Sentences with phrase «synaptic level»

By getting down to synaptic levels in the brain — even if only in mice — the researchers seem to have taken a step toward explaining why omega - 3 trials in humans have shown some success in treating mood disorders.

White is interested in human behavior, but said humans are difficult to study at the cellular and synaptic level.

Without seeing the brain's wiring on a synaptic level, some neuroscientists believe we'll never truly understand how it works.

Maybe it will prove possible to see if the older brain becomes stiffer at the synaptic level, in the same way that the ageing body does at the level of the skin, muscles and joints.

«While our findings are consistent with other reported changes in neuronal firing rates with attention, they go far beyond such descriptions, revealing never - before tested mechanisms at the synaptic level,» said study co-author Farran Briggs, PhD, assistant professor of Physiology and Neurobiology at the Geisel School of Medicine.

«This research is giving us an idea of what is happening at a cellular and synaptic level,» she says.

In hypothalamic explants, stimulation by ghrelin increased PRCP concentration in the medium and decreased PRCP content in synaptic extract, suggesting that PRCP is released at the synaptic level.

Conclusions: Altogether, our data indicate that PRCP is released at the synaptic levels and that PRCP in AgRP neurons contributes to the modulation of α - MSH degradation and related metabolic control in mice.

Hypothalamic explants were then used to assess the intracellular localization of PRCP and its release at the synaptic levels.

But how this happens at the synaptic level in people is still very difficult to figure out.

The polymorphic serotonin transporter gene, coding for one of the important regulator of the synaptic level of the neurotransmitter serotonin, has been linked previously to anxiety - related traits [106] and affective disorders [107].