Sentences with phrase «associated brain plasticity»

She and her team investigate the neurobiology of speech and music perception and learning - associated brain plasticity, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally.

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This likely reflects brain plasticity associated with «learning how to move in microgravity».

«It's exciting because it suggests that by just manipulating one gene in adult brains, we can boost brain plasticity,» says lead investigator Jason Shepherd, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at University of Utah Health.

«Our research shows that combination treatment with the two compounds can promote resilience against stress - mediated depression - like phenotypes by modulating systemic inflammatory responses and brain synaptic plasticity in a mouse model of depression,» says Jun Wang, PhD, Associate Professor of the Department of Neurology and first author on the paper.

The neurodevelopmental and social backdrop of early adolescence may promote risk - taking behavior, 25 and neural plasticity may sensitize the adolescent brain to the effects of nicotine.31 Hence, adolescent never smokers exposed to nicotine - rich e-cigarette aerosols and the pleasant sensations associated with vaping could be more liable to experiment with other nicotine - containing products, including combustible tobacco.

Previous research in the laboratory of Daniel McGehee, PhD, neuroscientist and associate professor in the Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care at the Medical Center, discovered that nicotine could promote plasticity in a region of the brain called the ventral tegmental area (VTA).

While the brain is most malleable in early childhood, it nonetheless retains a substantial degree of plasticity throughout the lifespan, and the extent to which the timing and duration of socioeconomic disadvantage are associated with brain structural differences is virtually unexplored in the neuroscience literature to date.