Sentences with phrase «treat brain disorders»

Cambridge, MA About Blog The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT is led by a team of world - renowned neuroscientists committed to meeting two great challenges of modern science: understanding how the brain works and discovering new ways to prevent or treat brain disorders.

Cambridge, MA About Blog The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT is led by a team of world - renowned neuroscientists committed to meeting two great challenges of modern science: understanding how the brain works and discovering new ways to prevent or treat brain disorders.

Cambridge, MA About Blog The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT is led by a team of world - renowned neuroscientists committed to meeting two great challenges of modern science: understanding how the brain works and discovering new ways to prevent or treat brain disorders.

Cambridge, MA About Blog The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT is led by a team of world - renowned neuroscientists committed to meeting two great challenges of modern science: understanding how the brain works and discovering new ways to prevent or treat brain disorders.

Both are being used to prevent and reverse dementia, improve cognitive function, increase human growth hormone (hGH) release, and to treat brain disorders such as damage from stroke.

If this is true, our attempt to treat brain disorders by controlling brain chemistry with psychiatric or psychotropic drugs (the second most prescribed class of drugs after cholesterol medication) is doomed to be ineffective.

MAZMANIAN: Another big question is whether we can treat brain disorders, such as autism, by aiming therapies at the gut.

Three researchers, Tracy Bale, Christopher Lowry and Sarkis Mazmanian, discuss the emerging gut - microbiome - brain connection and whether microbes may help us treat brain disorders.

Lipska hopes that her experience and her book can help break down the stigma attached to mental illness, and help health care professionals begin to better treat brain disorders.

This technology may someday change how we treat brain disorders.

Such knowledge would be invaluable for developing important clinical innovations to help diagnose and treat brain disorders as wide ranging as depression, stroke and paralysis.

Drugs used to treat brain disorders often interact with brain chemicals called neurotransmitters or the cell receptors that interact with neurotransmitters.

Although researchers worldwide were publishing tens of thousands of neuroscience studies every year, neither our understanding of basic brain functions nor our ability to treat brain disorders seemed to be progressing much.

If they are successful, this means that neural motes can not only monitor health, but actively serve as electroceutical therapies to treat brain disorders such as epilepsy.

This is the first time the technique has been used to treat a brain disorder, Kullmann says.

Dr. Mark Hyman's latest book, The UltraMind Solution (Scribner's, 2009) presents a highly convincing argument, backed by hundreds of peer - reviewed studies published within the last five years, for the validity of a functional medicine approach to treating brain disorders of all types.

Dr. Mark Hyman's latest book, The UltraMind Solution (Scribner's, 2009) presents a highly convincing argument, backed by hundreds of peer - reviewed studies published within the last five years, for the validity of a functional medicine approach to treating brain disorders of all... read more

We are now treating brain disorders, dementia, autism, skin issues, asthma — all by targeting the gut and gut bacteria.

Not exact matches

Such research could one day help lead to next - generation brain - machine interfaces for controlling prosthetics, exoskeletons and robots, as well as «electroceuticals» to treat disorders of the brain and body.

The technology could also be used to alter brain functions to treat neurological or mental disorders.

The gold - polyurethane material could someday be used in the form of implantable electrodes in the brain for treating movement disorders or in the heart to help regulate cardiac activity.

Eric Topol speaks with Edward Boyden about the promise of optogenetics, from treating common brain disorders to unlocking what it means to be human.

Cerebral palsy is a neurologic disorder treated at Floating Hospital for Children in Boston that is caused by an injury or disruption in the child's developing brain that can affect their body movement, cognition and posture.

By accelerating discovery, we are leading the way to a better understanding of the developing brain and changing the way the world understands and treats children who struggle with mental health and learning disorders.

Our research is transforming the way we treat children with mental health and learning disorders, and leading the way to a better understanding of the developing brain.

Our research is unlocking the secrets of the developing brain and changing the way we diagnose and treat mental health and learning disorders.

The findings, in mice, suggest we may be able to read people's memories by examining the patterns in their brains, and even one day alter or repair them to treat psychiatric disorders or memory loss.

This work could guide medical science by pointing researchers in the direction of other molecules that could be used to treat disorders of the brain, Slot said.

Researchers use a brain - scanning technique to find differences in the neural connections of PTSD patients that could help researchers understand and treat the disorder

Then, Feng recognized a novel opportunity to directly measure whether tDCS generates EFs in deep brain areas among patients with movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, who are often treated by implanting DBS electrodes.

It is still a long road to approved therapies but a growing body of basic research is fueling a search for drugs that interact with cellular cleanup processes to provide one - size - fits - all approaches for treating a megaclass of brain disorders.

Experts say these findings provide a new window into the way the brain operates and why certain enigmatic disorders such as autism and Alzheimer's disease may develop, potentially paving the way for new therapies to treat them.

A groundbreaking therapy, relying on mindfulness meditation to treat obsessive compulsive disorder, suggests even adult brains have neuroplasticity.

A new analysis of existing studies strongly supports the idea that there are increased levels of chemicals, called cytokines, in the body and brain that promote inflammation in individuals who are contemplating or have attempted suicide, even when compared to patients being treated for the same psychiatric disorders who are not suicidal.

«That's important, because elucidating brain plasticity during learning could lead to new avenues for treating learning and movement disorders, including Parkinson's disease.»

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.

In the past decade, a handful of discoveries have unleashed a flood of research into ways neural stem cells can be used for treating degenerative brain disorders and for brain repair.

By doing so, members of Gould's laboratory pinpointed brain cells and regions important to anxiety regulation that may help scientists better understand and treat human anxiety disorders, she said.

Neuroscientists are now using optogenetics to map brain activity and test the effectiveness of an on / off switch in treating disorders.

Other companies, including Pfizer, based in New York, have invested in nicotinic - receptor modulators to treat Alzheimer's disease and attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (see Aiming at the brain's nicotine receptors).

However, treating stress - related disorders requires accessing the brain's emotional hub, the amygdala, which is located deep in the brain and difficult to reach with typical neurofeedback methods.

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.

«Our research should stimulate renewed clinical interest in developing glucocorticoid therapies to treat blast - induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI) and other disorders of the central nervous system,» Morrison says.

These results are the first implication that Lef1 functions in the hypothalamus to mediate behavior, knowledge that could prove useful for diagnosing and treating human brain disorders.

Until the last few decades, the frontal lobes of the brain were shrouded in mystery and erroneously thought of as nonessential for normal function — hence the frequent use of lobotomies in the early 20th century to treat psychiatric disorders.

Stimulating neurons deep within the brain can help treat conditions such as Parkinson's disease and obsessivecompulsive disorder, but right now patients must undergo invasive electrode implants.

Neurosurgeons at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix are involved with testing the viability of deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treat Alzheimer's disease, a disorder that currently has few treatment options.

«Novel viral vectors deliver useful cargo to neurons throughout the brain and body: The viruses reach their targets via the bloodstream and could be used to treat neural disorders.»

Researchers believe they have learned how mutations in the gene that causes Huntington's disease kill brain cells, a finding that could open new opportunities for treating the fatal disorder.

The cover story on novel ways of treating disorders of the brain (9 April, p 35) stated that «until recently...