Sentences with phrase «connections in the brain»

More than any other experiences infants have, they trigger the development and strengthening of neural connections in the brain between the regions that control emotion, cognition, language, and memory.

He is creating a lot of connections in his brain because of that language, that interaction with you.

This Method uses very small movements to forge new connections in the brain, refine movement patterns, and fill in developmental gaps.

However, a few children don't develop the connections in their brain to be aware of bladder pressure until they are quite old, occasionally even until puberty.

The immature connections in their brain don't afford them the same emotion control as us.

Right before your child becomes a full - fledged teenager, there's a burst of neuronal sprouting or, in layman's terms, creation of new connections in the brain.

Getting rapid eye movement or REM sleep, usually 60 to 90 minutes of napping, plays a key role in making new connections in the brain and solving creative problems.

The Power of Yes [3] Duhachek A, Zhang S, Krishnan S. Connections in the brains of young children strengthen during sleep, CU - Boulder study finds.

«We now know that the way to help a child develop optimally is to help create connections in her brain — her whole brain — that develop skills that lead to better relationships, better mental health, and more meaningful lives.

Every touch, smell, taste, feeling and sound creates connections in the brain.

The scanner, quiet enough for a baby to sleep inside, relies on a new brain - imaging technique called diffusion MRI, which maps long - distance white matter connections in the brain by tracking the movement of water.

But for neurons, birth date plays an important role in how these cells find their connections in the brain, a new study finds.

Recent research suggests that too many connections in the brain could be at least partially responsible for the symptoms of autism, from communication deficits to unusual talents.

The researchers found a way to use brain connectivity (i.e. connections in the brain) to predict the best possible relief of Parkinson's Disease symptoms.

Dominant mice can be humbled and wimps made mighty by altering the strength of electrical connections in their brains.

«If somebody believes something will work,» says Zubieta, «that positive expectation by itself, through different connections in the brain, activates mechanisms that suppress pain.

USE it or lose it: a class of immune cell demolishes idle circuits and connections in the brain, even a healthy one.

«You can think of it as showing which connections in the brain are on speed dial and which ones aren't,» says Michael Milham, a psychiatrist at the Child Mind Institute in New York City, who led the study.

Using mathematical methods, Dr. Sacha van Albada, research scientist in Markus Diesmann's lab, Dr. Moritz Helias, head of the group Theory of Multi-Scale Neuronal Networks, and Diesmann demonstrated that this correlation can not be correctly preserved when the number of neuronal connections in a brain model is below a certain level.

Our findings are the first to suggest a strong correlation between the number of neural connections in the brain and how well an individual does on a cognitive task.

And pain protects us by stimulating and strengthening neural connections in the brain, forcing us to associate the sensation with the memory of what we did to cause it.

An image shows broken connections in the brain of a man injured in an ATV crash.

He distinguishes perceptual quirks such as the sound - colour correspondence from true synaesthesia, which he believes emerges from associations between higher concepts, not crossed connections in brain areas that process senses.

The pattern of neuronal connections in the brain supports this ability.

«We have long hypothesized that VNS is making new connections in the brain, but nothing was known for sure,» Hays said.

These effects prompted the team to posit that saturation of a particular set of connections in the brain, not general fatigue, caused the decline in performance.

Learning and storing memories, for example, requires brain cells to produce proteins that help create long - lasting connections in the brain.

There are more than a trillion cells called neurons that form a labyrinth of connections in our brains.

The physiological changes associated with walking, like lower stress levels, lower arousal levels and an overall better mood, can promote more creative thought connections in the brain.

DTI uses the diffusion of water molecules to image connections in the brain.

Also, it's unclear how stem cells derived from cord blood can improve connections in the brain.

Beth Stevens and her network of collaborators are showing how immune cells sculpt connections in the brain

The condition is thought to arise when extra connections in the brain cross between regions responsible for separate senses.

However, later in life, the truncated version of Shank3 interfered with synaptic functions and connections in the brain's cortex, where executive functions such as thought and planning occur.

But then Hayashi created a mouse with a mutation in a gene called PAK, which codes for an enzyme called p21 - activated kinase that helps build nerve connections in the brain.

But connections in the brain are much more complex.

Additionally, using leading - edge methods to look at brain shape, the team showed that parts of these structures change more with treatment, providing vital clues to how the connections in the brain may be used to select for patients who will respond well to treatment.

Christopher Shallue of Google and Andrew Vanderburg at the University of Texas at Austin used a neural network — a type of machine learning that mimics the connections in a brain — to look for new planets in old Kepler data.

The second, standard MRI, detailed structural connections in the brain believed to be necessary for effective communication.

«Readers with dyslexia have disrupted network connections in the brain, map the circuitry of dyslexia shows.»

Recruiting luminescent nanoparticles to image brain function, scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are on pace to develop the next generation of functional materials that could enable the mapping of the complex neural connections in the brain.

Researchers have developed a learning method to change cognitive function by manipulating connections in the brain.

Is it possible to restore the connections in our brain?

They found that older adults who had greater variability in neural activity in specific brain regions performed better on fluid ability and memory tasks, and also had better quality of structural white matter connections in the brain.

The human brain is a daunting object: It contains nearly 100 billion neurons, each one linked to roughly 10,000 other neurons, making 100 trillion total connections in the brain.

For example a next step is to scan premature babies and see how their myelin development differs from babies born full term; and how connections in the brains of babies who are at greater risk for developing autism differ from others.»

At the molecular - signaling level, Wnt3 acts through two different classes of growth - cone receptors, Ryk and the Frizzled (s), to pattern topographic connections in the brain.

Engineered neuroplasticity is a new form of rehabilitation that uses engineered devices to restore lost or injured connections in the brain, spinal cord and other areas of the nervous system.

Experience helps change connections in the brain.»

In work funded by the UK's Wellcome Trust and the National Institutes of Health in the USA, researchers at the University of Cambridge have used magnetic resonance imaging to map the connections in the brain and shown that the strength of those connections correlates with a person's intelligence.