Sentences with phrase «how brain connections»

According to the release, «the Human Connectome Project (HCP) will yield insight into how brain connections underlie brain function, and will open up new lines of inquiry for human neuroscience.»

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If a period of incomprehension is essential for the learning that leads to innovation, then how does your brain assimilate that learning to the point where it can go beyond making connections and think outside the box?

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.

Your preschooler's brain is a beehive of activity as it forms countless new neural connections that help him understand the whats, whys, and hows of the world.

An Austen scholar and therapist reveals Jane Austen's intuitive ability to imbue her characters with hallmarks of social intelligence?and how these beloved works of literature can further illuminate the mind - brain connection.

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At 9 a.m., Approximately 900 specialists from a variety of scientific, psychological, social service and educational communities will gather at The Egg, Center for the Performing Arts Hart Theatre to consider promising research on how, through understanding the emerging connections between trauma and the science of brain development, children can overcome the long - term consequences of extreme trauma and adversity.

About five years ago, a team of Stanford University scientists set out to determine how the developing brain establishes its final set of synapses, connections through which cells of the nervous system communicate with one another and with nonneural cells.

But for neurons, birth date plays an important role in how these cells find their connections in the brain, a new study finds.

Understanding the networks of connections between brain regions — as depicted in this image — and how they are changed by a stroke is crucial to understanding how stroke patients heal, according to new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

This is the first time a direct connection has been established between a person's eye movements and patterns of brain activity, which follows up on previous studies linking what we see to how we remember.

However, this damages the axons — the arms that protrude from neurons to make connections with other cells — making it difficult to see exactly how brain cells link up.

For instance, his clear, lively writing reveals how our emotions, such as the fight - or - flight response and the suite of thoughts and actions associated with stress, provide strong evidence for a brain - body connection.

Seidler said the brain changes could reflect new connections between neurons, and she's leading another long - term study that will help determine the repercussions on cognition and physical performance, as well as how long the brain changes last.

Our findings are the first to suggest a strong correlation between the number of neural connections in the brain and how well an individual does on a cognitive task.

That balance is important, they say, for understanding how the whole brain can learn to do things based on changes in the connections between individual neurons.

«As far as we can tell, within this larger fusiform region of the brain, only the reading area has these particular sets of connections, and that's how it's distinguished from adjacent cortex.»

Still unknown is how and why the brain forms those connections early in life.

And researchers must figure out how to build in some core features: the necessary blood vessels, immune - system cells called microglia and connections from other brain regions, such as the thalamus and cerebellum.

Using rodent models of opiate addiction, Dr. Laviolette's research has shown that opiates affect pathways of associative memory formation in multiple ways, both at the level of anatomy (connections between neurons) and at the molecular levels (how molecules inside the brain affect these connections).

And that could influence the progression of Alzheimer's, he adds, by influencing how brain cells react to the loss of connections between neurons that accompanies the disease.

Danielle Bassett, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, studies the organizational principles at work in the brain, and how connections within the organ change over time and under stress.

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Beaty and colleagues reanalyzed brain data from previous studies and found that, by simply measuring the strength of connections in these peoples» brain networks, they could estimate how original their ideas would be.

DSI can also tease apart the confusing jumble of connections that appear at neural crossroads; such images are crucial for unraveling how signals travel through the brain.

At a symposium at The American Society of Human Genetics here last month, they reported zooming in on the genes expressed in a single brain cell, as well as panning out to understand how genes foster connections among far - flung brain regions.

«Neuroscientists reveal how the brain can enhance connections.»

To begin to understand how the connectivity patterns in the brains of memory athletes influence memory performance, Dresler and colleagues looked at the 25 connections that most differentiate memory athletes from others.

About 5 years ago, neuroscientist Tony Zador was struck by a novel idea for how to build a synapse - by - synapse map of brain connections — a goal dear to neuroscientists who want to understand how the brain's intricate wiring underlies its functions.

Similarly, a readily rewired grid helps to explain how people recover from brain injuries by making new connections to regain lost functions.

The finding comes from a method of visualising brain connections, although it doesn't give an idea of how the differences initially arose.

Produced naturally in the brain, dopamine has become a neuroscience rock star: It's involved in how the mind registers rewards, and media have reported on the chemical's connection to addiction, gambling and pleasure.

As more and more neurotransmitters are passed across a synapse between two neurons in the brain, the connection between the two neurons becomes stronger and this forms the basis of how we learn and memorise things.

Hinton, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, has always wanted to understand the rules governing when the brain beefs a connection up and when it whittles one down — in short, the algorithm for how we learn.

And the images he's creating are part of an ambitious attempt to understand how the connections between those brain cells give rise to the mind.

«Synapse discovery could lead to new treatments for Alzheimer's disease: Scientists have discovered how connections between brain cells are destroyed in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.»

A team of researchers led by UNSW Australia scientists has discovered how connections between brain cells are destroyed in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease — work that opens up a new avenue for research on possible treatments for the degenerative brain condition.

To do this they will combine several imaging tools including something called diffusion MRI, which maps the structure of the white matter that insulates the «wires» of the brain, and also resting - state MRI, which measures how brain regions oscillate in unison as a result of shared connections.

Diffusion tensor images like this one (rendered differently than the previous image) can reveal how a brain tumor has affected neuron connections or can help guide brain surgery.

One common medication, loxapine, boosted the number of connections among the cells, providing a window into how the medication might work in the brain.

Recent research on Parkinson's disease has focused on the gut - brain connection, examining patients» gut bacteria, and even how severing the vagus nerve connecting the stomach and brain might protect some people from the debilitating disease.

Also, it's unclear how stem cells derived from cord blood can improve connections in the brain.

Beth Stevens and her network of collaborators are showing how immune cells sculpt connections in the brain

Understanding the brain's connections would begin to teach us how its flashes of electricity add up to a fully conscious experience, one in which our senses, intuition, reasoning and memory interact to give a coherent view of the world.

Additionally, using leading - edge methods to look at brain shape, the team showed that parts of these structures change more with treatment, providing vital clues to how the connections in the brain may be used to select for patients who will respond well to treatment.

«Two brain regions linked to conceptual organization: Using fMRI to watch how subjects process individual experiences into memories, researchers unveil a broader role for how the hippocampus can help make connections.»

At the week - long Winter Conference on Neural Plasticity, attendees will discuss how our brains change with age and life experience, how learning and remembering result in more neural connections, and how neurological diseases damage these connections.

THE human brain is a fantastic maze of connections, a vast network of networks that circulates information and determines how we think and act.

Even the simplest networks of neurons in the brain are composed of millions of connections, and examining these vast networks is critical to understanding how the brain works.

A new Duke University study in mice links three previous and, until now, apparently unrelated hypotheses about the causes of schizophrenia, a debilitating mental disorder appearing in late adolescence that affects how people think, act and perceive reality.The brains of people with the schizophrenia show various abnormalities, including faulty neural connections or an imbalance of certain brain chemicals.