Sentences with phrase «neurobiological study of the brain»

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Researchers derived data from the Harvard Aging Brain Study, an observational study of older adult volunteers aimed at defining neurobiological and clinical changes in early Alzheimer's disStudy, an observational study of older adult volunteers aimed at defining neurobiological and clinical changes in early Alzheimer's disstudy of older adult volunteers aimed at defining neurobiological and clinical changes in early Alzheimer's disease.

Its mission is to provide a resource for researchers studying the human brain and the neurobiological causes of brain disorders.

Patrick Bellgowan, Ph.D., a program director at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at NIH, says the study is a clear demonstration of how the open science approach to data can help generate new hypotheses about brain disorders: «Through data sharing and collaboration, ENIGMA is working to uncover important common and distinguishing neurobiological and genetic features of psychiatric and neurological disorders.»

In the meantime, the current study builds evidence that addictive drugs appropriate the neurobiological tools of learning and memory to create long - term changes in brain reward pathways.

Through clinical practice and neuroimaging studies, McLean Hospital's Milissa Kaufman, MD, PhD, and Lauren A.M. Lebois, PhD, are revealing the clinical, cognitive, and neurobiological underpinnings of the effect of trauma on the brain, specifically...

Numerous studies, using such technologies as EEG and MRI, show which parts of the brain are affected by mindfulness practice, and how these neurobiological changes benefit our minds and bodies.

Given their typical age of onset, a broad range of mental disorders are increasingly being understood as the result of aberrations of developmental processes that normally occur in the adolescent brain.4 — 6 Executive functioning, and its neurobiological substrate, the prefrontal cortex, matures during adolescence.5 The relatively late maturation of executive functioning is adaptive in most cases, underpinning characteristic adolescent behaviours such as social interaction, risk taking and sensation seeking which promote successful adult development and independence.6 However, in some cases it appears that the delayed maturation of prefrontal regulatory regions leads to the development of mental illness, with neurobiological studies indicating a broad deficit in executive functioning which precedes and underpins a range of psychopathology.7 A recent meta - analysis of neuroimaging studies focusing on a range of psychotic and non-psychotic mental illnesses found that grey matter loss in the dorsal anterior cingulate, and left and right insula, was common across diagnoses.8 In a healthy sample, this study also demonstrated that lower grey matter in these regions was found to be associated with deficits in executive functioning performance.