Sentences with phrase «studied neural»

Neonatal Inhibition of DNA Methylation Alters Cell Phenotype in Sexually Dimorphic Regions of the Mouse Brain Endocrinology April 7, 2017 Morgan Mosley, Jill Weathington, Laura R. Cortes, Emily Bruggeman, Alexandra Castillo - Ruiz, Bingzhong Xue, and Nancy G. Forger Many of the best - studied neural sex differences relate to differences in cell number and are due to the hormonal control of developmental cell death.

Scientists have traditionally studied the neural basis of behavior in live animals by using techniques such as stimulating neurons with electrodes.

Edward Hubbard, a neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, who has studied the neural basis of synaesthesia, doubts that chimps experience the same range of synaesthesetic experiences as humans.

Meanwhile, Nottebohm studied the neural circuits responsible for song learning, including the cortical - basal ganglia pathways.

During the course of his PhD thesis at the German Primate Center, neuroscientist Stefan Schaffelhofer intensively studied the neural mechanisms that control grasping movements.

In a series of experiments, researchers at Northwestern University used brain scanners and EEG sensors to study neural activity in a number of participants tasked with solving complex word puzzles.

«It's very difficult to study neural stem cells in their complex natural environment,» Xie said.

For cognitive neuroscientist Atsushi Sekiguchi, who was studying the neural underpinnings of stress at Tohoku University in Sendai, the earthquake was a rare opportunity to tease apart cause and effect.

Her team is the first to study the neural mechanisms involved as love fades away.

While internal navigation is more complicated in mammals, it's important to understand a basic system like the one found in fruit flies, says Adrien Peyrache of McGill University in Montreal, who studies the neural basis of direction in rodents.

The Commission makes five recommendations regarding neural modification: first, to prioritize existing strategies to maintain or improve neural health, such as diet, and adequate exercise and sleep; to prioritize the treatment of neurological disorders; to study neural modifiers and examine their prevalence, benefits and risks; to ensure equitable access so individuals of all socioeconomic levels can access the benefits of these advancements; and fifth, to create guidance on the use of neural modifiers.

Our group is helping Rafael Yuste's lab to pioneer the use of Hydra vulgaris, a small, freshwater polyp that attaches itself to underwater surfaces in lakes, rivers and ponds and uses its tentacles to capture prey, as a model organism for studying neural function.

I am developing methods to study neural network dynamics in Apis mellifera via optogenetics.

Abstract In my group, we study the neural crest, a unique cell population that emerges from the primitive neural field and which has a multi-systemic and structural contribution to vertebrate development.

Dr. Murray's laboratory studies the neural basis of learning, memory, emotion and response selection, with two main areas of focus.

Center investigators in psychology include Randolph Blake, who uses behavioral and brain - imaging techniques to study the neural bases of human visual perception, with an emphasis on binocular vision and motion perception.

There she worked with Dr. Todd Holmes, studying the neural circuit mediating short wavelength light preference in Drosophila.

CSNE member, Mehrdad Jazayeri, and his research team at MIT study neural system dynamics involved in sensory and motor coordination, which are key to performing everyday tasks.

His lab uses advanced light - sheet microscopy and computational methods to quantitatively study neural development in fruit fly, zebrafish and mouse.

Non-invasive mapping of brain structure and function with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has opened up unprecedented opportunities for studying the neural substrates underlying cognitive

The lab also studies the neural circuits that control visual fear and are developing tools to re-map them for treating anxiety disorders.

She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in neuroscience or psychology, studying the neural underpinnings of biases, beliefs, and information literacy.

Cambridge, MA About Blog We use experimental and theoretical approaches to study the neural basis of cognition.

An assistant professor of education at the Rossier School, Immordino - Yang is an affective neuroscientist and human development psychologist who studies the neural, psychophysiological and psychological bases of social emotion, self - awareness and culture and their implications for development and schools.

Cambridge, MA About Blog We use experimental and theoretical approaches to study the neural basis of cognition.

Cambridge, MA About Blog We use experimental and theoretical approaches to study the neural basis of cognition.

Therefore, various nontraditional animal models, which display pair bond formation — including marmosets (Callithrix penicillata), titi monkeys (Callicebus cupreus), California mice (Peromyscus californicus), and prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)-- have emerged as better alternative animal models to study the neural correlates of pair bond formation (Carter et al., 1995; Bester - Meredith et al., 1999; Bales et al., 2007; de Jong et al., 2009; Smith et al., 2010).

Her research interests focus on studying the neural correlates of PTSD using neuroimaging (functional magnetic resonance imaging) and treatment outcome research examining various pharmacological and psychotherapeutic methods.

Not exact matches

Several large studies have also linked folic acid supplementation before and during pregnancy with decreased rates of neural - tube defects, which are serious and life - threatening defects of a baby's brain, spine, or spinal cord.

Having studied experimental psychology as an undergraduate at Cambridge, Hinton was enthusiastic about neural nets, which were software constructs that took their inspiration from the way networks of neurons in the brain were thought to work.

Additionally, several large studies have linked folic acid supplementation before and during pregnancy with decreased rates of neural - tube defects, serious and life - threatening birth defects of the baby's brain, spine, or spinal cord.

Scientific studies suggest that some of our neural pathways slow down at this time, which means it's tougher to evaluate problems and make good decisions.

And earlier this year, a study showed a neural link between generosity and happiness, further cementing humans as fundamentally social animals.

Brain imaging studies at Peking University highlight VR's ability to directly impact the neural substrates in the brain associated with pain and empathy.

Angelika Dimoka, director of the Center for Neural Decision Making at Temple University, conducted a study that measured people's brain activity while they addressed increasingly complex problems (i.e., noise).

He said that the latest study (Professor Jordan Grafman, from the US National Inst - itute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda,) suggests the brain is inherently sensitive to believing in almost anything if there are grounds for doing so, but when there is a mystery about something, the same neural machinery is co-opted in the formulation of religious belief.

Also there is evidence of molecular mechanisms in the cell membranes that can amplify small changes in the field to produce large changes in neural activity.13 On the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studies).

Moreover, a recent imaging study compared the neural response of non-depressed mothers versus depressed mothers to their own infant crying and found a reduced neural activation in the depressed mothers in regions related to emotional response and regulation.35 Together, it appears that both the character of infant crying behaviour and maternal perception of crying differ when mothers are depressed.

The study, published online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, set out to investigate the neural circuits involved in parental caregiving.

In fact, a 2015 study evaluating the prevalence of neural tube defects such as anencephaly in Europe, found that there has not been any reduction in the incidence of these defects, despite widespread recommendations to increase folic acid which have been in place for several decades.

Overall, fMRI studies show that neural activity in women with PPD compared to people with major depression who had not given birth involves distinct patterns for new mothers with PPD.

The latter study shows that the process of forming and changing opinions is intimately connected to the brain's neural hardware, where different parts of the brain are involved differently in shaping opinions, and the more beliefs are tied to community values, the more difficult it is to change them.

Theories abound, but one popular idea — favoured by the authors of this study — is that it reflects the action of attention which appears to sample neural activity in rapid bursts.

Johnson is a research scientist studying sleep, memory, and learning, and is the education manager for internships at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, based at the University of Washington in Seattle.

That's the conclusion of a new study that logged the neural activity of 12 high school students and their teacher with electroencephalography (EEG) headsets over 11 classes.

«We have confirmed what earlier studies indicated, and gained new knowledge about molecular characteristics of these neural stem cells,» says Milos Pekny, professor at the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology.

Hrubec noted that an epidemiological study could determine whether people who have a high rate of exposure, such as healthcare workers or restaurant servers, have a more difficult time becoming pregnant or have a greater likelihood of having children with neural tube birth defects, but no such study has been conducted to date.

But a new study led by the University of Colorado shows that the two kinds of pain actually use distinct neural circuits, a finding that could lead to more targeted treatments and a better understanding of how the two kinds of pain interact.

By plucking out delicate, live tissue during neurosurgery and then studying the resident cells, researchers have revealed a partial cast of neural characters that give rise to our thoughts, dreams and memories.

By studying these examples, the neural network learned on its own what the light signal of an exoplanet looked like, and could then pick out the signatures of exoplanets in previously unseen signals.