Sentences with phrase «between different brain regions»

Researchers used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), an enhancement of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to evaluate and compare the structural and functional properties of the main connections between different brain regions.

White matter appears white because of the density of axons, the signal - carrying cables allowing communication between different brain regions responsible for complicated tasks such as language and memory.

Mathematicians from the University of Twente, together with researchers from the University Medical Center Utrecht, have shown that it is sensible to examine the interconnections between different brain regions closely, instead of searching for abnormal regions only.

In May, scientists led by Juergen Knoblich of Vienna's Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, who led the original research that created 3 - D brain organoids, reported fusing one organoid mimicking the top of the human forebrain with one mimicking the bottom, and got connecting neurons to wend their way from one to the other — a big step toward «model [ing] complex interactions between different brain regions,» he and his colleagues reported.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers measured synchronization of activity between different brain regions.

The HCP will tackle the lowest hanging fruit first: charting the major highways between different brain regions, and showing how these connections vary between individuals.

Kana and colleagues are the first to combine three different measures of the brain — anatomy, the connectivity between different brain regions, and levels of a neurochemical — to distinguish people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from matched, typically developing peers.

Researchers at the University of Zurich have now shown how peoples» motives can be identified as they are characterized by a specific interplay between different brain regions.

In 2011, Martijn van den Heuvel of the University Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and his colleagues unveiled a map of the connections between different brain regions.

When a nerve snaps, communication between different brain regions is disrupted, just like a damaged circuit in a computer.

Mapping the human brain's network of interconnections, known as the connectome is typically done with help from computational tools because recreating interconnections between different brain regions has been challenging in the lab.