Three new studies suggest that
the neurological changes in a brain of a suicide victim differ markedly from those in other brains and that these changes develop over the course of a lifetime.
Neurological changes in brain structure and functions among individuals with a history of childhood sexual abuse: A review.
Not exact matches
While pregnancy prepares a mother's
brain for parenting, the act of caregiving can produce upticks
in oxytocin (the bonding hormone) and create
neurological changes that support parenting
in many adults — dads, adoptive parents, and other alloparents (any caregiving adults).
Weiss» group looked at how different parenting models affected new nerve growth
in the
brain, and the behavioral impact of the
neurological changes.
As with antidepressants, the electricity likely is
changing the
brain's chemistry, says rTMS pioneer Eric Wassermann, chief of the Brain Stimulation Unit at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda,
brain's chemistry, says rTMS pioneer Eric Wassermann, chief of the
Brain Stimulation Unit at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda,
Brain Stimulation Unit at the National Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke
in Bethesda, Md..
For the last decade, neuroscientists have been using the non-invasive
brain - mapping technique functional called magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI to examine activity patterns
in human and animal
brains in the resting state
in order to figure out how different parts of the
brain are connected and to identify the
changes that occur
in neurological and psychiatric diseases.
At the week - long Winter Conference on Neural Plasticity, attendees will discuss how our
brains change with age and life experience, how learning and remembering result
in more neural connections, and how
neurological diseases damage these connections.
The «primitive» nature of the human hand suggests that any
changes that led to a widespread flowering of stone tool culture was likely
neurological rather than structural —
in other words, the adaptation occurred
in our
brains, not
in our hands, he says.
Such
changes in neuronal function are likely to play important roles
in all normal physiological processes
in the
brain and are critical for development of a variety of
brain diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, epilepsy, drug dependence and other
neurological and psychiatric disorders.
They also shared new approaches to studying the behaviors of animals that model these conditions — all
in an effort to shed light on how the
brain functions and how
changes in the
brain can lead to devastating
neurological disorders.
The images produced by their work will provide a clearer understanding of how even the smallest
changes to the
brain play a role
in the onset and evolution of
neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer's and autism, and perhaps lead to improved treatments or even a cure.
As with most complex
neurological disorders, there are several
changes in the
brain that contribute to the development of FTD.
«Directional
changes in the
brain without local volume
changes could be a novel biomarker for
neurological disease,» co-author Jeongchul Kim, PhD, said
in a press release.
Ketogenic diets exert their effects via several mechanisms that induce multiple biochemical
changes in the body and
brain that improve
neurological function (2, 3).
Intriguingly, according to reporting
in The New York Times, «block printing, cursive, and typing each elicit distinctive
neurological patterns,» implying a deep, underlying sensitivity
in the
brain to even minor
changes in the way letters are rendered on the page.
Norman Doidge,
in The
Brain that Changes Itself, referring to a study by Michael Merzenich and colleagues, found that «When it came to allocating brain - processing power» the brain allocates neurological resources to those parts of the brain that are the most ac
Brain that
Changes Itself, referring to a study by Michael Merzenich and colleagues, found that «When it came to allocating
brain - processing power» the brain allocates neurological resources to those parts of the brain that are the most ac
brain - processing power» the
brain allocates neurological resources to those parts of the brain that are the most ac
brain allocates
neurological resources to those parts of the
brain that are the most ac
brain that are the most active.
In these cases, any combination of sneezing, difficulty breathing, difficulty opening the jaw, nasal discharge, or central (
brain)
neurological signs such as seizures or behavioral
changes may be seen.