• Brain tumors , which can press on nerves and affect brain function. (medlineplus.gov)
  • This article focuses on primary brain tumors in children. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The cause of primary brain tumors is often unknown. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Brain tumors can directly kill brain cells. (medlineplus.gov)
  • In general, brain tumors in children are very rare. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Also called low-grade gliomas, these are the most common brain tumors in children. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Surgery is needed for most primary brain tumors. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Can Spinal Tumors Affect the Brain? (medicinenet.com)
  • cancer health center / cancer a-z list / can spinal tumors affect the brain? (medicinenet.com)
  • Spinal tumors can affect the brain in several ways. (medicinenet.com)
  • Tumors in the brain can move or press on sensitive tissue. (medicinenet.com)
  • Tumors can also interfere with the nerve signaling to and from the brain. (medicinenet.com)
  • What are the brain and spinal cord tumors in adults? (medicinenet.com)
  • Brain and spinal cord tumors refer to the masses of uncontrolled cell growth within the skull or the bony spinal column. (medicinenet.com)
  • There are over 120 types of brain and spinal cord tumors. (medicinenet.com)
  • Adult brain and spinal cord tumors often form in different areas, grow from different cell types, and may have a different outlook and management plan than those in children. (medicinenet.com)
  • Benign tumors in the brain and spinal cord are also dangerous since they can grow, exert pressure on, and damage normal brain tissue. (medicinenet.com)
  • Tumor cells with stem cell characteristics are thought to be responsible for therapeutic resistance in brain tumors. (lu.se)
  • Using mouse models of glioma and primary human glioma cultures, we aim to characterize phenotypic intratumoral heterogeneity specifically with regards to radiation resistant stem-like tumor cells, the molecular signaling pathways underlying therapeutic resistance, and microenvironmental control over tumor cell phenotypes with the overall goal of developing novel therapeutic strategies targeting therapy-resistant cells in malignant brain tumors. (lu.se)
  • HBP SGA3 (Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 3) and ICEI (Interactive Computing E-Infrastructure for the Human Brain Project) end in September 2023. (europa.eu)
  • FROM NOSTRIL TO BRAIN Human: BSIP/Photo Researchers, Inc. (sciencenews.org)
  • The Duke researchers noticed listening to silence cause a positive stress response, called eustress, which they believe is what stimulates the growth of new brain cells. (forbes.com)
  • Researchers at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (Duke-NUS) have found evidence that the less older adults sleep, the faster their brains age. (eurekalert.org)
  • The useful information for most researchers, however, is what do expression patterns look like in different brain regions. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Once the animal gets good at the task, though, the researchers in the adjoining room will flip a switch and it will be signals straight from the monkey's brain, not the joystick's movements, that drive the cursor. (technologyreview.com)
  • This eerie feat is possible because the researchers, led by Brown neuroscientist John Donoghue, have implanted a tiny array of electrodes in the monkey's brain. (technologyreview.com)
  • And some researchers are exploring the use of brain imaging to tailor treatment to individuals. (nature.com)
  • average age was 21), researchers in Japan found that the brains of those with sexist attitudes looked different than those who believed in gender equality. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Researchers then scanned the students' brains and found that their brain structure reflected their SRE score. (thedailybeast.com)
  • When Molaison's operation took place, many researchers believed memory was stored throughout the brain. (newscientist.com)
  • Researchers continue to discover the importance of a good night's sleep on the mind and brain for people of all ages-especially for children. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered that when young children are sleeping , their brain is very busy building and strengthening connections between the left and right hemispheres of their cerebrum. (psychologytoday.com)
  • In a new study , published on November 20, 2013 in the journal Brain Sciences , researchers looked at differences in brain activity during sleep as the children got older and differences in brain activity of each child during a night's sleep. (psychologytoday.com)
  • As is often the case with scientific research, the very same day that the researchers at University of Colorado published their study on the benefits of sleep on strengthening brain connectivity, another team of researchers at Michigan State University also published a study about the importance of well-connected brain hemispheres to prevent learning disabilities. (psychologytoday.com)
  • The researchers applied a well-established and automated whole-brain approach to measure cortical gyrification at thousands of points across the surface of the brain. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Now, researchers have used real-time brain-imaging techniques to watch what happens when people read a story. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Neuroscience researchers Greg Gage and Tim Marzullo wrote How Your Brain Works for readers to explore those very questions, offering a practical guide-accessible and useful to readers from middle schoolers to college undergraduates to curious adults-for learning about the brain through hands-on experiments. (mit.edu)
  • The purpose of this effort is to accelerate the development and application of new technologies that will enable researchers to produce dynamic pictures that show how individual brain cells and complex neural circuits interact at the speed of thought. (medscape.com)
  • The EPI robot and all the programs it uses, has been developed for researchers to learn more about the human brain. (lu.se)
  • Scientists have rebuilt genetically diseased circuitry in a section of the mouse hypothalamus, an area controlling obesity and energy balance, demonstrating that complex and intricately wired circuitry of the brain long considered incapable of cellular repair can be rewired with the right type of neuronal "replacement parts. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Dr Thomas Ernst, who led the project, said: "Many brain diseases associated with brain cell or neuronal damage or loss, such as Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, brain tumours, stroke and HIV brain diseases, consistently have shown decreased N-acetyl-aspartate. (bbc.co.uk)
  • This, in the drug users' brains, suggests neuronal loss or damage as a result of long-term methamphetamine use. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The Brain Circuit Analysis Special Interest Group studies neuronal circuits in health and disease using advanced methods for the perturbation and recording of cell activity. (lu.se)
  • In 1974, Hossmann and Zimmermann demonstrated that ischemia induced in mammalian brains for up to an hour can be at least partially recovered. (wikipedia.org)
  • Neuron transplants have repaired brain circuitry and substantially normalized function in mice with a brain disorder, an advance indicating that key areas of the mammalian brain are more reparable than was widely believed. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The electrodes intercept signals from individual neurons in the brain, and a specially developed computer algorithm translates these signals into trajectories and velocities for the computer cursor. (technologyreview.com)
  • The signals from the vestibular apparatus go along a nerve to a specialised clump of neurons in the brain, the vestibular nuclei, which process them, then send commands to our muscles to adjust themselves. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Consider the neocortex, the so-called CPU of the brain: Scientists assumed for decades that most cortical circuits were essentially the same--the brain was supposed to rely on a standard set of microchips, like a typical supercomputer. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Scientists at the institute are just starting to grapple with the seemingly infinite regress of the brain, in which every new level of detail reveals yet another level. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Organized the first series of meetings on the topic in 1999 and 2000, bringing together leading brain scientists such as Steven Pinker, Steven Hyman, and Michael Gazzaniga. (technologyreview.com)
  • A 3D reconstruction of the brain of Henry Molaison, whose surgery to cure him of epilepsy left him with no short-term memory, will allow scientists to continue to garner insights into the brain for years to come. (newscientist.com)
  • Scientists have known for eons that the brain changes dramatically during early childhood. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Scientists are still not 100% certain exactly what role sleep plays in the development of such brain connections, but they know that it's important. (psychologytoday.com)
  • The Global Council on Brain Health (GCBH) is an independent collaborative of scientists, health professionals, scholars and policy experts from around the world working in areas of brain health related to human cognition. (aarp.org)
  • But while aging is inevitable, scientists are finding out that certain changes in brain function may not be. (psychologytoday.com)
  • For years, scientists have suspected that our brains simulate the activities we read about. (scientificamerican.com)
  • To create artificial intelligence scientists are trying to copy how a human brain works! (lu.se)
  • Recent models in modern neuroscience treat the brain as a biological computer, very different in mechanism from a digital computer, but similar in the sense that it acquires information from the surrounding world, stores it, and processes it in a variety of ways. (wikipedia.org)
  • In coming years we hope to determine what's good for cardio-metabolic and long term brain health too," added Professor Michael Chee, senior author and Director of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke-NUS. (eurekalert.org)
  • Now we can blame "neuroscience," too, thanks to a new study , which found that sexist views can be inferred from brain anatomy. (thedailybeast.com)
  • The brain that made the greatest contribution to neuroscience and to our understanding of memory has become a gift that keeps on giving. (newscientist.com)
  • Patient H.M." became arguably the most famous person in neuroscience after he had several areas of his brain removed in 1953. (newscientist.com)
  • How Your Brain Works allows anyone to participate in the discovery of neuroscience. (mit.edu)
  • Through six original articles, the issue investigates a variety of cultural and scientific discourses and practices that in different ways are related to neuroscience and the brain. (lu.se)
  • Some basic types of responsiveness such as reflexes can be mediated by the spinal cord or peripheral ganglia, but sophisticated purposeful control of behavior based on complex sensory input requires the information integrating capabilities of a centralized brain. (wikipedia.org)
  • Q. My husband was diagnosed with a brain tumor earlier this year, and I've noticed a change in his behavior. (cancercare.org)
  • When a person is diagnosed with a brain tumor, changes in behavior and thinking occur in most patients at some point during their treatment. (cancercare.org)
  • Future studies from the University of Colorado team will be aimed at determining how sleep disruption during childhood may affect brain development and behavior. (psychologytoday.com)
  • One study from Iowa State University, published in the November 2019 edition of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity , found that muscle loss and the accumulation of body fat around the abdomen, which often begin in middle age and continue into advanced age, are associated with a decline in fluid intelligence. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. (psychologytoday.com)
  • They also identified specific brain regions that shift to 'hungry' mode while under the influence, according to a report they shared this week at the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, an international meeting of scientific experts on eating. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Changes in behavior are just an indication to the inability of the overwhelmed brain to cope with stimuli. (umassmed.edu)
  • I believe this because the problems we deal with in psychiatry-mental disorders, disturbances in behavior, and how those derive from brain function-have been the most challenging for biomedical research to disentangle and understand, so that we can identify the causes, treatments, and cures. (medscape.com)
  • Brain science, particularly as it relates to behavior, has the same limitations. (medscape.com)
  • Physiologically, brains exert centralized control over a body's other organs. (wikipedia.org)
  • If the brain becomes damaged irreversibly and infarction occurs, the symptoms may be permanent. (wikipedia.org)
  • I wonder if this phenomenon occurs in the brains of other mammals. (scienceblogs.com)
  • A depressed skull fracture occurs when fragments of the broken skull sink down from the skull surface and press against the surface of the brain. (encyclopedia.com)
  • It occurs when the brain does not receive enough oxygen even though blood is still flowing. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Presumably then, the more folding that occurs, the better the brain is at processing information, making decisions, forming memories and so forth. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) the highest-grade glioma and deadliest brain tumor occurs in pediatric as well as adult patients. (lu.se)
  • Visit the Brain Tumor Biology groups research portal via this link. (lu.se)
  • new research suggests these particles may ravage the brain. (sciencenews.org)
  • New research suggests that the particles can end up in the brain. (sciencenews.org)
  • 2) Data collected by Lumosity, an online brain-training program, suggests that self-reported sleep duration of seven hours is associated with the best cognitive test scores in over 150,000 adults. (eurekalert.org)
  • The brain is the largest cluster of neuron somata in the body and is typically located in the head, usually near organs for special senses such as vision, hearing and olfaction. (wikipedia.org)
  • Each neuron is connected by synapses to several thousand other neurons, typically communicating with one another via root-like protrusions called dendrites and long fiber-like extensions called axons, which are usually myelinated and carry trains of rapid micro-electric signal pulses called action potentials to target specific recipient cells in other areas of the brain or distant parts of the body. (wikipedia.org)
  • These mutant mice usually become morbidly obese, but the neuron transplants repaired defective brain circuits, enabling them to respond to leptin and thus experience substantially less weight gain. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The growth of myelin around each neuron strengthens the connections and speeds up the transfer of information throughout the entire brain. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Genetic brain disorders , which are caused by changes in genes (also called variants or mutations). (medlineplus.gov)
  • These disorders can affect the development and function of the brain. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Experts explore the maturation of nonlinear brain dynamics from a developmental perspective and consider the relationship of neurodevelopmental disorders to early disruption in dynamic coordination. (mit.edu)
  • The contributors examine maturation of nonlinear brain dynamics across systems from a developmental perspective and relate these organizing networks to the establishment of normative cognition and pathology seen in many neurodevelopmental disorders. (mit.edu)
  • Sleep Disorders in Traumatic Brain Injury - Medscape - May 24, 2011. (medscape.com)
  • The symptoms of brain diseases vary widely, depending on the specific problem. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The main symptoms of brain ischemia involve impairments in vision, body movement, and speaking. (wikipedia.org)
  • Symptoms of brain ischemia can include unconsciousness, blindness, problems with coordination, and weakness in the body. (wikipedia.org)
  • The symptoms of brain ischemia reflect the anatomical region undergoing blood and oxygen deprivation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ischemia within the arteries branching from the vertebral arteries in the back of the brain may result in symptoms such as dizziness, vertigo, double vision, or weakness on both sides of the body[citation needed]. (wikipedia.org)
  • The symptoms of brain ischemia range from mild to severe. (wikipedia.org)
  • Symptoms, complaints, and neurological or behavioral changes following TBI depend on the location (s) of the brain injury and on the total volume of injured brain. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The goals of treatment may be to cure the tumor, relieve symptoms, and improve brain function or the child's comfort. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The signs and symptoms will differ depending on which part of the brain harbors the tumor. (medicinenet.com)
  • As the brain also performs other functions like regulating hormone production, there may be several other symptoms. (medicinenet.com)
  • The symptoms of a lack of oxygen to the brain, or brain hypoxia, may be mild or severe and depend on the level and duration of oxygen deprivation. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Symptoms become more dangerous the longer oxygen flow to the brain is cut off. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • The amount of data on individual neurons of the human brain is very limited, both in terms of relative 3D coordinates and in terms of connectivity among neurons," comments study senior author Prof. Michele Migliore of HBP SGA3 and ICEI project partner National Research Council, Italy, in a news item posted on the Human Brain Project website. (europa.eu)
  • While invertebrate brains arise from paired segmental ganglia (each of which is only responsible for the respective body segment) of the ventral nerve cord, vertebrate brains develop axially from the midline dorsal nerve cord as a vesicular enlargement at the rostral end of the neural tube, with centralized control over all body segments. (wikipedia.org)
  • To date, only one company has conducted human tests of a brain-recording implant with the aim of helping restore function in paralyzed patients: Atlanta, GA-based Neural Signals. (technologyreview.com)
  • As the brain matures, the scaffolding built in childhood serves as an infrastructure to lay down more and more complex neural connections throughout a lifespan. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Part of neuroplasticity and healthy brain development for children is that some neural connections should become stronger and others should atrophy. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Earlier this year, he and his team were able to determine, by slicing into a brain and studying its neural makeup, what a mouse had learned prior to its death. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • And the workings of the brain are indeed mysterious: What are neural signals? (mit.edu)
  • A neural network becomes better at performing its tasks if it is trained, just like a human brain, and the program can learn to perform new tasks based on experiences from its training. (lu.se)
  • Direct extension usually causes a single brain abscess and may occur from necrotic areas of osteomyelitis in the posterior wall of the frontal sinus, the sphenoid and ethmoid sinuses, mandibular dental infections, as well as from subacute and chronic otitis media and mastoiditis. (medscape.com)
  • Because of the location of these prominences and the position of the brain within the skull, the frontal lobes (behind the forehead) and temporal lobes (underlying the temples) are most susceptible to this type of diffuse damage. (encyclopedia.com)
  • They found at least 5% lower concentrations of N-acetyl-aspartate in two key areas of the brain, the basal ganglia and frontal white matter. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The fanciest, most recently evolved part of the human brain is the frontal cortex, a region that mediates executive function, decision-making, emotional regulation and long-term planning -- in other words, it plays a key role in many of the things rich people tend to do better at than poor people. (latimes.com)
  • Earlier evidence out of UCLA suggested that meditating for years thickens the brain (in a good way) and strengthens the connections between brain cells. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Electrodes had been implanted on the surface of her brain that would send a signal to a hand-held device when they detected signs of impending epileptic activity. (nature.com)
  • It would be churlish to say, Let's not allow this person to communicate because we're not sure what the long-term effect is of putting electrodes in his brain. (technologyreview.com)
  • But in terms of what most people mean by brain-computer interfaces, there's a lot of work being done to create noninvasive BCIs by putting electrodes on people's scalps or having them wear these caps that are infiltrated with sensors. (technologyreview.com)
  • This leads to poor oxygen supply or cerebral hypoxia and thus leads to the death of brain tissue or cerebral infarction/ischemic stroke. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other effects that may result from brain ischemia are stroke, cardiorespiratory arrest, and irreversible brain damage. (wikipedia.org)
  • In fact, users undergo similar brain chemical changes to patients suffering from Alzheimer's Disease, stroke or brain tumours. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Ependymomas are a type of childhood brain tumor that can be benign or malignant. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Safe surgical resection is the primary treatment for all grades of gliomas, a category of brain tumor whose most malignant grades are considered to be cancer. (medscape.com)
  • It deals with the human brain insofar as it shares the properties of other brains. (wikipedia.org)
  • The ways in which the human brain differs from other brains are covered in the human brain article. (wikipedia.org)
  • The most important that are covered in the human brain article are brain disease and the effects of brain damage. (wikipedia.org)
  • LITERATURE AND THE BRAIN goes straight to the human core of literature when it explains the different ways our brains convert stories, poems, plays, and films into pleasure. (lulu.com)
  • The Allen Brain Atlas just launched their first set of gene expression maps in the adult human brain, based on microarray data from over 700 different anatomical locations. (scienceblogs.com)
  • I wrote about the construction of the human brain atlas last year in Wired, if you'd like to learn more about how the map was made. (scienceblogs.com)
  • In the monkey studies that will pave the way for the human tests, the company-which includes cofounders Nicholas Hatsopoulos of the University of Chicago, Brown MD/PhD student Mijail Serruya and Gerhard Friehs, a neurosurgeon at Providence's Rhode Island Hospital-is focusing on the area of the brain that issues commands to the monkey's arm. (technologyreview.com)
  • Bioethicist Paul Wolpe explores the implications of wiring computers to the human brain. (technologyreview.com)
  • In this week's Global Thinkers podcast , Duke's Miguel Nicolelis and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Anthony Zador explore the significant discoveries of the past year that have brought the world one step closer to understanding the most perplexing part of the human body: the brain. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • According to the study published in the journal 'Nature Computational Science', this computational method could also be used to generate full-scale scaffold models of other human brain regions starting from microscopy images. (europa.eu)
  • It was developed from a full-scale data set of high-resolution images that is available in the BigBrain Atlas and will soon be available on EBRAINS , a digital research infrastructure created by the Human Brain Project. (europa.eu)
  • We are in the midst of Brain Awareness Week , dedicated to celebrating this most complex organ in the human body. (mit.edu)
  • This is President Obama's human B RAI N Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies). (medscape.com)
  • Inducible viral vectors can be used to investigate the effect of human alpha synucelin on dopamine release and reuptake inside the rodent brain. (lu.se)
  • The human brain consists of a hundred million nerve cells that are linked together through specialised connections. (lu.se)
  • A node can send signals to multiple other nodes, like the synapses in the human brain. (lu.se)
  • Untreated heart attacks may slow blood flow enough that blood may start to clot and prevent the flow of blood to the brain or other major organs. (wikipedia.org)
  • We also study living rodent models, which allows us to examine brain metabolism structure and function, as well as whole-body physiology with intact interactions between the brain and peripheral organs. (lu.se)
  • Strokes , which can cause a loss of brain cells and can affect your ability to think clearly. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The operations of individual brain cells are now understood in considerable detail but the way they cooperate in ensembles of millions is yet to be solved. (wikipedia.org)
  • The brains of all species are composed primarily of two broad classes of cells: neurons and glial cells. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sickle cell anemia may cause brain ischemia associated with the irregularly shaped blood cells. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sickle shaped blood cells clot more easily than normal blood cells, impeding blood flow to the brain. (wikipedia.org)
  • Intracerebral hematomas can cause additional damage as toxic breakdown products of the blood harm brain cells, cause swelling, or interrupt the flow of cerebrospinal fluid around the brain. (encyclopedia.com)
  • This is really like reading the mind, eavesdropping on cells in the brain as the monkey's thinking of something. (technologyreview.com)
  • A brain tumor is a group (mass) of abnormal cells that grow in the brain. (medlineplus.gov)
  • They can also damage cells by pushing on other parts of the brain. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Brain cells can begin to die within 5 minutes of oxygen loss. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • In small region of the hypothalamus responsible for sensing ghrelin, cannabis changed the genetic activity of brain cells that respond to the hormone. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Sure enough, when Raymond scurries to his school desk, cells in the readers' brains that govern scurrying also spring to life. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Our team is interested in understanding metabolic interactions between glial cells and neurons, how these are regulated to support adequate brain function, and how they adapt to metabolic disease states. (lu.se)
  • For a long time, we thought this was because psychiatry and the brain behavioral sciences were not making progress in the same way as in other medical specialties, such as infectious diseases, cardiology, and cancer, and the surgery subspecialties, such as orthopedics and ophthalmology. (medscape.com)
  • Participants underwent structural MRI brain scans measuring brain volume and neuropsychological assessments testing cognitive function every two years. (eurekalert.org)
  • One needs to be cautious when searching for associations between brain structure and cognitive function or personality traits," Rissman told The Daily Beast. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Salome Kurth concludes that, "There are strong indications that sleep and brain maturation are closely related, but at this time, it is not known how sleep leads to changes in brain structure. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Your brain and nerves also communicate to help you move and to control your body's functions. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Brief exposure to cannabis vapor stimulated a meal even when rats had recently eaten, suggesting that inhaling cannabis tricks appetite circuits in the brain into hunger mode. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Ischemia leads to alterations in brain metabolism, reduction in metabolic rates, and energy crisis. (wikipedia.org)
  • Repair at the cellular-level of the hypothalamus -- a critical and complex region of the brain that regulates phenomena such as hunger, metabolism, body temperature, and basic behaviors such as sex and aggression -- indicates the possibility of new therapeutic approaches to even higher level conditions such as spinal cord injury, autism, epilepsy, ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), Parkinson's disease, and Huntington's disease. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The company is one of the first to arise from research into brain-machine interfaces, which has so far been relegated mainly to a handful of academic labs around the world ( see " Brain-Machine Interfaces ," TR January/February 2001 ). (technologyreview.com)
  • This damage can be focal, or restricted to a single area of the brain, or diffuse, affecting more than one region of the brain. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Usually, TBI causes focal brain injury involving a single area of the brain where the head is struck or where an object such as a bullet enters the brain. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Brain aneurysms are focal dilations in the cerebral arteries. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Amal, a 38-year-old woman from Gaza, was found to have a brain aneurysm (the potentially life-threatening ballooning of a blood vessel) in March 2022. (who.int)
  • The nervous system sends signals between your brain and the rest of the body. (medlineplus.gov)
  • rendered audible by the computer's speakers, brain signals snap, crackle and pop like Rice Krispies in milk. (technologyreview.com)
  • This machine, a bizarre-looking Bach-y-Rita prototype, will replace Cheryl's vestibular apparatus by sending balance signals to her brain from her tongue. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Read on to learn more about brain hypoxia, also known as cerebral hypoxia. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Most brain aneurysms occur along the middle or anterior cerebral arteries or the communicating branches of the circle of Willis, particularly at arterial bifurcations. (msdmanuals.com)
  • A brain tumor diagnosis can bring up many feelings, including anxiety, anger, or sadness. (cancercare.org)
  • Silence-or the absence of noise-can benefit our brains in many ways. (forbes.com)
  • This is only one of the special ways our brains behave with literature, ways that LITERATURE AND THE BRAIN reveals. (lulu.com)
  • Having these initial connections made during sleep-and through daily activity during childhood-is imperative to having high-speed communication between brain hemispheres as an adult. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Brain ischemia has been linked to a variety of diseases or abnormalities. (wikipedia.org)
  • Though faster brain ventricle enlargement is a marker for cognitive decline and the development of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, the effects of sleep on this marker have never been measured. (eurekalert.org)
  • Their hope is that their brain-machine interface system will give patients paralyzed by spinal-cord injuries or neurodegenerative diseases new abilities to interact with the world around them-using nothing more than the power of their thoughts. (technologyreview.com)
  • A brain (or encephalon) is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. (wikipedia.org)
  • Together, the brain and spinal cord constitute the central nervous system in all vertebrates. (wikipedia.org)
  • Brain and spinal cord form the central nervous system or CNS. (medicinenet.com)
  • In the long run, this knowledge will enable us to devise novel therapeutic strategies that directly target brain metabolic regulation for neuroprotection and improvement of brain function in metabolic disease. (lu.se)
  • They include brain abscess and subdural or extradural empyema and are classified according to the anatomical location or the etiologic agent. (medscape.com)
  • Among the 106 survivors of riding-associated TBIs, 84 (79%) had one or more indicators of brain injury severity: 67 (63%) had loss of consciousness, 49 (46%) had posttraumatic amnesia, and 14 (13%) had persistent neurologic sequelae on discharge from the hospital (e.g., seizures or cognitive, hearing, vision, speech, and/or motor impairment). (cdc.gov)
  • These lobes house major brain centers involved in speech and language, so problems with communication skills often follow closed head injuries of this type. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Amphetamines work by releasing large quantities of the brain stimulating chemical dopamine. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The treatment that helped Blecher is called repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and uses magnetic fields to stimulate regions of the brain involved in addiction. (nature.com)
  • Half of the participants experienced real stimulation of their brains through a coil inside a helmet, whereas the other half received a sham stimulation from a second coil that produced similar sounds and sensations on the scalp but did not produce a magnetic field that affected the brain. (nature.com)
  • To make brain stimulation effective, you need to use meaningful intensities and frequencies," Zangen says. (nature.com)
  • The first five International Brain Stimulation Conferences were successful due, in part, to outstanding symposia. (elsevier.com)
  • We will continue and expand on this tradition in Kobe, creating a meeting that remains true to the multidisciplinary mission of our official journal, Brain Stimulation . (elsevier.com)
  • The Program Committee will give priority to symposia that reflect themes of deep interest to the brain stimulation community and do not duplicate other proposals. (elsevier.com)
  • At the last three International Brain Stimulation Conferences, we received more outstanding symposia proposals than could be accommodated in the program. (elsevier.com)
  • When the skull cracks or breaks, the resulting skull fracture can cause a contusion, or an area of bruising of brain tissue associated with swelling and blood leaking from broken blood vessels. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Heterotopic nasopharyngeal brain tissue associated with cleft palate. (medscape.com)
  • The book looks at key mechanistic questions, including: What role does dynamic coordination play in the establishment and maintenance of brain networks and structural and functional connectivity? (mit.edu)
  • But Jesse Rissman, a professor specializing in biobehavioral sciences at UCLA's Brain Research Institute, says the study has not yet identified a structural brain correlate of sex stereotypes. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Specifically, the scans revealed that participants with low SRE scores had dense gray matter (high cell activity) in the posterior cingulate cortex, a part of the brain associated with processing emotions like fear and anger. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Eileen Luders, an assistant professor at the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, and colleagues, have found that long-term meditators have larger amounts of gyrification ('folding' of the cortex, which may allow the brain to process information faster) than people who do not meditate. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Visually, the interior of the brain consists of areas of so-called grey matter, with a dark color, separated by areas of white matter, with a lighter color. (wikipedia.org)
  • Further information can be gained by staining slices of brain tissue with a variety of chemicals that bring out areas where specific types of molecules are present in high concentrations. (wikipedia.org)
  • and global ischemia, which encompasses wide areas of brain tissue. (wikipedia.org)
  • Until recently, this small fold of tissue in the middle of the brain was depicted as neatly divided into four distinct areas. (scienceblogs.com)
  • That allowed Jacopo Annese at the Brain Observatory in San Diego, California, and his colleagues, to conclusively link his memory problems to specific areas of damaged brain. (newscientist.com)
  • Scans of Molaison's brain between 1984 and 1993 revealed more detail about what areas of the brain had been removed. (newscientist.com)
  • GCBH members come together to discuss specific lifestyle issue areas that may impact peoples' brain health as they age with the goal of providing evidence-based recommendations for people to consider incorporating into their lives. (aarp.org)
  • Extracranial brain tissue without a direct connection to the brain itself may be an isolated cutaneous embryonic defect, usually on occipital or parietal areas of the scalp. (medscape.com)
  • The GCBH focuses on brain health relating to peoples' ability to think and reason as they age, including aspects of memory, perception and judgment. (aarp.org)
  • Encephalitis (inflammation in the brain), which can lead to problems such as vision loss , weakness, and paralysis . (medlineplus.gov)
  • Brain abscess is caused by intracranial inflammation with subsequent abscess formation. (medscape.com)
  • If the physical trauma to the head ruptures a major blood vessel, the resulting bleeding into or around the brain is called a hematoma. (encyclopedia.com)
  • This volume in the Strüngmann Forum Reports series explores the complex mechanisms that accompany the dynamic processes by which the brain evolves and matures. (mit.edu)
  • A company called Cyberkinetics received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval in April for a clinical trial of a brain implant designed to allow paralyzed patients to interact with a PC. (technologyreview.com)
  • But when you have a brain disease, it may affect how well you can function and do your daily activities. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Here we've rewired a high-level system of brain circuitry that does not naturally experience neurogenesis, and this restored substantially normal function. (sciencedaily.com)
  • While these and follow-up experiments appeared to rebuild brain circuitry anatomically, the new neurons' level of function remained uncertain. (sciencedaily.com)
  • As we age our brain function tends to decline. (selfgrowth.com)
  • Neuroscientists and engineers are developing technologies that allow the brain to interact directly with computers, from chips that could enable amputees to control prosthetic limbs to devices designed to enhance brain function. (technologyreview.com)
  • Brain hypoxia is a medical emergency because the brain needs a constant supply of oxygen and nutrients to function properly. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • This is a big initiative focusing on technology and brain function at the cellular, molecular level. (medscape.com)
  • But as anatomists such as Jeff Lichtman have very elegantly demonstrated, the brain is uniquely complex and specialized in function. (medscape.com)
  • To identify novel pathways that can be targeted by drugs or life-style interventions in order to improve brain function in metabolic disease. (lu.se)
  • Research carried out in Torrance, California, and reported in the journal "Neurology", compared the brains of 26 previous methamphetamine users with 24 non-users. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The research team-led by Salome Kurth, a postdoctoral researcher, and Monique LeBourgeois, assistant professor in integrative physiology-used electroencephalograms (EEG) to measure the brain activity of eight sleeping children multiple times at the ages of 2, 3 and 5 years. (psychologytoday.com)