Sentences with phrase «as brain asymmetry»

This is referred to as brain asymmetry, and is the norm in most people.

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This phenomenon has been coined HAROLD (hemispheric asymmetry reduction in older adults) and reflects the reorganisation of the brain as compensation for reduced brain capacity and efficiency due to age - related structural and physiological decline.

Clyde Francks, head of the MPI research group «Brain and behavioral asymmetries» and Research Fellow at the Donders Institute at the Radboud University, explains, «We think that these very early left - right differences in the spinal cord may act to trigger some of the later asymmetries of the brain, such as the eventual dominance of the left hemisphere for language functions in most adults&raBrain and behavioral asymmetries» and Research Fellow at the Donders Institute at the Radboud University, explains, «We think that these very early left - right differences in the spinal cord may act to trigger some of the later asymmetries of the brain, such as the eventual dominance of the left hemisphere for language functions in most adults&rabrain, such as the eventual dominance of the left hemisphere for language functions in most adults».

A Johns Hopkins University team this week reported inserting a disrupted human gene, the schizophrenia risk factor DISC1, into lab mice, causing them to exhibit the brain asymmetry characteristic of schizophrenia as well as agitation in open spaces and trouble finding hidden food — traits reminiscent of the restlessness, impaired sense of smell and depressionlike symptoms schizophrenics suffer, Reuters reports.

Turner served as principal investigator for MUSC in the VIPS for the Non-Invasive Detection of Hemispheric Bioimpedance Asymmetry in Severe Brain Pathology (VITAL) study reported in the article.

For example, certain biological events during early development, such as excessive androgen production, exposure to synthetic androgens, thyroid dysfunction, Cushing's disease, and congenital adrenal hyperplasia, can combine with environmental influences to predispose women to antisocial behavior.69 Additionally, EEG research has uncovered asymmetries in the frontal activation of antisocial females» brains.70 Normative males and females tend to exhibit asymmetric frontal brain activation, with boys having greater right frontal activation and girls having greater left frontal activation.