Sentences with word «callosum»

Performance asymmetries in tool use are associated with corpus callosum integrity in chimpanzees (Pan traglodytes): A diffusion tensor imaging study.

Performance asymmetries in tool use are associated with corpus callosum integrity in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): a diffusion tensor imaging study.

Part of the corpus callosum connecting the two brain hemispheres was indeed larger in musicians.

Sex differences in the relationship between planum temporale asymmetry and corpus callosum morphology in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): A combined MRI and DTI analysis.

Some oligodendrocytes in the fiber tracts of the striatum, cerebellum, and corpus callosum express both secretases, with Bace1 being more abundant (Fig 1H).

Of particular interest are cases of split - brain patients who had their corpus callosum severed to stop seizures.

Because the shape of the corpus callosum barely varies in healthy people, even this modest swelling turns out to be statistically significant.

The ciliogenic transcription factor RFX3 regulates early distribution of guidepost neurons required for corpus callosum development.

Planum temporale asymmetries correlate with corpus callosum axon fiber density in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

There were dozens of kinds: cells that give rise to support cells called glia, neurons that inhibit others, and corpus callosum neurons that connect a brain's hemispheres.

Question: What's beige, 216 cubic inches, sits on a table, defies you to try to describe it in words, scares the hell out of you, and your corpus callosum wants to take out on a date to a sci - fi film festival in another dimension?

Model III — Deeper Brain Structure Dysfunction Another explanation for ADHD is a problem with the basal ganglia, and the corpus callosum just above the basal ganglia (Biederman et al, 2004).

Figure 2A shows FA values in the left genu of the corpus callosum correlates negatively with the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED)(r = − 0.621, p = 0.008).

While both males and females with autism had alterations in regions of the corpus callosum connected to the frontal lobe, the pattern of alterations differed between the sexes.

More importantly, the research revealed musical aptitude was positively associated with corpus callosum integrity whereas hallucination proneness was associated with lower integrity in the fibres connecting the two hemispheres of the brain.

Moreover, because practically all of us have an intact corpus callosum, our hemispheres are continually interacting.

«The human brain is divided into two hemispheres, the left and right, connected by a bundle of nerve fibers called the corpus callosum.

Physiologically the two hemispheres «communicate» with each other through a bundle of neural fibers called the corpus callosum.

Homeschooling Special Needs Not rated yet Our daughter, 6,5 years, is a mildly special needs child with a partial agenesis of the corpus callosum.

Parenting, corpus callosum, and executive function in preschool children.

Our daughter, 6,5 years, is a mildly special needs child with a partial agenesis of the corpus callosum.

But while male pups raised by two parents produced more gray matter in the memory - processing regions, dual - parented females sprouted twice the number of nerve cells in the corpus callosum, a thick bundle of nerve fibers that enhances communications between both sides of the brain and facilitates spatial coordination and sociability.

Consider split - brain patients, whose corpus callosum — the 200 million wires linking the two cortical hemispheres — has been cut to alleviate severe epileptic seizures.

Some of the axons grew as much as 1.5 millimeters, connecting to the corpus callosum, a bundle of neurons connecting the left and right cerebral hemispheres.

Then he slowly pushed an impossibly thin, electrode - tipped rod into her cerebral cortex, through the corpus callosum and beyond.

«The deep cortical structures around the corpus callosum — i.e., amygdala, hippocampus, and the limbic system in general — were the hardest to sort out,» she says.

Poldrack's individual scan shows an area in yellow, indicating an anomaly in his corpus callosum.

A cross section of the author's brain, showing (from top) the cerebrum, the corpus callosum and the feathery - looking cerebellum.

Bookheimer points out my corpus callosum, the band of fibers that join the two hemispheres, and just below it the dark linings of the ventricles.

Other research has found that the corpus callosum — the strip of tissue that connects the left and right hemisphere of the brain — is also larger in musicians.

«I really wanted the corpus callosum to be narrower in the patients with the syndrome,» he says, because this could have led to a new diagnostic test for the disease.

In people with both forms of the syndrome, the callosum is either much wider than normal or much narrower.

Once again, the shape of the corpus callosum may hold an answer.

Concussion simulations that point to the corpus callosum are consistent with empirical observations — patients with concussions do often have damage in the corpus callosum.

In the schizophrenics, a little triangular area in the back of the corpus callosum, the central conduit for all communications between the two sides of the brain's cortex, seems swollen — as if nature had grabbed some landmark points and pushed them apart to create a caricature.

In a disorder called agenesis of the corpus callosum (agenesis meaning «lack of development»), many axons can not find their way out of their own hemisphere.

Instead of the brain moving largely in unison, an area deep in the brain called the corpus callosum - which connects the left and right halves of the brain — shakes more rapidly than the surrounding areas, placing significant strain on those tissues.

«I really did want to see if I could somehow offer help to people who come down with schizophrenia,» Bookstein says, pointing to the swollen corpus callosum.

Unlike mammals, birds lack a key neural structure — the corpus callosum — that allows both hemispheres of the brain to access what an animal sees.

A statistical analysis indicated that the relationship between hallucination proneness and musical aptitude is mediated by microstructure in the corpus callosum.

Previous research has showed that musicians have increased white matter integrity in a specific part of the brain called the corpus callosum, a thick band of nerve fibres that connects the left and right halves of the brain, enabling communication between the hemispheres.

In psychotic individuals with auditory verbal hallucinations the integrity of the corpus callosum has been found to be reduced.

A study published in May found that this duplication (or absence) of genetic material relates to a distinctly different brain structure, such as a larger or smaller corpus callosum, the tract of white matter connecting the brain's hemispheres.

If musical aptitude increases the white matter integrity of the corpus callosum, musical training could potentially counteract an individual's predisposition of hallucinations.

• Reduced white matter connectivity (as measured by reduced fractional anisotropy and increased radial diffusivity) for two discrete clusters on the forceps minor of the corpus callosum; and