Brain Matters begins with a «mini-textbook» on brain anatomy and physiology, bringing the biology of the brain into context with teaching and learning.
Not exact matches
Indeed it was part of God's plan that the poising of
matter at the very
beginning of creation would lead ultimately to a moment when the potential
brain of a creature conceived within the womb of a primate would of necessity demand a new principle of control and direction.
The human
brain may be the most complex piece of organized
matter in the known universe, but Allen Institute researchers have
begun to unravel the genetic code underlying its function.
The volume of gray
matter is a measure of
brain health, but the amount of gray
matter in the
brain often
begins to decrease in late adulthood, even before symptoms of cognitive dysfunction appear.
To investigate the effects of poverty on childhood
brain development and to
begin to inform the mediating mechanisms of these negative effects, we investigated associations between poverty and total white and total cortical gray
matter volume, as well as hippocampus and amygdala volumes, in a sample of children ages 6 to 12 years followed up longitudinally since the preschool period.