"Brain structure" refers to the physical organization and arrangement of the brain. It includes the different parts, such as the cortex, cerebellum, and hippocampus, as well as the connections between them.
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In the study, the researchers found higher odds
of brain structure changes in participants who consumed just 14 to 21 units per week.
In the first known study of its kind, researchers have shown that the language we learn as children
affects brain structure, as does hearing status.
Likewise, a 2012 study on kids and adults with ADHD revealed that, over time, treatment has a positive effect
on brain structure.
To resolve that question would have required locking varying size groups of college students in separate rooms for a year or more to see whether larger groups
altered brain structure in some way.
New studies released today reveal links between social status and
specific brain structures and activity, particularly in the context of social stress.
The research team wanted to see if elderly long - term yoga practitioners had any differences in terms of
brain structure compared with healthy elderly people who had never practiced yoga.
A different but also rapidly growing research direction deals with the use of connectivity measures to
link brain structure and cognition.
Other studies have found excess rates of
brain structure alterations and brain cancer deaths among veterans who had the greatest exposure to nerve agents or oil fire smoke.
Making music requires a complex interplay of various abilities which are also reflected in more strongly
developed brain structures.
This research is transforming our understanding of
brain structures at the center of memory, behavior, and cognition.
The author guides principals from the basics of
brain structure through applications of educational neuroscience to build productive and successful brain - compatible classrooms.
As participants completed the task in the virtual environment, described by all as «very realistic,» they underwent an MRI scanning to help acquire information
about brain structure.
Brain structure plays an important role in this «sensitive period» for learning language, which is believed to end around adolescence.
Now there's evidence that such stress can actually change the size of
brain structures responsible for learning, memory and processing emotion.
Multiple brain structures and processes are involved in the process of attachment, the foundation of optimal mental and physical health.
This promising technique makes it possible to map
active brain structures in a living laboratory animal or in a human being.
His findings indicate that there is no single and
unique brain structure for any form of belief, including religious belief.
Brain Structure Research has shown that some structures in the brain in children with ADHD can be smaller than those areas of the brain in children without ADHD.
As a group, kids who received treatment had
fewer brain structure abnormalities than those who were left untreated.
This study does not prove that too much sitting causes
thinner brain structures, but instead that more hours spent sitting are associated with thinner regions, researchers said.
Different
brain structures seem to support different kinds of learning and memory; brain damage can lead to the loss of one type without disturbing the others.
This workshop will explore the neural architecture of emotional behavior by examining
various brain structures laying the foundation for higher level social skill functioning.
Previous research from other studies had linked hearing loss with marked differences in
brain structure compared to those with normal hearing, both in humans and animals.
When comparing brain responses from each trial, the group identified
several brain structures that were more or less active before and during the painful stimulus in those who experienced a placebo effect.
All subjects underwent magnetic resonance imaging scans, which the researchers analyzed with specialized software to reveal differences in the volume
of brain structures.
The researchers found that a key
brain structure involved in regulating emotions and decision - making is smaller in kids who have lived through three or more adverse experiences before the age of 8, compared with kids whose lives were more stable.
Because of this different anatomy, many scientists proposed that the bird DVR does not correspond to the mammalian cortex but is instead analogous to another mammalian
brain structure called the amygdala.
A review of 111 studies published in the Journal of Applied Physiology found that regular exercise helps children perform better academically and help both children and adults improve their ability to multi-task and plan by increasing the volume of
brain structures associated with memory.
Honeybees may not need key
brain structures known as mushroom bodies in order to learn complex associations between odors and rewards, according to new research published in PLOS Computational Biology.
The evidence discussed here, which suggest that food intake is influenced by processes that recruit memory and attention taken alongside an emerging evidence base that Western - type diets can damage
brain structures important for learning and memory (39), suggests that the links between cognition and diet are bidirectional.
«Further work is required in order to fully understand the mechanisms and impact of DBS of the STN or
other brain structures on the non motor symptoms of PD,» concludes Dr. Klingelhoefer.
According to the Washington University in St. Louis, research has found that a
key brain structure involved in regulating emotions and decision - making is smaller in kids who have lived through three or more adverse experiences before the age of 8, compared with kids whose lives were more stable.
The cerebral cortex is the outermost layer of neural tissue in the brain and is one of the most extensively
studied brain structures in the field of neuroscience.
UCLA mathematicians Tony Chan and Luminita Vese detect anatomical
brain structures by lassoing them with a loop, which then shrinks tightly around the structure using a level - set algorithm to capture its exact shape.
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