Sentences with phrase «anatomical studies of»

Marloes ten Bhömer's footwear critiques the fetishistic portrayal of the high - heel shoe in mass culture; Bluepanelshoe, 2013, employs kinematic and anatomical studies of the female foot in motion, producing a design that rejects gender stereotypes.

Despite dolphins» obvious intelligence and social aptitude, anatomical studies of their gray matter revealed an indistinct muddle of neurons, nothing like the specialized, refined structures found in human brains.

Not exact matches

Matthew Glosek, 21, of Buffalo hopes to work as a neurosurgeon, so next year he will begin studies for his master's degree in anatomical sciences.

MRI studies focused on anatomical signs of degeneration in the cervical spine as well as on the status of paraspinal muscles.

Some anatomical studies indicated that T. rex could not run quickly, while an examination of the creature's braincase showed it had an outsize olfactory system.

«It's important to incorporate all lines of evidence when considering enigmatic fossils: anatomical, preservational and comparative,» said Sam Giles, a junior research fellow at the University of Oxford and coauthor of the study.

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

To reach these conclusions, the study provides the most detailed anatomical descriptions of the species given to date, highlighting the small size of the reptile, which measured no more than a metre long, according to craniums found at the site in Catalonia.

Scans are an especially powerful tool for studying the anatomical quirks of rare organisms with only one or two known specimens, Blackburn adds, because «no one in their right mind would take these things apart.»

Anatomical studies confirmed the importance of the right rehabilitation schedule: Depending on the therapeutic design, different patterns of new nerve fibers that sprouted into the cervical spinal cord from the healthy part of the brain and thus aid functional recovery to varying degrees were apparent.

Such changes, Li and colleagues suggested while reviewing a number of related studies, are consistent with anatomical changes that can occur in the brain as a result of learning a second language, no matter the age of the learner, as they reported in a recent issue of Cortex.

The sturgeon finding is just one result in a wide - ranging study of the rates of species formation and anatomical change in fish.

Years of clinical experience lead David Polanski, TU's head athletic trainer and co-author of the study, to propose the hypothesis that the number of years of football - playing experience might contribute to anatomical and behavioral changes.

They don't seem to take account of studies outside the anatomical field that examine the function of the vagus nerve, the role of the brain in orgasm, or how direct cervical stimulation can lead to orgasm in paralysed women.

A recent study by Allison Tripp of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, and Naomi Schmidt of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces demonstrated that female figurines from around 25,000 years ago have bodies of all shapes and sizes, not just the exaggerated anatomical features of the famous «Venuses» (Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia, vol 41, in press).

Symptoms from lumbar spinal stenosis, an anatomical impairment common with aging, were relieved and function improved in as many patients utilizing physical therapy as those taking the surgical route, University of Pittsburgh researchers discovered in a two - year study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

In detailed anatomical studies, Harper was able to observe clear vascular connections between the main arteries and veins of the tongue and the papillae.

Through analysis of high - resolution anatomical magnetic resonance imaging of brain volumes, taken three times over the two - year study period, the researchers were able to determine that individuals with MCI or Alzheimer's showed greater losses in gray matter volume in both the basal forebrain and temporal lobe, compared with cognitively normal controls.

«It was only through our detailed anatomical and statistical comparisons of the skull bones that we were able to distinguish between Albertavenator and Troodon,» said Thomas Cullen, a Ph.D. student of Evans at the University of Toronto and co-author of the study.

Dr. Rigotti comments, «In any case, this is the first study presenting clinical evidence showing skin rejuvenation after fat grafting and highlighting the anatomical and structural changes that are the basis of this rejuvenation.»

«By altering the folding pattern of the Hox cluster, we altered the motor neurons» understanding of their anatomical position,» says Esteban Mazzoni, PhD, a study co-investigator and assistant professor of biology and New York University.

But the new study, which includes anatomical data extinct species preserved in the fossil record, narrows that window considerably, says Joel Cracraft, an ornithologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Dr. Charlier argues that human remains in museums and scientific institutions can be divided into four categories, «ethnographical elements» such as hair samples with no certain identification; anatomical remains such as whole skeletons or skulls; archaeological remains; and more modern collections of skulls, used in now discredited studies in the early 20th century.

The study, published in the journal Current Biology, shows that the familiar anatomical features of birds — such as feathers, wings and wishbones — all first evolved piecemeal in their dinosaur ancestors over tens of millions of years.

Flatworms that spent five weeks aboard the International Space Station are helping researchers led by Tufts University scientists to study how an absence of normal gravity and geomagnetic fields can have anatomical, behavioral, and bacteriological consequences, according to a paper to be published June 13 in Regeneration.

Microscopic anatomy is the study of minute anatomical structures assisted with microscopes, which includes histology (the study of the organization of tissues), and cytology (the study of cells).

Anatomy should not be confused with anatomical pathology (also called morbid anatomy or histopathology), which is the study of the gross and microscopic appearances of diseased organs.

The team studied the bones and teeth of 904 placental fossils to measure the anatomical differences between species.

Led by Aarti Nair, a student in the SDSU / UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, the study is the first of its kind, combining functional and anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to examine connections between the cerebral cortex and the thalamus.

«Our finding of a link between bipolar disorder and the striatum at the molecular level complements studies that implicate the same brain region in bipolar disorder at the anatomical level, including functional imaging studies that show altered activity in the striatum of bipolar subjects during tasks that involve balancing reward and risk,» said TRSI Research Associate Rodrigo Pacifico, who was first author of the new study.

So in a new study, published online this month in The Anatomical Record, researchers focused on one of the smaller species, minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata).

Scientists at the University of Valencia have developed a research methodology called Anatomical Network Analysis (AnNA), based on network analysis mathematical tools for studying anatomy.

But until this study, no precise anatomical location for this integration of the brain's reward and arousal systems has been pinpointed, said Luis de Lecea, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

The study examines anatomical, paleoenvironmental and chemical evidence, as well as the feeding behavior of living animals.

A team of psychologists and imaging scientists at Vanderbilt has collaborated on a study that provides important corroboration of the validity of these studies by examining the relationship of the fMRI maps of resting state brain's networks with the brain's underlying anatomical and neurological structure.

«Such a mosaic anatomical evolution may well be related to the somewhat similar molecular mosaic evolution between the three species revealed by previous genetic studies: each of the chimpanzees species share about 3 percent of genetic traits with humans that are not present in the other chimpanzee species.»

«Previous studies have suggested that resting state connectivity shown in brain scans is anchored by anatomical connectivity,» said co-senior author Anna Roe, professor of psychology.

That postulation turned out to be correct: the Belgian doctors are the first to provide a full anatomical description of the ligament after a broad cadaver study using macroscopic dissection techniques.

However, efforts to examine the in vitro behavior of tumor cells with endothelial cells from different anatomical regions have been prohibited because, in large part, of the limited number of organ - derived endothelial cell lines available for study.

«One of our main conclusions in this study is that a specific memory is stored in a specific pattern of connectivity between engram cell ensembles that lie along an anatomical pathway.

Efforts to study the molecular mechanisms that mediate these complex processes in different anatomical compartments have been impeded by difficulties in the isolation and propagation of endothelial cells from different organs.

In a pioneering series of anatomical studies carried out over the past three decades, Rakic has revealed how neurons in the developing cerebral cortex are generated and how they assemble themselves into highly ordered, distinctively layered, and densely interconnected circuits that direct higher order sensory and motor functions.

Thanks to the efforts of the HBTRC, dedicated investigators and the generosity of a growing number of brain donors and their families, genetic, molecular, and anatomical findings from these studies are paving the way for a better understanding of these disorders and of the people that suffers from them and are providing impetus for the development of new treatments.

The neuro - anatomical substrates of major depressive disorder (MDD) are still not well understood, despite many neuroimaging studies over the past few decades.

In this proof of concept study, Dr Stephen Jolles and colleagues from the University Hospital of Wales used an imaging technique called FDG PET - CT to simultaneously assess anatomical structure and metabolic activity in a patient with GLILD.

The team studied the reproductive system of mice - chosen due to its analogy with the human one - and discovered PCOS treatment should be exploiting a completely different anatomical angle.

Functional and anatomical cortical underconnectivity in autism: evidence from an FMRI study of an executive function task and corpus callosum morphometry.

In 2 out of 19 studied patients, navigated TMS identified motor cortical sites that differed from those indicated by anatomical landmarks.

Bromage points out that the first reconstruction of ER 1470 was erroneous by giving it a flat face, but - ``... recent studies of anatomical relationships show that in life the face must have jutted out considerably, creating an ape - like aspect, rather like the faces of Australopithecus ``.72 This finding is one of a number which suggest that the species Homo habilis never existed.

It is based on the definitive books of mouse embryonic development by Theiler (1989) and Kaufman (1992) yet extends these studies by creating a series of three dimensional computer models of mouse embryos at successive stages of development with defined anatomical domains linked by a stage - by - stage ontology of anatomical names.