Sentences with phrase «from different brain structures»

«We have long wondered how the cerebral cortex can process and integrate separate information lines coming in from different brain structures, or from other areas of the cortex, and how it sorts out what information is relevant at any given moment,» says senior study investigator Bernardo Rudy, MD, PhD.

Not exact matches

Since the first human brain organoids were created from stem cells in 2013, scientists have gotten them to form structures like those in the brains of fetuses, to sprout dozens of different kinds of brain cells, and to develop abnormalities like those causing neurological diseases such as Timothy syndrome.

«From an evolutionary psychology perspective, the structure and functions [of psychopaths» brains] may be a little different, but they're properly designed for engagement in predatory behaviors.

One message from the study is that brain functions depend not only a matter of the arrangement of nerves, or overall physical structure — which remain the same under many different conditions.

Lucina Uddin, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami, who was not part of the research team, said, «The combination of multiple neuroimaging modalities is a clear strength of the current study, and the authors are to be commended for undertaking the difficult task of trying to reconcile results from methods designed to tap different aspects of brain structure and function.

The core facility is a two - photon in vivo imaging platform developed at the Nonlinear bioimaging laboratory, a technique that allows for non-invasive structural and functional measurements in small animal models at different scales: from macroscopic imaging of the brain morphology to highly resolved microscopy of neuron populations, single neurons, and even subcellular structures.

Colonies of these polyps form the reef structure growing in strange and exotic shapes from which the different varieties of corals take their popular names, such as brain coral, staghorn coral and elkhorn coral.

MRI scans demonstrate that heavy Internet users and light Internet users activate different parts of their mind when they process the web, suggesting that we physically alter our brain structure when we jump around from topic to topic.

The grammatical structure of Chinese is vastly different from that of French, yet the developing brain is equally adept at acquiring the underlying grammatical structure of either language.