Sentences with phrase «same neurons»

Even more impressively, they could activate those very same neurons in behaving mice by shining light on them, re-awakening whatever fragments of experience those cells had presumably encoded.

«Study identifies brain cells involved in Pavlovian response: Same neurons malfunction in Parkinson's, Huntington's and Tourette syndrome.»

In a specific example of this scenario, co-occurrence of two alternative variants of the cell polarity factor Cdc42 in the same neuron was essential for proper development of a single axon and several functional dendrites.

The same neurons are destroyed in people with the disorder cerebellar ataxia, which causes unsteadiness and loss of coordination.

The researchers imaged the same neurons across multiple trials and multiple days, and correlated changes in neural activity with changes in social behaviors, such as sniffing, mounting, and attacking.

Remarkably, this study finds that the same neuron that was initially capable of discriminating safe from dangerous lost its ability to do so when the animal exhibits generalized fear.

First, do feed the situation through the same neurons you use for your science problems.

They found that skates use the same neurons to walk as land animals, the team reports today in Cell.

Now, a UCLA study has traced the Pavlovian response to a small cluster of brain cells — the same neurons that go awry during Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease and Tourette's syndrome.

Intriguingly, the same neurons are found in the brains of apes, whales and elephants.

During the males» initial encounters with male or female visitors, researchers observed little mating or fighting, and the same neurons lit up in response to both sexes.

A study has traced the Pavlovian response to a small cluster of brain cells — the same neurons that go awry during Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease and Tourette's syndrome.

Sur had severed the neurons connecting the eyes of newborn ferrets to the brain's visual cortex; then he reconnected those same neurons to the auditory cortex.

In further tests, researchers stimulated sensitive long hairs on the spider's legs and body — previously known to pick up near - field airflow and vibrations — which generated a response in the same neurons that fired after hearing distant sounds, providing evidence the hairs are likely detecting nanoscale air particles that become excited from a sound wave.

«The same point on the screen will always excite the same neuron,» says Duhamel, no matter what direction the eyes are looking in.

The mice in Ramirez and Liu's experiments had been genetically modified so that when their neurons were highly active (and therefore presumably encoding ongoing experiences) those same neurons would produce a molecular label, as well as a molecular «ON» switch.

Once finished, a layer is aligned to the next one, with the same neurons colored the same shades.

The same neurons flashed when the subjects performed similar actions themselves.

Now imagine that a «delay loop» is inserted between the first patch and the motion - detecting neuron but not between the second (right) patch and the same neuron.

The same neurons activate when you simply see another person open the can.

But firing these same neurons at another frequency can make the old new again.

They found that even though the brains of two species — the giant nudibranch and the hooded nudibranch — had the same neurons, and even though the behaviors were the same, the wiring was different.

These same neurons are weakened in mice that aren't deterred by stress — what scientists call resilient mice.

They reported that neural connectivity between the same neurons in two different species of sea slugs varies independently of behavior and the evolutionary history of an organism.

This altered circadian function of somatostatin in subjects with bipolar disorder consists of a sharp decrease in somatostatin expression by neurons in the early morning, in comparison to a rise in the same neurons during this time interval in healthy control subjects, according to Pantazopoulos.

According to the gate theory of pain, touch and pain fibers are anatomically different but transmit to some of the same neurons in the central nervous system.

«Silencing the same neurons for similar durations outside REM episodes had no effect on memory.

Certain activities, such as exploring a new environment, cause these mice to create receptors for the drug; and when they're given the drug later, the same neurons fire as did when the mice explored the new environment.

The findings suggest that familiarity and novelty are encoded by firing speeds in the same neurons.

The researchers believe the same neurons may be active in responses to many addictive drugs.

How can changing the firing rate of the same neurons in one region lead to different effects on the rest of the brain?

However, imaging the activity of the same neurons over such an extended time period had been difficult using conventional methods.

After this memory - guided task, we recorded from the same neurons while the animals performed the self - timed rhythmic - saccade task (Figure 1A, B).

To gain insight into how the same neurons could encode multiple things, we will record brain activity in rodents and monkeys as they navigate different landscapes, such as an open field where they forage for food or a maze with multiple decision points.

One way that neural circuits might accomplish is this is via remapping, where the same neuron that encodes a memory, might, at a different time, encode location, time or sound.

For example, the activity of the same neuron might reflect the rat's heading direction when moving slowly, but its speed when moving quickly.

We will use novel recording technology capable of recording from the same neurons over time to determine how individual neurons shift their activity based on the environment and the task — in essence, the phenomenon of remapping.

In other parts of the brain, these same neurons are known to be crucial for processing sensory input, such as vision or touch, and their dysfunction is associated with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

The computer - managed microscope then follows the fate of each cell over an extended period of time, returning to the same neuron over weeks or months to take pictures of them as they grow.

We have virtually the same neurons we were born with, and they're irreplaceable.

Researchers find that although there is some consistency in neural activity during deception, the same neurons fire during other mental and emotional states as well.

With guarded optimism, researchers believe that, if Alzheimer's disease affects the same neurons that associate people with places, it could lead to an explanation as to why people afflicted with Alzheimer's can't remember simple things like where they parked their car, according to Fried.

And, according to Matias Ison of the University of Leicester in the U.K., in the latest study, it was discovered that — if two individuals were connected in some fashion, those same neurons would, in turn, respond by creating a link between the two individuals.

While watching sports activates some of the same neurons that playing the sport does, moving is more health - promoting.