In the study, the researchers found distinctive
brain differences in children known to be at high risk because of family history of depression.
There are still parts of the mouse brain that we need to explore: the developmental mouse brain, the
female brain differences.
Their findings provide more evidence for the argument that gender differences are
n't brain differences but the result of variations in the ways boys and girls are treated.
The research team, which includes Daniel S. Koo, PhD, and Carol J. LaSasso, PhD, of Gallaudet University in Washington, say their findings should impact studies
of brain differences in deaf and hearing people going forward.
Such imaging could eventually help diagnose dyslexia in young children; even better, Eden hopes that by studying
subtle brain differences as children with and without dyslexia learn to read, fMRI could eventually help teachers target reading interventions.
What's clear is that we shouldn't sweep research on sex -
based brain differences under the carpet in the interest of political correctness, just because some misguided writers use the field to make sweeping generalizations about men's and women's abilities and personalities.
When previous studies reported
structural brain differences in children with ADHD, some contended that drugs such as Ritalin given to treat the disorder stunted brain growth.
But hypothalamic connections were off - kilter between headaches, too, pointing to more
persistent brain differences in those prone to cluster headaches.
Clay Reid of the Allen Institute hopes BAM will develop a technology that can be used to screen
for brain differences that may indicate these conditions early.
«Women have more active brains than men: Largest functional brain imaging study to date identifies
specific brain differences between women and men, according to a new report in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.»
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.
PEOPLE with a gene variant known to be linked to aggression may have been born with
key brain differences that could make them more likely to snap under pressure.
Brain differences related to the neurodevelopmental disorder Fragile X are visible well before a diagnosis, which typically happens at age three or later, new research indicates.
A new study revealed that
several brain differences found in young adults contribute to an increased risk for Alzheimer's disease.
We're told that our left brain hemisphere works differently from our right brain hemisphere (though what we read on left brain /
right brain differences is mostly bunk); but just try sensing which hemisphere is doing what without a truckload of scanners.
If you scan guys in Japan, or do brain scans of guys in Japan or India, where I used to live, you see the
same brain differences.
Lead author, psychiatrist Daniel G. Amen, MD, founder of Amen Clinics, Inc., commented, «This is a very important study to help understand gender -
based brain differences.
A UCLA study characterizes, for the first time,
brain differences between people with a specific genetic risk for schizophrenia and those at risk for autism, and the findings could help explain the biological underpinnings of these neuropsychiatric disorders.
Research at King's College London has revealed
subtle brain differences in adult males with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which may go some way towards explaining why symptoms persist into adulthood in some people with the disorder.
For instance, the difference in intelligence between an individual with, say, a brain that's 1,100 grams and one that's 1,400 grams (which could be found in humans) is confounded by other variables, including differences in density of neurons, other
structural brain differences and socio - cultural factors.
And, he adds, brain and eye development are closely linked in utero, so the appearance of distinctive eye traits might well be related to patterns
of brain differences.
«We found subtle
brain differences in men who at a very young age had severe problems with communication and social interaction.
And these differences are just part gender differences (some of
these brain differences are noted in «Nurture the Nature».
ADHD is a «
brain difference.»
«Football: Concussions, years of play related to
brain differences, especially in areas linked to memory.»
It is difficult to tell whether
these brain differences are innate causes of feelings of discomfort towards gendered body parts, or whether a trans person's aversion to a body part could have caused changes like these to occur in the brain over time.
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Brain differences in athletes playing contact vs. Noncontact sports.»
And the more television a kid watches, the more profound
the brain differences, scientists report November 20 in Cerebral Cortex.
For treatment, that knowledge could make a huge impact: not only should researchers be better about testing potential migraine drugs on men and women separately, Maleki says, but they may be able to design new treatments based on
these brain differences — giving both sexes a better chance at relief.
«Wired for gaming:
Brain differences in compulsive video game players: Brain scans reveal new connections that are potentially beneficial, harmful.»
Follow up studies will be needed to directly determine whether the boys with
these brain differences do better on performance tests.
But the latest results settle arguments about whether
the brain differences were there from birth, or developed through practice.
Some of these regions respond just to the actual features of the face, whereas others respond to how things appear to the viewer, but it is unknown where in
the brain this difference arises.
«It is worth noting that
the brain differences are visible only with the special research techniques we now have at our disposal.
Some of
these brain differences could be benign: an increase in the visual cortex's volume is likely caused by exercising eyesight while watching TV.
Host: Dr. Liisa Galea Speaker: Dr. Margaret McCarthy, Chair, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland Title: Surprising Origins of Sex Differences in the Brain
These events could then help to explain why
the brain differences exist between humans and chimps, with which we share up to 98 percent of the same DNA.
Brain differences may also help explain why introverts are less likely to engage in risky behavior.