Brain imaging revealed several
brain surface area clusters linked to math and spelling performance.
«Recording a thought's fleeting trip through the brain: Electrodes
on brain surface provide best view yet of prefrontal cortex coordinating response to stimuli.»
Light reflected from a patch
of brain surface of a living animal can reveal changes in blood oxygenation or in the light - scattering properties of neural membranes, both of which reflect changes in neural activity.
There appear to be two distinct differences between those likely to be diagnosed autistic and control groups: 1) a rapid increase
in brain surface area between six and 12 months; and 2) a rapid increase in brain volume between 12 and 24 months.
Still, researchers have spent decades debating the implications of partially preserved
brain surface features on hominid endocasts.
For more information about Jeneva Cronin's, GRID Lab's and the CSNE's ground - breaking research in the area of sensory feedback, read «For the first time in humans, researchers
use brain surface stimulation to provide «touch» feedback to direct movement.»
Examples include innovative glassy carbon electrodes for
brain surface stimulation, and wireless power and data solutions for neural implants.
Beware of Mozart Information about the electrical wiring of the
human brain surfaced in the late 1990's and led to a frenzy among anxious parents to do everything they could to «stimulate» their babies» brains, sometimes even before they were born.
Endocast researchers need to study the range of
brain surface characteristics in a larger sample of living chimps and other apes to make more accurate comparisons, Falk says.
Those in the group with 22q deletion, which carries the risk for schizophrenia, had thicker gray matter, but
less brain surface area — a measure which relates to how folded the brain is — compared to those in the duplication group.
The people in the 22q duplication group, who at risk for autism, had the opposite pattern, with thinner gray matter and
larger brain surface area.
The children without prenatal alcohol exposure demonstrated the expected developmental pattern of better scores associated with
smaller brain surface areas, which may be related to a typical developmental process known as pruning.
Shortly after the presentations, Hurst and Falk hashed out their differences head - to - head as they jointly studied a solid cast of the partial H.
naledi brain surface displaying proposed signs of Broca's area.
GO FOR BROCA A virtual cast of Homo naledi's
brain surface contains clues to the presence of a region (pointed to by red arrow) that may correspond to Broca's area in present - day people.
Brain surface points (including ventricle surfaces) are found using the registered brain images to sub-voxel accuracy, and the surface motion estimated on the basis of these points.
The mean perpendicular edge motion across the
entire brain surface produces a change image that can be converted into estimates of rate of atrophy reflecting changes in both grey and white matter [31].
In this study, the team obtained skin cells from patients with Miller Dieker syndome (MDS), a brain disease characterized by a
smooth brain surface and defective neuronal migration.
BRAINY CHIMPS Some modern chimps have
brain surface features that were thought to have signaled humanlike brain evolution in hominids from as early as 3 million years ago, scans suggest.
Hurst and Ralph Holloway of Columbia University led a team that laser scanned the inside surfaces of several partial H. naledi skulls to create virtual casts, or endocasts,
of brain surfaces.
Stop looking at the surface and just use your brain
MRIs of eight living chimps reveal substantial variability in the shape and location of certain features on
the brain surface.
While other neuroscientists have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephelography (EEG) to record activity in the thinking brain, the UC Berkeley scientists employed a much more precise technique, electrocorticograhy (ECoG), which records from several hundred electrodes placed on
the brain surface and detects activity in the thin outer region, the cortex, where thinking occurs.
Microelectrodes in a clear silicon array rest on
the brain surface.
Currently, the focus is on ultra-soft materials that can adapt conformally to
the brain surface.
Images of the tumor cells are immediately created on an LCD screen observed as the surgeon scans the instrument across the tumor or
brain surface.
The implanted chips are ultra-conformable to
the brain surface, very light, and flexible enough to move with the tissue.
Given the complexity and scale of the interfaces required, Shepard and his team believe that the degree of noninvasiveness required for human use within this aggressive time frame can only be achieved with electrode architectures based on stimulation and recording at
the brain surface.
Therefore, it has sufficient flexibility to fit the shape of
the brain surface.
However, the neural interface implanted on
the brain surface should be of small size and minimally invasive.
When they compared this map to sites on
the brain surface that work for noninvasive brain stimulation, the two matched.
1,680 strokes were documented: 1,310 ischemic strokes / cerebral infarctions (due to blockages), 79 subarachnoid hemorrhages (due to bleeding on
the brain surface), 154 intracerebral hemorrhages (due to bleeding in the brain), as well as 137 unspecified strokes.
One study just published in Nature Neuroscience found that children in low - income families had
a brain surface area on average 6 percent smaller than that of children in high - income families.
103 The Taung endocast showing
the brain surface is a natural one, made by concretelike sediments collecting on the inside of the skull long after death and settling into whatever grooves the brain surface and blood vessels had imprinted on the inside of the skull.