Sentences with phrase «brain structures seem»

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.

Not exact matches

«While environmental enrichment didn't seem to significantly influence the number of neurons [that were damaged],» explains Tsai, «it does induce the growth of dendrites and high numbers of synapses,» both of which are neuronal structures that underlie how brain cells communicate with one another.

The origins of the major types of headaches remain a conundrum: Headaches seem to result from the abnormal brain functions of a completely normal brain structure.

Somewhere in the brain there seems to be a coach: a system or structure that schedules and prioritizes, garnering resources, redirecting attention, or switching tasks as needed.

As a whole, our study shows that we seem to use the same brain areas for native and new language structures and that Alienese was in the process of being integrated into the participants existing language brain networks.»

In efforts to develop new treatments for brain cancer, scientists from Johns Hopkins Drug Discovery and the Kimmel Cancer Center's Bloomberg ~ Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy report they have altered the structure of an experimental drug that seems to enhance its ability to slip through the mostly impermeable blood - brain barrier.

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness: «It is too early to classify schizophrenia as either a neurodevelopmental (impairment of the growth and development of the brain) or a neurodegenerative (progressive loss of structure or function of neurons) disorder, as both seem to occur over the course of the illness.

While this seems to give credibility to the «ten percent myth», the team actually expected this outcome, as the DG is a brain structure where in any given task, only a very small percentage of neurons take part, while their neighbours remain dormant, waiting for their «cue», as it were.

For instance, exercise seems to change brain structure, stimulating the growth of new blood vessels and nerve cells.

Canine compulsive disorder seems to bear at least some resemblance to obsessive - compulsive disorder in humans; in fact, a recent university study has found that both conditions are associated with similar brain structure anomalies.

Scott just read the JC and Mann articles JC comes across reasoned and clear Mann not so much I can follow her logic train, his just seems like it has a couple bent rails maybe the brain structure of the species is diverging

(And for those who want to delve into the neuroscience, there's an interesting piece on the convergent evolution of intelligence in crows and apes, who, it seems, use different brain structures to reason.)