Sentences with phrase «where brain research»

We can't predict where brain research will eventually go.

Not exact matches

Brain waves usually are monitored in hospitals or research labs, but I'm in a conference room at a company called Emotiv, where a few dozen scientists have developed the gear and software that quite literally read my mind, allowing me to play a sort of video game with nothing but sheer thought.

Part office, part research facility, and part doggy daycare, this is where the brains and brawn of Beyond Meat gather to make plant - based dreams come true.

Please enjoy your Nobel Prizes responsibly, lest you accidentally publish your research somewhere where unsuspecting readers could come across it by accident and have their brains melt from the sudden effort...

One sign of that is increased funding from the National Institutes of Health, which has helped establish new contemplative science research centers at Stanford University, Emory University, and the University of Wisconsin, where the world's first brain imaging lab with a meditation room next door is now under construction.

«We all know that if you engage in certain kinds of exercise on a regular basis you can strengthen certain muscle groups in predictable ways,» Davidson says in his office at the University of Wisconsin, where his research team has hosted scores of Buddhist monks and other meditators for brain scans.

Part office, part research facility, and part doggy daycare, this is where the brains and brawn of Beyond Meat gather to make plant - based dreams come true.

Part of the evidence supporting this belief comes from neuroscience and pediatrics, where recent research shows that harsh or unstable environments can create biological changes in the growing brains and bodies of infants and children.

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Nowinski, who suffered multiple concussions on the football field and in the wrestling ring, now dedicates his work to concussion research and education, both at the Sports Legacy Institute, where he is president, and at Boston University, where he is co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease brought on by repeated trauma.

Pinpointing where motivation resides in the brain is not easy, but a research team in China may have done just that.

After receiving her Ph.D. in immunology from the Open University, United Kingdom, where she researched the identification of transcriptional factors regulating the unique phenotype of the human blood — brain barrier, she joined the Roche Brain Shuttle program as a postdoctoral febrain barrier, she joined the Roche Brain Shuttle program as a postdoctoral feBrain Shuttle program as a postdoctoral fellow.

The research team used a brain - computer interface (BCI), where subjects move a cursor on a computer screen by thought alone.

The students used a 3 - D printer to design a smaller and more cost - efficient bioreactor — a miniaturized culture device where neural stems cells are grown and eventually become small laboratory brains for research.

New research shows that a seventh rhodopsin, Rh7, is expressed in the brain of fruit flies where it regulates the fly's day - night activity cycles.

The multinational research group utilized a model system where human retinal pigment epithelial cells were infected with Zika virus strain they isolated earlier from fetal brain [T1].

Zhang did the research at Stanford Sleep Center, where he could record brain waves of snoozing mice.

«Previous research documented brain activity in response to sound during early developmental phases, but it was hard to determine where in the brain these signals were coming from,» said Patrick Kanold, a professor of biology at UMD and the senior author of the research paper.

The researchers analyzed eight Alzheimer's and six healthy brain samples from a brain bank, where people donate their brains after death for medical research.

James Brewer takes a seat beside me in a cafe at the San Diego Convention Center, where we are both attending the largest neuroscience meeting in the world: thirty thousand brains researching brains.

These faceless senators, and the subjects who imagined them, however, have given at least a preliminary indication of where future research into the brain regions associated with picturing what will come might delve.

«It was right where we thought it would be in brain tissue,» said Kosik, who is also the co-director of UCSB's Neuroscience Research Institute.

James Brewer takes a seat beside me in a café at the San Diego Convention Center, where we are both attending the largest neuroscience meeting in the world: thirty thousand brains researching brains.

In fact, the Pentagon is now extending its desire to manage information all the way to a soldier's brain, where DARPA and other research agencies are seeking to exploit neuroscience in pursuit of better battlefield technology.

So, if a pharmaceutical company creates an Alzheimer's drug to target memory based on research into one type of memory — the part of the brain responsible for finding missing objects, for example — but doesn't also have data on the type of memory that helps individuals remember the important people, places and things in their life, it runs the risk of producing a product that helps a person remember where they put the car keys, but not how they met their spouse.

«The findings challenge the conventional wisdom about how and where in the brain the processing of visual orientation information first occurs,» commented Michael A. Steinmetz, acting director of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Eye Institute, which provided funding for the study.

The research also has implications for other conditions where amyloid might play a role, such as traumatic brain injury (from sports or combat).

This work is a step towards the possibility of better treatment, but we need more research in this area, especially with younger subjects where we might expect more brain plasticity.»

The results are «movies» of brain activity showing not only where and when activity occurs but also how signals move across the brain on a millisecond - by - millisecond level, information no other research team has produced.

Research on how the brain knows where it is bagged the 2014 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

Steve: It is an excellent point; I mean, John, you quote Eric Kandel in your article and Eric Kandel won the Nobel prize for his groundbreaking research into memory and that work was done with a sea slug and basically they have teased out the most basic workings of memory in an invertebrate and these other folks like Kurzweil think that within his lifetime, you're going to be able to understand all the workings of the human brain to the point where you can basically replicate it.

During his time as an undergraduate student, he was a member of two cognitive neuroscience laboratories, where he worked on research studies examining how structural differences in the brain correlate with performance on cognitive tests.

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Three Foundation researchers — Senior Research Scientists, James Sumowski, Ph.D., and Karen Nolan, Ph.D., as well as Assistant Director of Engineering Research Peter Barrance, Ph.D. — will be working with physicians and other clinical experts at Children's Specialized Hospital, where they will together investigate ways to improve mobility and cognition — thinking, learning and memory — in children with various challenges, including brain and spinal cord injuries.

These research priorities that will lead to the development of new therapies became particularly striking when I was diagnosed five years ago with glaucoma — a degenerative disorder where the retinal nerve cells that carry visual information to the brain slowly die.

Anthony DeCostanzo is a Research Scientist at RIKEN in the Laboratory for Neural Circuit Theory where he is modeling brain function.

The pattern of RGC loss in patients as well as information obtained from laboratory research all point to the fact that an important site of pathology occurs at the optic nerve head, a region where the axonal cell processes of RGCs exit the eye on their way to the visual centers of the brain.

A complimentary line of research explores how vasopressin modulates social perceptions in humans, and through a collaboration with a colleague at Emory University, where within our own brains it produces such influences.

Central to the initiative is the creation of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech, where research investigations will span a continuum, from deciphering the basic biology of the brain to understanding sensation, perception, cognition, and human behavior, with the goal of making transformational advances that will inform new scientific tools and medical treatments.

Since March 2017, he has a post-doc position at LENS, where is devoting his research work on neuronal and vascular investigations in the framework of the Human Brain Project.

AMHERST, Mass. — Cognitive neuroscience researcher Joonkoo Park at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who recently received a five - year, $ 751,000 faculty early career development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address basic research questions about how our brains process number and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical thinking, has co-authored a paper that reports this week where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is processed.

He was introduced to radiopharmaceutical development as a postdoctoral research associate and then as a staff scientist in the department of radiology at Washington University School of Medicine, where he developed several preclinical imaging agents to study brain tumors, atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's disease.

There was another study done which gives additional support to that research, which concluded that in adults aged between 60 - 90, walking for half an hour four days per week for twelve consecutive weeks can strengthen the connectivity in a region in the brain where weakened connections have been related to memory loss.

Dr. Terry Wahls is a professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical research on the use of diet and lifestyle to treat brain - related problems.

Previously, Dr. Mosconi founded and was the director of the Nutrition & Brain Fitness Lab at New York University School of Medicine (NYU) and an assistant professor in the NYU Department of Psychiatry, where she served as the director of the Family History of Alzheimer's disease research program.

I am currently studying Human Biology and Medical Science at the University of Westminster, where I am heavily involved with brain tumour research.

However, as I stood on the side of the road watching this parade of fear - based talk, researchers telling us more research is needed, and advertisements of the latest brain health panacea, I felt, based on my reading of research studies that can be found in any average medical library where, much to my amazement and frustration, few besides me tend to go, something was missing.

«Although we knew that the EAAT2 gene has a crucial role to play in neurological processes in human and potentially in the development of migraine, until now, no genetic link has been identified to suggest that glutamate accumulation in the brain could play a role in common migraine,» says co-senior author of the study Professor Christian Kubisch of University of Ulm, Germany (previously at the University of Cologne where he conducted his research for this study.)

«For pregnant women, the third trimester is a time of important brain development where the need for omega - 3s is the greatest,» says Christina Sherry, PhD, RD, a research scientist in prenatal nutrition with Abbott.

Research over the past 50 years shows that the brain - mind, where behavior originates, and the quality of nutrition are closely linked.