Sentences with phrase «brain structures at»

This research is transforming our understanding of brain structures at the center of memory, behavior, and cognition.

The pair have already successfully begun to use DTI to map brain structure at the level of nerve fibres, and it could be fruitful to follow connections out from a point activated by TMS, says Johansen - Berg.

Not exact matches

Some of the specific brain regions that sprang into action when Kurzweil was thinking outside the box: the dorsal anterior cingulate, which lies in the frontal lobes deep inside the brain, just above the band of fibers that connect the two hemispheres; the back part of the parietal lobes; and the right cerebellum, a cauliflower - shaped structure that lies at the base of the brain.

«I feel that it is important to create an awareness that the way we are interacting with the devices might be changing the way we think and these changes might be occurring at the level of brain structure.»

All the animals completed a series of cognitive tests at the start of the study and were injected with a substance that allows scientists to track changes in their brain structures.

That requires the changes in all three structures to change at the same time in such a manner to make the change in the eye usable to the changes in the brain.

Your baby's brain is also finalizing structures that are present at birth, but there's a lot still to be done.

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In her developmental psychology work at Yale University, she studied the role of maternal care in childhood on mothers» brain and changes in brain structure among mothers during the first few months postpartum.

Studies on genes, brain structures and hormones have failed to identify a clear link between, on one hand, differences at birth between the sexes and, on the other, particular behaviour.

For more consistent results, the researchers only recruited women, and the participants completed surveys to see if there were any other factors at work that could affect brain structure, such as depression or level of formal education.

Computer simulations and hands - on displays allow visitors to Marvelous Molecules — The Secret of Life at the New York Hall of Science to peek inside the molecular structure of living things to see how chemicals affect the brain and how DNA passes on genetic traits.

The signals are received in a structure at the base of the brain called the hypothalamus.

An impressive example of human engineering, no doubt; but according to Mike Hansell, a professor emeritus of animal architecture at the University of Glasgow, even creatures with very small brains create some pretty amazing structures.

Scientists suspect that one of the key areas especially affected is the thalamus, a walnut - size structure at the base of the brain that is the gateway for sensory information — taste, touch, vision, and hearing.

BRAIN CANDY A new database offers a deep look at living human nerve cells, revealing elaborate branching structures and myriad shapes, such as in this neuron called a pyramidal cell (cell image, left and 3 - D computer reconstruction, right).

«We know that experience is at least as powerful a regulator and shaper of brain structure and function as hormones, and boys and girls have very different experiences,» says Sisk, who was involved in the study.

«Physical activity and aerobic fitness are known to have beneficial effects on the underlying structures and functions of the brain,» said Barbey, a member of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at Illinois.

After studying astronomy and physics at the University of Southern California, she worked in the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at the University of California, Los Angeles, studying the brain structure of people with schizophrenia.

So they turned to living, anesthetized mice, attached electrodes to their scalps, and directed 2000 and 2010 hertz signals so that they produced a low - frequency, 10 hertz stimulation at the hippocampus, a deep - brain structure involved in learning and memory.

So a research team led by scientists at Children's National Health System in Washington, D.C., delivered subpar levels of oxygen to newborn piglets, whose course of brain development and whose highly evolved brain structure mirrors in many respects those of humans.

So Antonio Convit at the New York University School of Medicine wanted to see what impact obesity had on the physical structure of the brain.

Studies on autopsied brains can look at structure but not activity.

As brain structures grow and mature, water diffusion in the gray matter and white matter also changes in recognizable patterns, allowing researchers to track how the tissue is developing, and at what rate, he said.

Likely so, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center who have shown that a small region within the amygdala, an almond - shaped structure in the brains of all mammals, is responsible for producing emotional calls and sounds.

Since 2009 clinical psychologist Bruce Cuthbert and his team at the National Institute of Mental Health have been constructing a classification system based on recent research, which is revealing how the structure and activity of a mentally ill brain differs from that of a healthy one.

An offshoot of a project with performance artist Marina Abramovic, the Mutual Wave Machine invites two people at a time to sit in a dome - like structure and gaze at each other while seeing a simplified visualization of their brain activity with lights all around them.

If you look at the anatomy, the structure, the function, there's nothing in the universe that's more beautiful, that's more complex, than the human brain.»

Even short - term blockages of this kind can lead to remarkable changes in the auditory system, altering the behavior and structure of nerve cells that relay information from the ear to the brain, according to a new University at Buffalo study.

He is a professor of anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley and an expert on the evolution of the brain; he is also interested in the chemical origins of life and the mathematics behind the emergence of complicated structures like language.

The amygdala is an almond - shaped structure at a crossroads in the brain's circuitry: it links the cortex, which is responsible for conscious thought, with regions of the brain that control the body's emotional responses.

Pregnancy and motherhood change the structure of the female mammal's brain, making mothers attentive to their young and better at caring for them

If that's the case, if language can structure the brain at those levels, maybe language in its association with culture makes us think about the world in different dimensions.

Combining a megapowerful magnet, multiple detectors, and carefully tweaked contrast, a new MRI technique developed at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides an unprecedented look at the fine structure of the brain.

We needed some way to look at this 3D structure in all of its dimensions without preliminary slicing of the brain.»

Dr. Vállez García and the team are now considering what to look at next, such as inflammation in the brain or changes in the structure of other functional regions.

It's the first known evidence of such a dinosaur brain — but now that they know to look for it, the researchers say, they might go back and look at other endocranial casts of dinosaurs to see whether they might contain traces of other such structures.

The layered structures look similar to the architecture of a human fetal brain at 14 weeks of gestation.

The results, published in JNeurosci, suggest that individual differences in brain structure could be used to identify youth at higher risk of making dangerous choices.

In addition to collecting scans of brain structure and function, the research teams at 21 study sites around the country will regularly gather a trove of other information from each youngster, from psychological, cognitive, and environmental data to biological specimens such as DNA.

As you move, the brain generates all possible skeletal structures at each frame, eventually deciding on, and outputting, the one that is most probable.

«Crossing the blood - brain barrier is a rare event in part because this structure is designed to protect the brain from pathogens,» said Christopher Hunter, the Mindy Halikman Heyer President's Distinguished Professor at Penn Vet.

Researchers at Blue Brain Project report groups of neurons bound into such cavities provide the missing link between neural structure and function, in their new study published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.

Before I launch this journey into my brain's subtle workings, though, Brewer is taking a look at the overall structure of my thinking machine.

New research published in Schizophrenia Research conducted at the University of Liverpool links brain structure to an individual's likelihood of experiencing hallucinations and to their musical aptitude.

The new study, led by Catherine Lebel of the University of Calgary in Alberta, is the first to report associations between maternal depression and abnormal brain structure in kids at this age.

Additionally, the brain structure abnormalities identified in this study reflect those found in children with depression or at high risk for developing the disorder, suggesting that these alterations may be why children of mothers with perinatal depression are more vulnerable to depression later in life.

In 2005, Hinton discovered that if he sectioned his neural networks into layers and ran the algorithms on them one layer at a time, which approximates the brain's structure and development, the process became more efficient.

Over his 35 - year career, the neurobiologist at the University of Arizona at Tucson has probed the minute brain structures of cockroaches, water bugs, velvet worms, brine shrimp, and dozens of other invertebrates.

Avram Holmes, a psychologist at Yale University, and a team of researchers from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, found that increased impulsivity and sensation - seeking in healthy young adults was linked to distinct differences in their brain structures: the areas involved in decision - making and self - control had a thinner cortex, the brain's wrinkled outer layer or gray matter.