Sentences with phrase «specific pattern of activity»

«Our results show we can detect a specific pattern of activity between neurons in the brain, recording instantaneous exchanges between them as persistent signals that can later be visualized under a microscope,» Gallio said.

Not exact matches

While no specific weather event like this can be directly attributed to global warming, it does fit the pattern of increased hurricane activity overall since the 1970s, coinciding with a rise in sea temperature.

«While these findings are specific to HD and PD, these two diseases are sufficiently distinct to suggest that the observed pattern of differential gene activity may likely be observed in other neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system, including Alzheimer's disease and Chronic Traumatic Encephalophathy (CTE).»

It is done using electrodes placed in the brain, which recognise specific patterns of electric activity that occur when a person thinks about moving.

When a small subset dies, the pattern of activity that the olfactory processing regions in the brain receives for a specific smell doesn't change very much.

By recording neuronal activity in monkeys as they performed tasks that caused saccades, Dr. Christopher Pack has shown that there are waves of activity that cross specific vision processing areas of the brain in defined patterns, and that these patterns are reorganized by saccadic eye movements.

Comparing behavior (feeding or egg - laying) to the activity patterns in the antennal lobe reveals that activity in specific brain areas correlates with one of the behaviors.

The analysis allowed the researchers to identify and isolate the specific patterns of neural activity that play out in this part of the brain when someone speaks, effectively enabling them to decode the brain's signals.

«It is designed to record patient's specific brain activity and recognize patterns that are associated with seizures,» said Kristen Riley, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Neurosurgery.

Now a new study has identified how specific patterns of cortisol activity may relate to the cognitive abilities of children in poverty.

They found that altering the activity of three specific targets — GABAB currents, the potassium leak currents and hyperpolarization - activated thalamic currents — restored sleep patterns in their model.

Analysing the scans, the team found that specific patterns of brain activity associated with the satellites were replayed during rest.

Research in rats has found that the hippocampus region of their brain forms new memories by replaying patterns of brain activity linked to specific experiences.

When we move our eyes in REM sleep, according to the study, specific brain regions show sudden surges of activity that resemble the pattern that occurs when we are introduced to a new image — suggesting that eye movements during REM sleep are responsible for resetting our dream «snapshots.»

And by looking at this specific pattern of brain activity in 80 people, they also were able to predict the virality of these articles among real New York Times readers around the world.

They give animals a specific stimulus — a pattern of stripes, say, or a specific chemical odor — and simultaneously measure the brain's «code» for that stimulus: i.e., how neural activity depends upon the stimulus.

We found that compared to a semantic control task, both younger and older adults engaged the default network during specific AM retrieval, but this pattern of activity was less pronounced with age.

Seymour says that even when the study subjects were simply resting, the researchers could see short moments of brain activity patterns with features of the specific fear memory.

The development of an embryo, for example, looks like a well - programmed process, orchestrated by predictable waves of gene activity to produce a specific pattern of tissues.

The current report, which appears in the May 4, 2012 issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell, shows that these cells can also change their epigenomes, the patterns of DNA modifications that regulate the activity of specific genes — sometimes radically.

The dynamic warm - up typically consists of dynamic stretching with controlled movement through the active range of motion, agility and plyometric activities plus specific motor pattern movements.5 Aim to warm up for 10 - 20 minutes with a 10 - 20 second break between segments.

Patterns that reveal when the problem behavior occurs (e.g., time of day, specific activities, with a specific person)

Its backend analytics engine «Reads the consumer» such as the readers» profile, interests, purchase patterns, time spent on specific topic, chapter or book, activities performed and the outcomes of the activities.

Just ask Peter Gleick, or ask the tobacco companies convicted under RICO, how easy it is to drift into «patterns of racketeering activity» with «specific intent to defraud».

Similarly, the tobacco industry's RICO conviction for 150 counts of mail and wire fraud in a continuing «pattern of racketeering activity» with the «specific intent to defraud» is of course matter of public record (per the link posted above)... however vehemently the senior fellows of the Heartland Institute may disagree with the justice and legality of tobacco - industry RICO convictions.

Castle Rock and Warren denied the existence of a legal duty to specific individuals of performance of law enforcement activity given the specific fact pattern in those cases.

We examine intervention outcomes on children's anticipation of and response to a social challenge, as well as diurnal patterns, because considerable evidence suggests that abnormal HPA activity in children with or at risk for conduct disorders may be context specific.7, 9,11,13,28