Sentences with phrase «early brain mapping»

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The owl's auditory map room is a brain area called the external nucleus of the inferior colliculus (ICX), as a group led by Stanford's Eric Knudsen discovered in the early 1980s.

Glowing red, green and blue, the nerve fibers in this five - day - old zebrafish provide a map of early brain development.

The Brain Activity Map project launched recently by President Obama — and funded to the tune of $ 100 million in the US budget announcement earlier this month — highlights the need for research that focuses both on how individual neurons work and the ways that different regions of the brain work together as a Brain Activity Map project launched recently by President Obama — and funded to the tune of $ 100 million in the US budget announcement earlier this month — highlights the need for research that focuses both on how individual neurons work and the ways that different regions of the brain work together as a brain work together as a unit.

The detailed new map of early brain growth in healthy babies could shed light on what goes wrong in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, BBC reports.

«Mapping the brain regions affected is also important for early detection and prevention,» said Paul Thompson director of the ENIGMA consortium and an associate director of the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute.

They are the first to map groups of autism - risk genes by function, and to identify where and when these genes normally play major roles in early brain development.

In the present study, to elucidate the neural mechanism underlying this behavior, we used an immediate early gene (IEG) to map the active brain regions of Japanese honeybee workers during the formation of a defensive bee ball.

In the late 1980s and early»90s, researchers knew relatively little about how the cellular and molecular workings of the brain underpin its capabilities, and nothing excited Tonegawa more than mapping unexplored territory.