Sentences with phrase «in brain size across»

The association between Mediterranean - type diet and change in brain size across a 3 - year period in older age (73 - 76 years) is assessed in new research publishing in the journal Neurology.

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«In designing brains, nature has two parameters it can play with: the size and number of neurons and the distribution of neurons across different brain centers,» said Herculano - Houzel, «and in birds we find that nature has used both of them.&raquIn designing brains, nature has two parameters it can play with: the size and number of neurons and the distribution of neurons across different brain centers,» said Herculano - Houzel, «and in birds we find that nature has used both of them.&raquin birds we find that nature has used both of them.»

Mini-brains 3 to 4 millimetres across have been grown in the lab before, but if a larger brain had been created — and the press release publicising the claim said it was the size of a pencil eraser — that would be a major breakthrough.

Twenty - seven of these mutations were in proteins specifically associated with the nervous system, including transthyretin, which helps transport glucose across the blood - brain barrier, and microcephalin, which partly governs brain and head size.

Across nearly seven million years, the human brain has tripled in size, with most of this growth occurring in the past two million years.

Amber Ruigrok, who carried out the study as part of her PhD, said: «For the first time we can look across the vast literature and confirm that brain size and structure are different in males and females.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden may have found the answer.According to the textbooks, our perception of size and distance is a product of how the brain interprets different visual cues, such as the size of an object on the retina and its movement across the visual field.

The clear social gradient associated with children's vocabulary, emerging literacy, well - being and behaviour is evident from birth to school entry.1 These trajectories track into adolescence and correspond to poorer educational attainment, income and health across the life course.2 — 10 Neuroimaging research extends the evidence for these suboptimal trajectories, showing that children raised in poverty from infancy are more likely to have delayed brain growth with smaller volumetric size of the regions particularly responsible for executive functioning and language.11 This evidence supports the need for further effort to redress inequities that arise from the impact of adversity during the potential developmental window of opportunity in early childhood.