Sentences with phrase «human brain specimens»

In 2012, our laboratory initiated a study of AAN structural connectivity in ex vivo human brain specimens and in a living human subject - a study made possible by high resolution MRI scanners and high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) sequences developed at the Massachusetts General Hospital Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.

Not exact matches

Also in this issue, we take a trip to Harvard's brain bank where thousands of specimens are waiting to be studied, and we take on a burning question of human evolution: If our brains our shrinking, are we more efficient, or just not as bright?

Wilcoxon rank - sum test was used to calculate the P value for ex vivo bioluminescence from brain and expression level of miR - 7 and KLF4 in human specimens.

The gruesome specimen, now in a private collection, consists of a human head and shoulders with the top of the skull and brain removed.

Curiously, as a debating tactic to discredit other hominid fossils, creationists often accept 1470 as human, even though many of them reject larger - brained erectus specimens as apes.

As most of the adult cranial capacity is reached by age 10 or 11, it is likely that the adult ECV of WT 15000 would be no more than about 1000 - 1050cc, which is still well within the modern human range of about 800 - 2000cc.19 On the same page Jue points out that a brain capacity of 1400cc applies to the Vertesszöllos erectus specimen which is dated at around 350kya (kiloyears ago = thousands of years).

- An ex vivo human brain from a 53 - year - old woman who died of non-neurological causes and who had a normal neurological examination prior to death was dissected to a specimen containing the pons, midbrain, thalamus, hypothalamus, and basal forebrain (Figure 1).