George # 5, I wanted to see more
on Brain and Behavior as well, since I figure risk analysis is tucked away in there.
Her program of research, conducted at MIT in the Gabrieli Lab and at MGH Institute of Health Professions, focuses
on brain and behavior correlates of development, difficulties, and intervention effects for reading.
Thanos hopes that studying the effects of methylphenidate on those without ADHD may lead to a greater understanding of how the drug works
on the brain and behavior, and can help researchers understand the impact of the drug on young people throughout development.
This event focused on the effect
on brain and behavior of video games, which are played by 155 million Americans at least three times a week, according to Deborah Runkle, senior program associate with the AAAS Center of Science, Policy and Society.
The work «builds on a notable amount of literature showing that space radiation produces negative consequences
on brain and behavior,» says Amelia Eisch, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medicine Dallas.
Although malnutrition during pregnancy is known to lead to poor outcomes for babies, «the functional long - term consequences of maternal malnutrition
on the brains and behavior of their progeny are mostly unknown,» the researchers noted.
Not exact matches
With a guest
on each episode, he aims to give listeners some answers to any questions they may surrounding the
behavior, mind,
brain and creativity.
Those messages may not have the same measurable neurochemical effects
on a ten - year - old
brain as they do
on a ten - month - old
brain, but they do have a profound impact
on students» psychology
and thus
on their
behavior.
Available free of charge
on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association
and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents,
and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious
brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season,
and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team
behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.
Once we can talk about feelings, the feelings which are
on the non-verbal side of the
brain connect to the words
on the other side of the
brain and we have so much control
and therefore, we have control over our
behavior.
According to Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., psychiatrist
and leading expert
on trauma
and how it affects the
brain, as many as 80 % of abused
and neglected infants
and children develop disorganized / disoriented attachment relationships, which are expressed as unpredictable approach
and avoidance patterns towards mother, the inability to accept comfort from caregivers, rage at attachment figures,
and pathological self - regulatory
behaviors.
In this slim volume, Tough pulls together decades of social science research
on the impacts of poverty
and trauma
on kids»
brains and behavior,
and makes a cogent, convincing argument for why this research should lie at the center of any discussions about reform.
Similar mechanisms are found in human
brains — caregiver
behavior matters for turning genes
on and off.
Armed with a deeper understanding of
brain development
and the impact
on a child's
behavior who has had a tough start in life, parents can better explore how to best help their child heal.
In various studies conducted, BPA was found to have an effect
on the
brain,
behavior and prostate gland of fetuses.
She found that milestone achievement was abnormal in these monkeys: at six to eight weeks they were slow in starting to manipulate,
and at ten months the increase in «motor disturbance
behaviors» that normally occurs was prolonged.101 The author concludes, «These effects could occur as a result of effects
on vulnerable
brain processes during a sensitive period, interference with programming of [normal]
brain development by endogenous [internal] agents or alteration in early experiences.»
The National Toxicology Program issued a report in September 2008, noting «some concern» about the effects
on the
brain, prostate gland,
and behavior in fetuses, infants,
and children.
Promoting optimal development
and function may help keep these newborns»
brains on track to establish the sensory building blocks of cognition,
behavior and communication, the researchers concluded.
The breastfeeding mothers,
on average, had higher activity in the parts of their
brains linked to nurturing
behaviors and showed greater sensitivity to their babies when seen again at four months postpartum.
New research suggests that these techniques can have detrimental physiological effects
on the baby by increasing the stress hormone cortisol in the
brain, with potential long term effects to emotional regulation, sleep patterns
and behavior.
The findings reported in Current Biology
on November 30 show that stress leads to an apparent disconnect between babies»
brain activity
and their
behavior.
They focused
on the striatum, a
brain region implicated in drug addiction because of its central role in habit formation
and goal - directed
behavior.
The Blue
Brain Project Scientists rely
on computer models to understand the toughest concepts in science: the origin of the universe, the
behavior of atoms,
and the future climate of the planet.
The team's analyses, which covered 90 species, revealed that
brain size was best predicted by a score based
on various social
behaviors such as cooperation with other species, group hunting
and complex vocalizations.
«Our results using an animal model suggest that a maternal high - fat diet during pregnancy
and lactation could have significant
and lasting effects
on the
brain,
behavior and cognition of rat pups,» said Dr. Tamashiro.
Markram's model will electronically mirror the real
brain's biological
behaviors, imitating mathematically the interactions among individual neurons
and the effects of neurotransmitters
on those cells.
In a report
on the research published online last week in the journal
Brain, Behavior and Immunity, the investigators say that the part of the brain responsible for memory and spatial navigation (the hippocampus) was smaller over the long term in the male offspring exposed to the overactive immune system in the
Brain,
Behavior and Immunity, the investigators say that the part of the
brain responsible for memory and spatial navigation (the hippocampus) was smaller over the long term in the male offspring exposed to the overactive immune system in the
brain responsible for memory
and spatial navigation (the hippocampus) was smaller over the long term in the male offspring exposed to the overactive immune system in the womb.
«With training, animals stopped producing overt
behavior and started relying
on brain activity.»
Anatomy confirms what
behavior reveals: Octopuses
and cuttlefish have larger
brains, relative to body weight, than most fish
and reptiles, larger
on average than any animals save birds
and mammals.
About this Book: This Is Your
Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our
Behavior and Shape Society Kathleen McAuliffe Houghton Miffllin Harcourt, 2016
These patterns occur at predictable frequencies that depend
on what a person is doing
and on what part of the
brain is active during the
behavior.
And once I got into brain biology, it became clear you needed to study the brain on the cellular level, and once you began to understand aspects of behavior in the cellular level, you wanted to understand the molecular lev
And once I got into
brain biology, it became clear you needed to study the
brain on the cellular level,
and once you began to understand aspects of behavior in the cellular level, you wanted to understand the molecular lev
and once you began to understand aspects of
behavior in the cellular level, you wanted to understand the molecular level.
Describing himself as a «neuro - ethologist,» Brockmann hopes that the comparative studies
on three species native to India — A. cerana, A. dorsata,
and A. florea — will help him understand the evolution of dance communication
and identify the changes in the
brain that accompanied the changes in
behavior.
This Is Your
Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our
Behavior and Shape Society by Kathleen McAuliffe Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 ($ 27; 288 pages)
Mounted
on a rat's head, the 1.5 - inch plastic
and titanium instrument allows the animal to move freely
and captures in real time how
brain cells interact during everyday
behaviors.
An astonishing number of things that scientists know about
brains and behavior are based
on small groups of highly educated, mostly white people between the ages of 18
and 21.
The bulkier white matter may be what gives men their ability to focus intently
on work
and tune out distractions, as well as their clear - cut superiority when it comes to spatial reasoning, says Ruben Gur, a psychologist
and director of the
Brain Behavior Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Instead, Faro
and Mohamed say that developing this method into a viable lie - detection system will depend
on discovering complex patterns of
brain behavior linked to lying.
Moberly observed that freeze
behavior, breathing rate,
and electrical activity of these
brain regions were coordinated literally
on the same wavelength.
«If we can sort out the many interactions between these chemicals
and brain activity based
on sensory perception
and context, then we can possibly target specific excitatory
and inhibitory neurological pathways to rebalance
and influence
behaviors,» says Froemke.
But, linking screen time to what's going
on in the
brain and to
behavior is hard.
What we found is that the ability of this chronic social stress to produce maladaptive changes in
brain and behavior — loss of pleasure, inability to sleep normally
and so
on — are mediated through epigenetic modifications of gene expression, in particular, emotional centers of the
brain.
The article, A pilot study examining functional
brain activity 6 months after memory retraining in MS: the MEMREHAB trial, was published online ahead of print on June 14 by Brain Imaging and Beha
brain activity 6 months after memory retraining in MS: the MEMREHAB trial, was published online ahead of print
on June 14 by
Brain Imaging and Beha
Brain Imaging
and Behavior.
Dr. Gradinaru's research interests focus
on developing tools
and methods for neuroscience (optogenetic actuators
and sensors; tissue clearing
and imaging) as well as
on investigating the mechanisms underlying deep
brain stimulation (DBS)
and on the long - term effects of DBS
on neuronal health, function,
and ultimately
behavior.
In addition, the group found improved outcomes
on anxiety
and depressive
behaviors, increased movement,
and protection from MPTP, the chemical that can cause Parkinson's disease - related damage in the
brain.
I tried to do too much, teaching courses, running a large lab of students, sitting
on several editorial boards, directing the Mind,
Brain &
Behavior Program at Harvard, conducting multiple research collaborations,
and writing for the general public.
As for dopamine, long known to be a gatekeeper for the
brain's pleasure center, «it's present in spiders,
and we know it has large influence
on behavior,» says Pruitt, yet he admits that we still have zero idea whether it could make play fun for spiders.
The knockout mice also did better
on tests of
behaviors associated with the
brain's prefrontal cortex, the area that regulates complex thinking, emotions,
and behavior in humans.
Cognitive dissonance is a better descriptor for an internal state, although we should remember that all such descriptions are inferences from
behavior, language,
brain scans,
and so
on, not direct observations of someone else's mind.
This means that chimps have greater limitations
on the ways in which their
brains can develop
and on their capacity to learn new
behaviors or skills compared with humans.