Sentences with phrase «study brain circuits»

The Human Connectome Project is a five - year effort to study brain circuits and how the wiring of the brain relates to human behavior.

«With postmortem research, we're studying brain circuits and the molecules and cells that support these circuits — the potential targets of new drugs,» said Dr. Woo.

Not exact matches

Panksepp saw that human emotions and emotional problems could be explored by studying other mammals — how their brains generated emotions akin to the anger, sadness and joy that humans describe, what neurons and neural circuits were involved.

Researchers studying the brain have long been interested in its neural oscillations, the rhythmic electrical activity that plays an important role in the transmission of information within the brain's neural circuits.

«While previous studies at McLean and elsewhere have focused on the behavioral symptoms produced by such immune activation, this study goes deeper, going to the cellular level to show how the brain's neural circuits are affected.»

«New study of brain circuits finds key links to symptoms of depression: Altering distinct brain pathways found to aid symptoms such as social withdrawal and helplessness behavior.»

This detail of the research — showing this brain circuit can adapt to winning — is what really makes this study stand out, Kessels says.

Recent studies have demonstrated that falling in love — or the love a mother has for an infant, which is so powerful — is driven by these reward processes, and it actually engages the same [brain] circuit that gives priority of that behavior over anything else, just like in addiction.

An earlier study had identified the connection between the thalamus — a brain region that relays incoming signals from the muscles and senses — and the dmPFC, along with the role this neural circuit can play in modifying a mouse's desire for confrontation.

So far scientists do not understand the underlying mechanisms, but if bird brains share certain key circuits with humans, then scientists may find answers by studying them.

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A new study by researchers at Roche in Basel, Switzerland has identified a key brain region of the neural circuit that controls social behavior.

The emerging picture from this study and others is of a brain built of multi-part circuits that respond in concert and regulate one another.

This new combination of electronics and drugs to intervene in an individual brain circuit might be used to create mouse models of other mood disorders for other studies, Dzirasa said.

If scientists can study accurate models of working neural circuits in these brain bits, he and others say, researchers might finally get a handle on uniquely human neurological conditions.

The switch in the brain that sends us off to sleep has been identified by researchers at Oxford University's Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour in a study in fruit flies.

Optogenetics has revolutionized how neuroscientists study the brain by allowing them to directly manipulate specific neural circuits.

This isn't just a clever analogy: In recent neuroimaging studies, Harvard psychologist Daniel Schacter has shown that remembering and imagining mobilize many of the same brain circuits.

Brain imaging studies have shown that stimulation over this region modulates the functioning of fronto - striatal circuits, leading to the release of dopamine, a key neurotransmitter in reward processing.

«This functional MRI study provides the first objective evidence showing the exact malfunctions in the brain's memory circuits that underlie these chemically induced memory problems.»

Deep brain stimulation might alter the brain circuits that drive anorexia nervosa symptoms and help improve patients» mental and physical health, according to a small study published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

In two newly - published studies, the researchers examined — with unprecedented resolution — the brain circuits responsible for the differences in the way the brain responds to visual food cues during hunger versus satiety.

Thus, this study found that women who have recovered from anorexia nervosa show two related patterns of changes in brain circuit function that may contribute to their capacity to sustain their avoidance of food.

Dr. Britt obtained these results using optogenetics, which use light - responsive proteins to study the activation of neural circuits in distinct locations, allowing the researcher to precisely dissect the roles of different neural circuits in the brain.

Prior research showed that the mPOA is important for social and reproductive behavior in all vertebrate species studied from fish to human, but it has been unclear whether this area drives social motivation through circuit connections with reward systems in the brain.

This study, led by Garret D. Stuber, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and cell biology & physiology, and Jenna A. McHenry, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in Stuber's lab, identified a hormone - sensitive circuit in the brain that controls social motivation in female mice.

Researchers study the brain to learn how its specialized circuits process information in seconds to distinguish whether faces are real or fake.

Scientists studying brain diseases may need to look beyond nerve cells and start paying attention to the star - shaped cells known as «astrocytes,» because they play specialized roles in the development and maintenance of nerve circuits and may contribute to a wide range of disorders, according to a new study by UC San Francisco researchers.

Kimberly Young, PhD, an NIH / NIDA Post-doctoral Fellow at Penn, and first author of the study explained that, «Drug reward and motivation is largely mediated by dopamine transmission in the brain's reward circuit — even drug «reminder cues» can cause dopamine release.

«Fruitfly study identifies brain circuit that drives daily cycles of rest, activity.»

«Study reveals how brain multitasks: Findings help explain how the brain pays attention to what; s important and how neural circuits may be «broken» in attention - deficit disorders.»

According to Halassa, the new research sets the stage for ever more detailed studies on the complex behavior involved in how the mammalian brain pays attention to what's important, and especially how those neural circuits are broken in cases of attention - deficit diseases, such as ADHD, autism, and schizophrenia.

Now an imaging study finds that psychopathic inmates have deficits in a key empathy circuit in the brain, pointing to a potential therapeutic target.

Physician Gene - Jack Wang of Brookhaven National Laboratory has studied the brains of overeaters since 1999, when he and colleague Nora Volkow originally observed that obesity and drug addiction alter the same brain circuits.

Iacoboni is best known for his work studying mirror neurons, a small circuit of cells in the brain that may be an important element of social cognition.

But a new study suggests that caring for children awakens a parenting network in the brain — even turning on some of the same circuits in men as it does in women.

To find out, Spiegel and Kosslyn decided to collaborate on a study, focusing on a part of the brain that is well understood: the fusiform circuit.

Next, the researchers will study how brain circuits are disturbed by the amyloid plaques seen in Alzheimer's disease.

«In essence, this points to a relative immaturity of brain circuits in FXS,» added Tiago Gonçalves, a former post-doc in Portera - Cailliau's lab and first author of the study.

To find out, Spiegel and Kosslyn collaborated on a study that focused on a part of the brain that is well understood: the fusiform circuit.

Previous studies have shown that a special type of cortical interneurons, called basket cells, exerts a strongly inhibitory effect on brain circuits.

A new study published this month in Science, from neuroscientist Susumu Tonegawa and a group of colleagues at the RIKEN — MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics, provides insight into what happens in the brain when a long - term memory is formed, highlighting the critical role of the forward part of the cortex.

Buzsáki's team found conventional protocols lack sufficient current to directly influence brain circuits, but their study focused on what happened immediately following stimulating pulses.

Pattwell studies the development of the brain, particularly the neural circuits associated with fear, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder using mice as a model.

The principles of circuit construction that have emerged from Jessell's studies in the spinal cord are now known to apply throughout the brain, and in particular they have helped to explain, in molecular terms, how different parts of the cerebral cortex acquire their specialised character.

A study published on February 2 in Nature Communications ups the ante, reporting that conventional TES techniques do not deliver enough current to activate brain circuits or modulate brain rhythms.

The scientists are currently studying similar brain wave phenomena in larger and more realistic neural circuits.

«This study moves researchers to the next level to help them understand how the brain circuit is disrupted,» Dong said.

A new study by Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers strongly supports the latter, demonstrating that abnormal tau protein, a key feature of the neurofibrillary tangles seen in the brains of those with Alzheimer's, propagates along linked brain circuits, «jumping» from neuron to neuron.

Both studies are helping scientists better understand how brain circuits work.