Sentences with phrase «form during brain development»

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But researchers at UC Irvine recently revealed how DHA deficiency during pregnancy limits baby brain development — without enough DHA, brain cells aren't able to grow and form connections.

Curious about the brain's «instruction manual» during development, Donato sought to make sense of how the brain's components work together to form a highly functional organ.

Working with an animal model, the researchers found that a type of cell present in the brain's primary processing area during early development, long thought to form structural scaffolding with no role in transmitting sensory information, may conduct such signals after all.

During development, subplate neurons are among the first neurons to form in the cerebral cortex — the outer part of the mammalian brain that controls perception, memory and, in humans, higher functions such as language and abstract reasoning.

During development, as an embryo forms differentiated tissues, liver cells, brain cells, muscle cells, the cells in those tissues begin to allow for the selective expression of genes contained in those same 3 billion nucleotides.

This is particularly important during early development but continues throughout life as the brain learns and forms new memories.

NRXN1 and CNTN6 are important during brain development and produce molecules that help brain cells form connections with one another.

«What we show is that the Zika virus infects neuronal cells in dish that are counterparts to those that form the cortex during human brain development.»

Most of the synapses our brain will ever have are formed during early brain development, but throughout our lifetimes these synapses can be made, broken and strengthened.

The vast majority of brain cells, or neurons, are formed during prenatal development, starting a few weeks after conception.

Early Childhood Milwaukee Public Library provides early literacy education for daycare providers and parents, resulting in more than 1,000 young participants who form critical reading connections and brain development during the first 1,000 days of life in Ready to Read early literacy programs for ages 0 — 5.

«It can be caused by structural defects in the brain and spinal cord that occur during fetal development», when the mesenchymal tissue is forming, «possibly caused by genetic mutations or lack of proper vitamins or nutrients in the maternal diet.»