Brain differences related to the neurodevelopmental disorder Fragile X are visible well before a diagnosis, which typically happens at age three or later, new research indicates.
Not exact matches
«Essentialist» gender theory maintains that men and women are essentially different, and that these
differences are
related to the
brain much more than to culture.
Brain research shows the
brains of men and women are organized differently, and these gender -
related but not always gender - specific
differences could be construed as suggesting new stereotypes, another «dichotomy.»
In 2007, researchers published the first randomized, controlled study of the effect of being raised in an orphanage; that study, and subsequent research on the same sample of Romanian orphans, found that compared with babies placed with a foster family, those who were sent to institutions had lower IQs, slower physical growth, problems with human attachment and
differences in functioning in
brain areas
related to emotional development.
In their latest research, Albright's team detected the
difference through two signals, event -
related brain potentials called mismatch negativity (MMN) and P3.
Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which measures the anatomy and structural integrity of the
brain, and magnetoencephalography (MEG), which measures magnetic fields created by the
brain's electrical activity, were used to track potential age -
related differences as groups of younger and older adults performed a memory task.
In contrast, the researchers did not find age -
related differences in another area of the
brain connected to memory, the posteromedial entorhinal cortex.
So pinpointing these
differences in visual areas might reveal important details about processing in
brain regions
related to social functioning and language, which are not as well understood.
«Everyone from musicians to taxi drivers has
differences in
brain activity
related to their specific skills,» he said.
«Combat -
related injuries:
Brain imaging
differences in veterans with TBI.»
In autism, for example, his preliminary work suggests that there are more pronounced
differences in
brain processing involved in distinguishing faces from objects; in schizophrenia, there are greater
differences related to decoding emotions.
In terms of size, there wasn't much
difference in how
brains varied among family members: Closely
related individuals of both species tended to have very similar
brain volumes.
A new study by University of Illinois researchers found that these individual
differences are associated with variation in specific
brain networks — particularly those
related to executive, social and perceptual processes.
The
differences in the arcuate bundle, which connects areas of the
brain involved in understanding words and regions
related to speech production, were particularly severe in those who had a significant history of «delayed echolalia».
«Genetics and
brain regions linked to sex
differences in anxiety -
related behavior in chimpanzees.»
They hypothesized that the
differences might be
related to variations in two genes, called ASPM and microcephalin, which are thought to be implicated in
brain development.
In our study, we examined whether the role of specific
brain regions for communication within and among
brain modules varies with individual
differences in intelligence, i.e., whether a specific
brain region supports the information exchange within their own «family» more than information exchange with other «families», and how this
relates to individual
differences in intelligence.»
It is important to note that we only investigated sex
differences in
brain structure, so we can not infer anything about how this
relates to behaviour or
brain function.
«MRI scans give us a bird's eye view of the apnea -
related difference in volume of various parts of the
brain, but they don't tell us, at the cellular level, what happened to the affected neurons or when,» said co-author David Gozal, MD, professor of pediatrics, University of Chicago.
«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.
One current research focus is measuring
differences in EEG smoking cue reactivity, as well as neurochemical and morphological alterations in adult
brain architecture,
related to age of smoking onset during adolescence.
We can now use this model to understand how
differences in the way our
brains «connect up»
relates to neurological and intellectual disorders that may not become apparent until later in life.
Are Autistic Traits in the General Population
Related to Global and Regional
Brain Differences?
«This project has two main aims: we want to gain insight into the
brain mechanisms underlying 1) the acquisition and extinction of fear memory and 2) fear
related individual
differences in humans.
Neonatal Inhibition of DNA Methylation Alters Cell Phenotype in Sexually Dimorphic Regions of the Mouse
Brain Endocrinology April 7, 2017 Morgan Mosley, Jill Weathington, Laura R. Cortes, Emily Bruggeman, Alexandra Castillo - Ruiz, Bingzhong Xue, and Nancy G. Forger Many of the best - studied neural sex
differences relate to
differences in cell number and are due to the hormonal control of developmental cell death.
Gross
brain pathology from infants with presumed or laboratory - confirmed ZIKV infection, primarily from neuroimaging, closely resembles neuropathology associated with congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV).48 The most notable
difference is the distribution of intracranial calcifications (ie, typically subcortical in congenital ZIKV infection and periventricular in CMV).48, 49 Such calcifications are likely dystrophic and
related to cell death, either by necrosis, apoptosis, or both.50
«Everyone from musicians to taxi drivers has
differences in
brain activity
related to their specific skills,» Port said.
His research focuses on processes and outcomes
related to person perception, ranging from micro-level phenomena (
brain responses) to macro-level phenomena (cultural
differences).
Although children who have been maltreated show different
brain activity in response to facial emotion than nonmaltreated children, 22 we know little about children's neural processing of a wide variety of parenting behaviours, and we know even less about temperament -
related differences in such neural processing.
Morphologic studies offered some preliminary support for
brain -
related differences between children with and without the disorder, but additional studies with control groups of children with other psychiatric and developmental disorders and larger sample sizes will be necessary before
brain morphology becomes useful in diagnosing ADHD.
Target Population: Parents with learning
differences whose children are at risk of being neglected due to parenting skill deficiencies including parents who learn best with a step - by - step approach, such parents with learning difficulties
related to intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, low literacy, and acquired
brain injury.
Most evolved sex
differences arise instead from degrees of hormone -
related organizational effects on the
brain, activational effects during adulthood, and sometimes direct genetic effects (McCarthy & Ball, 2011).
A first step toward understanding this is to characterize the relationships between variation in
brain structure / function and individual
differences in depression severity and
related processes, particularly emotion regulation.