Sentences with phrase «critical in the neural development»

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Boosting patient engagement through technology is seen as a critical task for health care, says Patricia Griffiths, a researcher at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center's Rehabilitation Research and Development Center for Visual and Neural Rehabilitation in Atlanta.

Week of January 8th Recognizes Importance of Dietary Folic Acid Vitamin B Critical in Reducing Neural Tube Defects in Fetal Development Everyone needs folic Acid, an essential B - vitamin, in order to maintain good health, but it's particularly important to woman during their childbearing years, according to Dr. Gayle D. Jones, Director of the Oneida County Health Department in recognizing January 8th - 14th as National Folic Acid Awareness Week.

«What's really exciting about this was that the activity differences were detected at a critical time in brain development: when neural progenitor cells are proliferating and expanding in number, just prior to producing neurons,» Silver said.

The critical role these changes play in brain development highlights the importance and urgency in understanding neural circuits in more detail and suggests new avenues for investigating the underlying causes of developmental disorders such as autism.

Although researchers knew that hyaluronic acid shows up in neural tissue, they did not know it played such a critical role in human brain development.

All of the mice produced normal amounts of SOX2 during development, when the transcription factor plays a critical role in the genesis of embryonic and neural stem cells.

It is critical for optimal neural development in mammals and when added to the diet, increases trainability and overall health of the young animal.

Attentional orienting skills, in particular, have been identified as a critical component of the regulatory process, since orienting has the direct effect of amplifying, at a neural level, the stimuli toward which attention is directed, changing the affective experience of the individual.17 Thus, orienting skills assist in the management of both negative and positive emotions, and consequently in the development of adaptive control of emotion and behaviour.

A recent research focus is to identify the impact of childhood trauma on neural and psychological functioning, with a specific interest in identifying the impact of critical periods of trauma exposure during development.