Sentences with phrase «about brain structure»

The study also helps to answer a key question about the brain structures of depressed patients.

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Take a human body — the brain and the neural networks are more powerful than any computer system ever built, what about body r frame — skeleton, see how it is structured and well ordered.

Is there something in our communication in church, society and culture, which we should have clocked by now — something about how Jesus structured his communication to trigger his listeners» brains?

As I tried to show in the preceding part, we also know something about the structure and function of that part of brain matter to which psychic phenomena correspond.

The universe appears structured and orderly, but I recognize that my brain is extremely, extremely, extremely limited and that it evolved to search for structure and order so perhaps that appearance is more about my brain's structure and order than the universe's apparent structure and order.

Today's frantic new media systems can generate huge waves of alarmist communications which invade countries and alarm the citizens about two main issues that bypass the logical part of the brain: racial threat and sex... both topics are used by media to command human attention because they bypass conscious brain structures to ensure a fast response, the same as a deja vu is seen before it is noticed, so to speak.

In a study published in June in Psychological Science, Just and his colleague Robert Mason found that thinking about physics prompts common brain - activation patterns and that these patterns are everyday neural capabilities — used for processing rhythm and sentence structure, for example — that were repurposed for learning abstract science.

Steve: So you might have a gene for a particular brain receptor or, I think what you talk about in the article is not actually the structure of the receptor molecule, but the amount of receptors that you actually produce?

Usually they discover about two weeks after conception by which time their developing embryo is about the size of a full stop, and the neural structure that will eventually grow into the baby's brain and -LSB-...]

AF is known to be associated with cognitive decline and increased risk of dementia, but little is known about the impact of AF on brain structure in people with AF who are cognitively intact.

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«The study is fascinating because it helps to uncover what about the brain's structure makes people take more or less risk.

From ape to human, the brain grows about fourfold, but most of that increase occurs in the cortex, not in more ancient structures.

«This work is making us think about how brain structures control behavior in a different way,» Xie says.

If that's the case, if language can structure the brain at those levels, maybe language in its association with culture makes us think about the world in different dimensions.

Among the approximately 100 imprinted genes discovered so far, about half of them, including Igf2, make proteins in the brain, raising the question of whether imprinting errors in genes that control the structure and function of the brain might contribute to mental illness.

The fact that the researchers saw differences in brain structure after just 30 days fits well with existing theories about premature infants» brain development, Stromswold says.

When the children reached about 2.5 to 5 years old, the researchers used magnetic resonance imaging to measure their brain structure.

The experiments were consistent in supporting the idea that sensations arising from twitches are not filtered: And without the filtering provided by corollary discharge, the sensations generated by twitching limbs are free to activate the brain and teach the newborn brain about the structure and function of the limbs.

Dr. Blüml and colleagues have been studying preterm infants to learn more about how premature birth might cause changes in brain structure that may be associated with clinical problems observed later in life.

When Charles Wilkinson thinks about soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) his mind jumps to a pea - size structure tucked behind the bridge of the nose and ensconced below the base of the brain.

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.

The lab - grown brain, about the size of a pencil eraser, has an identifiable structure and contains 99 percent of the genes present in the human fetal brain.

Scientists injected fluorescent molecules into about 150 mouse brain structures and used a high - resolution microscope to document the molecules as they moved through the brain's «cellular highways,» which need to be in tip - top shape for different parts of the brain to communicate and coordinate behaviors.

But what is it about the structure and function of each and every neuron, and the way they network together, that give rise to these electrical signals measured in a mammalian brain?

The knowledge - based training group learned information about the structure and function of the brain as well as the effects of sleep and exercise on brain performance.

«But we are finding that the effort is absolutely worthwhile and that we are learning a tremendous amount about the structure of networks in the brain, and ultimately how the brain's structure is linked to its function.»

Kabadai concluded: «There is still so much we need to understand and learn about the relationship between intelligence and brain size, as well as the structure of a bird's brain, but this study clearly shows that bird brains are not simply birdbrains after all!»

«It tells you about the ecosystem of the tumour», Simona says, «using fluorescent markers, we can label many specific cell types and structures within the brain in the vicinity of the tumour, and look not just at the tumour cells but how they interact with their surroundings.

But the very focal brain injuries analyzed in the study allowed the researchers «to draw inferences about how specific brain structures are necessary for performance,» Barbey said.

In recent decades a rapid expansion in knowledge has occurred about the brain circuits that process and regulate emotional behavior, and in which abnormalities of neural function and structure associate with mood disorders.

And nanoscale imaging of the brain promises to open up a brave new world of questions about brain function and structure on a cellular and subcellular level.

Tiny structures about the size of a fly's eye provide a new futuristic opportunity to study pediatric brain cancers.

We know a great deal about the genomic mechanisms through which androgens and estrogens influence behavior; by turning genes on and off and thus affecting levels of proteins in cells, they slowly sculpt the brain circuits and peripheral structures required to produce social output.

In the head region of about 10 percent of the fossils, they observed pigmented, bulbous structures with extensions that connect to the eye stalks, which the authors say Strausfeld and colleagues had determined were brains.

While there is still a lot to be understood about Alzheimer's Disease, research has identified two abnormal structures in the brains of those with AD: amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.

The protagonist, Simon, is a self - declared specialist in «the relationship between the eye and the brain», so the film starts on interesting premises about the complex structure of voyeurism.

Reading, she writes, «could only come about because of the human brain's extraordinary ability to make new connections among its existing structures, a process made possible by the brain's ability to be shaped by experience.»

During the MRI participants have to stay really still in the scanner for about 50 minutes at a time, we measure their brain structure as well as their brain functional activity during the emotion regulation tasks, which we adapted for this particular study.

There «is not yet a smoking gun» linking socio - economic status to brain function or structure and to deficits in thinking, but he lays out evidence about strong correlations between poverty and learning difficulties that «provide converging strands of proof.»

As neuroscientists learn more about brain development, chemistry, and structures their findings are exerting an influence on the education and care of young children.

He picked our brains about the best models in the country and then he built the opportunity to visit them into his grant structure.

Cross-sectional MRI can provide extremely detailed information about the brain, spinal cord and other structures that helps identify, evaluate, and successfully treat a wide variety of congenital neurologic diseases.

Although we are just beginning to answer basic questions about the canine brain, we can not ignore the striking similarity between dogs and humans in both the structure and function of a key brain region: the caudate nucleus.

On your first day, it is important to sit down with your supervisor to facilitate a brain storming session to learn about their pain points and set up some structure to what exactly it is that you'll be working on for them.

Short presentations are delivered about current research that demonstrates the usefulness of mindfulness practices in changing the structure of the brain, changing behaviours and reducing stress.

I was racking my brain trying to come up with a complicated system of profit sharing and no one was really helping me with information about how they structured their payouts until I sat down with a commercial developer.