Sentences with phrase «of neural tissue»

The idea is that scientists can link the function of mental disorders to the disrupted mechanisms of neural tissue through mathematical approaches.

This is because 40 percent of the nerve fibers in the brain connect to the eye and roughly half of our neural tissue is related to vision.

The cerebral cortex is the outermost layer of neural tissue in the brain and is one of the most extensively studied brain structures in the field of neuroscience.

At some point between the first amphibians moving onto dry land and the evolution of mammals, the neocortex arose — extra layers of neural tissue on the surface of the brain.

Within a few days, the multiplying cells self - aggregate into tiny balls of neural tissue.

An international collaboration between Nathan Spreng, Cornell assistant professor of human development and the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow in the College of Human Ecology, and Taylor Schmitz of the University of Cambridge's Cognitive Brain Sciences Unit, sheds light on the basal forebrain region, where the degeneration of neural tissue caused by Alzheimer's disease appears even before cognitive and behavioral symptoms of the disease emerge.

Both conditions are characterized by increased proximity of the cranial cervical spine to the base of the skull [25]; however a defining characteristic of human basilar invagination is invagination of the odontoid process of the axis through or towards the foramen magnum, often with compression of the neural tissue by the dens [25].

For computational neuroscientists, who study how different structures in the brain process information, one interesting facet of this activity is the capacity of neural tissue to respond to external stimuli with different types of oscillations.

Tailored regenerative therapies with 3 - D substructures of neural tissue may also be possible, Panchision adds, for conditions like Parkinson's disease or spinal cord injury.

The cerebrum, or forebrain, makes up the largest part of the brain, and it is covered by a sheet of neural tissue known as the cerebral cortex, which envelops the part of our brain where memories are stored.

U.S. Army - funded researchers at Brandeis University have discovered a process for engineering next - generation soft materials with embedded chemical networks that mimic the behavior of neural tissue.

Several specimens of the species, Fuxianhuia protensa (left), contain dark areas within their eye stalks (see fossil, above right; gray areas in sketch, bottom right) that represent preserved clusters of neural tissue, including clumps along the optic nerve (labeled 1 through 3 in the sketch) and the brain (lowermost mass).

But she had to improve the sensitivity of the technique so that it could detect the isotopic ratio in DNA from the roughly 6 - gram sliver of neural tissue in the hippocampus thought to produce new neurons, the dentate gyrus.

cerebral cortices) The outermost layer of neural tissue covering the front part of a vertebrate animal's brain.

Until recently, the fossilisation of neural tissue was believed to be highly unlikely or near impossible.

They only approximate the architecture of neural tissue, appearing much smaller than the regions they represent, and they sometimes show unpredictable cellular architecture.

DHA is a fatty acid involved in modulating inflammation in the joints and skin; it also is a structural component of neural tissue.

The free - floating cells multiplied and coalesced into itty - bitty balls of neural tissue.

Intriguingly, they showed that over the two - year period, degeneration of neural tissue in the basal forebrain predicted subsequent tissue degeneration in the temporal lobe, but not the other way around.

In that same paper from 1957 that R.S. Fixot published in the American Journal of Opthamology (summarized here), 50 % of our neural tissue is directly or indirectly related to vision, which assists in visual learning.