Sentences with phrase «brain connections associated»

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans showed that use of the Nintendo Wii Balance Board system appears to induce favorable changes in brain connections associated with balance and movement.

Not exact matches

Disruptions to the ability of developing brain cells to form branching connections with other cells, using a specific microRNA — miR - 9, was associated with an increase in the strength of fear - related memories in adulthood.

Using resting - state MRI analysis on thousands of people's brains around the world, the research has found that the areas of the brain which are associated with learning and development show high levels of variability, meaning that they change their neural connections with other parts of the brain more frequently, over a matter of minutes or seconds.

«If this insight proves correct,» said Jonathan Posner, MD, lead author and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at CUMC, «behavioral interventions that improve the functioning of the DMN, such as meditation and mindfulness, could be used to address a brain - based problem (increased DMN connections), before it leads to a depressive illness.»

While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the brain's emotional processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.

«High treatment effectivity is associated with strong connections between the DBS electrode and specific frontal areas of the brain, such as the «supplementary motor area»,» says Dr. Horn.

For instance, his clear, lively writing reveals how our emotions, such as the fight - or - flight response and the suite of thoughts and actions associated with stress, provide strong evidence for a brain - body connection.

And pain protects us by stimulating and strengthening neural connections in the brain, forcing us to associate the sensation with the memory of what we did to cause it.

People with intermittent explosive disorder (IED), or impulsive aggression, have a weakened connection between regions of the brain associated with sensory input, language processing and social interaction.

Compared to controls, patients with depression had decreased fractional anisotropy (FA), a measure of the structural integrity of white matter connections, around an area near the deep gray matter of the brain that is strongly associated with the brain's reward circuit.

«The idea is that if you can couple those motor signals that are associated with moving the same - sided limb with the actual movements of the hand, new connections will be made in your brain that allow the uninjured areas of your brain to take over control of the paralyzed hand,» Leuthardt said.

New research from the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas investigating brain differences associated with risk - taking teens found that connections between certain brain regions are amplified in teens more prone to risk.

«In this case, brain regions associated with emotion and reward centers show increased connection even when they are not explicitly engaged.»

«This study suggests that amyloid deposition in the gray matter affects the associated white matter connections, which are essential for conducting messages across the billions of nerve cells in the brain, allowing for all aspects of mental function.»

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 disease is largely attributed to an abnormal buildup of proteins, which can form amyloid beta plaques and tangles in the brain that trigger inflammation and result in the loss of brain connections called synapses, the effect most strongly associated with cognitive decline.

The physiological changes associated with walking, like lower stress levels, lower arousal levels and an overall better mood, can promote more creative thought connections in the brain.

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.

A new study published in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry suggests that schizophrenia is associated with reductions in the complexity of the cortical folding pattern that may reflect deficits in the structural connections between brain regions.

The normalized clustering coefficient γ and the number of connections k (supplemental Fig. 3, available at www.jneurosci.org as supplemental material) were found not to be significantly associated with IQ, suggesting that intelligence is not directly related to the level of local information processing or to the total number of functional connections of the brain network.

The «gold standard» compound for creating neuronal connections is brain - derived neurotrophic factor, or BDNF, a growth - promoting protein associated with normal brain development and learning.

It is the changes in the synaptic connections in areas of the brain such as the cerebral cortex and hippocampus that is associated with the learning and retention of new information.

One of Frankland's own studies in mice, for example, found that as new brain cells are formed in the hippocampus — a region of the brain associated with learning new things — those new connections overwrite old memories and make them harder to access.

Researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institute and at the National Institutes of Health are finding a connection between tyrosine hydroxylase activity, thyroid hormone receptors, and depleted dopamine levels in the brain — particularly in the substantia nigra, a region associated with the movement difficulties characteristic of Parkinson's disease.11, 12,13

And so when the brain is using ketones, there is going to be less free radical damage and what we call oxidative stress in the brain, so less damage being associated with the various neurons in the brain therefore better connection, better communication.

They activate areas of the brain that are associated with pleasure, social connection, and trust.