Sentences with phrase «study human brain disease»

Although the original impetus of the work was to study human brain disease and development, says Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator Christopher Walsh, the results also shed light on how the human brain expanded during the course of evolution.

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Studies have shown that a protein in human milk aids in brain development, and breast - fed babies are less likely to get gastrointestinal infections and diarrhea, respiratory and ear infections or more serious diseases such as pneumonia, and there is a lower risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

A recent study published in Annals of Neurology reports that healthy human tissue grafted to the brains of patients with Huntington's disease in the hopes of treating the neurological disorder also developed signs of the illness, several years after the graft.

To maintain its foothold in large - scale, world - class research, Japan has launched its own Brain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain / MINDS) project, in line with the increasing interest in brain - mapping projects around the world, such as the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in EuBrain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain / MINDS) project, in line with the increasing interest in brain - mapping projects around the world, such as the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in EuBrain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain / MINDS) project, in line with the increasing interest in brain - mapping projects around the world, such as the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in EuBrain / MINDS) project, in line with the increasing interest in brain - mapping projects around the world, such as the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in EuBrain / MINDS) project, in line with the increasing interest in brain - mapping projects around the world, such as the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in Eubrain - mapping projects around the world, such as the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in Eubrain - mapping projects around the world, such as the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in EuBrain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in EuBrain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in EuBRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in EuBRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in EuBrain Project (HBP) in EuBrain Project (HBP) in Europe.

Future studies may reveal if changes in brain lactate are linked to neurodegenerative disease in humans, says Ross.

But recent studies in both humans and lab mice have suggested that motor neurons in the brain — the upper motor neurons — may be involved in disease progression, although the extent and significance of this involvement has remained unknown.

A new study suggests that the debilitating disease schizophrenia may be a byproduct of the genetic changes that fueled the evolution of the expansive human brain.

«The imaging technique could shed light on the immune dysfunction that underpins a broad range of neuroinflammatory diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction,» said Christine Sandiego, PhD, lead author of the study and a researcher from the department of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. «This is the first human study that accurately measures this immune response in the brain.

In a novel animal study design that mimicked human clinical trials, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that long - term treatment using a small molecule drug that reduces activity of the brain's stress circuitry significantly reduces Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology and prevents onset of cognitive impairment in a mouse model of the neurodegenerative condition.

The new study — published October 18, 2016 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry — combined genetic analysis of more than 9,000 human psychiatric patients with brain imaging, electrophysiology, and pharmacological experiments in mutant mice to suggest that mutations in the gene DIXDC1 may act as a general risk factor for psychiatric disease by interfering with the way the brain regulates connections between neurons.

The researchers hope their new cell lines will be a useful resource for studying the cellular and molecular intricacies of Huntington's further, and suggest they may provide a model for examining other diseases of the brain that are specific to humans.

The letter further contends that recent chimp studies for the first time have identified «unique features of the human brain and have documented the unusual vulnerability of humans to a variety of disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, infectious diseases, cancer, and heart disease.»

«For example, there is a huge amount of interest and excitement globally in growing cerebral organoids» — miniature brain - like organs that can be studied in laboratory experiments — «from stem cells to model human brain development and disease mechanisms.

«It's critically important to be able to look at questions of brain development in real human tissue when you're trying to study human disease.

Along with the studies in live animals, the research team also studied human brain tissue from Northwestern's Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center.

«Comparing human, chimpanzee and bonobo cells can give us clues to understand biological processes, such as infection, diseases, brain evolution, adaptation or genetic diversity,» says senior research associate Iñigo Narvaiza, who led the study with senior staff scientist Carol Marchetto at the Salk Institute in La Jolla.

Researchers studying a protein that causes a hereditary degenerative brain disease in humans have discovered that the human, mouse and hamster forms of the protein, which have nearly identical amino acid sequences, exhibit distinct three - dimensional structures at the atomic level.

The study, conducted in postmortem human brain cells and in mice, also offers the strongest causal evidence that age - related memory loss and Alzheimer's disease are distinct conditions.

He looked to other, less invasive approaches that could be used and soon focussed on PET, which allows researchers to safely and non-invasively study the living human brain and track and record its function in health and disease.

What we are learning from these studies adds important knowledge about the human brain in both health and disease.

The brains of aged chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, show pathology similar to the human Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain, according to a new, multi-institution research study.

Raichle's observation of patterns of ongoing brain activity when the subject is in a resting state, or when the brain is not actively engaged in performing tasks such as recalling events or learning new words, has transformed the way the human brain is now being studied in health and disease.

The work takes a step toward using brain organoids to study complexities of human brain development and disease that can't be investigated with current techniques.

Human genetic studies strongly point to apolipoprotein E (APOE) and microglia (the immune cells of the brain) as, respectively, the most important gene and cell type in the chain of events leading to Alzheimer's disease (AD), a common disorder in the elderly in which the brain is damaged and memories falter.

More recently, his lab started studying the genetic basis of human brain evolution as well as the signaling pathways underlying synaptic loss during early stages of Alzheimer's Disease progression.

«This study reveals new pathways in the earliest stages of ALS - FTD and opens the way for developing new classes of drugs to combat this dreadful disease,» says study author Justin Fallon, PhD, a professor of medical science and of psychiatry and human behavior, and a researcher at the Brown Institute for Brain Science.

Dr. Raichle's research led to the development and use of positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging, tools that have enabled scientists to safely and non-invasively study the living human brain and track and record its function in health and disease.

Moreover, PHENONIM - ICS is involved in European projects presenting a strong impact on human health: Interreg CARDIOGENE (Genetic mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases), GENCODYS (Genetic and epigenetic networks involved in cognitive dysfunctions), AgedBrainSYSBIO (Basic studies of brain aging), as well as projects in partnership with industry: MAGenTA (an Industrial Strategic Innovation project supported by Bpifrance about the treatment of major urogenital diseases) and CanPathPro (H2020 program), to develop a predictive modeling platform of signaling pathways involved in cancers.

«We've learned a lot about the brain from mice, but I think we can all agree that mice and humans are very different,» says Li - Huei Tsai, a neuroscientist at the Picower Institute for Memory and Learning at MIT who studies the neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease.

In a new study published in Nature Medicine, researchers revealed how apoE4 confers its risk for Alzheimer's disease in human brain cells.

His research team is interested in identifying genes that direct the development of the cerebral cortex, both because of their importance in human diseases and because studying those genes will help in learning about the normal development and evolution of the brain.

Human skin cells have also been directly converted into neurons that can be used to study and find treatments for diseases in the brain, as well as liver cells and insulin - producing cells of the pancreas.

4/26/2007 UCSD to Participate in Nationwide Trial to Assess Impact of Omega - 3 Fatty Acid on the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease Nutritionists have long endorsed fish as part of a heart - healthy diet, and now some studies suggest that omega - 3 fatty acids found in the oil of certain fish and algae as well as human breast milk may also benefit the brain by lowering the risk of Al...

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It's difficult to gather brain tissue samples from humans, so studying diseases like tuberous sclerosis is maddening, he said.

Using a mouse model for this disease, which in humans involves the destruction of white matter in the brain, a research team led by Albee Messing, director of the UW — Madison Waisman Center, found that a protein behind the symptoms of the disease, called GFAP, is broken down more rapidly in the body than researchers previously found in cell culture studies.

These mice were created and deposited by The Pleiades Promoter Project (Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia); their goal is to generate 160 fully characterized, human DNA promoters of less than 4 kb (MiniPromoters) to drive gene expression in defined brain regions of therapeutic interest for studying disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease), Multiple Sclerosis, Spinocerebellar Ataxia, Depression, Autism, and Cancer.

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The authors of the study explain that their findings suggest that ketogenic diets could also potentially help normalize pathological behaviors in the human model of schizophrenia by providing alternative energy sources via ketones, the products of fat breakdown, which would substitute the abnormally functioning cellular energy pathways in the brains of people suffering from this disease.

Other studies have shown that dogs affected by this syndrome show deposition of a protein called amyloid in their brains in patterns similar to the amyloid plaques found in the brains of humans with Alzheimer's disease.

Study after study into the effects of air pollution on the human body has turned up a grim laundry - list of associated ills — such as increased risks of stroke, heart attack, and lung disease — and now, according to the latest research, it may actually be doing harm to our brains as well, ultimately leading to learning problems and even depresStudy after study into the effects of air pollution on the human body has turned up a grim laundry - list of associated ills — such as increased risks of stroke, heart attack, and lung disease — and now, according to the latest research, it may actually be doing harm to our brains as well, ultimately leading to learning problems and even depresstudy into the effects of air pollution on the human body has turned up a grim laundry - list of associated ills — such as increased risks of stroke, heart attack, and lung disease — and now, according to the latest research, it may actually be doing harm to our brains as well, ultimately leading to learning problems and even depression.