Sentences with phrase «neural changes associated»

Her doctoral research focused on examining the neural changes associated with EFT for couples using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

And neural changes associated with habit formation accompany the behavioral changes.

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Using resting - state MRI analysis on thousands of people's brains around the world, the research has found that the areas of the brain which are associated with learning and development show high levels of variability, meaning that they change their neural connections with other parts of the brain more frequently, over a matter of minutes or seconds.

«Our results showed that the changes of spectral power in neural sources localized to the posterior parietal cortex and sensorimotor cortex are associated with the level of motor task demands,» they wrote.

«The results are novel, as this sensitive and comprehensive testing has revealed how prenatal and early postnatal immune activation may regulate core behavioral signs associated with ASD and certain other developmental disorders through changes in signal flow between different structural components of behavior - driving neural circuits,» said Bolshakov.

This shows that neural networks can change quickly to associate new information with old memories.

He was paralyzed, but the moment he thought about using his hand, we saw changes in neural activity in the specific part of the motor cortex associated with hand movement.

This is the first report of two different ASD - associated variations producing the same neural and behavioral changes in a Drosophila (fruit fly) model, said Aurelio Galli, Ph.D., professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and of Psychiatry, and corresponding author with Kevin Erreger, Ph.D., and Heinrich J.G. Matthies, Ph.D..

In order to determine what factors are associated with firing rate changes, we generated a prediction of neural activity by convolving observed neural activity aligned with one saccade direction with the intersaccade distribution times aligned with the other saccade direction.

«People with Parkinson's disease often show signs of depression before the onset of significant movement problems, so it's likely that the neural imbalance in Parkinson's is also responsible for some behavioral changes associated with the disease,» said Dr. Kreitzer, who is also an assistant professor of physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, with which Gladstone is affiliated.

Emerging scientific investigation is improving our understanding of the causal biological pathways for these robust associations.46 Early childhood trauma, including physical abuse, leads to the production of stress hormones, such as cortisol and adrenaline that are normally protective, but with severe or persistent trauma can become toxic.47, 48 These stress hormones regulate neural circuits that are important in modulating an individual's response to stress, and over time, are associated with structural and functional changes in the brain and other organs.

Specifically, EFT was associated with the strongest changes in the neural threat response during spousal handholding.

Changes in the neural bases of emotion regulation associated with clinical improvement in children with behavior problems