Sentences with phrase «connectivity patterns»

They used MRI scanning to look at the functional brain connectivity patterns between the two activities.

According to the analyses, those who possess desirable traits had stronger connectivity patterns compared to those with undesirable traits.

Leow and her colleagues explored differences and similarities in brain connectivity patterns in 24 weight - restored individuals with anorexia nervosa (participants met all criteria for anorexia except for amenorrhea and all had body mass indices (BMI) of 18.5 or higher), 29 participants with body dysmorphic disorder, and 31 healthy control participants.

Interestingly, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans that were done before and after the memory training revealed that the practice had altered the brain functions of trainees, showing connectivity patterns in their gray matter similar to those of accomplished memory athletes.

«In our study, we show that the world's most experienced users of this strategy differ from normal control subjects not in coarse differences in a single brain structure, but in distributed connectivity patterns between larger brain networks,» he added.

Characteristic connectivity patterns can be observed between the area surrounding the implant and other areas of the brain.

So as they analyze connectivity patterns, the scientists of the HCP - A project hope to establish points where healthy aging and unhealthy degeneration diverge.

Rather, the differences they detected between memory athletes and non-athletes were in connectivity patterns spread across 2,500 different connections in the brain.

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

In this study, the researchers aimed to investigate task related brain activity and functional connectivity patterns following onset of a regional anesthetic nerve block during continuous noxious dental stimulation.

These results suggest the possibility of aberrant laterality in neural pathways and connectivity patterns related to the globus pallidus in schizophrenia.

Although there were modest negative correlations between HFB and alpha local activity within each network, spatial connectivity patterns showed similarities between these frequency ranges.

Thus a network can be partitioned into such groups of nodes, or modules, based on connectivity patterns.

Neural connectivity patterns have long attracted the attention of neuroanatomists (Cajal, 1909; Brodmann, 1909; Swanson, 2003) and play crucial roles in determining the functional properties of neurons and neuronal systems.

Traditional module connectors involve very linear connectivity patterns, such as attaching in only one direction but the Essential Phone connector ensures an accessory connects quickly and accurately every time.

Researchers at the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas have identified complex brain connectivity patterns in individuals with chronic phases of traumatic brain injury which may explain long term higher order cognitive function deficits.

Since the brain network is formed by genetics and experiences, it is possible to predict one's age, personality, or performance in cognitive functions from functional connectivity patterns in their brain network.

The algorithm extracts the relevant physical entities without any prior knowledge of the connectivity pattern.

Mind and Matter The Human Connectome Project (HCP), a joint venture of a dozen universities that launched in 2012 with support from the National Institutes of Health, aims to create a database of connectivity patterns.

However, the region that would become the VWFA was already different from adjacent cortex in its connectivity patterns.

«Similar to DNA, specific brain systems and connectivity patterns are passed down from adults to their children,» said the study's principal investigator Damien Fair, Ph.D., P.A. - C., associate professor of behavioral neuroscience and psychiatry, OHSU School of Medicine.

Dresler and his team are still analyzing their brain scan data to learn more about the differences in brain connectivity patterns they found and how they affect memory.

In a study appearing in Nature Neuroscience, a team from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) uses advanced technologies to illuminate the connectivity pattern of chandelier cells, a distinctive kind of inhibitory cell type in the mammalian brain.

«Once we unravel the different working patterns and circuits in the brain during memory formation and decision - making, we can begin to look for differences in connectivity patterns that underlie abnormalities,» Harvey said.

«More importantly, we could show that these connectivity patterns can be induced in normal subjects by training in the method of loci.»

Recent studies in ACC subjects, whose structural connectivity is dramatically impaired, have shown intact bilateral functional connectivity patterns, thus challenging the view that structural and functional connectivity are straightforwardly related.

The results don't indicate whether one causes the other, but they do show that connectivity patterns could one day help predict traits or offer broad indicators of the effect of drugs on the brain.

Brain connectivity patterns were compared with a neurocognitive assessment of executive function.

This may be because the connectivity pattern is slightly different between the anterior and the posterior portions of the DMN.

Formally, brain connectivity patterns can be represented in graph or matrix format (Figure 1).

Analyses of structural brain connectivity patterns, for example of large - scale connectivity matrices of the cerebral cortex, allow the quantification of a broad range of network characteristics (Sporns et al., 2004).

These connectivity patterns are neither completely regular nor completely random, but combine structural aspects of both of these extremes.