Sentences with phrase «brain cortex»

A thinner brain cortex is associated with adult cognitive decline.

They looked at whether a chemical change (methylation) in the function of the SKA2 gene measured in blood predicted the thickness of brain cortex (a measure of neuronal health) and psychological symptoms, specifically PTSD and depression.

This study showed that theanine can reduce neuronal cell death in brain cortex and hippocampus.

Using fMRI, they discovered that the triangle — although non-existent — activates the primary visual brain cortex.

A new study led by researchers at MIT and Harvard University offers another dimension to this so - called «achievement gap»: After imaging the brains of high - and low - income students, they found that the higher - income students had thicker brain cortex in areas associated with visual perception and knowledge accumulation.

Design and development of optical methodologies beyond the state of the art for simultaneous functional imaging and photostimulation are being designed and developed across large areas of the mouse brain cortex.

Fetal human NSCs, isolated from the frontal brain cortex of a 28 week term fetus, (SCP - 27, P1) were obtained from the National Human Neural Stem Cell Resource (NHNSCR, Orange, CA).

The results of a longitudinal study at the University of Pennsylvania on brain development have revealed that toddler and pre-school children who were exposed to a wide variety of intellectual stimuli at that stage in their lives, had a more developed brain cortex than their counterparts when they reached their teen years.

«We found that current and ex-smokers had, at age 73, many areas of thinner brain cortex than those that never smoked.

The primary visual brain cortex is normally regarded as the area where eye signals are merely processed, but that has now been refuted by the results Kok and De Lange obtained.

Indeed, babies fed higher levels of breast milk show higher plasma concentration levels of DHA and AA in the brain cortex, cerebral grey and white matter, as well as a higher IQ up to 15 years of age compared to babies fed formula not containing LCPUFA.

Researchers used health data gathered during recent personal interviews with the subjects, and also analyzed data from MRI scans showing the current state of the subjects» brain cortices.

The collaboration, led by Wen Shen and Mark Allen of the University of Pennsylvania, found that the extracellular matrix derived electrodes adapted to the mechanical properties of brain tissue and were capable of acquiring neural recordings from the brain cortex.

The amount of white matter — the bundles of axons that connect different parts of the brain — did not differ, nor did the overall surface area of the brain cortex.

«Our goal in the project was to close the gap in knowledge that exists on role of serotonin in the brain cortex, particularly as it concerns brain circuitry, its electrical activity and function,» said Roberto Fernández Galán, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

43 IQ Linked to Brain Structure In smarter children, the brain cortex grows quickly and then thins quickly...

Brain imaging performed when the children were between 6 and 10 years old revealed abnormalities in the thickness of the brain cortex of the precuneus and rostral middle frontal region.

Signals are sent to the motor control center in the brain cortex to say, «Yes, go ahead and do this,» or «No, stop.

Unfortunately, the brain cortex (logic and reason) doesn't really have full control over food intake, which is strongly affected by other more «primitive» areas of the brain.

The brain cortex can try... but there are other parts of the brain constantly trying to exert their influence, putting pressure on us to take actions that we may have previously decided aren't in our best interest.