started combining their electrode recordings of individual neurons with readings from an intracranial EEG, which measures overall electrical activity in a larger area of the brain.

In an electroencephalogram (EEG)-- a recording of the brain's electrical activity — the synchronous rhythm of the nerve cells manifests as a periodic pattern.

They trace the development of the face in embryos, scan brains, read the electrical activity of muscles, and record grins and pouts on high - speed video.

For example, records of electrical activity in the brain showed that, on average, they experienced deep, non-rapid eye movement sleep for 30 per cent less time compared with participants who slept during a new moon.

To compare these patterns to the actual electrical activity in the brains, the researchers inserted electrodes capable of recording the firing patterns of individual neurons.

This is bad news, because the reason we put electrodes in the brain is to record the electrical activity of those neurons.

In addition, he uses sophisticated electrical - recording techniques to probe brain activity at a cellular level.

Among these achievements are the development of new techniques for classifying different types of neurons; automated methods for creating wiring diagrams of the connections between cells in the mammalian brain; new ways of recording and manipulating the electrical activity of hundreds, even thousands, of cells simultaneously; and, advanced microscopes that allow researchers to visualize the activity of all the cells in the brains of small animals.

Originally developed to test hearing in infants, this test records the electrical activity of the brain in response to sound stimulation.