Sentences with phrase «with electrical activity»

They sprouted tiny projections, called dendritic spines, which receive signals from other neurons in a circuit, and six out of the seven organoids that grew for at least eight months formed active neuronal networks, spiking with electrical activity.

Now it seems that this memory can be altered by meddling with the electrical activity of the animals» cells.

While neurons, sparking with electrical activity, steal the limelight as the makers of thought, we now know that microglia are just as critical for a fertile, flexible mind.

In a normal brain, the neurons of the central thalamus crackle with electrical activity when we struggle to pay attention to the world around us, and they accelerate their action as we emerge from sleep.

Every time a picture of a face flashed on the screen, neurons in the middle face patch would crackle with electrical activity.

They even birthed specialized neurons that crackle with electrical activity and form circuits.

Schalk points with his pen at a large rectangular field on the side of the screen depicting a region of her brain abuzz with electrical activity.

Not exact matches

With help from a neuroscientist and a qEEG machine, Waldman maps out the brain's electrical activity in both speaking and resting states.

But these are regarded as epiphenomena, as the rattling of the train is to the motion of the train, or else phenomena equated with chemical and electrical activities in the brain.

Also there is evidence of molecular mechanisms in the cell membranes that can amplify small changes in the field to produce large changes in neural activity.13 On the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studies).

In 2004, the indoor pool facility underwent a $ 5 million expansion which included the addition of an activity pool, family changing rooms, upgraded HVAC, electrical and filtration systems, expanded locker rooms and increased ADA accessibility with the addition of an elevator.

By the time they arrived to the ER, he was found to have pulseless electrical activity (heart rate with no blood pressure).

2010 Lynford L. Goddard is honored as the first recipient of the AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science for exemplifying an early career scientist eager to share his excitement about science and demonstrating excellence in reaching high school students with activities in electrical engineering, while simultaneously pursuing a competitive research career.

This amazing armband reads the electrical activity of your muscles and the motion of your arm to let you wirelessly control technology with hand gestures.

Sleep was assessed in the children during one night with in - home electroencephalography (EEG)-- a method used to record electrical activity in the brain and makes it possible to identify different sleep stages — whilst parents reported their own insomnia symptoms and their children's sleep problems.

His mission — called the Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment — will allow scientists to better model electrical activity that can interfere with signals from satellites and spacecraft.

The electrical activity inside the place cells synced with the electric field in nearby neurons.

Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to detect electrical activity in the brain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, associate research professor in FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of touch.

At least one study suggests that in cluster headache sufferers this hypothalamus - adjoining region may differ not only in its electrical activity but also in its interactions with other parts of the brain.

Results showed that, among study participants with asymmetry in temporal lobe high frequency electrical activity, those with right compared to left side asymmetry had higher resting heart rates and other changes suggesting that the cardiovascular system may be less capable of adapting to shifting circumstances.

An inflatable sheath embedded with integrated electronics can wrap around and move with a beating heart to monitor electrical activity.

But whereas the latter blankets large swaths of the brain with a whiteout storm of electrical activity — leading to temporary, and occasionally permanent, memory impairment — TMS is more of a focused tickle of the circuitry.

Their research technique of measuring electrical brain activity using an electroencephalogram (EEG) in these brain regions also predicted mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a condition that is likely to develop into Alzheimer's, with 80 per cent accuracy.

That allowed researchers to record electrical brain activity from individual neurons while the participants moved or tried to move their fingers and wrists, which were equipped with sensors to record physical movement.

Lamm and his group recently sought the answer to answer this question by combining measures of electrical activity in the brain (via electroencephalogram) with functional magnetic resonance imaging to show blood flow patterns in 25 participants getting rounds of shocks on their hands.

The researchers then measured cell composition and electrical activity again and found that the cells dramatically changed when they were in contact with neurons from different regions.

Meck has found support for his model by recording the electrical activities of neurons and in other researchers» studies on people with a skewed sense of time.

In the recessive deafness model, gene therapy with TMC1 restored the ability of sensory hair cells to respond to sound — producing a measurable electrical current — and also restored activity in the auditory portion of the brainstem.

The researchers recorded electrical activity in the brains of 10 female participants with fibromyalgia.

Zapping the brain with magnetic pulses while measuring its electrical activity is proving to be a reliable way to detect consciousness

The EEGs also allowed the researchers to show that male brains have greater electrical activity associated with the GABA (gamma - amino butyric acid) neurotransmission than do female brains.

The patients with chest pain diagnoses were classified into 1 of 5 testing strategies: no noninvasive testing, exercise electrocardiography (EE, evaluates the heart's electrical activity), stress echocardiography (SE, ultrasound), myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS, scan of heart) or coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA, CT imaging).

With that method, researchers monitor electrical brain activity using electrodes.

Eventually the dendrites made contact with those of neighboring cells and established normal electrical activity.

This time, they found that young men and young women responded differently, with males showing a greater increase in electrical activity in the brain in response to a TMS pulse.

To go further, the pair started combining their electrode recordings of individual neurons with readings from an intracranial EEG, which measures overall electrical activity in a larger area of the brain.

«We wanted to address this by measuring the exact location and timing of electrical activity in the subthalamic nucleus and comparing the results with behavioural data collected while a decision - making task is being performed.»

Implanted devices send targeted electrical stimulation to the nervous system to interfere with abnormal brain activity, and it is commonly assumed that neurons are the only important brain cells that need to be stimulated by these devices.

The researchers measured electrical activity of the neurons within the ensemble and compared it with nearby neurons that were not activated by the environmental cue.

«We measured the electrical activity of groups of nerve cells within the subthalamic nucleus in patients with Parkinson's disease, who had recently been treated with deep brain stimulation.

They found that tissue with high levels of epileptic electrical activity was low in lactate and had higher levels of creatine, phosphocreatine and choline, suggestive of abnormal metabolism.

As part of this therapeutic surgery, both epileptic and nearby regions with less or no epileptic electrical activity were also removed.

The onset of meditation in the monks coincided with an increase in high - frequency EEG electrical activity in the so - called gamma band (spanning 25 to 42 oscillations a second), which was synchronized across the frontal and parietal cortices.

By testing cycling time to task failure (TTF) in a group of 12 active participants in a placebo controlled study, Dr Mauger discovered that stimulating the brain by passing a mild electrical current (transcranial direct current stimulation or tDCS) over the scalp to stimulate it increased the activity of the area associated with muscle contraction.

In addition, during sleep the brain - wave patterns of dogs are similar to people's, and they exhibit the same stages of electrical activity that are observed in humans — all of which is consistent with the idea that dogs are dreaming.

For example, records of electrical activity in the brain showed that, on average, they experienced deep, non-rapid eye movement sleep for 30 per cent less time compared with participants who slept during a new moon.

Although these creative flashes are not well understood, recent research suggests that moments of inspiration coincide with spikes of electrical activity in the brain.

Having outfitted the twelve participants with electrode caps, the researchers used a measure of the brain's electrical activity known as event - related brain potentials (ERPs) to monitor their physiological responses to different outcomes.

Just as computers use programming languages such as Java, the brain seems to have its own operating languages — a bewildering set of codes hidden in the rates and timing with which neurons fire as well as the rhythmic electrical activities that oscillate through brain circuits.

«The electrical brain activity during rapid eye movements in sleep were highly similar to those occurring when people were presented with new images,» said Dr. Nir.