Sentences with phrase «brain wiring»

In their study, the scientists describe a process of brain wiring that is much more dynamic than was previously known — and thus more prone to error.

Scientists are finally starting to catch a glimpse of how brain wiring forms in newborn human babies.

They engage in numerous little «give - and - take» interactions, something researchers have found to be fundamental to early brain wiring.

Children can not help but be activated in the face of disconnect, as it goes back to their foundational brain wiring.

Why meditation helps you focus: Mindfulness improves brain wiring in just a month.

Scientists hope the hundreds of thousands of images they produce will help them zero in on brain wiring and anatomical differences in children that develop disorders such as autism.

It has tremendous potential in the clinic as well,» says Anthony Zador, a neuroscientist who studies brain wiring at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

The research finding answers a long - standing puzzle in the quest to understand brain wiring, says Dr. Dilek Colak, a postdoctoral associate in Dr. Jaffrey's laboratory.

It turned out there is actually a difference: their studies showed that for reasons of arcane brain wiring, we respond much more favourably to requests made in our right ear than our left.

Although the everyday entrepreneur isn't likely to have brain wiring similar to Musk or Jobs, that doesn't mean that they can't be a successful business owner.

Researchers have pinpointed a gene that keeps important brain cells in mice from crossing their wires, providing a possible link between brain wiring and mood disorders like depression.

He was teaching his patients to reattribute their OCD symptoms to some gnarled brain wiring, teaching them to see the functioning of their brain as meaningfully separate from their sense of self.

«Brain wiring quiets the voice inside your head.»

Since the mid-1990s, Cheyette has been interested in the role of WNT signaling — a molecular pathway involved in early brain development and later, more refined brain wiring — in the genesis of psychiatric disorders.

This process allows specialized Pac - Man — like brain cells called microglia to engulf the targeted synapses, paving the way for more precise brain wiring.

«Scientists discover clues to altered brain wiring in autism.»

The difference between a vegetative and a minimally conscious brain was looking like a question of how much brain wiring remained intact and, more important, still able to pass along a signal.

The Human Connectome Project, which is an international effort to map the connectomes of 1,000 people on a macro scale — mostly just the white matter, or active myelinated (insulated) nerve cell bundles — using magnetic resonance imaging, this week announced its finding that brain wiring patterns correlate with behavioral and demographic traits.

Her demonstration that «neurons that fire together, wire together» links the mechanisms of brain wiring during development to those underlying adult learning and memory.

This book, along with the Victorian government publication, Calmer Classrooms, will support teachers to understand the specific brain wiring and learning needs for these students.

Knowing what I do now about LD — how it is the result of different brain wiring rather than a lack of intelligence — I tend to think many of those kids were probably pretty bright, and it breaks my heart to think of the kids I and others judged unfairly.

This means Felix or Garfield doesn't necessarily have the correct brain wiring to make it feel thirsty.

Often, all they need is to be held, or to be reassured, to feel connected, to have some consistency, and some empathy for their «crazy» lizard brain wiring.

Specifically, the aspects of youth life that will be addressed include basic brain development of the adolescent; the impact of livestreaming, social media and technology on brain wiring and brain development; and how creativity, movement and mindfulness can positively impact and shape the young brain.

Deisseroth says the technique will help reveal faulty connectivity in neurological and psychiatric diseases like autism by making it easier to study brain wiring.

This would help explain how brains wire themselves.

«The idea that control of brain wiring is located in these RNA molecules that are constantly being dynamically turned over is something that we didn't anticipate,» Dr. Jaffrey adds.

Researchers hypothesize that the technological leap was driven by a cognitive leap, an evolution in brain wiring.

The conclusion is we do not choose our sex (biological plumbing), our gender identity (the brain wiring), nor or orientation (who we are attracted to).

The good news is that the help you are giving your baby right now is helping him develop the brain wiring to be able to soothe himself when he is ready — without any sort of «training».

Breastfeeding, skin - to - skin, is brain wiring.

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.

Being emotionally aware of your habits of responding, interacting and relating to your children has a profound impact on the way the brain wires up.

The findings are an important clue to help scientists understand how the brain wires itself during development.

Korenberg was convinced that with Mills» approach of directly measuring the brain's electrical firing they could solve the puzzle of precisely which genes were responsible for building the brain wiring underlying the different reaction to human faces in Williams syndrome.

Drawing on ADNI data, which helped link Alzheimer's disease to a common gene called CLU, researchers used this imaging technique in other people to discover that the brain wiring of gene carriers is impaired decades before the disease typically strikes.

By far the most important changes to our brain's wiring happens in key stages of development — in the uterus as the brain wires...

Although other scholars suggest that ornamentation and other «modern» use of symbols was prompted by a so - called cognitive revolution in brain wiring, decorations may be a response to more frequent social encounters and the need to convey more information about oneself to strangers.

Soon a version of it will be tested in pill form to see if it can reset the brain wiring that gets us hooked

Brain networks are too large and complex to understand piecemeal, so we used high - throughput techniques to collect huge data sets of brain activity and brain wiring,» says R. Clay Reid, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

The study's next phase is to see how oxytocin can modify the brain wiring to change social performance.

Yet disabling a single protein somehow can switch their brain wiring to become «homosexual.»

Your brain wiring may influence your number of sexual partners, according to a University of California Los Angeles study.

How is their brain wired?

Children with RAD seek control to avoid vulnerability and alleviate their brains wired for fear.