Sentences with phrase «when brain researchers»

At a time when brain researchers thought nothing could be learned from invertebrates, Kandel stunned the fledgling world of neuroscience by uncovering the mechanisms of memory in sea slugs, which earned him a Nobel Prize in 2000.

Not exact matches

When Stanford researchers recently peered into the brains of students to see how attitude affects achievement, they found something startling.

The researchers found that a positive «social evaluation» occurs in the brain when handshakes are present.

While the reason for this isn't entirely clear, the researchers suggested it could have to do with the social isolation that comes from losing your hearing and how that affects the brain when it's not able to work at processing sound.

Lehrer describes how researchers at Drexel College set out to study what happens in a person's brain when he or she experiences some sort of personal discovery.

When Harvard - trained brain researcher Dr. Jill Bolte says she had a stroke of insight, she means it literally.

However, when the researchers damaged a more central brain region called the limbic system, which is the source of emotions and pleasure (among other things), the hamsters» maternal behaviors — like nest - building, picking up pups, and nursing — never developed.

WFAN was two years old when then program director Mark Mason decided to pair the Mad Dog in afternoon drive time with fellow Long Island native Mike Francesa, who before landing an on - air job at WFAN had worked as a researcher at CBS Sports, where he was sometimes referred to as Brent Musburger's brain.

The study, by researchers at Israel's Bar - Ilan University, measured first - time parents» brain activity when they watched films of themselves playing with their children.

When they analyzed the MRI data, the researchers found that the physically fit children tended to have bigger hippocampal volume - about 12 percent bigger relative to total brain size - than their out - of - shape peers.

More praise for the yummy stuff resulted from brain researcher Todd Parrish of Northwestern University in 2009, when he examined functional magnetic resonance images of gum chewers and found increased activity in areas of the brain associated with memory and emotional responses.

Self - control is twice as important as intelligence when it comes to academic achievement, according to neuroscience researchers Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang, who co-authored «Welcome to Your Child's Brain.»

Now, researchers who have measured the brain responses of 125 infants — including babies who were born prematurely and others who went full - term — show that a baby's earliest experiences of touch have lasting effects on the way their young brains respond to gentle touch when they go home.

One researcher notes that the supine position (lying on the back) may contribute significantly to hypotension and FHR abnormalities when an epidural is in place.73 Another found that the supine position (plus epidural) was associated with a significant decrease in the oxygen supply to the baby's brain (fetal cerebral oxygenation).74

Harvard researchers Michael Commons and Patrice Miller say that when children are left to cry for long intervals, their little brains are flooded with a harmful hormone called cortisol.

When it comes to executive agencies, including the state and city university systems, however, New York's highest - paid employee in 2016 was psychiatrist and brain researcher Dr. Carlos N. Pato, who earned $ 748,991 as dean of the SUNY Downstate Medical Center.

By analysing the patterns of brain activity when volunteers read or listened to sentences containing hard - to - detect semantic anomalies - words that fit the general context even though they do not actually make sense - the researchers found that when a volunteer was tricked by the semantic illusion, their brain had not even noticed the anomalous word.

When researchers looked at their brain activity during these times, they saw that one hemisphere of the brain had electrical patterns resembling nighttime sleep, whereas patterns from the other hemisphere indicated wakefulness.

But the researchers also found that when a student reported being more engaged, the frequency of their brain waves better matched the group.

The researchers then used genetic techniques to find out what would happen when NAD manufacturing is turned off in the adult neural stem cells of the mouse brain.

Researchers hope the organoids will be better than lab animals or cells growing in culture at revealing how the human brain develops, both normally and when things go awry, and identify potential therapeutic or genome - editing targets.

The researchers also performed multiple MRI brain scans of these children when they were ages 6 to 13.

When the researchers gave the mice a drug called lamotrigine, often prescribed for bipolar disorder, the animals» brain activity mimicked that of their resilient counterparts: The neurons in the already hyperactive VTA started firing even more intensely, followed by a lull and abatement of depression symptoms.

The researchers found that when kids had three or more adverse experiences, they also had smaller brain volumes that, in turn, were associated with lower scores on a scale that measures how well a child expresses emotions.

Over the past five years, researchers observed abnormal brain activity in the SHANK3 knockout mice when compared to controls.

When the researchers attached probes to the mice to measure brain activity, they found mice without ErbB4 had brain regions that were acting independently, rather than together in synchrony.

The functional magnetic resonance imaging allowed the researchers to see which areas of the brain were triggered when the task was performed.

Lucina Uddin, an associate professor of psychology in the UM College of Arts and Sciences, explains that studying the brain when it's in a resting state allows researchers to «basically look at the organization of the brain as it is without any extra stressors or stimuli.

When the same image was processed subconsciously, the researchers found that the patterns of brain activity were much more variable.

Johns Hopkins researchers report that fetal mice — especially males — show signs of brain damage that lasts into their adulthood when they are exposed in the womb to a maternal immune system kicked into high gear by a serious infection or other malady.

Using electrophysiological measurements, the researchers could identify specific changes in brain patterns when the volunteers were mind wandering.

When the mice were at various ages, the researchers isolated mitochondria from their synapses and from other brain regions.

Researchers at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Israeli Defense Force's Medical Corps have found that a variety of chemicals penetrate the mouse blood - brain barrier much more readily when the mice are forced to tread water, a condition that induces stress.

After exposing the mice to single 20 - minute tDCS sessions, the researchers saw signs of improved memory and brain plasticity (the ability to form new connections between neurons when learning new information), which lasted at least a week.

The researchers checked back in with the study subjects when they turned 18 to find out how the increased cortisol affected their brain function.

The trail warmed in the early 1990s when researchers determined that, in normally developing brains, neurotransmitters triggered protein production near synapses.

Using clever statistical tests called mediation analyses to look at these interactions, the researchers found that aerobically fitter older men can perform better mentally than less fit older men by using the more important brain regions when needed.

The researchers studied mice engineered to develop plaques in their brains when the animals are about 10 weeks old.

Researchers looked at brain activity from EEG sensors and saw that older participants wandered into a brief «mental time travel» when trying to recall details.

«Brain is less flexible than we thought when learning: Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh use brain - computer interfaces to monitor the activity of populations of neurons during learning.&rBrain is less flexible than we thought when learning: Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh use brain - computer interfaces to monitor the activity of populations of neurons during learning.&rbrain - computer interfaces to monitor the activity of populations of neurons during learning.»

When the researchers tracked the stem cells in the mice's brains, they saw that only about 5 percent of them actually developed into neurons, suggesting the cells did not rescue memory by replacing dead neurons, LaFerla says.

When the researchers analyzed the brain scans, they found that the memory champs were activating some brain regions that were different from those the control subjects were using.

«These findings suggest that even neurons we previously thought were «useless» because they didn't individually encode information have a purpose when working in concert with other neurons,» said researcher Julio Martinez - Trujillo, based at the Robarts Research Institute and the Brain and Mind Institute at Western University.

There are researchers who argue that dreams originate as early as in the mother's womb, whereas others posit that they first occur when a child's brain becomes more developed, around five to seven years old.

Lieberman got similar results when he showed a group of subjects pictures of other people's faces while the researchers scanned their brains.

The researchers report in the Journal of Neuroscience that when mice allowed to exercise regularly experienced a stressor — exposure to cold water — their brains exhibited a spike in the activity of neurons that shut off excitement in the ventral hippocampus, a brain region shown to regulate anxiety.

When infants in the Dartmouth study were shown a moving picture of a starfish, the left and right hemispheres of their brains lit up (dark red indicates high brain activity; dark blue, low activity)-- but not as much as when researchers spoke to them, saying: «Hello, bWhen infants in the Dartmouth study were shown a moving picture of a starfish, the left and right hemispheres of their brains lit up (dark red indicates high brain activity; dark blue, low activity)-- but not as much as when researchers spoke to them, saying: «Hello, bwhen researchers spoke to them, saying: «Hello, baby.

But when Antoine Louveau, a researcher in Kipnis» lab, developed a dissection technique that wholly preserves the fragile membranes covering the mouse brain, it revealed something never seen before: Immune cells in the membranes were clearly organized, as if traveling within tubes.

Cluster headaches have long puzzled researchers, too, although studies are slowly revealing the parts of the brain involved when those punctuated bursts of pain occur.

When the animals were 14 days old, the researchers killed them and examined their brains.