Sentences with phrase «signal in the brain»

Certain foods like chocolate, activate dopamine signals in the brain, which make you feel pleasure and happiness.

This increases the positive emotional neural signal in the brain.

Researchers aren't sure why it works on headaches, but suspect it helps to block pain signals in the brain.

However, I do not believe that it could not possibly survive the death of the body because it is embodied in the unique patterns of electrical and chemical signals in the brain.

Your life, your soul, is electric signals in your brain, and when they stop, you are gone.

The second group was treated to disrupt insulin signaling in the brain, similar to Type 2 diabetes.

And cell signaling in the brain is key to cognitive functions.

The progressive flow of nutrients through our digestive process turns off chemical hunger signals in our brain.

The researchers wanted to know which signals in the brain were responsible for building long - term memory and for forming the special proteins involved.

Many of the genes highlighted in the new study fall into certain categories, such as cellular signaling in the brain, which could play a role in the developmental disabilities common in autism.

The speculation being that being exposed to a particular frequency could potentially correct the damaged signaling in the brain and ward off the disease altogether.

Researchers have discovered a regulatory molecule that links faulty dopamine signaling in the brain to the neural machinery that breaks down in people who suffer from depression.

He uses animal models to study the anatomy and electric signals in the brain.

A fuller understanding of signaling in the brain of people with this disorder offers new hope for improved therapy

At the chemical level, psilocybin, LSD, and DMT — which are classified as tryptamines — are structurally similar to serotonin, a powerful chemical messenger that expedites the transmission of nerve signals in the brain.

Dopamine is much like a «messenger,» responsible for transmitting signals in the brain for normal motor control.

The scientists have used supporting cells of the central nervous system, glial cells, to regenerate healthy, functional neurons, which are critical for transmitting signals in the brain.

This decreased reward response to alcohol arose via two mechanisms: an initial activation of stress hormone receptors and a subsequent increase in inhibitory signaling in the brain.

Crucially, this molecule seems to damp down the activity of a gene involved in glutamate signalling in the brain.

Their findings form the basis for future investigation into the finer details of neuronal signalling in the brain and how these relate to processes such as learning and memory, and the defects responsible for conditions such as schizophrenia and autism.

Aug. 30, 2012 — The Silvio O. Conte Center for Neuroscience Research at Vanderbilt has received a $ 10.5 million federal grant to continue its groundbreaking research on serotonin signaling in the brain for another five years.

Eli Lilly, of course, went through Job - like setbacks with another drug targeting (in a different way) beta - amyloid, the bits of sticky protein that clump together around nerve cells and which may block signaling in the brain as well as do other damage.

It releases oxytocin, the love hormone that a body releases while having an orgasm, which helps reduce stress signals in the brain.

Furthermore, there may be an overreaction in the threat signal in the brain.

The gaps help to regulate signaling in the brain, and the bridges are the «connection across a synapse [that] is the release key that fits into a very specific lock to initiate the next step.»

«They can read the motor signals in the brain and use them for prosthetic control.

«The idea has been that if you could figure out which underlying signals in the brain are related to fear and anxiety, you could develop better drugs to block them.»

Compared to the olfactory bulbs [the first stop for smell signals in the brain], the rest of the human brain is very large.

«The oscillations are the most powerful signal in the brain,» Miller says.

To further test the role of LPA, the researchers used a molecule to block only LPA signaling in the brain.

However, correlations form the basis of frequently used, measurable signals in the brain such as the EEG and the local field potential (LFP).

«Homing signal in brain located, explaining why some people are better navigators.»

But cytokines also have been shown to activate stress hormone signaling in the brain, which may also prime some to develop depression.

Not only this, but because humans have only begun to understand how animals in the wild use their whiskers to read their environment, it is important to continue research to find out how animals such as seals actively process vibrissal signals in their brains in different situations, and to understand how their whiskers are designed to do so.

The group employed various viral tracing methods — infecting receptor - expressing neurons with a virus strain and watching them spread as they label infected cells with a fluorescent protein — to visualize the neural circuit downstream of the ESP1 receptor, as well as providing an image of nerve fibers belonging to specific neurons in the brain and synapses relaying impulses from neuron to neuron, to map the anatomical foundation that conveys ESP1 signals in the brain.

Through multiple different lines of experimental evidence, they built a strong case that DIXDC1 mutations may predispose people to multiple psychiatric disorders by altering WNT signaling in the brain.

The result is the repair of dysfunctional signaling in brain regions controlling mood, which may explain the action of SSRI antidepressants.

There is no cure for MS, a condition caused by the body's own immune system attacking the myelin sheath that normally protects the nerves and speeds up neurological signals in the brain and spinal cord.

fMRI signals in the brain's visual cortex as an individual views the checkerboard stimulus.

«We hope that in the future, by fully understanding how this gene affects signaling in the brain, we may be able to identify drugs to restore the normal signaling balance in neurons and improve cognitive and social function in patients,» says lead author Dr. M. Chiara Manzini.

«Stuttering: Stop signals in the brain disturb speech flow.»

The new study, carried out by researchers at the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London, shows that the protein regulates the flow of cellular transporters known as synaptic vesicles — a process fundamental to effective signalling in the brain.

Researchers looking at the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs found increased neural signals in the brain scans of people given them.

The satiety signals in your brain don't kick in until about 15 to 20 minutes or so after you've begun eating.