Sentences with phrase «with brain pathways»

Neuroscientists recently discovered that optimism is associated with brain pathways connecting the left prefrontal region to the amygdala.

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In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with each another, forming primitive neural pathways.

The brain, trying to deal with major emotional trauma, can alter its neural pathways, creating, essentially, a different person.»

Mindfulness does take practice, but each time you practice it, it actively changes the neural pathways in the brain so that it's easier to respond mindfully in stressful moments rather than continue to struggle with the primitive «fight or flight» reactions.

The more that we learn about how babies brains develop, we see that when babies are comforted the neurological pathways are built up so that the child in later years will be better able to cope with stress.

«When your child feels close to you, her brain forms the neural pathways that allow her to learn, remember, and think... When she senses you're on her side, she can learn, cooperate, and connect with others.»

In addition, constant engagement with the mother means that with every feed, their brain is connecting neural pathways.

But the neural pathways associated with cravings and addictions were activated too, as was a brain region associated with the distress that accompanies physical pain.

The combination of motor imagery and BCI feedback can help the brain rebuild damaged neural pathways, but is not successful with every patient.

Focusing on the neural pathway from the brain's prefrontal cortex to the amygdala, they combined optogenetics — a technique that uses light to control the activity of neurons in living tissue — with behavioral testing, a methodology that allows researchers to study functional connections between different regions of the brain.

The research group came up with bypassing the functioning brain and locomotion center with the computer to compensate lost pathways as a way to enable individuals with spinal cord injury to regain walking ability.

Gait disturbance in individuals with spinal cord injury is attributed to the interruption of neural pathways from brain to the spinal locomotor center, whereas neural circuits locate below and above the lesion maintain most of their functions.

And drugs with similar fingerprints tended to tweak the same molecular pathways, which suggests zebrafish behaviour is a good indicator for how a drug will change chemistry in the human brain.

Fruit flies with the mutant form of LRRK2 also had a disrupted microRNA pathway associated with the gene, and accumulated toxic proteins that killed motor - coordinating neurons in the brain.

These mouse brain cells were treated with both the polymer and glowing dyes to help researchers pinpoint individual cells and trace neural pathways.

Neuroscientist Steven Jacobson and his colleagues at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke have determined that the virus makes its entry to the human brain through the olfactory pathway, right along with the odors wafting into our nose.

«Our game will be a fun computer based tool which will benefit children with visual field loss — holes in their vision due to damage to the brain's visual pathways.

When patients are fitted with a robotic prosthetic limb, they gain control over their prosthesis with the help of a communication pathway provided by a brain - computer interface, or BCI, implanted in the brain.

A long - standing theory is that people with TS gain control over their tics by developing self - regulating techniques to compensate, which in turn lead to a physical're - wiring» within the neural pathways of the brain.

Dias and Ressler probed the Notch pathway because they were examining many genes that are activated in the brains of mice after they learn to become afraid of a sound paired with a mild foot - shock.

A fourth study finds that a generalized seizure leads to diminished short and long - term memory by interfering with key signaling pathways in the brain.

With the resources of the institute to draw on, he says, «we went back to the laboratory and came up with a better pathway to open the blood - brain barrier.&raWith the resources of the institute to draw on, he says, «we went back to the laboratory and came up with a better pathway to open the blood - brain barrier.&rawith a better pathway to open the blood - brain barrier.»

To test the possibility, Deisseroth engineers an animal with light - sensitive proteins in the brain cells lying along the suspected pathway.

Functional loss of limb control in individuals with spinal cord injury or stroke can be caused by interruption of the neural pathways between brain and spinal cord, although the neural circuits located above and below the lesion remain functional.

Dual memory pathways may help the brain increase its total computational power while incorporating new information with existing data in meaningful ways.

If we can study the biochemical pathways their brains are using and find out how these flies manage with so little sleep, we might eventually find a way to make human sleep more efficient and restorative.

Because opioid pathways are involved in diverse processes in the brain that aren't all directly related to pain, he says, «I didn't come away with the impression that this definitively means that empathy and pain share fundamental processes.»

In their new paper, Cheyette and his team examined the gene DIXDC1 — a key piece of the WNT signaling pathway that is active in tissues of the brain and interacts with DISC1, a gene implicated in schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, and autism spectrum disorders.

Researchers at the University of Liège in Belgium reported at a conference in France this week that a study of 13 patients in comas of varying degrees indicated that those with the most activity in these pathways (in the cortex, or brain processing center) had suffered the least brain damage and thereby were most likely to recover if given the correct treatment.

With the former it is possible that something similar genetically underlies both ADHD and obesity; Castellanos and his colleagues note that dysfunction in the dopamine pathways of the brain have been found among both people who are obese and those with AWith the former it is possible that something similar genetically underlies both ADHD and obesity; Castellanos and his colleagues note that dysfunction in the dopamine pathways of the brain have been found among both people who are obese and those with Awith ADHD.

The CUMC team is currently using the new mouse model to study signaling pathways in the brain that drive anorexic behavior, with the ultimate goal of identifying therapeutic targets.

Brain imaging shows that testosterone therapy given as part of sex reassignment changes the brain structures and the pathway associated with speech and verbal fluBrain imaging shows that testosterone therapy given as part of sex reassignment changes the brain structures and the pathway associated with speech and verbal flubrain structures and the pathway associated with speech and verbal fluency.

In the children with autism, the pathways connecting the cerebral cortex and thalamus were found to be affected, indicating that these two parts of the brain do not communicate well with each other.

The frontline prescription drugs currently used to treat tobacco dependence — which include bupropion and varenicline — primarily target the brain's «reward» pathways by interfering with the release and binding of dopamine in the brain in response to nicotine.

«They have found a smoking gun in the human genome that connects a regulatory element with a proposed pathway for increasing brain size,» says Todd Preuss, a neuroanatomist at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, who was not involved with the work.

«A lot of work that initiated this project stemmed from what we learned about how these pathways work in normal brain development, and as we learn more about how it normally works we think it'll provide us with novel insight about how to target it in disease.»

«Protein associated with Parkinson's travels from brain to gut: New laboratory study provides clues on a particular pathway of «alpha - synuclein» diffusion.»

The compulsive alcohol consumption and neurological pathways seen in the new study suggest that alcohol works with nicotine to further activate the brain's reward system and dampen the stress of nicotine exposure.

Enlarged vestibular aqueduct is the most common inner ear malformation associated with sensorineural hearing loss, which is caused by issues in the cochlea or the neural pathways that carry sound to the brain.

Dario C. Altieri, M.D., Wistar's President and CEO and lead author of the study, and colleagues showed how the activation of this pathway leads to an unfavorable prognosis for patients with gliomas — a type of brain tumor — and how the pathway could be a valuable therapeutic target in cancer.

There were theories that it shared a nerve pathway with pain to the brain — and now comes news that different forms of itching apparently have their own neural routes.

Nearly 20 percent of children with NF1 develop brain tumors that involve the optic pathway, affecting the nerves that carry vision - related signals from the eye to the brain.

When the scientists tried to trigger LTP in these brain slices with electrical stimulation or chemicals, they found that methods that fired up cellular pathways involving the molecule cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) didn't work.

The activation of this signaling pathway progressively increased in different types of gliomas, with the highest activity seen in patients with glioblastoma, a particularly difficult - to - treat form of brain cancer that represents approximately 15 percent of all brain tumors.

An inquiry into the roots of human amnesia has shown how deep structures in the brain may interact with perceptual pathways in outer brain layers to transform sensory stimuli into memories

Neuroscience is a field of study that deals with the structure, function, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system, divided into the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord), and the peripheral nervous system, consisting of the myriad nerve pathways running throughout the body.

The researchers showed that the mTOR pathway correlates with brain improvements observed in their mice and suggest that future studies might test whether the pathway is necessary to mediate such improvements.

«People with increased cognitive reserve capabilities may actually heal in a different way that allows them to return to their pre-injury function and / or they may be able to better adapt and form new pathways in their brains to compensate for the injury,» Schneider says.

The proportion of adults 65 years or older with a high school diploma increased from 55 % in 1990 to 80 % in 2010, while the proportion with a college degree increased from 12 % to 23 %.12 More years of formal education is associated with a reduced risk of dementia, likely through multiple causal pathways, including a direct effect on brain development and function (ie, the building of «cognitive reserve»), health behaviors, as well as the general health advantages of having more wealth and opportunities.13 - 15

They also found that drugs that target this newly identified cancer pathway can prevent tumor growth, both in human cancer cells and mice with a form of brain cancer.