Sentences with phrase «early neural development»

When the babies were born, they were given MRI scans in their first few weeks of life, providing researchers a unique view of early neural development and the influence of prenatal factors.

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That's because those foods are packed with folic acid, which is vital to neural tube development (especially in those early weeks of pregnancy).

Bates E, Thal D, Finlay B, Clancy B. Early language development and its neural correlates.

He and others have proposed that a group of cells involved in early development called the neural crest are responsible for the suite of traits associated with domestication syndrome.

The wandering cells are neural crest cells, which appear early in development in vertebrate embryos.

In order to elucidate the significance of early epigenetic modifications on the development of neural cells during embryogenesis in the mouse, Götz and her colleagues specifically inactivated the gene Uhrf1.

When Kaufman, Zon and colleagues looked to see what was different about these early cancer cells, they found that crestin and the other activated genes are the same ones turned on during zebrafish embryonic development — specifically, in the stem cells that give rise to the pigment cells known as melanocytes, within a structure called the neural crest.

This is a video of rotating view of neural precursor cell tracks obtained from the cell lineage reconstruction of early Drosophila embryonic nervous system development.

For example, the researchers were able to identify previously unknown gene expression differences between the neural stem cells that give rise to the brain's deep structures versus its neocortical surface, and to show that molecular signatures of different neural cell types arise much earlier in brain development than previously realized.

Early treatment with the drug may allow it to correct some impairment in neural development that contributes to ASD - like behavior in mice, the researchers said.

Wang and other colleagues previously discovered a molecule (called compound C) that converts stem cells into «neural progenitor cells,» an early stage in the cells» development into neurons.

«If infection occurred very early in development, the virus mostly infected the mini-brains» neural progenitor cells, and the effects were very severe.

Studies of early development in fishes show that neural networks in the brain controlling the more complex vocal and pectoral mechanisms of social signalling among birds and mammals have their ancestral origins in a single compartment of the hindbrain in fishes.

A better understanding of the neural determinants of changes in fluid intelligence is therefore necessary for improving our understanding of healthy cognitive aging, and may aid the development of early markers for individuals at risk of rapid decline.

Pluripotent stem cellderived somatic stem cells as tool to study the role of microRNAs in early human neural development

Brca1 is required for embryonic development of the mouse cerebral cortex to normal size by preventing apoptosis of early neural progenitors.

«This shows that measuring high frequency variability during this early critical window of postnatal development has value for identifying NEC risk at a time when symptoms are not evident and interventions to improve the parasympathetic nervous system activity can be given,» said researcher R. Alberto Travagli, professor of neural and behavioral sciences.

Early in embryonic development, the neural crest — a transient group of stem cells — gives rise to parts of the nervous system and several other tissues.

PLXDC2 is a mitogen and increases neurogenesis, resulting in thickening of the neural tube at the early stages of development (Miller et al, 2007; Miller - delaney et al, 2011).

(4) Food fortification was deemed mandatory due to overwhelming evidence for the protective effect of folic acid supplementation before conception and during early pregnancy on the development of neural tube defects (NTD) in newborns.

Incidence and recurrence of Neural Tube Defects (serious birth defects of the spinal cord and the brain which arise during the early development of the embryo, most common being spina bifida)

The neural tube is formed early in the embryonic development — before some women even know they are pregnant.

Most pregnancies are unplanned, and it is known that the presence of folic acid in the early days of development is vital to proper development of the neural tube.

In summary, greater early phase neural drive (and increased rate of force development), more suppressed co-activation, and greater co-ordination might all be achievable with (light load) velocity - focused training, compared to (heavy load) force - focused training, suggesting that each could contribute to velocity - specificity.

Such gains seem to be connected with increases in rate of force development (Gruber & Gollhofer, 2004; Bruhn et al. 2006; Gruber et al. 2007; Behrens et al. 2015), probably caused by increases in early phase neural drive, through faster motor unit firing rates (Gruber & Gollhofer, 2004).

Tierney's dissertation research examines early identifiers of autism and the relationship between neural and cognitive processes over the course of development, particularly in children with autism.

Reading at home from an early age may also encourage the development of a neural detour from the left to the right hemisphere of the brain, compensating for the genetic influence.

Early Childhood Expert Says Science Shows Impact of Early Experiences on Brain Development Journal Star, January 15, 2013 «Children are born with a certain number of brain cells, but the neural circuitry develops dramatically in the first years of life — and experiences affect how those connections are made, said [Professor] Jack Shonkoff, director of Harvard's Center on the Developing Child.»

If early emotional trauma has affected a child's neural development, what steps can educators take to provide a learning environment that will enhance that development?

Based on these results, our hypothesis is that anatomo - functional anomalies in the STS occurring early across brain development could constitute the first step in the cascade of neural dysfunction underlying autism.

Early childhood care Science now tells us that optimal neural development in a child, which affects physical, mental and cognitive development, depends on the good nutrition and loving stimulation the child receives during the first months and years of life.

However, in case of adverse early influences, the same plasticity may lead to altered neural development with long - lasting behavioural and physiological effects.

Early brain development occurs at lightning speed, creating more than one million new neural connections every second.

The early development of the autonomic nervous system provides a neural platform for social behavior: A polyvagal perspective

Understanding brain — behavior relationships in psychiatrically healthy samples, especially early in development, will help inform normative developmental trajectories and neural alterations in depression and other affective pathology.

Variation in neural development as a result of exposure to institutionalization early in childhood

Thus, differences in alpha power in middle childhood may reflect perturbed neural development as a function of adverse early life experiences and a violation of the expectable environment for young children across childhood.