Other researchers are trying to unravel the web of
connectivity of the human brain.
«In general, the additional brain size and
connectivity of the human brain compared to the chimpanzee or macaque, along with the protracted period of time during which human neurodevelopment occurs, means that there are many more problems than can arise and a greater period of time during which those problems can occur,» Sestan explained.
Not exact matches
Colored regions in these MRI images
of a
human fetus (shown from two perspectives) indicate
brain regions where
connectivity grows stronger between the 20th and 40th weeks
of gestation.
The researchers used the MRI sequences
of more than 1,000 test subjects to create a «
connectivity map»
of the average
human brain.
In
humans, the cerebellum's extensive
connectivity with the rest
of the
brain suggests it does far more than learn motor skills: it has been shown to have a part in both perception and cognition, with recent work linking cerebellar dysfunction to such complex diseases as schizophrenia and autism.
The
brain scans
of the robbery victim had revealed enough
connectivity and enough bandwidth to register and process a
human voice.
Small - world and scale - free organization
of voxel based resting - state functional
connectivity in the
human brain
Functionally linked resting - state networks reflect the underlying structural
connectivity architecture
of the
human brain
More recently, I have demonstrated the feasibility
of using fMRI in combination with pharmaco - genetic silencing to dissect the circuital basis
of complex behaviors, and demonstrated for the first time that the mouse
brain contains distributed resting - state functional
connectivity networks, including plausible homologues
of the
human default - mode (DMN) and salience networks.
Neuroscientists are mapping out a complete atlas
of connectivity in the
human brain, but what's emerging is a battle
of scales.
«Atypical development
of local and distant intrinsic functional
connectivity in ASD,» in Paper Presented at the Organization for
Human Brain Mapping, (Beijing).
These measures have been used to characterize large - scale networks in the
human brain (Bressler and Menon, 2010; Sporns, 2011), and have paved the way for increasingly sophisticated investigations
of brain connectivity in ASD (Kennedy and Adolphs, 2012).
In 2012, our laboratory initiated a study
of AAN structural
connectivity in ex vivo
human brain specimens and in a living
human subject - a study made possible by high resolution MRI scanners and high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) sequences developed at the Massachusetts General Hospital Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.
The
Human Connectome Project (HCP) Consortium is pleased to have had its graphical renderings
of brain connectivity chosen by Grammy Award winning international recording artists Muse (www.muse.mu) for the cover
of their latest album «The 2nd Law.»
The study essentially correlates specific patterns
of brain connectivity — the degree to which different parts
of the
human brain talk to each other — with a suite
of what are generally considered positive traits, such as education, income, and self - control.
Functional
connectivity of the anterior cingulate cortex within the
human frontal lobe: A
brain - mapping meta - analysis