Sentences with phrase «understand normal brain»

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While the effects of the technique are not well - understood, TMS may be able to restore normal connectivity by stimulating neurons to make more connections with each other, thereby enhancing communication between parts of the brain.

«By exploring normal brain function, we can better understand what happens in someone with a mental illness.»

Understanding how brain injury disrupts normal brain function will allow scientists and physicians to develop new treatments and therapies to help people recover from post-traumatic epilepsy,» said Cantu.

The result is that a large number of people whose brains appear normal on standard tests (X-ray, computed tomography, or magnetic resonance imaging) could actually have some form of injury whose course is not well understood.

With Hubel and Wiesel's new understanding of how critical it is to the wiring of the brain for young eyes to get normal visual input, doctors began conducting surgery as early as possible, with much better outcomes.

Understanding how threat is processed in a normal brain versus one altered by PTSD is essential to developing effective interventions.

«An MRI might determine that the brain looks normal, but fast forward two years and the patient, who was married and successful, is suddenly unemployed, divorced, and miserable — without any awareness or understanding that new and lasting cognitive and emotional difficulties (including various degrees of amnesia, difficulty concentrating, depression, apathy, anxiety, and even a prominent personality change) emerged due to a car accident two years earlier.

Using magnetic stimulation to temporarily disrupt normal processing of the areas of the human brain involved in the production of actions of human participants, it is demonstrated that these areas are also involved in the understanding of actions.

This approach parallels our study of «normal» illusions — by understanding misperceptions, whether for intact or damaged systems, we gain insight into brain processes involved in perception.

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.

So if we can understand synapses a little bit better, we'll be able to understand the normal function of the brain, how it processes information, how it learns, and what goes wrong when you have, say, schizophrenia.»

«The findings allow us to have a better understanding of how normal variation in brain anatomy in the general population might bias both temperamental characteristics and health behaviors, including substance abuse,» Holmes said.

«We hope that in the future, by fully understanding how this gene affects signaling in the brain, we may be able to identify drugs to restore the normal signaling balance in neurons and improve cognitive and social function in patients,» says lead author Dr. M. Chiara Manzini.

«What this is leading to is not just collecting data from individual babies but also understanding and building a four - dimensional map of brain activity and how it should emerge in a normal baby.»

I could imagine that with an electrode array in the right location in the brain, we might learn to understand the differences in neuronal spiking between normal and aberrant brains.

An improved understanding of the biological background of musical aptitude can contribute new insights into, for instance, genes that affect normal brain functions, the interactions between genes and the environment and the significance of music as a form of therapy.

The ultimate goal is to better understand how the billions of neurons in the brain communicate with one another during normal brain function, or dysfunction, as result of injury or disease.

With clinical trials underway, it's all the more important to understand the role of normal huntingtin in the adult brain.

Raichle's most recent research has helped in the development of a much better understanding of those areas of the normal human brain responsible for language, thought processing and emotion.

Basic science is always going to be good for medical applications, because for curing any brain disease it will be very helpful to understand how the normal brain functions.

So technical innovations for brain mapping will contribute both to understanding the normal function of the healthy brain and also disease states.

The main objective of the LMN is to advance our understanding of the role of glutamate, as a transmitter substance in the normal brain and as a mediator of excitotoxicity in pathological conditions such as stroke.

Currently, her research interest is focused on the functional characterization of cell - autonomous molecular determinants, known to control cardinal stem cell properties in normal NSCs, in the attempt of understanding their putative role in regulating the same properties in brain tumor - derived cancer stem cells.

We also focus effort at the level of anatomy to understand the pathways of information flow in the brain for normal learning to occur, and at the behavioral level to probe the complexities of memory formation.

The more we understand about how the normal and extra-long huntingtin proteins are made and work in brain cells, the better equipped we'll be in the search for HD treatments.

Our long - term goal is to understand the normal function of the brain and to discover cures for the nervous system ravaged by disease.

Increased understanding of the developing brain and how deviations from normal development can increase the risk of neurological and psychiatric diseases has created a rich landscape of opportunity for collaborations between leading academic medical centers and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies dedicated to identifying new drugs and other interventions to help children.

Researchers are using stem cells to help them understand normal development of brain tissue and what goes wrong in MS. Stem cells are also enormously useful for testing new drugs and treatments and for learning more about the body's natural repair mechanisms.

Total market overkill, created using a logic I'll never understand with a normal human brain.

For us to be the best parents we can be, it's important for us to understand children's brains, emotions, development and normal behavior.

Introduction A broad range of mental disorders are now understood as aberrations of normal adolescent brain development.

Recent reports indicate that adjustment problems in childhood psychopathology are related to structural brain characteristics (9 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 13), but the brain basis for development of self - regulation in normal children is less well - understood.