Sentences with phrase «understanding brain mechanisms»

My group focused on understanding brain mechanisms and the brain's hierarchical organization in controlling the various activities that humans execute, including motor control and behavioural changes upon fluctuations in the environments.

«Understanding brain mechanisms that lead to poor learning is important to developing effective strategies to improve memory and learning ability,» Pahan said.

In the past years, our ability to understand the brain mechanisms that underlie our thoughts has dramatically increased.

The last twenty years of sex research and brain science have utterly transformed how we understand the brain mechanism of sex and female sexuality.

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His goal is wildly ambitious — in large part because of how little is really understood about the central nervous system, which consists of the brain and spinal cord, and its healing mechanisms.

Our brains are built to intuitively grasp natural numbers, we need education to learn about zero and the rest, our brains are built to seek refuge from the unexplainable, the unknown holds some danger, so the brain has mechanisms of inventing imaginary supernatural creatures to help make sense of things that are beyond our knowledge and understanding.

Given the modernists» assumptions, the latter can be accounted for as products of our senses and brain: the neural resources of the blob generate image, sensation, and emotion, and these are consistent with reason understood as pure mechanism.

Brain research is helping scientists better understand the neural mechanisms underlying language processing in infants and young children, as well as the social interactions necessary for honing those skills.

Neuroscience can contribute to better understanding the mechanisms that turn acute pain into chronic pain, assessing the long - term impact that chronic pain has on the brain, and the benefits and risks of various treatment options.

Identifying genes that promote or prevent neuronal death would thus be an important step in understanding both developmentally - regulated neuronal death as well as the mechanisms underlying degenerative brain disorders.

«Though no such treatment yet exists, this finding will lead to experiments to better understand the specific mechanisms of the inflammatory response in the neurodegenerating brain, which may in turn lead to new treatments.»

- Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience Supports collaborations among computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, theoreticians and experimental neuroscientists, which are imperative to advance our understanding of the nervous system and mechanisms underlying brain disorders and have a significant impact on the theory and design of engineered systems.

In a broader sense, neuroscientists want to understand how the human brain creates and perceives language, and entrainment has emerged as an important mechanism.

«Our findings help us to better understand the complexity of the brain and also grasp mechanisms that can be used to reduce brain injury and disease.»

So far scientists do not understand the underlying mechanisms, but if bird brains share certain key circuits with humans, then scientists may find answers by studying them.

The high prevalence of this phenomenon may make it easier for us to study and better understand the underlying mechanisms in the brain behind such synaesthetic effects.

«This is a step in understanding how the neuronal mechanisms of memory and early sensory experiences form brain circuits in the early developmental stage, not only in birds, but also in humans and other species.»

«Dr. Murai and his team have made a remarkable discovery that will advance our understanding of fundamental mechanisms that play a role in brain disease,» says Inez Jabalpurwala, president and CEO of Brain Canada Foundabrain disease,» says Inez Jabalpurwala, president and CEO of Brain Canada FoundaBrain Canada Foundation.

«This kind of study allows us to start understanding the cellular mechanisms» behind the brain damage, she says.

The discovery of a new mechanism that controls the way nerve cells in the brain communicate with each other to regulate our learning and long - term memory could have major benefits to understanding how the brain works and what goes wrong in neurodegenerative disorders such as epilepsy and dementia.

Sweeney found that the mechanistic answers that Pinker offered about the mind — the brain - based mechanisms of thought and consciousness being discovered by modern neuroscience — inspired her to replace her Catholic faith with science's empirical skepticism, which she finds, after many hilarious detours, «a much more powerful and reliable tool for understanding the world.»

Stolk argues that scientists and engineers should focus more on the contextual aspects of mutual understanding, basing his argument on experimental evidence from brain scans that humans achieve nonverbal mutual understanding using unique computational and neural mechanisms.

The authors believe that this denial mechanism became essential once our brain evolved a more comprehensive understanding of ourselves and others.

«We hope that our findings will lead to new understanding about the mechanisms that lead to brain injury and ultimately new neuroprotective treatment strategies for preterm babies.»

«Understanding the mechanisms that promote aberrant neurogenesis caused by traumatic brain injury and subsequent seizures may open new therapeutic avenues to prevent epilepsy and associated memory problems caused by impact,» said senior author Dr. Jenny Hsieh, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and a member of the UT Southwestern Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine.

«They help us to understand how the FOXP2 gene might have been important in the evolution of the human brain and direct us towards neural mechanisms that play a role in speech and language acquisition.»

The mechanisms underlying this brain / body connection are still not well understood.

«When you match physiologic changes in the brain with behavioral impairment, you can start to understand the biological mechanisms of this disorder, which may help improve diagnosis, and, in time, treatment.»

This suggests that a better understanding of the regulation of COX - 2 expression in the brain can provide new insights into molecular mechanisms that suppress seizure - induction,» adds Hewett, a pharmacologist by training.

This is why we want to understand the effects of physical exercise on the brain and the related neurobiological mechanisms.

The way epigenetics helps understand that process is that it provides the mechanism by which maternal experience of a pup can essentially produce lifelong changes in the brain because many epigenetic changes are that stable.

Unraveling how the immune and nervous systems interact has helped advance our understanding of many mechanisms within the brain, from development to diseases.

«Integrating these molecular imaging tools offers the opportunity to investigate the possible independent and synergistic contribution of these protein pathologies in neurodegeneration in the living brain and, therefore, greatly advance our understanding of the mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease,» said Drzezga.

Although the relationship between mastication and brain function is potentially important, the mechanism underlying is not fully understood.

«The brain network mechanisms that mediate these deficits are poorly understood, and have rarely been tackled using complex image analytic methods that focus on how brain regions communicate,» said Diwadkar, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and co-director of the department's Brain Imaging Research Divbrain network mechanisms that mediate these deficits are poorly understood, and have rarely been tackled using complex image analytic methods that focus on how brain regions communicate,» said Diwadkar, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and co-director of the department's Brain Imaging Research Divbrain regions communicate,» said Diwadkar, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and co-director of the department's Brain Imaging Research DivBrain Imaging Research Division

While the mechanism of neurogenesis is not fully understood, extra brain cell growth is strongly correlated to learning new things.

Thus, by monitoring the activity of motion - detecting neurons in animals and simultaneously exploring human motion perception using cunningly contrived displays such as a, b and c, scientists are starting to understand the mechanisms in your brain that are specialized for seeing motion.

«We wanted to understand the mechanism by which the brain circuit operates,» explained senior author Assistant Professor Shawn Je, from the Neuroscience and Behavioural Disorders Programme at Duke - NUS.

Exposure to a group of common pesticides, called dithiocarbamates, has long been associated with an increased risk of Parkinson's disease, although the mechanism by which the compounds exert their toxicity on the brain has not been completely understood.

«As we improve our understanding of brain mechanisms, new medication targets may emerge as well.»

A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms controlling reactive astrocyte function is fundamental to therapeutic interventions for brain trauma.

The ultimate goal is to «try to understand what might be the mechanism that lowers the stress response» in larger brained birds, says Michaela Hau of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Munich, Germany.

Forward - looking studies are examining other possible information couriers: glial cells (poorly understood brain cells that are 10 times as common as neurons), other kinds of signaling mechanisms between cells (such as newly discovered gases and peptides), and the biochemical cascades that take place inside cells.

While machine learning is thus effective for decoding mental activity, it is not necessarily effective for understanding the specific information processing mechanisms in the brain.

«Understanding the principles and mechanisms involved in neuronal homeostasis may lead to new approaches in the treatment of these and other brain disorders like Alzheimer's disease.»

Understanding the dynamic mechanisms that lead to the emergence of brain functions through the development and continuous remodelling of neural circuits, and the constraints that disease and aging impose to this multi-modal plasticity has important implications that go beyond fundamental neuroscience, from education policies to brain repair.

To understand the mechanism behind this, the researchers measured how darkness affects levels of a protein, called NF - L, that helps stabilize the shape and structure of neurons in the brain.

«Understanding the nature of the cognitive impairment and the underlying biological mechanisms are essential to the development of an effective treatment for chemo brain.

«Much more research is needed in order for us to more fully understand the underlying mechanism and specific role of the insular cortex, but is clear that something is going on in this part of the brain that is influencing addiction,» said Abdolahi.

As a Ph.D. candidate in cognitive and neural systems at Boston University, he began developing large - scale models of the brain that could be used to understand neural mechanisms.