Sentences with phrase «in brain characteristics»

«This study shows, through a «before and after» design, that a particular set of learning activities is both the necessary and sufficient causal explanation for resulting differences in brain characteristics,» says John Sloboda of Keele University in the UK, and a long - time champion of practice over genius.

Not exact matches

Research has determined that years — even decades — before a person might start showing symptoms, amyloid beta deposits in the brain that are characteristic of Alzheimer's disease can start to accumulate.

A question that has long been debated among anthropologists is that of how far, given the osteological characteristics of a particular cranium, it is possible to deduce, not only the shape of the brain housed within the cranium, but the particular kind of psychism contained in the brain.

In contrast, the medieval mind - set exhibited patterns characteristic of damage in the brain's left hemisphere — specificallIn contrast, the medieval mind - set exhibited patterns characteristic of damage in the brain's left hemisphere — specificallin the brain's left hemisphere — specifically.

We later learn that «Life lurks in the interstices of each living cell, and in the interstices of the brain» (PR 105f); and «life is a characteristic of «empty space» and not of space «occupied» by any corpuscular society» (PR 105).

This book describes and analyzes what ritual is — its primary characteristics — and how it works in the world and in human brains.

Most, if not all, of the distinctive behavioral characteristics that children with Selective Mutism portray can be explained by the studied hypothesis that children with inhibited temperaments have a decreased threshold of excitability in the almond - shaped area of the brain called the amygdala.

Moreover, people with these brain characteristics may simply be more likely to use marijuana in the first place.

Endocast researchers need to study the range of brain surface characteristics in a larger sample of living chimps and other apes to make more accurate comparisons, Falk says.

Often the most prominent characteristic in ADHD adults is difficulty with executive functioning, which is the brain activity that oversees the ability to monitor a person's own behavior by planning and organizing.

The data showed that when the cell phone was transmitting, the power of a characteristic brain - wave pattern called alpha waves in the person's brain was boosted significantly.

A defining characteristic of stroke is the loss of motor control due to structural damage in specific brain areas.

«We wanted to find out how and where visual information about grasped objects, for example their shape or size, and motor characteristics of the hand, like the strength and type of a grip, are processed in the different grasp - related areas of the brain,» says Schaffelhofer.

EYE tests could one day be used for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease, thanks to the discovery of a link between the amount of a characteristic protein in the brain and levels of the same protein in the eye.

26 — 30 People who live to age 100 in good health often have brain lesions that are characteristic of Alzheimer's disease.

The research identifies a potential characteristic for predicting outcome in a deadly form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma multiforme.

People with autism are generally less socially responsive to others, whereas those with Williams syndrome typically have an inability to inhibit social responses.The question, of course, is, What changes in the brain cause such radically divergent social characteristics?

The loss of a single gene in mice can affect social behavior and impair their brains» ability to filter out distractions — both characteristics of several neurological diseases in humans.

Of additional importance, the distinct ERP markers identified by Mills are so characteristic of the different brain organization in Williams that this information alone is approximately 90 percent accurate when analyzing brain activity to identify someone with Williams syndrome.

Neurospheres and brain organoids represent excellent models to investigate developmental neuropathologies, as they can outline, in vitro, several characteristics of the fetal brain formation.

Again and again, animals of various species domesticated at different times in different parts of the world develop the same domestication syndrome characteristics: more extensive breeding periods; smaller brains, hearts and teeth; small or floppy ears; spotted coats; curly hair and tails; variable numbers of vertebrae in the spine; and juvenile faces with shorter snouts.

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.

The cells in such a brain tumor can display very different characteristics, such as varying cell size or number of cell nuclei.

These cells were complex in their make - up, but exhibited regeneration and characteristics of a fundamental class of brain cells, called glia.

A human brain cell culture grown in vitro has spontaneously transformed, as determined by morphology, growth characteristics, and karyotype analysis.

The researchers found severed axons in regions with inflammation characteristic of the disease — in several cases, more than 10,000 times as many cut axons as in brain tissue from non-MS corpses.

The research group of Professor Ryusuke Kakigi of the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, in collaboration with Professor Masami K. Yamaguchi and Assistant Professor Hiroko Ichikawa of Chuo University first identified the characteristics of facial expression recognition of children with ADHD by measuring hemodynamic response in the brain and showed the possibility that the neural basis for the recognition of facial expression is different from that of typically developing children.

Specifically, the release of a stress - coping hormone called corticotropin - releasing factor (CRF), which is widely found in the brain and acts as a neurotransmitter / neuromodulator, is dysregulated in AD and is associated with impaired cognition and with detrimental changes in tau protein and increased production of amyloid - beta — protein fragments that clump together and trigger the neurodegeneration characteristic of AD.

Here the results showed that a single stimulation had different effects on the behavior of neurons in each layer because even when the overall state of the brain changed, layers had distinctive characteristics.

A Johns Hopkins University team this week reported inserting a disrupted human gene, the schizophrenia risk factor DISC1, into lab mice, causing them to exhibit the brain asymmetry characteristic of schizophrenia as well as agitation in open spaces and trouble finding hidden food — traits reminiscent of the restlessness, impaired sense of smell and depressionlike symptoms schizophrenics suffer, Reuters reports.

These maps, they say, will show everything from relative sizes of anatomical features to differences in brains associated with age, race, gender, educational background, genetic composition, and other distinguishing characteristics.

«Blood clotting protein triggers immune attack on brain: Disruption of the blood - brain barrier triggers a cascade of events that results in autoimmunity, brain damage characteristic of multiple sclerosis.»

Brain tumors arise in the glia, or supportive cells, of the brain and now are classified by their histology — characteristics visible via microscopy — and their cell of origin, either astrocytes or oligodendrocBrain tumors arise in the glia, or supportive cells, of the brain and now are classified by their histology — characteristics visible via microscopy — and their cell of origin, either astrocytes or oligodendrocbrain and now are classified by their histology — characteristics visible via microscopy — and their cell of origin, either astrocytes or oligodendrocytes.

«It's what would be expected based on the physiological characteristics of that area of the brain,» which is known as the entorhinal cortex and is the first brain region to break down in Alzheimer's disease.

Philosophy isn't about the brain processes involved in our experiences; what philosophers try to do is to explain these experiences themselves by uncovering their structural characteristics.

The research will also move forward understanding of the relationship between genetic characteristics and anaesthetic requirements, he says: «Investigating the role of melanocortin system in the central nervous system is likely to help us understand fundamental questions such as which systems in the brain produce unconsciousness and which modulate pain perception.»

«The findings allow us to have a better understanding of how normal variation in brain anatomy in the general population might bias both temperamental characteristics and health behaviors, including substance abuse,» Holmes said.

Storm, who performs surgery on children with brain tumors, added that, «Better understanding of tumor characteristics, as we found in this research, will help guide our surgical planning and clinical decisions for patients with PLGGs in this current era of target - centric clinical trials and personalized medicine.»

Binyamin Hochner of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and colleagues tested octopuses whose arm - brain connection had been severed and found that they could elicit the characteristic arm movement by stimulating the arms mechanically or electrically.

The physical characteristic most associated with Zika infection is microcephaly, a birth defect in which the baby's brain does not develop properly resulting in a smaller than normal head.

It turns out that the structure and function of brain centers responsible for learning and memory in a wide range of invertebrate species may possibly share the same fundamental characteristics, according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology and performed by University of Arizona neuroscientists Nicholas Strausfeld, Regents» Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, part of the UA's School of Mind, Brain and Behavior, and Gabriella Wbrain centers responsible for learning and memory in a wide range of invertebrate species may possibly share the same fundamental characteristics, according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology and performed by University of Arizona neuroscientists Nicholas Strausfeld, Regents» Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, part of the UA's School of Mind, Brain and Behavior, and Gabriella WBrain and Behavior, and Gabriella Wolff.

Blocking this process with a small - molecule drug prevented the characteristic brain plaques and memory loss in a mouse model of the disease.

«The characteristic malformations, together with the frequent virus detection in brains of malformed animals, clearly support a causal link,» FLI's Martin Beer says.

Those brain characteristics include a region corresponding to Broca's area, which spans parts of the right and left sides of the brain in present - day people.

«But the issue with Meningitis B is that the coating of this bacterium has similar characteristics to a human protein found in the brain, and therefore if we used the same method, we would potentially create antibodies against the body's own protein.»

Previous studies have shown that when a typically developing 20 - month - old child hears a word that she doesn't know, a characteristic uptick in brain waves in the left hemisphere of the brain can be detected through electroencephalography (EEG), a noninvasive method of measuring the brain's electrical activity.

Different brain tissues impede the current in characteristic ways: blood, for instance, impedes less, and grey matter more.

Using electron microscopes, for example, we can probe animal brains neuron - by - neuron, connection - by - connection, in the hope of discovering characteristic circuits that repeat themselves throughout the brain.

The amount of beta - amyloid proteins, which make up the characteristic Alzheimer's plaques, was also much lower in the brains of the mice on the low - calorie diet.

The team injected about 2000 mouse embryonic stem cells each into the brains of 25 rats who had previously had their dopamine - producing neurons damaged, which causes a characteristic tendency to move in circles.