Sentences with phrase «specific brain circuits»

Scientists now know that specific brain circuits underlying sexual differentiation can be remodeled through life.

Having worked on emotions for many years — pain, stress, anxiety, depression — in the midst of a strong emotion, I can think about specific brain circuits being activated.

Newsome, who was not involved in Poon's experiments but is familiar with her work, said such treatments could be more effective than drugs for some disorders because electroceutical approaches would use implantable devices to directly modulate activity in specific brain circuits.

«Autism: Brain circuit controls social behavior identified: A new study identifies specific brain circuit that may lead to social impairments in autism spectrum disorder.»

«Our goal is to understand how specific brain circuits bias attention to food cues, as these biases are powerful drivers of food consumption,» said corresponding author Mark L. Andermann, PhD, of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at BIDMC and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

The result would be an ability to get specific brain circuits to fire, just as optogeneticists do now.

In 2005 she showed that direct modulation of specific brain circuits could help severely depressed patients who had not responded to other treatments.

John Morrison, a neuroscientist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, says that the study is significant because it highlights how stress acts differently on specific brain circuits.

Now a team of researchers has used computer - vision and machine - learning techniques in fruit flies to create behavior anatomy maps that will help us understand how specific brain circuits generate Drosophila aggression, wing extension, or grooming.

This type of targeted dosing could make it possible to treat diseases that affect very specific brain circuits, without interfering with the normal function of the rest of the brain, the researchers say.

Sensory systems process their particular stimuli in specific brain circuits and pathways.

Using genetic tools to turn on and off different parts of the brain, the scientists were able to identify specific brain circuits and neurons (brain cells) involved in the food coma experience.

«Delivering more GDF10 markedly enhances the formation of new connections and does so mostly in a specific brain circuit.

Moreover, brain imaging reveals that abilities such as reading and mathematics have distinct «neuronal niches»; they too are confined to specific brain circuits.

The technology, demonstrated for the first time in mice, one day may be used to treat pain, depression, epilepsy and other neurological disorders in people by targeting therapies to specific brain circuits.