Sentences with phrase «healthier brain network»

The participants who reported the psychotic - like experiences (PLEs)-- considered to be at the low end of the psychosis spectrum — spent less time in a brain state reflecting healthier brain network activity.

Alexandra Levine, MS, CCC - SLP, is a speech - language pathologist in the Learning and Development Center and the Healthy Brain Network at the Child Mind Institute.

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Mr. Corbett is also Chairman of the Salvation Army Advisory Board, is the former Chairman of the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network (Randwick & Westmead) Advisory Board, is a member of the Dean's Advisory Group of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney, and a member of the University of New South Wales Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing Advisory Board.

«The regions in these networks are not talking to each other as much as healthy adults of the same age, even in networks where brain damage didn't occur.

Both MDD and SAD patients, relative to healthy controls, showed gray matter abnormalities in the brain's salience and dorsal attention networks.

Research coordinated by Osaka University has now shown that the nuclear protein complex cohesin must be expressed at sufficient levels in the early mouse brain to control gene regulation and allow development of healthy neuronal networks and behavioral characteristics.

«Regulator of chromosome structure crucial to healthy brain function and nerve development: Cohesin protein identified as key to control of chromosome structure underlying nerve cell network formation.»

In the new study, which was published in Science, neuroscientists first used brain imaging to identify the associative memory network of 16 young, healthy participants.

«We studied a primary network of the brain — the frontoparietal network — that plays an important role in fluid intelligence and also declines early, even in healthy aging,» Zamroziewicz said.

When presented with a physics problem or ethical dilemma, a healthy brain fires up the appropriate network while suppressing the other.

Healthy activity in neuronal networks is critical for essential brain functions such as memory.

The functioning of a healthy brain relies on its network of neuronal connections.

These methodological advances coupled with large, longitudinal studies of subjects progressing from healthy aging into dementia will enable a detailed understanding of the seeding and spread of these disorders.Neuroimaging has provided ample evidence that neurodegenerative disorders progress along brain networks, and is now beginning to elucidate how they do so.

These networks exhibit an anti-correlated relationship with each other in the healthy brain.

Resting - state functional magnetic resonance imaging allows investigating whole - brain connectivity changes during pharmacological modulation of the level of consciousness.Low - frequency spontaneous blood oxygen level - dependent fluctuations were measured in 19 healthy volunteers during wakefulness, mild sedation, deep sedation with clinical unconsciousness, and subsequent recovery of consciousness.Propofol - induced decrease in consciousness linearly correlates with decreased corticocortical and thalamocortical connectivity in frontoparietal networks (i.e., default - and executive - control networks).

Small - world metrics can characterize the functional organization of the brain in AD, and our findings further suggest that these network measures may be useful as an imaging - based biomarker to distinguish AD from healthy aging.

During development, the healthy human brain constructs a host of large - scale, distributed, function - critical neural networks.

A recent study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to compare the brain networks activated by the PASAT and SDMT, with the hypothesis that the more complex PASAT would activate greater involvement of regions associated with executive function and emotional stress.6 The study enrolled 17 healthy right - handed volunteers and evaluated each with versions of the PASAT and SDMT adapted for use with fMRI.

A single session of exercise increases connectivity in sensorimotor - related brain networks: A resting - state fMRI study in young healthy adults.

After more than a decade of work with such patients as well as healthy subjects, Laureys's team has identified a network of key brain regions in the frontal lobe (the part of the cortex beneath the forehead) and the parietal lobe (which is behind the frontal lobe).

Relative to healthy controls, MDD youth displayed a potentiated response to peer rejection in a ventral network of brain regions involved in the identification of emotional and social stimuli and the generation of affective states (Phillips et al., 2003), including the sgACC, anterior insula, amygdala and NAcc.

First we hypothesized that, relative to healthy controls, youth with current MDD would show increased reactivity to peer rejection in a network of ventral brain regions implicated in affective processing of social information, including the amygdala, sgACC, anterior insula, ventral ACC and VLPFC.