Sentences with phrase «key brain structure»

The researchers found that a key brain structure involved in regulating emotions and decision - making is smaller in kids who have lived through three or more adverse experiences before the age of 8, compared with kids whose lives were more stable.

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Zurich, Zurich University Hospital and the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich now reveals that the successful treatment of an anxiety disorder alters key brain structures that are involved in processing and regulating emotions.

Neuroscientists believe that memory forms when neurons in these key brain structures are simultaneously activated by glutamate and an electrical pulse, a result of everyday sensory experience.

Iron deficiency in the first four weeks of a piglet's life — equivalent to roughly four months in a human infant — impairs the development of key brain structures, scientists report.

More Evidence That Growing Up Poor May Alter Key Brain Structures WBUR, 1/20/16 «Now, is there a down side here?

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During a key experiment in the 1990s, for example, researchers damaged the neocortex of female hamsters after birth but spared deeper brain structures.

Scientists suspect that one of the key areas especially affected is the thalamus, a walnut - size structure at the base of the brain that is the gateway for sensory information — taste, touch, vision, and hearing.

«Adolescence is considered one of the key stages of brain development when surplus synapses are eliminated and the structures essential to adulthood are selected and refined.

The study also helps to answer a key question about the brain structures of depressed patients.

«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.»

A small, almond - shaped structure called the amygdala, located deep within the brain (yellow in image above), plays a key role, but exactly what it responds to is unclear.

Unlike mammals, birds lack a key neural structure — the corpus callosum — that allows both hemispheres of the brain to access what an animal sees.

These studies are hampered by large natural variation from person to person, which makes it hard to align brain scans to reveal key differences in specific structures.

«These findings highlight a key stage of brain development where the neurons branch out to create a complex, mature structure.

Based on studies of other genes related to FOXP2, the authors suggest that the loss of functioning protein from one copy of this gene might disrupt the proper growth of key speech and language structures in the brain.

This brain - loving vitamin is a key constituent of cell membranes, giving them flexibility and structure.

The key process that takes place in the learner's brain is subsumption, wherein new content is related to relative ideas that are already present in the existing cognitive structure on a non-verbatim basis.

Although we are just beginning to answer basic questions about the canine brain, we can not ignore the striking similarity between dogs and humans in both the structure and function of a key brain region: the caudate nucleus.

The authors say the record lends weight to the idea that we developed key traits — flexible diets, large brains, complex social structures and the ability to walk and run on two legs — while adapting to the spread of open grasslands.

But more than that, it also needs to be structured for the brains of key decision - makers.

ECD programmes can take many forms, including promotion of good health and nutrition, support for safe and stimulating environments, protection from risks such as violence or abandonment, parenting support and early learning experiences, media, preschools and community groups.4 Poverty is the key underlying cause of poor child development; children living in poverty are exposed to many negative influences, including poor physical environments, inadequate nutrition, parental stress and insufficient cognitive stimulation.5 Undernutrition can influence brain development directly by affecting brain structure and function, or indirectly via poor physical or motor development, in addition to other pathways.6 — 8 Exposure to multiple co-occurring risks most likely contributes to greater disparities in developmental trajectories among children with differential exposure.9 — 12 This paper focuses on associations between specific aspects of children's physical environments — access to improved water and sanitation (W&S)-- and childhood development as measured by performance on a test of receptive language.

They had less white and cortical gray matter, and smaller - sized hippocampi and amygdale — brain structures that play a key role in spatial learning, memory consolidation, stress reactivity, and the processing of emotion.