Sentences with phrase «turning normal brain»

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This turned out to be a normal protein in the cells of organisms throughout the animal kingdom — but in brains infected with scrapie and related diseases it turns up in both a normal, soluble form and an abnormal, insoluble form which accumulates in deposits that eventually kill the cells.

To understand how DIXDC1 mutations put normal brain function at risk, Cheyette's team turned to mutant mice that lacked a functioning copy of the gene.

The researchers looked at the dentate gyrus, a specific area of the brain that is critical to memory and particularly vulnerable in Alzheimer's disease, and compared the genes that were turned on and off in normal mice and a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

It turns out, that when a bad diet disrupts normal endothelial function to your brain, it affects how active your brain can be.

There has been a lot of research to show that the six small meals a day advice is nonsense; it just turns us into grazers and keeps food on the brain; fine if you are normal, not fine if you have an addiction - prone brain like I do.

With both actors matching his enthusiasm for complex characters and the taut, challenging story about a brain - damaged ex-jock (Gordon - Levitt) being played by a seductive sociopath (Goode), the conversation turned from defying audience expectations, to what constitutes normal, to the wonders of location filming during winter in Winnipeg.