Sentences with phrase «between brain changes»

His focus is on the relationship between brain changes and cognitive and emotional functioning.»

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The difference between the games that work and the ones that don't gives us information into how the brain changes in response to its environment.

The brain neutralizes change by transferring it from the time within objects to the space between them, displacing the change that is ingredient in the object to a surface interaction as another property of space.

The changes are associated with less - organized communication between the brain's hemispheres and are comparable to the effects found in previous animal studies.

He works by tweaking the chemical structures of the drugs, sometimes changing just a few molecules to see what impact this might have on the interaction between the drug and the brain receptors their parent compounds normally act upon.

The research found a close link between early brain developmental events and changes in cognitive function in adulthood.

Duke scientists have shown that it's possible to pick out key changes in the genetic code between chimpanzees and humans and then visualize their respective contributions to early brain development by using mouse embryos.

fNIRS measures the changes in color between oxygenated red blood and blue deoxygenated blood and thus indirectly measures brain activity.

«There's a complex interplay between hormones, experience and epigenetic changes in response to life events,» says neuroscientist Cheryl Sisk, who studies sex differences in the brain at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

In other research, Gaab and her colleagues have found an intriguing link between children's reading difficulties and neural deficits that prevent them from properly processing fast - changing sounds; they also found that computerized sound - training exercises «rewired» those faulty brain circuits.

Understanding the networks of connections between brain regions — as depicted in this image — and how they are changed by a stroke is crucial to understanding how stroke patients heal, according to new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

«This connection between an innate call and the activity of a brain area important to learned vocalisations suggests that during the evolution of songbirds, the role of the song area in the brain changed from being a simple vocalisation system for innate calls to a specialised neural network for learned songs,» concludes Manfred Gahr, coordinator of the study.

In a new study, researchers based at Osaka University reported on their use of brain - machine interface (BMI) training with a robotic hand on 10 phantom limb patients to investigate the association between changes in symptomatic pain and cortical currents during phantom hand movements.

The crying baby scenario hit Greene's volunteers in the gut, changing the dynamic between the two competing systems in their brains.

Comparing how this simple neural pathway changes between baby and adult mice sheds light on how brains rewire over time, Lichtman says.

University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers have found a two - way link between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and intestinal changes.

Ultimately, Gazzaley hopes to understand the networking between areas of the brain that governs this top - down phenomenon and learn how that networking changes with aging (see Gazzaley Perspective).

«This may reflect an interaction between cognition and emotion as the brain changes differently with medication pending on the patient's expectancies,» says co-author Malin Gingnell.

Seidler said the brain changes could reflect new connections between neurons, and she's leading another long - term study that will help determine the repercussions on cognition and physical performance, as well as how long the brain changes last.

More work is needed to confirm that a causal relationship between intense, long - term motor training and structural changes in brain regions exists.

Dogma at the time held that no new neurons are born in the adult brain, so Ramòn y Cajal made the reasonable assumption that the key changes must occur between existing neurons.

That balance is important, they say, for understanding how the whole brain can learn to do things based on changes in the connections between individual neurons.

Psychopaths» brain scans exhibit little change between neutral and emotional words, and they have much less brain activity, compared with a non-psychopaths brain.

Certain changes in synapses — the junctions between nerve cells in the brain — have been linked with brain disorders.

Marieta Pehlivanova, Joseph Kable, Theodore Satterthwaite and colleagues studied whether this relationship between cortical thickness and reward preference holds true for teens, whose brains are undergoing dramatic structural changes.

After all, each brain is unique, and each brain keeps changing in response to new experiences, forming new synaptic connections between neurons and even — contrary to received wisdom a decade ago — growing new neurons.

For this research brain activity is also being recorded using a technique called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), which uses light to measure changes in blood concentration in the prefrontal cortex, it is a non-invasive and highly portable technique meaning it can be easily interchanged between car and simulator.

Studies have also shown changes in the blood flow in the brain, but none had looked at the two together, to determine whether the connection between the neck and deeper parts of the brain was causing whiplash symptoms.

The results of the study suggest close interaction between the neck and brain, resulting in changes in blood flow.

The work also helps to determine the fine line between experience - induced changes in the brain and differences that are the cause of cognitive impairment.

Whereas the present study focuses primarily on documenting brain changes during pregnancy, she expects follow - up work to tackle more applied questions such as how brain changes relate to postpartum depression or attachment difficulties between mother and child.

And those kinds of random changes during development explain, for example, why the pattern of gyruses in the brain are very different even between identical twins.

The results showed that while this brain stimulation increased levels of cognitive inhibition, it did not change levels of supernatural belief, suggesting there is no direct link between cognitive inhibition and supernatural belief.

The link between sleep apnea and changes in the state of the brain is important news for clinicians, Macey said.

However, in the European Corn Borer (Ostrinia nubilalis), changes in the male's brain seem to dictate his choice between two types of available females.

Haslinger also found another change, in the connections between the amygdala and the brain stem, where signals can trigger many of the feelings that go along with emotions: Dysport made that connection weaker.

He used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a means of measuring brain activity by detecting blood flow changes inside the brain, to measure differences in the strengths of communications between brain regions.

«What makes the results even more persuasive is the remarkable agreement between the cognitive function restoration and the changes in brain functionality as detected by the SPECT scans,» explained Prof. Ben - Jacob.

«We discovered that this new treatment produced larger changes in the brain and that the interval between pulses also had an effect.

According to Dr. Raül Andero Galí, lead researcher in this study, «Once we discovered the relationship between the Ppm1f gene and different psychological disorders after exposure to traumatic stress, we wanted to find an effective drug to prevent these changes and its negative consequences on the brain.»

A new in vitro model Scientists developed a new research tool for this study that enabled them to monitor the spread of Tau aggregates whilst changing the synaptic connections between brain cells.

For the study, Frank Lin, M.D., Ph.D., and his colleagues used information from the ongoing Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging to compare brain changes over time between adults with normal hearing and adults with impaired hearing.

The researchers also found they could predict which players had depression by examining images of their brains» white matter, suggesting a link between white matter changes and depression.

«The findings of the study indicate that simple causal relationships between the evolution of brain size, tool use and tooth size are unlikely to hold true when considering the complex scenarios of hominin evolution and the extended time periods during which evolutionary change has occurred,» said Aida Gómez - Robles, lead author of the paper and a postdoctoral scientist at GW's CASHP.

Spence and colleagues use functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) technology to determine whether someone is fibbing by tracing blood flow to certain areas of the brain, which indicates changes in neuronal activity at the synapses (gaps between the neurons).

Most other changes to the brain that take place throughout our lives, such as during adolescence and pregnancy, involve pruning the connections between neurons.

Schizophrenia may be related to neurodevelopment changes, including brain's inability to create the appropriate vascular system, according to new study resulted from a partnership between the D'Or Institute for Research and Education, the University of Chile and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Brain imaging revealed a striking finding — significant changes in the communication between specific brain regions correlated with elevated maternal IL - 6 and CRP leBrain imaging revealed a striking finding — significant changes in the communication between specific brain regions correlated with elevated maternal IL - 6 and CRP lebrain regions correlated with elevated maternal IL - 6 and CRP levels.

The discovery is surprising, because most changes to the brain as it matures involve the altering of existing connections between neurons.

But the correlation between TV viewing and brain and behavioral changes does not necessarily tell us the whole story.