Sentences with phrase «brain connectivity patterns»

Formally, brain connectivity patterns can be represented in graph or matrix format (Figure 1).

Leow and her colleagues explored differences and similarities in brain connectivity patterns in 24 weight - restored individuals with anorexia nervosa (participants met all criteria for anorexia except for amenorrhea and all had body mass indices (BMI) of 18.5 or higher), 29 participants with body dysmorphic disorder, and 31 healthy control participants.

Dresler and his team are still analyzing their brain scan data to learn more about the differences in brain connectivity patterns they found and how they affect memory.

«Not only can you induce a behavioral change, the training also induces similar brain connectivity patterns as those seen in memory athletes.»

They used MRI scanning to look at the functional brain connectivity patterns between the two activities.

Not exact matches

Compared with infants born full term, the late preterm brain has lower brain volume and less distinct patterns of neural connectivity.

Although many areas of the brain contain synapses capable of creating strong patterns of connectivity, the hippocampus is a particularly favorable spot for recording memories.

The connectivity was measured in 15 patients with visual hallucinations, 40 patients without visual hallucinations, and 15 healthy controls by calculating the level of synchronization between activation patterns of different brain areas.

Every person has a distinct pattern of functional brain connectivity known as a connectotype, or brain fingerprint.

«This is the first study that has examined how the patterns of intrinsic brain connectivity change with a cognitive load in children with autism,» Menon said.

To begin to understand how the connectivity patterns in the brains of memory athletes influence memory performance, Dresler and colleagues looked at the 25 connections that most differentiate memory athletes from others.

In new research published, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in Germany and the USA show that the way in which the brain organizes its visual sense remains intact even in people who are blind from birth, and that at least the pattern of functional connectivity between the visual area and the topographical representation of space (up / down, left / right, etc.) can develop on its own without any actual visual experience.

The researchers found that the same «mapping» divisions - of - labor present in the normally sighted brain are also present in the brains of people born blind as reflected from their resting state connectivity patterns.

In this study, the researchers aimed to investigate task related brain activity and functional connectivity patterns following onset of a regional anesthetic nerve block during continuous noxious dental stimulation.

«Once we unravel the different working patterns and circuits in the brain during memory formation and decision - making, we can begin to look for differences in connectivity patterns that underlie abnormalities,» Harvey said.

Since the brain network is formed by genetics and experiences, it is possible to predict one's age, personality, or performance in cognitive functions from functional connectivity patterns in their brain network.

«In our study, we show that the world's most experienced users of this strategy differ from normal control subjects not in coarse differences in a single brain structure, but in distributed connectivity patterns between larger brain networks,» he added.

Patients with depression can be categorized into four unique subtypes defined by distinct patterns of abnormal connectivity in the brain, according to new research from Weill Cornell Medicine.

In different experiments we will examine the effects of exogenous (intranasal oxytocin) and endogenous (providing social support) oxytocin on fear and reward related brain activation patterns, functional connectivity, stress reactivity and trauma - related psychopathology symptoms.

The results don't indicate whether one causes the other, but they do show that connectivity patterns could one day help predict traits or offer broad indicators of the effect of drugs on the brain.

Dr. Elias and the OCAR primarily focus on understanding why ERP works (e.g., fear tolerance versus fear habituation; the roles of guilt, willingness, and acceptance; patterns of brain activation during exposure; functional connectivity among brain regions), tailoring treatment to the individual (e.g., elucidation of predictors of response and their underlying processes / mechanisms and neural correlates; rigorous diagnostic characterization of obsessive compulsive related disorders), and evaluating innovative treatments and augmentation strategies (e.g., acceptance and commitment therapy; optimization of inhibitory learning; pharmacological augmentation).

It is not yet understood why such conflicting patterns of brain connectivity are observed across different studies, and the factors contributing to these heterogeneous findings have not been identified.

It is not yet understood why such conflicting patterns of brain connectivity results are observed across different studies, and factors contributing to these heterogeneous findings have not been identified.

Another recent study of children aged 9 — 18 found mixed patterns of hypo - and hyper - connectivity between ROIs across the entire brain (Rudie et al., 2013).

Using fMRI techniques, we will study the effects of intranasal oxytocin and social support on brain activation patterns and functional connectivity in the acute aftermath of the traumatic event.

Our detailed brain map report identifies unhealthy brainwave patterns and connectivity issues via an easy to read format.

The study essentially correlates specific patterns of brain connectivity — the degree to which different parts of the human brain talk to each other — with a suite of what are generally considered positive traits, such as education, income, and self - control.

Contrasting brain patterns of writing - related DTI parameters, fMRI connectivity, and DTI - fMRI connectivity correlations in children with and without dysgraphia or dyslexia.