Sentences with phrase «between brain and behavior»

«I am a psychologist with specialized training and expertise in the connection between brain and behavior - a clinical neuropsychologist.

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The findings reported in Current Biology on November 30 show that stress leads to an apparent disconnect between babies» brain activity and their behavior.

Dr. Giedd's research team seeks to use cutting edge technologies to explore the relationship between genes, brain and behavior in healthy development and in neuropsychiatric disorders of childhood onset.

Although Dulac's and Anderson's teams examined different brain regions, both researchers observed a similar relationship between sex - specific neural activity and social behavior.

«We're starting to get a sense of what happens between the part of the brain that takes in sensory information and the part that produces behavior,» Anderson says.

The results of this study not only advance science's understanding of the links between genes, the brain and behavior, but may lead to new insight into such disorders as autism, Down syndrome and schizophrenia.

Neuroeconomics, the parent discipline that explores links between the brain and economic behavior, seemed poised to make a triumphant leap from academe to Madison Avenue.

Establishing links between genes, the brain and human behavior is a central issue in cognitive neuroscience research, but studying how genes influence cognitive abilities and behavior as the brain develops from childhood to adulthood has proven difficult.

However, similarities in the brain shape between the ancient species and diving birds living today suggest that diving behavior may be associated with certain anatomical structures in the brain.

An astonishing number of things that scientists know about brains and behavior are based on small groups of highly educated, mostly white people between the ages of 18 and 21.

The authors suggest that the intricate balance between the signaling of neurons in these three brain regions may be crucial for normal social behavior in humans, and that disruption may contribute to various psychiatric conditions, including autistic spectrum disorders.

«If we can sort out the many interactions between these chemicals and brain activity based on sensory perception and context, then we can possibly target specific excitatory and inhibitory neurological pathways to rebalance and influence behaviors,» says Froemke.

However, mapping the relation between brain areas and behavior can be tough, especially for complex behavior such as altruism.

In addition to the reduced brain flexibility, the researchers showed a correlation between the degree of inflexibility and the severity of restrictive and repetitive behaviors, such as performing the same routine over and over or being obsessed with a favorite topic.

«It alerts physicians to the relationship between genes, brain structure, and behavior,» a relationship that may one day become useful to clinicians.

Participants were screened for risk - taking behaviors, such as drug and alcohol use, sexual promiscuity, and physical violence and underwent functional MRI (fMRI) scans to examine communication between brain regions associated with the emotional - regulation network.

Build - a-Brain No one knows how to directly ascertain the brain's learning rules, but there are many highly suggestive similarities between the brain's behavior and that of the Boltzmann machine.

The team, led by Stephen Liberles, Harvard Medical School associate professor of cell biology, has effectively deconstructed the vagus nerve, a key connection between body and brain that is important because it controls not only breathing but also heart rate, feeding behavior and responses to illness.

The next step for scientists will be to learn how the brain rewards correct matches between feedback of current vocal behavior and the goal memory that depicts memorized vocal sounds as songbirds make progress in bringing their current behavior closer to their goal behavior, Bottjer said.

One of the primary missions of neuroscience is to make connections between particular neurons in the brain and specific behaviors.

It is possible that the relationship between genetics, brain function, and behavior differs by gender, age, and ethnicity.

Using an animal model of this syndrome, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered that mutations in PTEN affect the assembly of connections between two brain areas important for the processing of social cues: the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with complex cognitive processes such as moderating social behavior, and the amygdala, which plays a role in emotional processing.

In mouse models of ASD, symptoms include an imbalance between «on» and «off» neural signaling in the brain's neocortex, altered responses to sensory stimuli and impaired social behavior.

But the new results go one step further, revealing when in life and where in the brain the link between serotonin receptors and anxiety behavior is forged.

It may, for example, partly account for the differences in brain structure and behavior between identical twins, and could even affect thought processes by subtly influencing the changes in nerve cell connections that occur with experience.

«But genes tied to autism tend to affect specific functions, such as the connections between brain regions that are essential to many human - specific behaviors, like speech and language.»

«However, the role of CA2, a relatively small region of the hippocampus sandwiched between CA3 and CA1, has remained largely unknown,» said senior author Steven A. Siegelbaum, PhD, professor of neuroscience and pharmacology, chair of the Department of Neuroscience, a member of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

In summary, the results of this study show the potential for functional MRI to bridge the dissociation that can occur between behavior that is readily observable during a standardized clinical assessment and the actual level of residual cognitive function after serious brain injury.14 - 16 Thus, among 23 patients who received a diagnosis of being in a vegetative state on admission, 4 were shown to be able to willfully modulate their brain activity through mental imagery; this fact is inconsistent with the behavioral diagnosis.

The researchers found a link between abnormalities in white matter and a decrease in functional connectivity in the brain's default - mode network, a set of regions that typically shows abnormal behavior in people at genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease.

The team discovered a direct correlation between history of impulsive aggressive behavior and gray matter volume in the frontolimbic region of the brain — an area known to play a central role in the regulation of emotions.

Phineas Gage, the man whose personality changed drastically after an accident where an iron spike was driven through his head, is a famous early example of the link between brain regions and behavior.

Within the fields of microbiology and immunology, neurologic diseases, neuropharmacology, behavioral, cognitive and developmental neuroscience, and psychiatric disorders, the center's research programs are seeking ways to: develop vaccines for infectious and noninfectious diseases; understand the basic neurobiology and genetics of social behavior and develop new treatment strategies for improving social functioning in social disorders such as autism; interpret brain activity through imaging; increase understanding of progressive illnesses such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases; unlock the secrets of memory; treat drug addiction; determine how the interaction between genetics and society shape who we are; and advance knowledge about the evolutionary links between biology and behavior.

The study found that in a sample of 460 people aged between 22 and 35, people with more education, better physical endurance, above - average memory, and other «positive» traits seem to have more strongly - connected brains than people with «negative» traits such as smoking, aggressive behavior, or a history of drug use.

Dr. Rapoport was a pioneer in studying the pathophysiology of ADHD and neuropharmacological approaches to its treatment, and she was the first to discover that some childhood psychiatric symptoms result from autoimmune reactions to streptococcal infection, the first to establish the link between obsessive - compulsive behaviors in children and OCD in adults, and the first to use longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging to uncover developmental abnormalities in brain size and structure in children with schizophrenia.

Although vaccination induces an inflammatory response during pregnancy, the magnitude and the duration of response is much lower and shorter, respectively, for influenza vaccination than viral infection.27 Like infection, influenza vaccination during pregnancy has been reported to induce a transient increase in the levels of a number of proinflammatory cytokines, including interleukin 6, tumor necrosis factor α, and C - reactive protein.27 - 30 Studies on mice found an association between high interleukin - 6 levels during pregnancy and abnormal behavior and brain structure.19 However, in epidemiological studies, associations between maternal cytokine levels and ASD have been mixed.

Meaghan Kennedy - Neuropeptides and social behavior: The relationship between expression patterns of the vasotocin receptor in the goldfish brain and individual differences in social behavior

When researchers severed the vagus nerve, GABA receptor levels and the animals» behavior remained unchanged after treatment with L. rhamnosus, confirming that the vagus nerve is most likely the primary pathway of communication between the bacteria in your gut and your brain.

When the researchers severed the vagus nerve in the test mice — removing the communication between the gut and the brain — they found that the behaviors and stress hormone levels reverted back to the way they had been i.e. the vagotomized mice were more anxious, more stressed, more depressed and had higher corticosterone levels.

These results indicate that propionate suppressed food intake by affecting reward - driven eating behavior, although the researchers didn't find any significant association between changes in brain signals and food intake.

A little - known movement helps kids understand the connection between the brain and heart, and improve their behavior (and test scores) too.

Her laboratory research experience in behavioral neurobiology examined the interface between behavior and the brain.

Linda's laboratory research experience in behavioral neurobiology examined the interface between behavior and the brain.

An accompanying video animation called «Stealing Attention» (a collaboration with neuroscientist Michael E. Goldberg, Director of the Mahoney Center for Brain and Behavior, Columbia University) draws parallels between card tricks and the looting of precious art objects from the Iraq National Museum after the fall of Baghdad.

I'm hanging out at the Garrison Institute this week, bracing myself against a stream of provocative ideas about the intersection between climate change, the human brain, and individual behavior.

The longer between an event and trial, the more unreliable the testimony becomes, as the brain's need to make sense of history and rationalize past behavior can put certainty around a recollection that at the time was uncertain.

Psychology Today covers all aspects of human behavior, from the workings of the brain to the bonds between people and the larger cultural forces that drive our most intimate decisions.

Psychology Today covers all aspects of human behavior, from the workings of the brain to the bonds between people and the larger cultural forces that drive our most intimate decisions.

Maternal characteristics are transmitted between generations during the prenatal development of an infant's brain, which is known to result in failures in emotion and behavior regulation, including aggression (Tremblay, 2010).

«Improving dialogue between your mind and body can train your brain in reducing negative, and increasing positive emotions and behaviors, opening a door for your innate wisdom to offer clarity on how to get your needs met in healthy ways, even in the most difficult of circumstances.

Larry Young, a professor of psychiatry at Emory University who studies the neurological basis of complex social behaviors, thinks human evolution has harnessed an ancient neural circuit that originally evolved to strengthen the mother - infant bond during breastfeeding, and now uses this brain circuitry to strengthen the bond between couples as well.