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Compounds produced in the digestive system have been linked to autistic - type behaviour in laboratory settings, potentially demonstrating that what autistic children eat can alter their brain function, say scientists from the University of Western Ontario.

Scientists have linked BPA to a growing list of ailments: cancer, reproductive and cardiovascular system disorders (including damage to the prostate gland, infertility and early puberty), brain and neurological system dysfunctions, behavioral problems, diabetes and obesity.

It is the first time scientists have tracked the link between the brain's development and the roofing bones of the skull.

University of California San Diego scientists have linked specific wiring in the brain to distinct behavioral symptoms of depression.

Many studies have linked more sleep to better memory, but new research in fruit flies demonstrates that extra sleep helps the brain overcome catastrophic neurological defects that otherwise would block memory formation, report scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Today, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) announce the discovery of a new neural circuit in the brain that directly links the site of fear memory with an area of the brainstem that controls behavior.

Scientists have linked TV viewing to antisocial behavior, lowered verbal IQ and altered brain structure — but a new study raises questions

A team of CSHL scientists have discovered a new neural circuit in the brain that directly links the site of fear memory with an area of the brainstem that controls behavior.

The cognitive impairments — which affected a large subset, but far from all, of the animals — appear to be linked to protein changes in the brain, the scientists say.

Led by Matthew P. Anderson, MD, PhD, Director of Neuropathology at BIDMC, the scientists determined how a gene linked to one common form of autism works in a specific population of brain cells to impair sociability.

For the first time, Whitehead Institute scientists have documented a direct link between deletions in two genes — fam57ba and doc2a — in zebrafish and certain brain and body traits, such as seizures, hyperactivity, enlarged head size, and obesity.

While some research supported a link between prenatal sound exposure and improved brain function, scientists had not identified any structures responsible for this link in the developing brain.

Now scientists have linked a key component of this type of decision - making — the split - second evaluation of how well things are going — to a distinct pattern of brain activity.

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.

Untangling the tightly woven neuronal tapestry to discover what is real is one of the challenges scientists confront when crossing the brain - mind divide, linking the physics of excitable matter to ephemeral subjective, conscious experience, the most real thing there is.

New research led by UC San Francisco scientists has revealed that mutations in a gene linked with brain development may dispose people to multiple forms of psychiatric disease by changing the way brain cells communicate.

A team of scientists has linked changes in the structure of a handful of central brain neurons to understanding how animals adjust to changing seasons.

When linking participants» performance on the test to their brain lesions, scientists found out that those veterans who have made more decisions to punish showed bilateral lesions in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex.

In one example, scientists linked the brains of rhesus macaque monkeys, who worked together to control the movements of the arm of a virtual avatar on a digital display in front of them.

It's the first time scientists have shown in selectively bred animals that the propensity for addiction is linked to differences in expression of genes for specific molecules in a specific brain region.

All in the mind These discoveries link the Mosers to a rich cast of scientists and philosophers who have pondered the connections between brain, memory and location since at least the time of Ancient Greece.

Today, the question has been taken up by cognitive scientists who want to link facial expressions to emotions in order to track the genes, chemicals, and neural pathways that govern emotion in the brain.

The link between brain size and social living was first noted in 1850, when scientists identified mushroom bodies in the insect brain.

Scientists have linked aerobic fitness in kids to bigger brains, specifically, the part involved in paying attention.

Yvan Campos, associate scientist in the St. Jude Department of Genetics and the paper's first author, was instrumental in defining Alix's precise role in the brain's choroid plexus and linking that role to disease.

A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has discovered that specific genes are linked to individual differences in brain anatomy in autistic children.

The findings also suggest that identifying the brain circuits affected by mutated genes linked to psychiatric disease could help scientists develop more personalized treatments for patients in the future, Feng says.

In tests using human neural progenitor cells (NPCs)-- self - renewing, multipotent cells that generate neurons and other brain cell types — the scientists found that exposure to sofosbuvir not only rescued dying NPCs infected with the Zika virus, but restored gene expression linked to their antiviral response.

«Scientists link genes to brain anatomy in autism.»

If brain size had anything to do with innovation and creativity, some scientists expected to see a link between the so - called Mind's Big Bang (the emergence of bone tools and cave paintings that occurred between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago) and the emergence of modern - size human brains.

For instance, says Korenberg, the data could help scientists to link genes that seem important in certain mental disorders, such as schizophrenia or autism, to specific brain - wiring abnormalities.

In a report in the Sept. 25 issue of Nature Communications, the scientists say mutations in one such autism - linked gene, dubbed NHE9, which is involved in transporting substances in and out of structures within the cell, causes communication problems among brain cells that likely contribute to autism.

Recognising a need to better understand the biology that produces ASD symptoms, scientists at Duke - NUS Medical School (Duke - NUS) and the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI), Singapore, have teamed up and identified a novel mechanism that potentially links abnormal brain development to the cause of ASDs.

UNSW Australia scientists have discovered a link between autism and genetic changes in some segments of DNA that are responsible for switching on genes in the brain.

Romantic love may be linked to addiction in the brain, but it is possible to break the habit, though it's not easy, says study researcher Helen E. Fisher, PhD, an anthropologist and noted relationship scientist at Rutgers University.

For example, scientists could confirm or disprove whether an experience was truly linked with specific brain circuitry by first identifying networks activated when a rat encounters, say, an anxiety - provoking event, and afterwards stimulating that same network directly to determine whether the animal shows evidence of experiencing the same mental state.

These techniques have allowed scientists to investigate mental operations in humans, such as reading or memory, and to link these to activity in particular regions of the brain.

January 12, 2016 Individuals with rage disorder have smaller volumes in brain structures linked with emotion People who have a behavioral disorder characterized by extreme outbursts of anger, such as road rage, have significantly lower gray matter volume in the brain region that plays an important role in regulating emotion, report scientists from the University of Chicago.

It does not help that there is no definitive proof that cellphone usage is really linked to brain cancer, with some scientists even claiming that there is absolutely no connection.

Strengthening the link between Zika virus and microcephaly, scientists at UC San Francisco have discovered that a protein the virus uses to infect skin cells and cause a rash is present also in stem cells of the developing human brain and retina.

LA JOLLA — Scientists at the Salk Institute have uncovered details into a surprising — and crucial — link between brain development and a gene whose mutation is tied to breast and ovarian cancer.

It was a bit of a mystery to the scientists investigating the phenomenon: a brain disease driven by the death of specialized neurons was strongly linked to exposure to a particular pesticide.

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October 25, 1997 Scientists closing in on how increased Alzheimer's risk is linked to fat and cholesterol transport in the brain Scientists studying the brain are learning how the removal of cholesterol and the proper delivery of fatty compounds are vital for the healthy function of the brain, in an effort to understand how these processes gone awry can lead to Alzheimer's disease.

Two Gene Mutations Linked to Most Common Brain Cancers Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Duke University Medical Center linked mutations in two genes, IDH1 and IDH2, to nearly three - quarters of several of the most common types of brain cancers known as glLinked to Most Common Brain Cancers Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Duke University Medical Center linked mutations in two genes, IDH1 and IDH2, to nearly three - quarters of several of the most common types of brain cancers known as gliBrain Cancers Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Duke University Medical Center linked mutations in two genes, IDH1 and IDH2, to nearly three - quarters of several of the most common types of brain cancers known as gllinked mutations in two genes, IDH1 and IDH2, to nearly three - quarters of several of the most common types of brain cancers known as glibrain cancers known as gliomas.

Decades of textbook teaching could be overturned by discovery... Scientists have discovered a previously unknown link between the brain and the immune system that could help explain links between poor physical health and brain disorders including Alzheimer's and depression.

The next step for scientists is to directly link brain changes to the broad experience of school.

A few years from now, in Italy, a gifted scientist discovers links between time and the human brain and between her lover's novel and his life.