Sentences with phrase «brain organization in»

These studies indicate a pattern of brain organization in poor readers that differs from that seen in nonimpaired readers, with less activity in regions of the left hemisphere that are associated with proficient reading.

Of additional importance, the distinct ERP markers identified by Mills are so characteristic of the different brain organization in Williams that this information alone is approximately 90 percent accurate when analyzing brain activity to identify someone with Williams syndrome.

Some of these brains showed surface creases similar to ones that were thought to have signaled a turn toward humanlike brain organization in ancient hominids hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago.

Not exact matches

There is now decades of research backed by organizations like the US federal agency the National Institutes of Health that have linked regular meditation to physical changes in the brain.

Dr. José Baselga, chief medical officer and physician - in - chief at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, says it's organizations such as the Kamen Brain Tumor Foundation that will be instrumental in driving the cure.

The AOKI FOUNDATION's primary goal is supporting organizations in the brain science and research areas with a specific focus on regenerative medicine and brain preservation.

Above all, what is fascinating is the emergence of the wonders of organization of the human body and the emergence in its brain of distinctively human experience.

So they knew that a person who is gay uses their brain differently, that gays are affected by hormone levels in the womb, that they know at a young age their orientation without environmental factors, that the world major organizations would recognize that a gay person can't change their orientation through therapy.

Thus, at the lowest level, electrons tend to unite and converge in the atom; atoms converge by molecularization, crystallization; molecules unite by polymerization; cells unite by conjugation, reproduction, association; nerve ganglions concentrate and localize to form a brain by what might be called a process of cephalization; the higher animal groups form colonies, hives, herds, societies, etc.; man socializes and forms civilizations as foci of attraction and organization.

The problem with many superiors in our corporate world (including the religious organization world), is their fear that a subordinate will replace them if allowed to think independently with the brain God gave them.

And the human brain is incomparably more complex in its organization than any other state of matter of which we are aware.

Whitehead adds that what this form of bodily organization makes possible is the concentration of complex and novel information in one portion of the body, namely, within the brain.

Shannon and his family maintain close ties to the community and regularly participate in local business and charity organizations including a brain tumor research fund established in honor of his late wife Judy, VanMatre says.

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

Despite the departure of free agents Maddux, Sheffield, Lopez and Castilla, the Braves» brain trust offers unparalleled continuity: With 15 years on the job, John Schuerholz is the longest - tenured general manager in the four major pro sports; only Jerry Sloan of the NBA's Utah Jazz has coached longer in one place than Cox has managed; and pitching coach Leo Mazzone has been in the organization since 1979.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 167.765 requires the department of health and senior services to work with various organizations (outlined in the statute) to promulgate rules which develop guidelines, pertinent information, and forms to educate coaches, youth athletes, and their parents and guardians of the nature and risk of concussion and brain injury including continuing to play after concussion or brain injury.

Publication of the Purdue study sent shock - waves reverberating through the football world, with the findings cited by concussion experts calling on youth sports organizations to take more aggressive action to minimize exposure to RHI, including sub-concussive blows, by changing the way contact and collision sports are played and practiced, and reducing the amount of brain trauma a child incurs by limiting the number of hits they sustain in a sports season, over the course of a year, and during a career.

In order to protect infant safety and ensure the patient and human rights of mothers and babies, we have built a non-profit organization committed to: (1) the study of exclusive breastfeeding complications that can result in brain injury and, in the most severe instances, death; and (2) raising public awareness to signs of infant hunger and the consequences that can result based on peer - reviewed researcIn order to protect infant safety and ensure the patient and human rights of mothers and babies, we have built a non-profit organization committed to: (1) the study of exclusive breastfeeding complications that can result in brain injury and, in the most severe instances, death; and (2) raising public awareness to signs of infant hunger and the consequences that can result based on peer - reviewed researcin brain injury and, in the most severe instances, death; and (2) raising public awareness to signs of infant hunger and the consequences that can result based on peer - reviewed researcin the most severe instances, death; and (2) raising public awareness to signs of infant hunger and the consequences that can result based on peer - reviewed research.

In chimpanzees, brain organization is also highly heritable, but in humans this is not the casIn chimpanzees, brain organization is also highly heritable, but in humans this is not the casin humans this is not the case.

AAAS and the Dana Foundation, a private philanthropic organization that promotes brain research and related educational initiatives, hosted the AAAS symposium and the congressional briefing, which was held in conjunction with the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus, co-chaired by Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Washington state Republican, and Earl Blumenauer, an Oregon Democrat.

In contrast, the findings related to brain organization were different for chimpanzees and humans.

Lucina Uddin, an associate professor of psychology in the UM College of Arts and Sciences, explains that studying the brain when it's in a resting state allows researchers to «basically look at the organization of the brain as it is without any extra stressors or stimuli.

A new study by University of Illinois researchers found that monounsaturated fatty acids — a class of nutrients found in olive oils, nuts and avocados — are linked to general intelligence, and that this relationship is driven by the correlation between MUFAs and the organization of the brain's attention network.

In particular, the next step is to run an interventional study over time to see whether long - term MUFA intake influences brain network organization and intelligence.

On the organization's Web site it says: «The Brain Observatory is committed to maintaining the highest standards in open science, sharing all the images and data that are created in our laboratories with other researchers and the public.»

In doing so, we sought to understand if brain network organization mediated the relationship between fatty acids and general intelligence,» said Marta Zamroziewicz, a recent Ph.D. graduate of the neuroscience program at Illinois and lead author of the study.

The Brain Science Institute (BSI) at RIKEN, Japan's largest research organization, and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), an interdisciplinary graduate university located at the southernmost tip of Japan, have been collaborating with the HBP since 2013 and applying their expertise in supercomputer - based models and simulations.

«We think that this brain activity organization is letting neurons talk to neurons in other areas,» says Muller.

The House briefing was the third hosted this year by the AAAS Office of Government Relations with the support of the Dana Foundation, a private philanthropic organization that promotes brain research and related educational initiatives, and in conjunction with the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus, co-chaired by Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Washington state Republican, and Earl Blumenauer, an Oregon Democrat.

«When we put the datasets side to side, there will likely be some interesting insights about how Russ» brain and its structural organization relate to the hundreds of individuals we have charted,» says HCP neuroscientist David Van Essen of Washington University in St. Louis.

«The idea that the organization of blind people's brains is a direct analog to the organization of sighted people's brains is an extreme one — it has an elegance you rarely actually see in practice,» she says.

Resolving these questions may someday lead scientists and medical professionals to a better understanding of how to preserve the natural organization of the auditory structures in the brain for those who are born with profound hearing loss.

Most experts believe the dominant hand is a by - product of a genetically driven process of brain organization, which locates specific functions — like language — in one hemisphere of the brain or the other.

As you might expect, depriving the visual cortex of half of its expected input is a major change in experience that can trigger changes in brain organization.

«These [new] findings suggest that, despite completely different brain organization and hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary divergence, pigeons and monkeys solve this problem in a similar way,» says Brannon.

In this study, the researchers looked at the organization of newborn brain tissue using Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique.

Does variation in sleep during brain development influence adult brain organization?

The scientists found that maternal iron intake correlated inversely with fractional anisotropy (FA)-- a unit of measurement in DTI that is a useful measurement of tissue organization in the brain — at locations scattered throughout the gray matter of the brain.

«We believe estradiol, a form of estrogen, is very important in normal brain function, specifically in the pre-frontal cortex, which regulates executive function — organization, recall, memory and other cognitive functions,» Epperson says.

My group focused on understanding brain mechanisms and the brain's hierarchical organization in controlling the various activities that humans execute, including motor control and behavioural changes upon fluctuations in the environments.

The way around that problem, of course, is for schools, sports leagues and other organizations to join public health experts in raising ever greater awareness among coaches, parents and children to play it smart and take brain injury very seriously.

The new results indicate that as brains grew larger and entered the world in a less developed state, it became increasingly advantageous to relax the genetic control of their organization, essentially providing a bigger, blanker canvas for adapting and learning.

The groupings were very similar across languages, reinforcing the organization of information in the brain is the same regardless of the language in which it is expressed.

«Without the right bias, you get more unusual patterns of brain organization, which means more people at the top and bottom, and less in the middle.»

In the early 1980s she founded the Brain Injury Association, today the foremost advocacy organization for TBI survivors.

Their findings: activity dropped in the prefrontal cortex — which is implicated in planning as well as in the organization of functions performed by other brain regions — but it jumped in a cluster of brain regions implicated in daydreaming known as the «default mode network.»

In people today, the same left - sided bias in brain organization is associated with right - handednesIn people today, the same left - sided bias in brain organization is associated with right - handednesin brain organization is associated with right - handedness.

Last year, the Sports Legacy Institute, a nonprofit organization that promotes research on sports - related head injuries, announced the formation of a new research center in partnership with the Boston University School of Medicine to study neuropsychiatric symptoms in athletes and to examine donated brains for signs of pathology.

The results of the study are also of interest to researchers working in the field, as Professor Brandt explains: «The results illustrate the very specific functional organization of our brains.

Cephalopod brains are elaborations of the basic invertebrate brain, and have a completely different organization than what is found in humans and other vertebrates.