Sentences with phrase «key brain networks»

Instead of changing to accommodate a job, connectivity in key brain networks of autistic children looks similar to connectivity in the resting brain.

TACS can be used for manipulating the key brain network activity and fMRI can be used to see what's happening.

Not exact matches

The key to learning a second language during your child's baby years is that their brain's networks and pathways haven't fully formed yet, so their brain is able to set up the «network» for both languages at once while they are babies, something that adult brains just can't do.

«When different brain regions assume the highest importance within a functional brain network is the key to improving both prediction and control of epileptic seizures,» Lehnertz said.

«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.»

While the data showed that regions across the brain were involved in creative thought, Beaty said the evidence pointed to three subnetworks — the default mode network, the salience network and the executive control network — that appear to play key roles in creative thought.

An international team of roughly 300 scientists known as the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics through Meta Analysis (ENIGMA) Network pooled brain scans and genetic data worldwide to pinpoint genes that enhance or break down key brain regions in people from 33 countries.

Instead, they found that resonance could be the key to long - distance communication in networks with relatively few and weak connections, as it is the case in the brain.

From these functional brain networks, a number of key characteristics that describe the overall organization of a network were computed, including the clustering coefficient C and characteristic path length L (Watts and Strogatz, 1998).

Interactive lectures from key opinion leaders and emerging young scientists, poster sessions with abstracts published in Brain Stimulation and extensive opportunities to network with colleagues, along with an exhibit showcase featuring the latest neuromodulation technologies are all part of the main conference agenda.

These network maps are essential in pinpointing key regions in the brain that are affected in neurological disorders, and thus may be viable targets for treatment.

A key step in disentangling this vast network is to find ways to access each of the thousands of different kinds of cells in the brain.

«My argument is that the three classic areas of neuroscience, endocrinology, and immunology, with their various organs — the brain (which is the key organ that the neuroscientists study), the glands, and the immune system (consisting of the spleen, the bone marrow, the lymph nodes, and of course the cells circulating throughout the body)-- that these three areas are actually joined to each other in a bidirectional network of communication and that the information «carriers» are the neuropeptides.»

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).