Dynamic reconfiguration of structural and functional connectivity across core neurocognitive
brain networks with development.
These early developments produce
brain networks with a balance of influences that will excite and inhibit the brain and a disruption to this natural order has been associated with a number of common neurodevelopmental disorders including TS.
Not exact matches
With the rise of the artificial neural
network, which mirrors the interconnected nodes of the human
brain, artificial intelligence is ready to graduate to a new level.
«In our current age,
with its emphasis on personal branding, social -
network marketing, clever retweets, and mobile accessibility, it's important to remember that in many fields there's still no substitute for hard
brain work,» Newport says.
The startup's chip design «slots in perfectly
with this Intel acquisition,» says CEO Naveen Rao, who worked on developing neural
networks inspired by biological
brains at Qualcomm (qcom) before co-founding Nervana in 2014.
It helps signals move faster around the neural
network, and in two important areas of the
brain, the frontal and temporal lobes, myelin levels increase
with age, peaking on average around age 50 and in some people continuing to rise into their 60s.
A mechanical «substrate» is more durable than a
brain, its software is more easily modified, and advanced computers can
network with greater speed and ease.
Understanding this intricate
network and how the human
brain interacts
with it is becoming our door to happiness and health.
The genes in the
network are thought to be involved in how
brain cells communicate
with each other.
A
network of interacting
brain regions known as the default mode
network (DMN) was found to have stronger connections in adults and children
with a high risk of depression compared to those
with a low risk.
However, in
brains at rest in people
with aphasia,
networks involved in hearing, motor processing, attention and executive functions were not as strongly connected as the same
networks in the control group.
With an underground «
brain network» and the ability to react and remember, plants have their own kind of intelligence — and may even cry out in pain
Altered patterns of variability were observed in the
brain's default
network with schizophrenia, autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) patients.
To do so, a deep neural
network automatically separates each of the speakers from the mixture, and compares each speaker
with the neural data from the user's
brain.
Real diagnoses
with artificial
networks The software was based on an artificial neural
network, a program that mimics the structure of biological
brains and learns via adjustments in the strength of connections in its
network.
These were subsequently fed into a part of the paw of an anesthetized rat, and then,
with the help of electrodes in the
brain and advanced analytical techniques, the researchers were able to measure the reactions in the neuronal
networks.
«Understanding of complex
networks could help unify gravity and quantum mechanics: When the understanding of complex
networks such as the
brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up
with quantum behavior.»
«For people
with epilepsy, there are a number of areas of the
brain that are really broken — that's the seizure - generating
network,» Bassett said.
With further study, this regulatory
network could be a more effective target for epilepsy therapies, including implantable stimulation devices that would help quiet a localized seizure before it spreads throughout the
brain.
The researchers also found disorder - specific involvement of the
brain's «fear circuitry» in patients
with SAD and involvement of the visual recognition
network in patients
with MDD.
Mathematicians investigating one of science's great questions — how to unite the physics of the very big
with that of the very small — have discovered that when the understanding of complex
networks such as the
brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up
with quantum behavior.
And
with more information on how the
brain forms its
network, scientists might begin to see what happens when that
network is injured or malformed.
In their research
with rhesus macaques, it was found that the three
brain areas AIP, F5 and M1 that are responsible for planning and executing hand movements, perform different tasks within their neural
network.
The researchers found that the size and location of
brain lesions correlated
with vision and motor impairments, but problems
with memory were better explained by changes to the
networks of
brain connections.
The researchers found that general intelligence was associated
with the
brain's dorsal attention
network, which plays a central role in attention - demanding tasks and everyday problem solving.
However, all the lesions were part of the same functional
network, located on different parts of a single circuit that normally allows neurons throughout the
brain to cooperate
with each other on specific cognitive tasks.
Hongkui Zeng and colleagues at the Allen Institute for
Brain Science in Seattle, Washington, injected the
brains of 469 mice
with a virus that introduced a fluorescent protein into the neural
network.
In an era of increasing excitement about mapping the
brain's «connectome,» this finding fits
with our growing understanding of complex
brain functions as residing not in discrete
brain regions, but in densely connected
networks of neurons spread throughout different parts of the
brain.
Further research would be helpful in determining the likelihood that patients who suffer
brain lesions in the «criminality - associated
network» actually go on to commit crimes,
with the expectation that this kind of impairment will emerge as one of many factors increasing the risk of criminal behavior.
The
brain is highly interconnected,
with a
networked architecture that makes the perfect platform for our mental gymnastics
The
brain is a complex
network containing billions of neurons, where each of these neurons communicates simultaneously
with thousands of other via their synapses (links).
«For each
network, we assess various aspects of the importance of individual
brain regions
with different centrality indices that were developed earlier for the social sciences.
In the realm of relationships, this mingling of the less and more - concrete means that attachment experiences
with specific others, their unconscious emotional tone, and the temperatures they actually feel activate and are stored in overlapping
networks of
brain areas.
The
brain scans also showed that the A allele was associated
with increased activity in the lateral and medial prefrontal cortex, regions that belong to a
network involved in the encoding of emotional memories.
According to recent literature, older people employ a different
brain network than younger people when performing this task, especially when squeezing
with their less - dominant hand, which loses strength faster than the other.
«Applying these analysis concepts to multichannel long - term EEG recordings from 17 epilepsy patients
with high temporal resolution allowed us to derive a sequence of functional
brain networks spanning several days in duration,» said Christian Geier, a doctoral student working
with Lehnertz.
Ultimately, Gazzaley hopes to understand the
networking between areas of the
brain that governs this top - down phenomenon and learn how that
networking changes
with aging (see Gazzaley Perspective).
Baliga's group is also mapping
networks in patients
with glioblastoma, a particularly deadly type of
brain tumor.
Last year, Greenfield added to her controversial resume
with claims that heavy use of social
networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter effectively rewires children's
brains to have short attention spans.
He was part of a Northwestern Medicine and Hines V.A. clinical trial that studied whether repeated stimulation
with familiar voices could help repair a coma victim's injured
brain networks and spur his recovery.
Axons sprout from neurons and then migrate to specific parts of the developing
brain where they interact
with other neurons to form neural
networks.
«For the first time, this research shows that the hypersensitivity experienced by chronic pain patients may result from hypersensitive
brain networks,» says co-senior author Richard Harris, Ph.D., associate professor of anesthesiology at Michigan Medicine
with the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center.
Brain networks associated
with social pain became activated in all women, but in the CG patients reminders of the deceased also excited the nucleus accumbens, a forebrain area most commonly associated
with reward.
«What I like most is the idea of combining information about everyday - life social
networks with standardized
brain imaging to assess implicit measures of social perception [that are relevant to the real world].»
Working primarily
with mice, senior author and University of Virginia neuroscience professor Jonathan Kipnis and his group identified a hitherto undetected
network of lymphatic vessels in the meninges — the membranes that surround the
brain and spinal cord — that shuttle fluid and immune cells from the cerebrospinal fluid to the deep cervical lymph nodes in the neck.
Navlakha, who develops algorithms to understand complex biological
networks, wondered if the
brain,
with its billions of distributed neurons, was managing information similarly.
«Eventually, we want to be able to image whole
brains, as is,
with this method to see the entirety of their neural
networks and other structures.»
Going forward, the team will continue to study the relationship between
network connectivity and metabolism in individuals
with ASD, extending their work to other relevant
brain networks.
«Our future research will examine how
networks can be improved or enhanced, even after a traumatic
brain injury,
with cognitive intervention.»
A team of UCLA scientists has found that
brain areas linked to social behaviors are both underdeveloped and insufficiently
networked in youths
with high functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared to study participants without ASD.