Sentences with phrase «studying normal brain functioning»

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Specifically, intensive postmortem neurological studies of their brain tissues reveal a relatively low density of acetylcholine (a neurotransmitter) nerve sites, which, at normal densities, function in critical ways to help re-initiate breathing following a sleep - related apnea or extended breathing pauses.

The study also discovered that microscopic spasms in capillaries occur, albeit with lower frequency, during normal brain function, too, suggesting that one problem caused by epilepsy is that seizures drive these vasospasms to abnormal levels.

The study included 121 people from Japan and 252 from Australia, and both groups involved individuals with normal brain function, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's.

Even among people of normal weight, individual differences in brain functioning can directly affect eating behaviors, according to a 2009 study by Michael Lowe, a research psychologist at Drexel University.

Dozens of studies have shown, however, that MHCI is not only present throughout the healthy brain, but is essential for normal brain development and function, Boulanger said.

During the study of a number of aardvarks by researchers of the Brain Function Research Group at the University of the Witwatersrand, all but one of the study animals — as well as other aardvarks in the area — died because of a severe drought, with air temperatures much higher than normal and very dry soil in the area.

The study supports the importance of the serotonin which is specified and maintained by a specific gene, the Pet - 1 gene — for normal functioning of the neurons, synapses and networks in the cortex, as well as proper development of brain circuitry.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, has confirmed that the agency's definition of clinical trials now includes imaging studies of normal brain function that do not test new treatments.

Our study provided low - dose oxygen to keep the patient's oxygen levels within the normal range to test whether this would help to maintain brain function and help recovery, but we found that this intervention did not make a real difference.

Mobile DNA molecules that jump from one location in the genome to another may contribute to neurological diseases and could have subtle influences on normal brain function and behavior, according to a study published October 30 in Nature.

Recent large - scale efforts have launched a new generation of studies that aim to identify the molecular and cellular characteristics of the brain and how these translate into normal brain function — or, in the case of disease, dysfunction.

Finally, we generate new tools and mouse models to study the role of de novo protein synthesis in normal brain function and in pathophysiology associated with neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disease.

With this tool, neuroscientists can use light to trigger or suppress neuronal firing and precisely manipulate animal behavior, allowing them to map circuits underlying normal brain functions and study their dysfunction in mood and movement disorders.

The Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience, directed by Jeffrey Schall, helps form and support alliances of investigators interested in studying how normal and abnormal behavior and cognition arise from the function of the brain.

«We think this is an early but landmark study that opens up the field of brain research to the analysis of lipoproteins, which are clearly crucial to normal function,» LaDu said.

Yet study after study has shown that triclosan can interfere with hormones critical for normal development and function of the brain and reproductive system.

In a small new study of retired NFL players, researchers found that overweight players had less blood flow to key areas of the brain and lower scores on mental - function tests than former players of normal weight.