Sentences with phrase «between brain anatomy»

Still, fully interpreting that picture — and explaining the links Kable has noted between brain anatomy and risk — is dicey.

Kable and his colleagues» use of different types of scans provides a far more detailed picture of the interplay between brain anatomy and risk than does earlier research, Levy says.

Not exact matches

Once we model the connectome — the million billion points of contact between neurons in the brain — we'll glimpse the anatomy of the mind.

Other attempts to draw a dividing line between creatures that feel and those that do not are rooted in comparative brain anatomy.

«These results indicate strong two - way interactions between the brain and the gut that may help explain the increased incidence of systemic infections after brain trauma and allow new treatment approaches,» said the lead researcher, Alan Faden, MD, the David S. Brown Professor in Trauma in the Departments of Anesthesiology, Anatomy & Neurobiology, Psychiatry, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at UMSOM, and director of the UMSOM Shock, Trauma and Anesthesiology Research Center.

Using rodent models of opiate addiction, Dr. Laviolette's research has shown that opiates affect pathways of associative memory formation in multiple ways, both at the level of anatomy (connections between neurons) and at the molecular levels (how molecules inside the brain affect these connections).

Robert Zatorre, a neuroscientist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, says that the paper is «particularly exciting» because it provides a possible link between genetics, brain anatomy, and language.

In «The Stamp of Poverty,» neuroscientist John D. E. Gabrieli of M.I.T. and psychologist Silvia A. Bunge of the University of California, Berkeley, describe recently discovered differences in brain anatomy and function between kids growing up in poverty and more affluent children — findings that add urgency to the issue of extreme income inequality.

Researchers at MIT and Harvard University even conducted a study to explain this pervasive phenomenon and found that there's a link between family income, brain anatomy, and academic achievement.

Study Links Brain Anatomy, Academic Achievement, and Family Income MIT News, 4/17/15 «In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new study.»