Sentences with phrase «understanding normal brain function»

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«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.

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.»

«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.

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.

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.

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