Sentences with phrase «brain maps showing»

This service is provided in the context of one, extensive visit, where the child and parents are extensively interviewed, analysis of caretaker inventories is made, a state - of - the - art Continual Performance Test [CPT] is performed, and a Quantitative Electroencephalograph [QEEG] is performed, yielding brain maps showing the function of the child's brain.
The canine brain maps showed Berns that dogs use a region of the brain known as the caudate nucleus in a similar way to humans.

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«These maps show us a stark difference — and complementarity — in the architecture of the human brain that helps provide a potential neural basis as to why men excel at certain tasks, and women at others,» said Verma.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have created a map that shows how specific schizophrenia symptoms are linked to distinct brain circuits.
Mapping the path of the tentacle nerves showed that they feed into an area of the brain that processes sensory signals, close to where it responds strongly to visual signals.
For the first study, which was published in February in Human Brain Mapping, 20 people were shown a video of a hand being poked with a pin and then asked to imitate photographs of faces displaying a range of emotions — happy, sad, angry and excited.
«We showed that the approach doctors have been using for 130 years of mapping brain lesions to symptoms only gets you so far,» Siegel said.
When multiple maps are overlaid, patterns begin to emerge that show how different regions of the brain activate specific and often discrete complements of genes.
Each individual map shows where a single gene is expressed in the brain.
A team of multidisciplinary researchers with expertise spanning biotechnology, information technology, and medicine have used a combination of several «omics technologies to map proteins down to the single cell level, showing both proteins restricted to certain tissues — such as the brain, heart, or liver — and those present in all tissues.
In a paper recently published in Human Brain Mapping, a team of researchers from the Quebec - based Research Unit on Children's Psychosocial Maladjustment shows how the in utero environment can play a role in the development of brain proceBrain Mapping, a team of researchers from the Quebec - based Research Unit on Children's Psychosocial Maladjustment shows how the in utero environment can play a role in the development of brain procebrain processes.
These maps, they say, will show everything from relative sizes of anatomical features to differences in brains associated with age, race, gender, educational background, genetic composition, and other distinguishing characteristics.
From this information a neural map can be created showing where brain activity occurs and how much blood is flowing there.
Tools developed via the Brain Activity Map may monitor vast ensembles of neurons as they fire — bringing static maps of neural circuits to life (shown above).
A scent's location on the map also predicts the brain activity caused by getting a whiff: previous research in a variety of animals such as fruit flies, honeybees, mice, rats and tadpoles showed that neighboring odors cause similar patterns of neuron activity.
This map, created by comparing the location of thousands of specific points in many healthy brains, shows which is which.
One of the classic images used in introductory biology and psychology courses is the motor homunculus: a deformed map of the body drawn on the primary motor cortex, showing which brain areas control different body parts.
Brain maps of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show different levels of connectivity between parts of the brain compared with typical individBrain maps of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show different levels of connectivity between parts of the brain compared with typical individbrain compared with typical individuals.
In those scans, one spot in the brain showed the same patterns of activity as the master map in the computer model.
If his model really was showing how our brains work, Humphreys wondered if he could pinpoint the location of the master map.
As in previous studies, subjects were put inside a PET scanner and shown a slide with color rectangles, and their brain activity was mapped.
An fMRI map of a resting state network that shows the connections between the sub-regions of the thalamus with other parts of the brain.
As in the previous studies, subjects were put inside a PET scanner, shown a slide with color rectangles, and their brain activity was mapped.
These maps show networks in the brains of controls and patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.
«Readers with dyslexia have disrupted network connections in the brain, map the circuitry of dyslexia shows
Next, they constructed maps for each participant that showed which areas of the brain exhibited high levels of connectivity.
A map of the brain regions that conduct the process shows how each is carefully controlled — and how mistakes can slip into our speech.
In the same way that the fly genome paved the way for larger projects, including sequencing the human genome, FlyEM may ultimately contribute to our understanding of the human brain by establishing a fly «connectome» — a map that shows how all neurons in the fly brain are connected to each other.
fMRI can be used to produce activation maps showing which parts of the brain are involved in a particular mental process.
Mapping these anatomical connections with techniques such as diffusion tensor imaging (shown here) is a major goal of Japan's new Brain / MINDS project.
In work funded by the UK's Wellcome Trust and the National Institutes of Health in the USA, researchers at the University of Cambridge have used magnetic resonance imaging to map the connections in the brain and shown that the strength of those connections correlates with a person's intelligence.
They have refused the classic view of the tongue's flavour map, showing a uniform distribution of these receptors, and identifying regions specific to each flavour in the brain's gustatory cortex.
After demonstrating reorganization of this map after injury, Merzenich showed that simply expanding or limiting the use of different fingers leads to a corresponding change in the representation of the hand in the brain.
Here we show that in each case the resulting module specific SI map is similar in the brain areas that are included as part of the overall module.
The Human Protein Atlas maps for the first time the human proteins in all major organs and tissues, showing both proteins restricted to certain tissues, such as the brain, heart, or liver, and those present in all.
But it shows that a kaleidoscope of ability is mapped in our brains, and that, with the help of brain - imaging technology, these are variations of «intelligences» we can actually see.
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