Sentences with phrase «of brain networks»

The team created the experimental growth chart by mapping the development of brain networks in more than 500 children and teens.

This motivation typically leads to sustained attention, which in turn leads to greater efficiency of the brain network involved in attention.

Activity of this brain network increases during positive feedback, and is accompanied by the release of dopamine, a brain chemical involved in transferring information between brain areas.

The methodology used in this work can be further extended to examine alterations in the modular structure of the brain network under various cognitive states or neurological conditions.

This study is really the first of its kind and provides a big step forwards in our understanding of how training can alter the functioning of brain networks.

It is here that a complex set of brain networks enable us to attach a sense of self to our limbs.

The new method helps us to understand better the complex brain dynamics of brain networks and the processing of lyrics in music.

The efficiency of brain networks was defined by the researchers in terms of the strength and direction of connections, or edges, between brain regions of interest, or nodes.

When the unfamiliar word orders (josa komi oku) were repeated, brain activation increased within regions of the brain network known to be involved for your native language.

The mathematicians who brought algebraic topology to the study of brain networks in the Blue Brain Project were Kathryn Hess from EPFL and Ran Levi from Aberdeen University.

A mismatch in the maturation of brain networks leaves adolescents open to risky behavior but also allows for leaps in cognition and adaptability

To explore the data further Dr. Carhart - Harris recruited specialists in the mathematical modelling of brain networks, Professor Dante Chialvo and Dr Enzo Tagliazucchi to investigate how psilocybin alters brain activity to produce its unusual psychological effects.

However, it is equally as likely that the frequent use of the brain for cognitively challenging tasks may positively influence the development of brain networks.

«Our ability to relate those beneficial cognitive effects to specific properties of brain networks is exciting,» Barbey said.

«New analysis of brain network activity offers unique insight into epileptic seizures: Researchers are exploring «evolving epileptic brain networks» to gain a better understanding of brain activity in epilepsy patients and the roles played by different regions of the brain.»

Lanzenberger: «These results suggest that the gender identity is reflected in the structure of brain networks which form under the modulating influence of sex hormones in the course of the development of the nervous system.»

Chronic video game play is associated with hyperconnectivity between several pairs of brain networks.

Now that neuroscientists have a reasonable idea of how that territory is divided, we find ourselves looking at a strange assortment of brain networks involved with smell, hunger, pain, goal setting, temperature, prediction, and hundreds of other tasks.

Each of those proteins represents the operation of the brain network that synthesized it.

Another brain region, the junction area between temporal and parietal cortex that has been related to the shielding of thoughts against irrelevant information, is less strongly connected to the rest of the brain network.

And, he noted, since sleep is important for encoding memories and consolidating learning, this hyperexcitability of brain networks in FXS may interfere with the process of laying down new memories, and perhaps explain the learning disability in children with FXS.

A small - world organization of the brain network suggests a high level of local neighborhood clustering, responsible for efficient local information processing, together with the existence of several long - distance connections that ensure a high level of global communication efficiency across the network and integration of information between the different regions of the brain (Watts and Strogatz, 1998; Latora and Marchiori, 2001; Stam and Reijneveld, 2007; Bullmore and Sporns, 2009).

The children with ADHD symptoms, and those with the lowest performance for their age on the attention tests, were the furthest off the curve of brain network development.

New research from the University of Michigan Medical School suggests that it might be possible to create a growth chart of brain networks that could identify early signs of attention difficulties and, potentially, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Such communities of nodes, also known as modules, have been identified in a number of brain network studies of resting - state fMRI [9]--[13], and although the number of nodes may substantially differ in these studies, the number of modules seems fairly comparable.

Such techniques have been applied to fMRI data to examine dynamic reconfiguration of brain network organization [17].

We hypothesized an increase in efficacy in the salience network induced by physical training (reflected by its decreased metabolism at rest) may influence the default mode network due to better regulation of brain networks, increasing the metabolism at rest in the precuneus, an important node of this network.

Using a similar logic, we first tested our hypothetical topographic model of the functional - anatomic organization of brain networks subserving social cognition (Fig. 1).

In 2009, Sporns and his colleagues created a computer model of this brain network and let each region produce signals that could spread down the fibers.

The study of 99 healthy older adults, recruited through Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, compared patterns of fatty acid nutrients found in blood samples, functional MRI data that measured the efficiency of brain networks, and results of a general intelligence test.

In this way, the derivatives disturb the activity of brain networks that mediate desire, pleasure, muscle movements and cognition.

And Finn and colleagues at Yale published research in August 2014 (PDF, 4.7 MB) indicating that this underlying problem with perception of speech sounds, in turn, affects the development of brain networks that enable a student to link a speech sound to the written letter.

Recently, functional network connectivity (FNC, defined as the temporal correlation among spatially distant brain networks) has been used to examine the functional organization of brain networks in

Therefore, when functional brain networks are constructed at the voxel - level, a resolution similar to ICA, a network based approach offers distinct advantages over ICA in understanding the overall organization of the brain network.

Researchers found that the «integrity» of brain networks had started to deteriorate.