Sentences with phrase «changes in brain patterns»

Using electrophysiological measurements, the researchers could identify specific changes in brain patterns when the volunteers were mind wandering.

The treatment group showed notable changes in the ability to identify and remember faces, which was corroborated by changes in brain patterns that arise when study participants saw a familiar face.

Bottle - feeding produces similar but smaller changes in brain patterns.

Poltergeist, Richard did not deny that a religious experience could not cause changes in brain patterns complete with chemical reactions.

There has been some interesting recent studies that show changes in brain pattern behaviour that have occurred through use of computers or gaming devices.

Not exact matches

For example, the intensities and patterns of the brain waves in different areas of the cortex change according to the kind of mental activity that is going on.

We've pinpointed those regions of the brain that «light up» in moments of prayer and meditation; we've changed the sociability patterns of many animals.

During the first six months of life, explains Michael Goodstein, neonatologist and director of the York County Cribs for Kids Program at York Hospital in York, PA, a baby experiences rapid brain growth and developmental changes that affect sleep patterns, cardiorespiratory control, metabolism, and physical ability.

His analysis, published in late 2012, documented a pattern of changes throughout the brain in study participants with chronic pain.

When a small subset dies, the pattern of activity that the olfactory processing regions in the brain receives for a specific smell doesn't change very much.

A relatively new area is to look at the developing nervous system by scanning infants, children, and adults at rest, to chart changes in activity patterns as the brain matures.

In female mice, pregnancy also changed brain activity patterns.

Now, researchers have discovered that the drug changes the firing patterns of cells in a pea - size structure hidden away in the center of the brain.

Using a functional MRI (fMRI) scanner, which detects changes in blood - flow patterns, the scientists monitored what was happening inside subjects» brains.

«We were very curious to see what would happen if we were to change the expression pattern of Pax6 in developing mouse brain to mimic that observed in large - brained animals,» says Fong Kuan Wong, a PhD student in the lab of Wieland Huttner and first author of the study.

As brain structures grow and mature, water diffusion in the gray matter and white matter also changes in recognizable patterns, allowing researchers to track how the tissue is developing, and at what rate, he said.

And those kinds of random changes during development explain, for example, why the pattern of gyruses in the brain are very different even between identical twins.

«There is a huge gulf separating our understanding of what kind of brain injuries develop because of mild blast and how they relate to the neuroimaging changes many research groups have detected,» said Dr. David Cook, VA scientist and UW research associate professor of medicine and pharmacology «The similarities we see in the pattern of neuron injury in the cerebellum of mice, the neuron loss previously seen in boxers, and our neuroimaging findings in veterans is a step toward reducing this knowledge gap.»

«This is the first study that has examined how the patterns of intrinsic brain connectivity change with a cognitive load in children with autism,» Menon said.

«Not only can you induce a behavioral change, the training also induces similar brain connectivity patterns as those seen in memory athletes.»

The fast fMRI was able to detect the subtle and very rapid oscillations in cerebral blood flow in the brain's visual cortex as the volunteers observed the changing pattern.

Changes in the severity of symptoms were compared in objective tests of ability to concentrate and underlying brain wave patterns.

Meaningful progress in cognitive neuroscience depends on mapping patterns of brain activity, which are constantly and rapidly changing with every experience we have.

In 2013, he and collaborators mapped how methylation patterns in brain tissue change during developmenIn 2013, he and collaborators mapped how methylation patterns in brain tissue change during developmenin brain tissue change during development.

Thus, this study found that women who have recovered from anorexia nervosa show two related patterns of changes in brain circuit function that may contribute to their capacity to sustain their avoidance of food.

McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that even a brief episode of immune system activation within days of birth can cause persistent changes in sleep patterns concurrent with increases in epilepsy - like brain activity — a combination of symptoms common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental conditions.

They are also exploring how the patterns they've found relate to structural changes in the babies» brains.

For the last decade, neuroscientists have been using the non-invasive brain - mapping technique functional called magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI to examine activity patterns in human and animal brains in the resting state in order to figure out how different parts of the brain are connected and to identify the changes that occur in neurological and psychiatric diseases.

The results in his thesis show that improved motor timing of both female elite level soccer players and experienced male golfers leads to improved outcome accuracy, with associated changes in motor performance, as well as in the brain's activity patterns related to these performances.

The ecRNAs, they say, are fundamental regulators of DNA methylation patterns in the adult brain through interaction with DNA methyltransferase enzymes, and the ecRNAs may offer a promising future therapeutic avenue to treat neuropsychiatric disease states associated with changes in DNA methylation, as they report in the July 7 issue of Nature Communications.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new dynamic statistical model to visualize changing patterns in networks, including gene expression during developmental periods of the brain.

«The cortical folding pattern itself may not be so important, but the disturbances in connections between brain regions implicated by the changes in cortical folding could provide critical clues to deficits in the integrity of brain circuits that contribute to symptoms and functional impairment in schizophrenia,» commented Dr. John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.

We identified species - specific gene expression patterns indicating that changes in protein and gene expression have been particularly pronounced in the human brain.

Now, researchers at the Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science, Fujita Health University, and ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Japan have succeeded in predicting states of mood - change - like behavior by studying the gene expression patterns in the brain in a bipolar disorder mouse model.

The same can be said for patterns of gene expression changes in the same brain region for different age frames.

Additionally the functional effects of DBS will be explored in several ways 1) we will look at changes in brain activation patterns in response to specific tasks by means of functional MRI 2) we will look at the striatal D2 binding using [123I] IBZM SPECT 3) we will look at neuropsychological functioning using cognitive tasks.

What's going on in Jonah's brain: The brain is changing most rapidly in adolescence, and it's the period when new behavior patterns are most easily established.

In a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, he discovered abnormal patterns of brain activity that change the ability to learn and create memories.

McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that even a brief episode of immune system activation within days of birth can cause persistent changes in sleep patterns concurrent with increases in epilepsy - like brain activity — a combination of symptoms...

No problem: «Research has shown that even a 15 - minute seated massage at work can change your brain wave pattern to increase alertness, improve focus, and boost performance on quantitative tasks,» says Marilyn Kier, a member of the American Massage Therapy Association and founder of Wellness At Work in Northfield, Illinois.

The neuron patterning of the brain must be changed in order to affect addictive behavior.

SIBO in particular can be the root cause of IBS and other mental health complaints which can include abdominal pain, bloating, gas, nausea, change in bowel pattern as well as fatigue, brain fog, anxiety and even depression.

Although how it works is not understood, hypnosis may bring about physiological changes in the body such as decreased heart rate, blood pressure, and alpha wave brain patterns, similar to meditation and other types of deep relaxation.

Consequently, the way we relate to ourselves — whether kind and supportive or harsh and critical — powerfully affects our brain patterns and resulting success or failure in navigating lifestyle change.

Intriguingly, according to reporting in The New York Times, «block printing, cursive, and typing each elicit distinctive neurological patterns,» implying a deep, underlying sensitivity in the brain to even minor changes in the way letters are rendered on the page.

Using a technology called functional Near - InfraRed Spectroscopy (fNIRS), which uses infrared light to track changes in blood oxygen in different parts of the brain to provide a measure of what brain regions are becoming more activated (consuming more oxygen) during certain tasks, the investigation will compare the brain patterns of children with ASD and typical children who have similar imitation scores and eyetracking patterns, to determine whether children with ASD process the same imitation tasks differently from typically developing children, at the level of their brain activity.

Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body.

The symptoms of brain injury include loss of consciousness, mental confusion, dilation of the pupils, seizures, change in sleep patterns, light - headedness and loss of memory.

In children and developing infants, a brain injury may manifest in the loss of new skills, irritability, balance problems, or changes in behavioral patternIn children and developing infants, a brain injury may manifest in the loss of new skills, irritability, balance problems, or changes in behavioral patternin the loss of new skills, irritability, balance problems, or changes in behavioral patternin behavioral patterns.

Some symptoms of a traumatic brain injury could include headache, vomiting, nausea, lack of coordination, dizziness, changes in sleep patterns and many others.