Sentences with phrase «studying brain mechanisms»

«We believe that signals carried by the VOF play a role in many perceptual processes, from recognizing a friend's face to rapidly reading a page of text,» said Yeatman, who is now studying brain mechanisms involved in learning to read.

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Toddler talk: The «word spurt,» when a toddler's vocabulary seems to explode overnight, is not the result of special brain mechanisms clicking, as scientists have assumed, but rather a snowball effect that results from continuous, cumulative learning, says a study published in the journal Science.

«Finding the mechanism linking low doses of BPA (or BPS) to adverse brain development and hyperactivity is almost like finding a smoking gun,» Hamid Habibi, one of the authors of the study, said in a news release.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

The researchers are planning to use the novel mouse model to study how ErbB4 may coordinate brain activities, in an effort to learn more about mechanisms behind attention deficit disorders.

Cushman emphasizes the need for follow - up studies not only to verify the blood type / brain function association but also to untangle mechanisms for it.

The study, which is published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, describes a possible mechanism for how the gene variant produces clinical symptoms by affecting levels of specific proteins in the brain.

According to the scientists, the study offers evidence neurons in the prefrontal cortex of the brain start processing information in anticipation of where we are going to look before we ever do it, suggesting that selective processing might be the mechanism for visual stability.

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.

«Just like the human brain, heart and kidneys — organs that can commandeer heightened blood flow when needed — the placenta may employ an auto - regulatory mechanism to optimize perfusion,» adds Limperopoulos, director of Children's Developing Brain Research Laboratory and the study's senior aubrain, heart and kidneys — organs that can commandeer heightened blood flow when needed — the placenta may employ an auto - regulatory mechanism to optimize perfusion,» adds Limperopoulos, director of Children's Developing Brain Research Laboratory and the study's senior auBrain Research Laboratory and the study's senior author.

The high prevalence of this phenomenon may make it easier for us to study and better understand the underlying mechanisms in the brain behind such synaesthetic effects.

While the study did not look for a mechanism, the team suggest that bilirubin, the toxin that accumulates in jaundice, may damage brain tissue and disrupt brain development, leading to autism.

If borne out by future studies, these mechanisms suggest some possible treatments to mitigate the effects of altitude on depression and suicide risk: supplemental 5 - hydroxytryptophan (a serotonin precursor) to increase serotonin levels, or creatinine to influence brain bioenergetics.

«This kind of study allows us to start understanding the cellular mechanisms» behind the brain damage, she says.

While the brain subconsciously monitors heartbeat, the mechanism by which the sensation creeps into the consciousness and so influences our emotional state has fascinated researchers studying consciousness, and remains somewhat mysterious.

Yet, how his brain responds during cold exposure and what brain mechanisms may endow him with this resistance have not been studied — until now.

Dr. Michael M. Yartsev, Research Associate and C.V. Starr Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University receives the US$ 25,000 research prize for his work using the bat as an unusual animal model to study the underlying neural mechanisms of spatial memory and navigation in the mammalian brain.

She notes that this study looked at only static body postures, but together with subsequent experiments — including one in which people watched videos of gymnasts — it offers a possible mechanism for how the brain predicts what will happen a few seconds ahead of what we experience.

For the study, investigators performed continuous patient monitoring following Do Not Resuscitate — Comfort Care orders in patients with devastating brain injury to investigate the mechanisms and timing of events in the brain and the circulation during the dying process.

Barclay Morrison III, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has led the first study to determine underlying biological mechanisms that promote functional recovery of the blood - brain barrier (BBB) after blast injury.

Lead author of the study Kirsten Weber proposes, «The enhanced activity might reflect a brain mechanism to build and strengthen a neural network to process novel word order regularities.»

In a 2011 paper in The Journal of Sexual Medicine that reviews previous studies of its mechanisms, they explain it in this way: Serotonin, which is thought to impede sexual interest, has two types of receptors in the brain.

But in the study being published, researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Karolinska Institutet present a molecular time mechanism that can help explain neuronal stem cell regulation and therefore also the occurrence of cellular diversity in the brain.

The study published in Cell Metabolism reports a mechanism by which two types of brain cells, neurons and glia, normally support each other's functions.

The recent Finnish study clarified a mechanism underlying a severe progressive children's brain disease and adult's muscle disease.

«But our study found that propofol also disrupts presynaptic mechanisms, probably affecting communication between neurons across the entire brain in a systematic way that differs from just being asleep.

Future studies also include the identification of target brain area of TEG, its BBB permeability and the mechanism through which TEG induces sleep.

«Future studies include the identification of target brain area of octacosanol, its BBB permeability, and the mechanism via which octacosanol lowers stress,» Kaushik says.

«This work is exciting in that it highlights a brain - based mechanism that supports a human's use of reactive control — the rapid and flexible deployment of attention to reduce susceptibility to distraction,» said Julie Bugg, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Washington University who was not an author on the study.

«In a nutshell: Walnuts activate brain region involved in appetite control: First - of - its - kind study reveals mechanism of walnuts» documented ability to decrease hunger.»

The study is linked to two previous papers in 2009 and 2014 in which McDonald's research team showed that when people search the visual world for a particular object, the brain has distinct mechanisms for both locking attention onto relevant information and for suppressing irrelevant information.

«Anorexia nervosa is a devastating illness and this study sheds new light on brain mechanisms that may enable people to starve themselves.

Today at the 93rd General Session and Exhibition of the International Association for Dental Research, researcher Michael L. Meier, Center for Dental Medicine, University of Zürich, Switzerland, will present a study titled «Distinct Brain Mechanisms Related to Dental Pain Relief.»

In the first study of the drug lorcaserin in the human brain, the research revealed the mechanism underlying the drug's efficacy and provides insight into which individuals may benefit most from the medication.

Metabolic syndrome, a cluster of cardiometabolic conditions, may be a biological mechanism linking posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to structural brain abnormalities, according to a new study in Biological Psychiatry.

Forward - looking studies are examining other possible information couriers: glial cells (poorly understood brain cells that are 10 times as common as neurons), other kinds of signaling mechanisms between cells (such as newly discovered gases and peptides), and the biochemical cascades that take place inside cells.

To Francis Heylighen, who studies consciousness and artificial intelligence at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) in Belgium, consciousness is merely a system of mechanisms for making information processing more efficient by adding a level of control over which of the brain's processes get the most resources.

Researchers from OIST's Brain Mechanism for Behaviour Unit, Neurobiology Research Unit, and Physics and Biology Unit collaborated on this study.

«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.

Building on findings from basic brain research, lab studies of sleep, clinical studies of sleep and dreams, and his records of his own dreams, Hobson explores the mechanisms and functions of dreams and sleep.

The researchers from the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, which studies cognitive brain mechanisms, and Center for Neuroscience, which studies molecular, cellular and system - level brain mechanisms, each brought specific expertise to the collaborative sBrain, which studies cognitive brain mechanisms, and Center for Neuroscience, which studies molecular, cellular and system - level brain mechanisms, each brought specific expertise to the collaborative sbrain mechanisms, and Center for Neuroscience, which studies molecular, cellular and system - level brain mechanisms, each brought specific expertise to the collaborative sbrain mechanisms, each brought specific expertise to the collaborative study.

Now a study from Sweden is the first to suggest a biological mechanism: highly creative healthy people and people with schizophrenia have certain brain chemistry features in common.

The study, published May 6, 2016 in Cell Stem Cell, also shows that inhibiting this mechanism reduces brain cell damage, hinting at a new therapeutic approach to mitigating the effects of prenatal Zika virus infection.

A new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that the same mechanisms behind the beneficial effects of exercise training on the brain also help to counteract fat and to strengthen the immune system.

While previous studies have identified disruption to communication channels in these two areas of the brain contribute to symptoms in psychiatric disorders, the mechanisms that lead to these disturbances have been largely unknown, until now.

Scientists seeking to understand the neural mechanisms underlying social cognition and emotion have drawn on a variety of methods, including studies of patients with neurological damage and single - cell recording of brain activity in nonhuman animals.

«This study gives a glimpse into the mechanism by which different mutations within the same gene can cause distinct defects in the brain, and may help to explain how they may contribute to different disorders,» says Guoping Feng, the James W. and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, a member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, and the senior author of the sbrain, and may help to explain how they may contribute to different disorders,» says Guoping Feng, the James W. and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, a member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, and the senior author of the sBrain Research, a member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, and the senior author of the study.

Indeed, after many years of studies on mirror neurons and their functioning we are shifting our lab research to the study of the control mechanisms in the brain for mirror neurons.

Meanwhile, in a separate study published online today in Science, an overlapping team at Genentech led by biologist Frederic de Sauvage describes the mechanism by which the man's brain tumor developed resistance.

Mouse study reveals a possible mechanism by which gingko biloba protects brain cells.