Sentences with phrase «brain structure research»

Brain Structure Research has shown that some structures in the brain in children with ADHD can be smaller than those areas of the brain in children without ADHD.

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Research on neural networks shows that languages could be learned without specialized structures in the brain.

Other research indicates that teenage marijuana use may adversely impact the developing brain: it has been linked to changes in neural structure and function, including lower IQ, as well as an increased risk of psychosis in vulnerable individuals.

The research team wanted to see if elderly long - term yoga practitioners had any differences in terms of brain structure compared with healthy elderly people who had never practiced yoga.

According to Au, further research will focus on determining whether these brain structure findings translate into impact on cognitive skills, such as problem solving, memory and language.

Previous research has shown that when people sleep, the thalamus — a brain structure that connects the high - level thought areas with the sights and sounds of the outside world — produces brief, high - frequency brain waves called spindles.

So a research team led by scientists at Children's National Health System in Washington, D.C., delivered subpar levels of oxygen to newborn piglets, whose course of brain development and whose highly evolved brain structure mirrors in many respects those of humans.

As a leading partner in the U.S. BRAIN Initiative, launched in 2013, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is advancing fundamental research of the brain's structure, activity and funcBRAIN Initiative, launched in 2013, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is advancing fundamental research of the brain's structure, activity and funcbrain's structure, activity and function.

«Research on brain plasticity supports the assumption that the environment can shape brain structure and function.

Since 2009 clinical psychologist Bruce Cuthbert and his team at the National Institute of Mental Health have been constructing a classification system based on recent research, which is revealing how the structure and activity of a mentally ill brain differs from that of a healthy one.

A different but also rapidly growing research direction deals with the use of connectivity measures to link brain structure and cognition.

Cosmic evolution, the structure of matter, the origins of life, and understanding how the brain works all deserve strengthened support, according to China's latest 5 - year development plan, which could triple funding for basic research by 2020.

Some intriguing recent research supports his contention that microtubules — tiny structures in brain cells — can allow quantum phenomena to influence how neurons behave.

In the years since the 2013 debut of human brain organoids, research groups have worked to grow bigger brain tissue clumps and more uniform structures.

While some research supported a link between prenatal sound exposure and improved brain function, scientists had not identified any structures responsible for this link in the developing brain.

In addition to collecting scans of brain structure and function, the research teams at 21 study sites around the country will regularly gather a trove of other information from each youngster, from psychological, cognitive, and environmental data to biological specimens such as DNA.

In this latest research, using algebraic topology, multiple tests were performed on the virtual brain tissue to show that the multi-dimensional brain structures discovered could never be produced by chance.

New research published in Schizophrenia Research conducted at the University of Liverpool links brain structure to an individual's likelihood of experiencing hallucinations and to their musical aresearch published in Schizophrenia Research conducted at the University of Liverpool links brain structure to an individual's likelihood of experiencing hallucinations and to their musical aResearch conducted at the University of Liverpool links brain structure to an individual's likelihood of experiencing hallucinations and to their musical aptitude.

The study by primary authors Bernhard Meyer and Julia Huemer, published in the journal Brain Structure and Function, was funded with resources from a special research program by the Austrian Science Fund (Head: Harald Sitte) and an EU project (Head: Gunther Schumann).

Prof. Fiona Doetsch's research team at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, has discovered that the choroid plexus, a largely ignored structure in the brain that produces the cerebrospinal fluid, is an important regulator of adult neural stem cells.

Previous research from other studies had linked hearing loss with marked differences in brain structure compared to those with normal hearing, both in humans and animals.

Lucina Uddin, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami, who was not part of the research team, said, «The combination of multiple neuroimaging modalities is a clear strength of the current study, and the authors are to be commended for undertaking the difficult task of trying to reconcile results from methods designed to tap different aspects of brain structure and function.

Structured exercise training can significantly improve brain function in stroke survivors, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2017.

Scientists at the Institute of Reconstructive Neurobiology at the University of Bonn applied a recent development in stem cell research to tackle this limitation: they grew three - dimensional organoids in the cell culture dish, the structure of which is incredibly similar to that of the human brain.

In a related research project, Timiras injected young and old rats with overdoses of adrenocortical hormones to test how the treatment altered their brain structure; the brain hemorrhaged and swelled, more so in the elderly animals.

Retinal structure and function can be readily examined with noninvasive or minimally invasive methods, whereas direct brain research has numerous limitations.

«Prior research studies comparing brain structure in individuals who are deaf and hearing attempted to control for language experience by only focusing on those who grew up using sign language,» explains Olumide Olulade, PhD, the study's lead author and post-doctoral fellow at GUMC.

They caution that additional research is needed to track changes in fitness and brain structure over time, as well as clarify the impact of specific exercise programs (such as strength, aerobic or combined training) or dose of exercise (frequency, intensity, duration) on white matter microstructure.

«Most of the previous research on brain structure was conducted with healthy younger or older adults,» says Natalie Phillips, a professor in the Department of Psychology.

The hippocampus, a brain structure known to play a role in memory and spatial navigation, is essential to one's ability to recognize previously encountered events, objects, or people — a phenomenon known as recognition memory — according to new research from the departments of Neurosurgery and Psychology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

His lab has subdivided the dorsal striatum so scientists can better predict problem areas in this brain structure and focus their research there.

Reviewing over 20 years of neuroscience research into sex differences in brain structure, a Cambridge University team has conducted the first meta - analysis of the evidence, published this week in the journal Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.

New research explains why so many biological networks, including the human brain (a network of neurons), exhibit a hierarchical structure, and will improve attempts to create artificial intelligence.

«A number of labs have reported differences in children's brain structures as a function of family income, but this is the first to relate that to variation in academic achievement,» says Kimberly Noble, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University who was not part of the research team.

(b) The University of California is requested to utilize California's unique collaborative research environment by convening stakeholders from public and private research institutions, national laboratories, biotechnology and high technology companies, and venture capital firms to develop the governing structure for the Cal - BRAIN program.

The research shows that the score for the bird's song takes shape as it gets relayed down a hierarchy of brain structures.

This research is transforming our understanding of brain structures at the center of memory, behavior, and cognition.

(c) The governing structure shall be designed to do all of the following: (1) Adopt a research plan that identifies milestones for achieving the goals of the Cal - BRAIN program.

At Weizmann, Dr. Spiegel will be establishing his own independent research group which will attempt to identify the molecular and cellular mechanisms through which experience alters the structure and function of neural circuits in the brain in behaviorally relevant ways and to understand how these processes, when they go awry, might give rise to psychiatric disorders.

How does your research shed light on how much of the brain's structure is genetically determined, and how much develops through experience?

Later, when the guys reached young adulthood, the research team created pictures of the structures in their brains using a technology known as MRI, for magnetic resonance imaging.

The group's previous research showed that drinking alcohol changes the physical structure and function of certain neurons known as medium spiny neurons, which are located in the brain's dorsomedial striatum.

Testing the Brain Structure Connecting Two Hemispheres in Glaucoma Esther Gonzalez, PhD The Krembil Research Institute at UHN (Toronto, Canada)

Each detailed structure comes with information on functions, disorders, brain damage, case studies, and links to modern research.

This offers an unprecedented opportunity for research concerning individual variation and relationships between brain structure and function relative to development and cognitive capacity in a nonhuman primate.

The focus of Dr. Smoller's research interests has been 1) understanding the genetic and environmental determinants of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan; 2) integrating genomics and neuroscience to unravel how genes affect brain structure and function; and 3) using «big data», including electronic health records and genomics, to advance precision medicine.

New research by Washington University School of Medicine researchers, including Terrie E. Inder, MD, shows that exposure to stressors in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is associated with alterations in the brain structure and function of very preterm infants.

In addition we structured the publications according to the research questions, such as the differences in brain activity associated with acupuncture stimuli between patients and healthy volunteers, to provide a good overview and a strong basis for future study designs, interventions, measurement methods, and possible diagnoses.

One of our ongoing research projects involves studying the relationship between brain structure and aptitudes.

The same brain structures implicated in the urge to take drugs are involved in other biological urges, Paulus added, suggesting that a homeostatic approach could have a broad impact on treatments that seek to control addictions or psychiatric disorders, and will lay the groundwork for new areas of research.