Sentences with phrase «link brain structure»

A different but also rapidly growing research direction deals with the use of connectivity measures to link brain structure and cognition.

New research published in Schizophrenia Research conducted at the University of Liverpool links brain structure to an individual's likelihood of experiencing hallucinations and to their musical aptitude.

Citation: Heyers D, Manns M, Luksch H, Güntürkün O, Mouritsen H (2007) A Visual Pathway Links Brain Structures Active during Magnetic Compass Orientation in Migratory Birds.

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In reptiles, as in amphibians and fishes, there is a single hearing bone, the stapes, which is simply a straight rod that links the eardrum to the hearing structures of the inner ear and the brain.

Studies on genes, brain structures and hormones have failed to identify a clear link between, on one hand, differences at birth between the sexes and, on the other, particular behaviour.

Other research indicates that teenage marijuana use may adversely impact the developing brain: it has been linked to changes in neural structure and function, including lower IQ, as well as an increased risk of psychosis in vulnerable individuals.

They found that adverse experiences in young children are linked to differences in a brain structure that regulates emotions and helps make decisions.

Scientists have linked TV viewing to antisocial behavior, lowered verbal IQ and altered brain structure — but a new study raises questions

The olfactory system comprises six million to 10 million receptor cells (of which there are nearly 400 different types) and links to multiple brain structures and neural pathways, including those involved in memory, emotion and movement.

Dart argued that a brain structure called the lunate sulcus had been thrust back into a human position and that parts of the brain linked with higher cognitive functions had expanded.

The amygdala is an almond - shaped structure at a crossroads in the brain's circuitry: it links the cortex, which is responsible for conscious thought, with regions of the brain that control the body's emotional responses.

Earlier work linked genes to simple measurements of brain structures, such as overall volume or length.

While some research supported a link between prenatal sound exposure and improved brain function, scientists had not identified any structures responsible for this link in the developing brain.

It is a big idea that could help unravel mysteries of brain development and evolution, and help link neurological and psychiatric disorders to abnormalities in brain structure.

Researchers at Blue Brain Project report groups of neurons bound into such cavities provide the missing link between neural structure and function, in their new study published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.

A team of scientists has linked changes in the structure of a handful of central brain neurons to understanding how animals adjust to changing seasons.

In a new study, Duke University researchers combined brain imaging with a celebrity naming game to pinpoint the structure in the brain responsible for forming direct links between environmental stimuli and enhanced focus.

«Triggering the brain's auto - focus: Researchers pinpoint brain structure that links environmental cues to enhanced focus.»

«Brain structure linked to hallucinations and musical aptitude.»

Avram Holmes, a psychologist at Yale University, and a team of researchers from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, found that increased impulsivity and sensation - seeking in healthy young adults was linked to distinct differences in their brain structures: the areas involved in decision - making and self - control had a thinner cortex, the brain's wrinkled outer layer or gray matter.

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Two new studies link patterns of polyunsaturated fatty acids in the blood to the integrity of brain structures and cognitive abilities that are known to decline early in aging.

Previous research from other studies had linked hearing loss with marked differences in brain structure compared to those with normal hearing, both in humans and animals.

More recently, brain scans have directly linked these conditions with changes in levels of neurotransmitters — chemicals that convey messages across neurons — or alterations in the number or structure of neurons in different brain areas.

Now psychiatrist Andreas Meyer - Lindenberg and colleagues from the US National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, have discovered differences in brain structure and function that might underlie this link.

She also emphasized that cognitive training is a second option when compared to physical fitness programs, which have been linked to positive effects on cognition, brain function, and brain structure.

Extended imaging sessions at UCLA allowed the statisticians to model links between structures in epileptic patients» brains and to compare them either individually or collectively with each other and with the controls.

«We wanted to find the link between the abnormal structure of synapses in the FXS mouse, and the behavioral abnormalities at the level of brain circuits; that had not been previously established,» said senior author Dr. Carlos Portera - Cailliau, an associate professor in the departments of neurology and neurobiology.

In a report in the Sept. 25 issue of Nature Communications, the scientists say mutations in one such autism - linked gene, dubbed NHE9, which is involved in transporting substances in and out of structures within the cell, causes communication problems among brain cells that likely contribute to autism.

New studies released today reveal links between social status and specific brain structures and activity, particularly in the context of social stress.

Neuroimaging studies have linked intelligence to the developmental course of specific high - order brain regions (Shaw et al., 2006), total brain volume and focal brain structure (Thompson et al., 2001; Haier et al., 2004; Colom et al., 2006; Hulshoff Pol et al., 2006; Choi et al., 2008), microstructural organization of white matter (Chiang et al., 2009), and the functional dynamics of specific high cognitive brain regions (Duncan et al., 2000; Gray et al., 2003; Choi et al., 2008; Song et al., 2008).

«But we are finding that the effort is absolutely worthwhile and that we are learning a tremendous amount about the structure of networks in the brain, and ultimately how the brain's structure is linked to its function.»

«The answer is short and forceful: yes, physical fitness in children is linked in a direct way to important brain structure differences, and such differences are reflected in the children's academic performance.»

«I was astonished that personality could be so closely linked to an actual physical structure within the brain.»

January 12, 2016 Individuals with rage disorder have smaller volumes in brain structures linked with emotion People who have a behavioral disorder characterized by extreme outbursts of anger, such as road rage, have significantly lower gray matter volume in the brain region that plays an important role in regulating emotion, report scientists from the University of Chicago.

The study's leader, he is a neuroscientist at Duke University in Raleigh, N.C. Neuroscientists study how behavior may be linked to the structure and function of the brain.

Each detailed structure comes with information on functions, disorders, brain damage, case studies, and links to modern research.

Dr. Rapoport was a pioneer in studying the pathophysiology of ADHD and neuropharmacological approaches to its treatment, and she was the first to discover that some childhood psychiatric symptoms result from autoimmune reactions to streptococcal infection, the first to establish the link between obsessive - compulsive behaviors in children and OCD in adults, and the first to use longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging to uncover developmental abnormalities in brain size and structure in children with schizophrenia.

The evidence discussed here, which suggest that food intake is influenced by processes that recruit memory and attention taken alongside an emerging evidence base that Western - type diets can damage brain structures important for learning and memory (39), suggests that the links between cognition and diet are bidirectional.

And then also reducing stress both before and during pregnancies has been shown to alter, say, the structure of your baby's brain, increases the risk of asthma, reduces the numbers of neurons in a number of parts of the brain and is linked with autism and ADHD.

A year later, a study by McCandliss and Sumit Niogi that focused on brain structure found a connection between reading skills and white matter, the bundles of electricity - conducting tissues that link parts of the brain together, like the fiber - optic cable network to the Internet.

There «is not yet a smoking gun» linking socio - economic status to brain function or structure and to deficits in thinking, but he lays out evidence about strong correlations between poverty and learning difficulties that «provide converging strands of proof.»

Evidence has already been presented that conduct disorder may be linked to altered brain structures that are associated with negative behavioral problems which include aggressiveness, physical violence, lying, stealing, and weapon use.

Childhood maltreatment has been linked to a variety of changes in brain structure and function and stress — responsive neurobiological systems.