The neural implant of the future also could strengthen neural pathways associated with physical tasks.
The brain, trying to deal with major emotional trauma, can alter its neural pathways, creating, essentially, a different person.
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To date, neurologists have used axonal transport chiefly to map neural pathways tagging a molecule and seeing where it ended up.
It is also possible to trace neural pathways from cell to cell.
All of us, but most especially the younger generations, are gradually strengthening new neural pathways while weakening old ones needed for one-on-one personal communication.
But because they act deep in neural pathways of the brain, some of them are bound also to enhance people's power to think and learn ( see article).
Instead, we have the power to create new neural pathways and change for the better, provided we are willing to invest the time it takes to build new habits.
O'Dell's form of therapy--intensive sensory and motor-skills training to help the brain build and strengthen neural pathways--has never been subjected to an unbiased clinical trial or peer-reviewed by a medical journal.
But once something is repeated often enough, it becomes hardwired and automatic, and the neural pathways for this skill are delegated to other parts of the brain, farther down the cortex.
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It may be that loneliness may affect systems in the brain dealing with cognition and memory, making lonely people more vulnerable to effects of age-related decline in neural pathways, he suggested.
Researchers are discovering that daily exposure to computers, smart phones, video games, Internet search engines, etc. stimulates brain cell alteration and neurotransmitter release, gradually strengthening new neural pathways while weakening old ones.
By delivering nearly imperceptible vibrations to select areas of the chest, KOR-fx activates neural pathways that subconsciously monitor the vibrations of the chest cavity that naturally occur when speaking, laughing or crying.
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The same study found that MdDS was a disorder of brain plasticity, which means that the neural pathways in the brain are unable to change in response to changes in behaviour or environment.
They are tracing the neural pathways of pain.
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Although the neural pathways that encode habitual behavior appear to be located in deep brain structures known as the basal ganglia, it has been shown that the IL cortex is also necessary for such behaviors to develop.
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Neuro-scientific research has now proven that when you choose to think new thoughts, repeatedly, and take new actions, repeatedly, those thoughts and actions gradually build new neural pathways in your brain that over time become your default thoughts and actions.
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By stringing together thousands of these so-called droplets (which measure about 50 microns across) using a custom-built 3D printer, the Oxford team believes it has engineered a "new type of material" that could eventually be used to ferry drugs throughout our internal systems to a specific target site, fill-in for damaged tissues or even mimic neural pathways via specially printed protein pores.
Dr Frisen's team, together with NeuroNova, a Swedish biotech firm, is busy trying to identify some of these chemicals, and working out the genes and molecular pathways that are turned on in responsive neural stem cells.
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