In one experiment, elderly participants who completed 12 weeks of yoga demonstrated improved connections between
functional regions in the brain responsible for language processing, attention, and self - regulation.
Using scans from hundreds of people, the researchers confirmed 83
known functional regions and outlined 97 new ones — either by further partitioning known areas or recognizing overlooked areas.
Dr. Vállez García and the team are now considering what to look at next, such as inflammation in the brain or changes in the structure of
other functional regions.
This approach will allow you, for example, to insert gene tags, loxP sites for conditional models and stop codons in
specific functional regions.
Alternatively, evolutionary approaches have been used to
identify functional regions as those that are likely to have a measurable biological impact on cell function if perturbed.
This tells the computer exactly how the patient's brain geometry differs from that of a generic brain and allows the boundaries of
functional regions, like the visual cortex, to be identified.
Using a new method, PolyStrat, which prioritizes variants disrupting evolutionarily conserved,
functional regions, we found four significantly associated genes when comparing just 592 cases to 560 controls.
The gluteus medius is interesting in that it appears to display very distinctive muscle architecture in each of
its functional regions.