He did the first studies on the effects of SSRIs on PTSD; was a member of the first neuroimaging team to investigate how trauma
changes brain processes, and did the first research linking BPD and deliberate self - injury to trauma and neglect in early childhood.
Not exact matches
This acclimation
process gives the software a chance to record your
brain waves and trains you to use them consistently before it throws a series of increasingly difficult challenges at you, such as reconstructing simply via thought a fallen bridge needed for a mystical journey while a fiery sky
changes hue in response to your emotional state.
What is unique about
brain process is that it stabilizes
change, or «chunks» it into categories.
your
brain is relatvely soo simple and therefore its comprehension is also very limited, you believe in evolution so religion itself is an evolutionary
process.Even atheism also evolved, The arguments today is just part of the evolutionary
process of
change through dialectecal methods.The moment humans begin to understand and appreciate the dialectics then the solution to the problems argued is near.
Dementia Definition: A chronic or persistent disorder of the mental
processes caused by
brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality
changes, and «impaired reasoning».
The latter study shows that the
process of forming and
changing opinions is intimately connected to the
brain's neural hardware, where different parts of the
brain are involved differently in shaping opinions, and the more beliefs are tied to community values, the more difficult it is to
change them.
In a University of California, San Diego School of Medicine study published July 13 in the online journal Nature Neuroscience, a research team led by Takaki Komiyama, PhD, assistant professor of neurosciences and neurobiology, reports that in mouse models, the
brain significantly
changed its visual cortex operation modes by implementing top - down
processes during learning.
- Cognitive Neuroscience The Cognitive Neuroscience emphasis seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human
brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social
processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such
processes develop and
change in the
brain and through evolutionary time.
Specializing in research on modafinil, Minzenberg has captured the drug in action through functional MRI (fMRI) scans, which map
brain activity through
changes in blood flow and oxygenation as subjects engage in particular mental
processes.
Coricelli said this
process is similar to what the
brain experiences when feeling regret: «With regret, for instance, if you have done something wrong, then you might
change your behavior in the future,» he said.
In other research, Gaab and her colleagues have found an intriguing link between children's reading difficulties and neural deficits that prevent them from properly
processing fast -
changing sounds; they also found that computerized sound - training exercises «rewired» those faulty
brain circuits.
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.
These nice feelings
change the way the
brain processes information.
«With this new biomarker, we are measuring the
brain's default state for
processing sound and how that has
changed as a result of a head injury,» Kraus said.
These
changes affect normal
brain processes, such as development or memory, and abnormal
brain processes, such as depression, drug dependence, and other psychiatric disease — and can pass down to subsequent generations.
«What we're seeing is that [the training] actually
changes how the
brain processes information,» says pain specialist Gary Kaplan, founder of the Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine, who is familiar with Paulus» work.
They charted the small
changes in voltage generated by the areas of the
brain responding to these stimuli, a
process known as event - related potentials (ERPs).
This pruning
changes the relative density of receptors in the circuit linking the area of the
brain involved with
processing rewards (the basal ganglia) and the area of the
brain implicated in inhibition and control (the prefrontal cortex).
Dramatic
changes in DNA methylation, a
process that usually quashes activity of nearby genes, occur during the first six months of
brain development, researchers report February 3 in Genome Research.
The developing
brain undergoes rapid and tightly coordinated
changes in a molecular
process known to help regulate gene activity, a new study shows.
«Disturbances to these
processes may cause neuronal stem cells to develop into different types of cells or may cause neurons to migrate to different locations in the
brain,
changing neuronal circuitry and potentially leading to behavioral disorders like schizophrenia.»
Scientists have long known that Alzheimer's disease is a gradual
process and that the
brain undergoes functional
changes before the structural
changes associated with the disease show up on imaging results.
Studies demonstrated that the
changes in the
brain's dopamine production area, or VTA — though crucial to the development of addiction — also triggered a cascade of biological
processes that resulted in permanent
changes in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), the area downstream that is closely linked to motivation and goal - directed behavior.
By applying
brain imaging methods, researchers at the University of Zurich now show that a small amount of psilocybin
changes the
processing of social conflicts in the
brain.
The researchers also wanted to see how the beneficial effects of cannabidiol may depend on
changes in the molecular signaling
processes that certain
brain neurons use to communicate with each other.
Scientists have studied
brain changes on short terms of seconds and minutes, such as when research subjects complete a task, as well as on the long term of years, documenting cognitive decline during the aging
process.
The researchers also found increases in gray matter volume in regions that control leg movement and
process sensory information from legs, which may reflect
changes related to the
brain learning how to move in microgravity.
He hypothesized that
changes can occur at the cellular level within the
brain and may be related to myelination, the
process of building the protective sheath around the nerves.
Clearly, it facilitates
processing of the expected
change in the relative positions of the sound sources in the
brain.
«If pain persists over a prolonged period of time, the associated
brain activity shows that it
changes from a pure perception
process to a more emotional
process.
Each of the defense reactions, she explains, involves activation of motor and arousal centers in the
brain and
changes in pain and sensory
processing.
Scientists from Technische Universität München (TUM) have now demonstrated that already during a few minutes of ongoing pain, the underlying
brain activity
changes by shifting from sensory to emotional
processes.
Whiplash symptoms that last years after a car accident but can not be seen in tests could be down to previously unseen functional
changes in the pain and posture
processing parts of the
brain, according to research published in EBioMedicine.
In new research, published in an article in The Journal of Neuroscience, Burger and Oline — along with Dr. Go Ashida of the University of Oldenburg in Germany — have investigated auditory
brain cell membrane selectivity and observed that the neurons «tuned» to receive high - frequency sound preferentially select faster input than their low - frequency -
processing counterparts — and that this preference is tolerant of
changes to the inputs being received.
In a study of 92 primary / elementary school aged children, Mr Coussens measured more than 30 different sleep parameters, such as muscle movements, breathing, eye activity and
changes in the
brain's
processing.
For voles, the profound lifestyle
change seems to have occurred when previously separate circuits in the male
brain — one for
processing social recognition, another for reward — became biochemically linked.
In addition to
changes in consumption, the area of the
brain responsible for certain metabolic
processes, the hypothalamus, also responded more to food odors, compared to non-food odors, after alcohol infusion vs. saline.
The way epigenetics helps understand that
process is that it provides the mechanism by which maternal experience of a pup can essentially produce lifelong
changes in the
brain because many epigenetic
changes are that stable.
Because aerobic exercise has been shown to lead to improvements in
processing speed and functional
changes within the frontal and other
brain regions, it was included as one of the study groups.
So a female pup that's licked a little, the
process of having less - nurturing care would produce
changes in that pup's
brain that would persist a lifetime.
They further suggest that a network's ability to
change its preferred frequency may play a role in the way how information is at times
processed differently in the
brain.
«Though the «blind
brain» wiring may change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi, associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Ca
brain» wiring may
change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the
processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi, associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for
Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Ca
Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Canada.
This may help us to understand how
processes such as learning and memory formation, which require long - term
changes in the
brain, arise from the short bursts of electrical activity through which neurons signal to each other,» Greenberg said.
«In this study, we found
changes primarily in
brain regions connected to sensation and sensory
processing, «said co-principal investigator Kevin J. Black, MD, a professor of psychiatry.
The major advancement with the new study is that it demonstrates for the first time that self - repair in the adult
brain involves astrocytes entering a
process by which they
change their identity to nerve cells.
By revealing these genetic
changes and their potential impact on common
brain processes, researchers may uncover treatment approaches that could benefit a variety of patients.
Now there's evidence that such stress can actually
change the size of
brain structures responsible for learning, memory and
processing emotion.
To compare hearing ability in former musicians to people who never played an instrument, researchers measured the electrical
brain activity produced by a type of auditory
processing called «neural timing,» which enables people to respond to split - second
changes in sound such as the transition from a consonant to a vowel.
Researchers at the Neuronano Research Centre (NRC) at Lund University in Sweden have now shown that microglia, the
brain's cleansing cells, and the enzymes that the cells use in the cleaning
process,
change in the presence of gelatin.
Dr Annecchino added: «Ultimately, the problems in Alzheimer's result from
changes in the information
processing capability of networks of individual
brain cells.