Sentences with phrase «brains of adults»

«Youthful plasticity restored to brains of adult mice.»

This study is the first to show that brains of adults with ASD respond differently when hearing their own name, suggestive of a core deficit in self - other distinction associated with dysfunction of the rTPJ.

«The brain of an adult human weighs around 3 pounds (1.5 kg).

First and foremost, it's important to realize that even though adolescents might engage in adult - like behaviors or try to act like adults, they do not have the brains of adults.

Pasko Rakic at Yale University and colleagues at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, have now found that the brains of adults in their 20s are still subject to synaptic pruning.

And the brains of adults had none.

Neuroscientists at UCLA, who have studied myelination in the brains of adults ages 23 to 80, reported in September that the coating peaks around age 39 — the same age at which participants hit top speeds in standard tests of motor abilities.

The brains of adult humans are by no means hard wired.

Last year, Manuel Carreiras at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language in San Sebastián, Spain, found that the brains of adults who learned to read as adults were structurally different to those who could not read.

Surprisingly, previous studies have found very similar alterations in the brains of adult chronic alcoholics.

When researchers examined neurons in the brains of adult rats that had been exposed to alcohol when they were adolescents, they found far fewer dendritic spines, which resemble leggy mushrooms stemming from neurons to receive information.

Scientists have found that the brains of adult primates are not a dead end for nerve growth, as popularly thought, but in fact are able to grow new nerve cells.

The virus, which can cause brain damage in infants infected in the womb, kills stem cells and stunts their numbers in the brains of adult mice, researchers report August 18 in Cell Stem Cell.

This botanically named cell, discovered in the brains of adult mice, made its formal debut in the Nov. 27 Science.

This process occured otherwise in the brain of adults with ASD however.

Carnegie Mellon University scientists have discovered a crucial difference in the way learning occurs in the brains of adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

And they could: By presenting self - images while scanning the brains of adults, they elicited the self - perspective response they had previously observed in social interaction games.

By studying the brains of adult birds, scientists may discover the cells that give birth to different kinds of neurons and the growth factors that nurture them.

Next, the group injected a toxin called 6 - hydroxydopamine, which preferentially kills neurons that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine, into one side of the brains of adult rats.

Interestingly, in the brains of adult flies, Painless is mostly expressed in the MBs [38].

Deformation field morphometry reveals age - related structural differences between the brains of adults up to 51 years.

The virus can kill stem cells and limit their numbers in the brains of adults — at least in adult mice.

Using a small fragment of apolipoprotein B as a guide, Brian Spencer, a postdoctoral fellow in the Verma lab and the study's lead author, successfully shepherded the enzyme glucocerebrosidase into the brains of adult mice.

Trying to mimic randomly occurring mutations that cause glioblastoma, Inder Verma and his team successfully used modified viruses to shuttle cancer - causing oncogenes into a handful of cells in the brains of adult mice.

Using electron microscopes and X-rays from the Advanced Photon Source, the scientists are identifying the locations of and connections between every neuron in the brain of an adult shrewmouse.

Almli LM, Wilczynski W. Socially modulated cell proliferation is independent of gonadal steroid hormones in the brain of the adult green treefrog (Hyla cinerea).

The findings revealed that prenatal exposure to a commonly used antiepileptic drug called valproic acid (VPA) inhibited the birth of new neurons in the brains of adult mice and impaired their performance on learning and memory tasks.

And a study published Aug. 18 that was conducted in part by the La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology revealed it's not just kids who could be at risk, after results found Zika affected the brains of adult mice.

Key developmental changes in the adolescent brain, which seem to be triggered by puberty, make it significantly different to the brain of an adult or younger child.

The researchers were surprised to find that the brains of the adult animals responded as well to the treatment as younger animals that were still growing.

Studies conducted there and elsewhere show now link such pollution with lesions in the brains of adults and even children.

Intrauterine exposure to maternal stress alters Bdnf IV DNA methylation and telomere length in the brain of adult rat offspring.

Citation: McGowan PO, Suderman M, Sasaki A, Huang TCT, Hallett M, Meaney MJ, et al. (2011) Broad Epigenetic Signature of Maternal Care in the Brain of Adult Rats.

Broad epigenetic signature of maternal care in the brain of adult rats.