Sentences with phrase «disrupting brain circuitry»
The 2 - Year Window Mother Jones, November 18, 2011» «The concept of disrupting brain circuitry is much more compelling than the concept that poverty is bad for your health,» says Professor Jack Shonkoff, a Harvard pediatrician and chair of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.
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Effectively, anything that disrupts brain circuitry can affect the development of epilepsy.
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Dr. Saper's research has explored circuitry of the brain that controls basic functions such as wake - sleep cycles, feeding, and immune response, and how these circuits are disrupted in neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, in sleep disorders such as narcolepsy and sleep apnea, and during aging.
To confirm the link, Lavie connected test subjects to a transcranial magnetic stimulator, which focuses a magnetic field on a selected region of the brain — the parietal cortex in this case — and temporarily disrupts the neural circuitry there.
«Readers with dyslexia have disrupted network connections in the brain, map the circuitry of dyslexia shows.»
Their goal is to better understand how this brain region regulates emotion, which, in turn, could lead to a greater understanding of how brain circuitry is disrupted in depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other psychiatric conditions.