Sentences with phrase «brain structures known»

A team of Czech and German scientists working on the Zambian mole - rat found that a brain structure known as the superior colliculus (SC) contains neurons that respond to magnetic stimuli.

The hippocampus, a brain structure known to play a role in memory and spatial navigation, is essential to one's ability to recognize previously encountered events, objects, or people — a phenomenon known as recognition memory — according to new research from the departments of Neurosurgery and Psychology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The researchers were particularly interested in a brain structure known as the amygdala, which is associated with emotional processing and threat detection.

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Studies have found some differences in the structure of and activity in the brain, a concept known as sexual dimorphism.

We also know that other animals with brains that are structured similarly display similar forms of consciousness and self - awareness.

It allows people to shortcircuit the beauty of structure of the brain that forces everything into comparisons against the known.

As I tried to show in the preceding part, we also know something about the structure and function of that part of brain matter to which psychic phenomena correspond.

Omega 3 is known to be anti-inflammatory and important for the cell structure within our eyes and brain.

We know that our earliest relationships actually build the brain structures we use for relating to others our whole lives.

You can't teach a baby to walk before his little muscles are developed enough; you can't teach him to talk before his oral structures and the brain wiring that enables this are present and he won't be able to truly «self soothe» no matter how long you leave him to cry himself to sleep, until he has developed the brain structures and cognitive skills that enable emotional regulation — in other words, the ability to calm himself when he becomes upset.

Costa and Jin implanted tiny electrodes in each mouse's brain to record the activity of neurons within the striatum, a structure deep in the brain known to be involved in motor commands.

«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.

AF is known to be associated with cognitive decline and increased risk of dementia, but little is known about the impact of AF on brain structure in people with AF who are cognitively intact.

In a study published in the June American Journal of Psychiatry, Saxena reported that hoarders have lower activity in the cingulate gyrus — a structure that runs through the middle of the brain, front to back — particularly in areas known to be involved in decision making and focusing attention.

«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.

Studies of brain structure and correlations with levels of a protein known as BDNF (brain - derived neurotrophic factor) will also be performed using these findings.

Scientists headed by Dr. Stevens Rehen differentiated human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into neural stem cells and into further complex tridimensional structures, known as neurospheres and brain organoids.

The piece goes on to describe the known functions of the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens, another brain structure, and explores the concepts of consolidation and visualization.

For example, scientists have known for decades that the hippocampus, a structure in the middle of the brain, has the lead role in the formation and preservation of memories, and is one of the regions that shape a person's identity.

We know that the occipital lobe (the portion of the brain that controls vision) is a well - protected structure.

Processing a known structure is easier for the brain second time round.

If doctors knew how the brain structure of a patient will change and reorganize during treatment, they could determine the ideal times for phases of stimulation and rest, thus improving treatment efficiency.

Specifically, the researchers found that they had a thickening of the cortex in a part of the brain known as the temporal occipital region, which comprises a large network of structures involved in reading.

We know this because of what neuroscience has discovered — mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles (and now, it appears, invertebrates like bees and octopi) share common brain structures and processes that govern thinking and feeling.

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.

Two new studies link patterns of polyunsaturated fatty acids in the blood to the integrity of brain structures and cognitive abilities that are known to decline early in aging.

«I don't know of a model that explains a wider range of phenomena in terms of learning and the structure of the brain.»

The brain centers in question are paired, lobed structures first discovered in insects and known as mushroom bodies.

«We've known for 50 to 60 years that many structures in birds» brains were misnamed, and it was causing a lot of confusion,» says Georg Striedter of the University of California at Irvine.

The OIST researchers cultured neurons from the cortex, located at the front of the brain and a structure under it known as the striatum in separate compartments.

Neuroscientists know that a particular brain structure, the ventral tegmental area, or VTA, is the origin of numerous dopamine - secreting nerve fibers that run in discrete tracts to many different parts of the brain.

Ishmael said even if coibamide A itself can not enter the brain or turns out to have adverse side effects, knowing its structure and mechanism of action can help researchers develop new drugs that mimic coibamide A's effects.

It is already well known that the experience of speaking another language changes the structure of the brain and how it functions.

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.

The potential relevance of eye movement in individuals with Autism is the area of the brain that controls these actions, a densely - packed structure of neurons known as the cerebellum.

Namely, they investigated language and cognition control areas in the frontal regions of the brain, and medial temporal lobe structures that are important for memory and are brain areas known to atrophy in MCI and AD patients.

Researchers know that in the body, the protein molecules associated with CAA form plaques that lodge in blood vessel walls in the brain, but there haven't been detailed examinations of the molecular structure of these plaques until recently.

Professor Baron - Cohen commented: «Although these very clear sex differences in brain structure may reflect an environmental or social factor, from other studies we know that biological influences are also important, including prenatal sex steroid hormones (such as fetal testosterone) as well as sex chromosome effects.

The ability of Nanopore sequencing to define the complete exonic structure of CACNA1C allows us to identify known and novel gene isoforms, including novel exons and multi-exonic skipping events and their expression across multiple brain regions.

Later, when the guys reached young adulthood, the research team created pictures of the structures in their brains using a technology known as MRI, for magnetic resonance imaging.

The group's previous research showed that drinking alcohol changes the physical structure and function of certain neurons known as medium spiny neurons, which are located in the brain's dorsomedial striatum.

«It will be interesting to investigate whether Wnt pathways also interact in this way with FGFs in other regions of the embryo where FGFs are also known to play an organizing role, such as the brain, lungs and other structures,» said Yasuhiko Kawakami, a member of Izpisúa Belmonte's team.

Early in his career, he discovered that previously enigmatic support cells, known as radial glia, serve as guides for the migration of cortical neurons in the developing brain, and showed how this process is critical for the organization of the multi-layered structure of the cerebral cortex.

While many contend that the earliest cognitive deficits are caused by damage to the striatum — a structure deep in the brain known to be severely affected in HD — recent evidence suggests that this claim may paint an incomplete picture of the widespread changes occurring in the brains of HD patients during the very early stages of the disease.

We know a great deal about the genomic mechanisms through which androgens and estrogens influence behavior; by turning genes on and off and thus affecting levels of proteins in cells, they slowly sculpt the brain circuits and peripheral structures required to produce social output.

Due to the fact that a known visual pathway connects the only brain structures that have been shown to be active during magnetic orientation, our findings strongly support the hypothesis that migratory birds perceive the magnetic field as a visual pattern and that they are thus likely to «see» the magnetic field.

The study is just some of the latest evidence that the human brain, the most complex structure in the known universe, is only getting more capable as time goes on.

Only the aerobic exercisers had significant increases in brain volume in what are known as the white and gray matter regions of the brain, areas related to age - related decline in brain structure and cognition.

The explanation for this phenomenon might lie in what's known as «developmental programming» — the idea that various environmental factors, to which we're exposed early on, greatly determine the structure and function of organs including the gut and the brain.

It requires the hard work of planning and structuring the instruction, mindful use of research and brain science, and leveraging what is known from usability and now, increasingly, from gaming.