Sentences with phrase «support brain control»

For the first time, the focus groups also sought opinions on neural engineering — an area of science that uses engineering and brain science to build devices to support brain control of prosthetic or robotic devices in humans.

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The findings support the idea that reduced activation in brain regions responsible for inhibitory control could explain impulsivity traits present in bipolar disorder.

To overcome gravity that would otherwise prevent him from raising his arm and reaching, Kochevar uses a mobile arm support, which is also under his brain's control.

Dr. Tyler - Kabara added that these findings «certainly support the value of adding proprioceptive feedback for brain controlled prosthetic devices.»

This supports a recent proposal that such cells may be the master control switches of domestication, explaining why domestic animals share common traits, such as smaller brains and certain pigmentation patterns — a mystery first noted by Charles Darwin.

Star - shaped brain cells called astrocytes, usually dismissed as support cells for the attention - grabbing neurons, now seem to control the growth of new neurons in adult brains.

«Drinking at such high levels can suppress areas of the brain that control basic life - support functions such as breathing and heart rate, thereby increasing one's risk of death,» said senior author, Aaron White, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Advisor to the NIAAA Director.

«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.

«Our latest research findings support a newly emerging model of how the brain focuses attention on a particular task, using neurons in the thalamic reticular nucleus as a switchboard to control the amount of information the brain receives, limiting and filtering out sensory information that we don't want to pay attention to,» says senior study investigator and neuroscientist Michael Halassa, MD, PhD.

This could be because the brains of mammals lack the pre cursor cells or the growth factors that control and support the development of projection neurons.

Next, they graduated to a treadmill system in which their body weight was supported and their brain signals controlled a robotic walker system that moved their legs.

[21] In the recently presented FLAURA study, in which osimertinib was used in untreated patients with advanced EGFR - mutant NSCLC, the HR for systemic disease control and CNS control similarly favored osimertinib over erlotinib or gefitinib, supporting the preclinical data that showed osimertinib's penetration across the BBB and providing support for using this agent in first - line management of EGFR - mutant patients with brain metastases.

This early career award will support her research on how the thalamus — a part of the brain that controls sensory processing, sleep, and attention — contributes to Dravet syndrome.

By revealing the molecular mechanisms that control neuroinflammation, these findings add a new layer of complexity to our understanding of multiple sclerosis and support the growing appreciation of the significance of the crosstalk between the peripheral immune system and the brain.

At the Duke Center for Neuroengineering, the INNF is supporting a revolutionary project to understand the neural mechanisms underlying the onset of disease by recording the neuronal activity of brain structures controlling movement, sleep, and learning and memory.

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Each day, your body must breathe, blink, circulate blood, control body temperature, grow new cells, support brain and nerve activity and contract muscles.

Whole wheat can also help with weight control, reduce chronic inflammation, lower risk of type 2 diabetes, support mental health, brain function and digestive health.

The most common benefits associated with a ketogenic diet include weight management, appetite control, healthy brain support and increased energy.

and may improve sperm quality, help with weight control, and offer support for brain health and type 2 diabetes.

[1] Iodine also supports digestion, bone development, muscle control, and heart and brain function.

Whole wheat can also help with weight control, reduce chronic inflammation, lower risk of type 2 diabetes, support mental health, brain function and digestive health.

Therefore, I examined how different brain regions work together to support the control of multiple languages.

That makes it all the more extraordinary that it spent years supporting a woman who surreptitiously married her ex-boyfriend after he suffered a catastrophic brain injury to gain control of his assets.

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Morphologic studies offered some preliminary support for brain - related differences between children with and without the disorder, but additional studies with control groups of children with other psychiatric and developmental disorders and larger sample sizes will be necessary before brain morphology becomes useful in diagnosing ADHD.

Clinicians also teach children about how their brains work in order to support them making good choices and feeling more in control.

Hence, speculatively, perhaps certain proximal correlates of rearing in advantaged socioeconomic environments (e.g. more frequent and consistent exposure to supportive parenting practices and parent — child interactions; more frequent home and school exposures to adult modeling of adaptive decision - making) favorably influence — and in their absence, impede — the assembly and long - term functionality of brain systems supporting top - down or regulatory control functions that, in turn, bias individuals toward less impulsive decision - making (Hackman and Farah, 2009; Hackman et al.