Sentence examples for basal from inspiring English sources

That analysis was given currency in the 1960s when Paul MacLean theorised that the human brain has three levels, the most basic both functionally and literally (because it is at the bottom of the organ)—being the "reptilian" part, composed of structures called basal ganglia.MacLean's analysis is not much believed now by neuroscientists, but it has stuck in the popular imagination.

In just the past few weeks, the firm's researchers have unveiled several genetic mutations linked to schizophrenia, made advances on a drug targeting Alzheimer's disease and fingered genes linked to basal cell carcinoma.

The colourful annuals die back during long, dry periods, only to be replaced as the woody, underground stumps (basal burls) of charred chamise, manzanita and other shrubs send up fresh shoots through the nutrient-rich, ashy soil to recolonise the hillsides.

Brain-bots are fairly new technology, but they have great potential for the future of bio-research," says Dr Prescott.A robot controlled by a simulated basal ganglia is one thing, but researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have gone a step further.

The basal ganglia are part of the brain that helps people to decide what to do next what researchers call "action selection".In the future, robots with simulated brain circuits might help us to identify and simulate new forms of treatment for damaged brains.The brain-bot simulates the level of dopamine (a neurotransmitter that controls movement and emotional response) in the basal ganglia.

Like Dr Mühlau, Dr Nopoulos has found a correlation between repeat numbers and the volume of the basal ganglia.

These researchers found a correlation between the number of a volunteer's CAG repeats and the volume of the grey matter (in other words, nerve cells) in his or her basal ganglia.

The discovery well was drilled through evaporites of Permian age (about 251 million to 299 million years old) into a thick basal Permian sandstone that was gas-productive.

Subsequent drilling outlined a broad anticline about 24 km (15 miles) wide by 40 km (24 miles) long, which has a continuous basal Permian sandstone reservoir capped by evaporites.

A striking example is the radiation, beginning in the Paleogene Period (beginning 65.5 million years ago), of basal mammalian stock into forms adapted to running, leaping, climbing, swimming, and flying.

The amphibian epidermis has five to seven layers of cells formed from a basal stratum germinativum.