Sentences with phrase «un-focus circuits in the brain»

I use various Brain Integration Techniques to remove stress from circuits in the brain by using acupressure points, kinesiology, and healing energy.

Hearing my babytalk also encourages me to talk more, which in turn stimulates baby «sneural dendrites and circuits in the brain and causes the lefthemisphere's language centers to grow.

Psilocybin, a hallucinogenic compound found in magic mushrooms, may help re-set the activity of neural circuits in the brain that are involved in depression

Richer and more relevant sensory information from spindles allows for efficient update of the computational circuits in our brain that guide movement.

Correspondingly, they found that neural circuits in the brain that contribute significantly to the control of anxiety and social interactions were significantly affected in the immune - activated mice.

In the fathers, a surge of prolactin helped the neurons form a permanent circuit in the brain, which integrated a pup's scent into the father's long - term memory.

In addition, fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) allows the delineation of detailed neural circuits in the brain involved in complex human behavior.

Today, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) announce the discovery of a new neural circuit in the brain that directly links the site of fear memory with an area of the brainstem that controls behavior.

«We now know much more about how the cells work and how they best become integrated into the circuits in the brain.»

About this Book: Why We Snap: Understanding the Rage Circuit in Your Brain R. Douglas Fields Dutton, 2016

In drug addiction — my field — rodents will self - administer and addict themselves to the same drugs that humans self - administer and addict themselves to, which makes it possible to identify the neural circuits in the brain, and the molecular changes within those circuits caused by drug exposure, that underlie states of addiction.

Normal larvae have a neuronal circuit in their brains that let them get over this.

A team of CSHL scientists have discovered a new neural circuit in the brain that directly links the site of fear memory with an area of the brainstem that controls behavior.

Microfabricated silicon needle - electrode devices were expected to be an innovation that would be able to record and analyze the electrical activities of the microscale neuronal circuits in the brain.

But «the circuits in the brain that control gaze direction affect how the brain processes auditory information.»

By simply activating certain circuits in the brains of female prairie voles, researchers made them «fall in love» with specific males.

The researchers also investigated how pheromone signals are transmitted through the olfactory circuit in the brain.

The results suggested that Tye had located an anxiety circuit in the brain that could someday be targeted by drugs.

«Hunting for the brain's opioid addiction switch: Expert investigates how drug addiction changes circuits in the brain.»

If scientists can study accurate models of working neural circuits in these brain bits, he and others say, researchers might finally get a handle on uniquely human neurological conditions.

Optogenetics also may provide an improved understanding of Parkinson's disease, which involves haywire processing in certain motor - control circuits in the brain.

This activates other circuits in the brain, hereby releasing the blockages and allowing the person to continue walking.

Researchers have identified a neural circuit in the brains of mice that plays a role in social dominance.

Without such large - scale inhibition, some circuits in the brain would seize up, as occurs in epilepsy.

First, hunger does not increase the engagement of reward and motivation circuits in the brain.

During periods of hunger, hormones heighten the reactivity of food - related reward circuits in the brain, particularly in the striatum.

Dr. Britt obtained these results using optogenetics, which use light - responsive proteins to study the activation of neural circuits in distinct locations, allowing the researcher to precisely dissect the roles of different neural circuits in the brain.

Second, they showed increased activation of executive «self - control» circuits in the brain, perhaps making them more effective in resisting temptations.

This study, led by Garret D. Stuber, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and cell biology & physiology, and Jenna A. McHenry, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in Stuber's lab, identified a hormone - sensitive circuit in the brain that controls social motivation in female mice.

«Once we unravel the different working patterns and circuits in the brain during memory formation and decision - making, we can begin to look for differences in connectivity patterns that underlie abnormalities,» Harvey said.

Based on their data, Card and von Reyn propose that a looming stimulus first activates a circuit in the brain that initiates a slow escape, beginning with a controlled lift of the wings.

Now an imaging study finds that psychopathic inmates have deficits in a key empathy circuit in the brain, pointing to a potential therapeutic target.

Sripada and colleagues suggest that methylphenidate may help to boost performance of the specific circuits in the brain's prefrontal cortex that are normally compromised after sustained exertion of self - control.

Amita Sehgal, PhD, a professor of Neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, describes in Cell a circuit in the brain of fruit flies that controls their daily, rhythmic behavior of rest and activity.

Activating circuits in the brains of female prairie voles can make them «fall in love».

The results of their work, the researchers say, may advance scientific understanding of how genes linked to the risk of human bipolar disorder change neuronal circuits in the brain, and may offer an animal model for testing new treatments.

16 Sweet treats and alcohol fire up many of the same reward circuits in the brain.

Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new computational model of a neural circuit in the brain, which could shed light on the biological role of inhibitory neurons — neurons that keep other neurons from firing.

The neurons were also less well connected to other neurons that form important circuits in the brain compared to mice with the protein.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists have identified a circuit in the brains of mice that regulates thirst.

When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.

«The circuits in our brain that allow us to focus on a particular task, especially a task that leads to reward, are well known,» said Michael Platt, the James S. Riepe University Professor in Penn's psychology, neuroscience and marketing departments.

«That means not only what algorithms does the brain use, but what are the circuits in the brain that implement these algorithms.»

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

It was really a startlingly novel idea that you could make a connection between circuits in the brain and the way in which the mind operated.

At Weizmann, Dr. Spiegel will be establishing his own independent research group which will attempt to identify the molecular and cellular mechanisms through which experience alters the structure and function of neural circuits in the brain in behaviorally relevant ways and to understand how these processes, when they go awry, might give rise to psychiatric disorders.

This past summer, along with Roy and other colleagues, he reported that — contrary to neuroscience dogma — the neural circuit in the brain structure called the hippocampus that makes a particular memory is not the same circuit that recalls the memory later.

The study supported a long - standing hypothesis that the brain is active in the absence of input, or to put it more technically, the circuits in the brain can generate «intrinsic activity.»

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have identified a circuit in the brain that appears crucial in converting short - term memories into long - term memories.

Chief among those insights are the Jans» discoveries on how neurons arise from their progenitors, acquire distinct identities and shapes, and establish baroque circuits in the brain and peripheral nervous system with seeming ease.