Sentences with phrase «on brain structure»

Effects of early stress on brain structure and function: Implications for understanding the relationship between child maltreatment and depression

Neuroscience explains the impact of early - life trauma on brain structure and brain chemistry.

Although for those older children experiencing violence later in their childhood raised cortisone does not have the same long - term impact on brain structure, fearful highly aroused children are also distractible, inattentive, overactive and impulsive.

A year later, a study by McCandliss and Sumit Niogi that focused on brain structure found a connection between reading skills and white matter, the bundles of electricity - conducting tissues that link parts of the brain together, like the fiber - optic cable network to the Internet.

The influence an active lifestyle had on the brain structure of 876 individuals with an average age of 78 years was examined.

We propose that the discrepancies between the adult ASD and childhood ASD findings with respect to whole - brain functional connectivity may be reconciled by considering critical developmental factors such as the onset of puberty, which signals the beginning of adolescence and has a major impact on brain structure and function.

Effect of early adversity and childhood internalizing symptoms on brain structure in young men.

«Most of the previous research on brain structure was conducted with healthy younger or older adults,» says Natalie Phillips, a professor in the Department of Psychology.

Gulf War veterans with low - level exposure to chemical weapons show lasting adverse effects on brain structure and memory function, reports a study in the October Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

AF is known to be associated with cognitive decline and increased risk of dementia, but little is known about the impact of AF on brain structure in people with AF who are cognitively intact.

The Impact of Television Viewing on Brain Structures: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses.

Not exact matches

Research on neural networks shows that languages could be learned without specialized structures in the brain.

The science behind food's effect on mood comes down to chemical and physiological changes in our brain structure which can lead to altered behaviour.

The importance of the first years of life on brain development can hardly be denied as they «directly and permanently influence the structure and eventual function of his or her brain.»

This theory focuses on neuropsychology, which is a branch of psychology that is dedicated to studying the structure and function of the brain.

In their lifetime, how you connect with them — how you communicate, share affection, help them learn to reflect on their emotions and understand the importance of relationships — will shape the structure of their brain, model how they have relationships with others in the future, and nurture their developing mind.

Sadly, much of the work focuses on children who have been exposed to neglect where high levels of stress hormones coupled with minimum adult interaction has resulted in permanent changes in their brain structure leading to impaired emotional wellbeing and difficulty in adjusting to stress and anxiety in adulthood (Rutter 1989 et al).

People who play contact sports show changes to their brain structure and function, with sports that have greater risk of body contact showing greater effects on the brain, a new study has found.

In her developmental psychology work at Yale University, she studied the role of maternal care in childhood on mothers» brain and changes in brain structure among mothers during the first few months postpartum.

The band is designed to address mTBI through the application of light pressure on the neck, which in turn mildly increases blood volume in the vein structure of the brain.

Studies on genes, brain structures and hormones have failed to identify a clear link between, on one hand, differences at birth between the sexes and, on the other, particular behaviour.

There are numerous factors that mediate political preferences, and we do not function solely on the basis of an inherited brain structure.

Computer simulations and hands - on displays allow visitors to Marvelous Molecules — The Secret of Life at the New York Hall of Science to peek inside the molecular structure of living things to see how chemicals affect the brain and how DNA passes on genetic traits.

He works by tweaking the chemical structures of the drugs, sometimes changing just a few molecules to see what impact this might have on the interaction between the drug and the brain receptors their parent compounds normally act upon.

Real diagnoses with artificial networks The software was based on an artificial neural network, a program that mimics the structure of biological brains and learns via adjustments in the strength of connections in its network.

Stuart Hameroff, an anesthesiologist who has spent many years studying brain functions, has collaborated with renowned Oxford University polymath Roger Penrose on a model that explains consciousness as the result of quantum processes occurring in tiny structures called microtubules in brain cells.

Their conclusion: on the whole, the brains of both animal groups have indeed very different structures.

«We now have a handle on the detailed structure of a complex web of interactions that causes global dysfunction in cells resulting in degeneration of the brain.»

«Physical activity and aerobic fitness are known to have beneficial effects on the underlying structures and functions of the brain,» said Barbey, a member of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at Illinois.

According to Au, further research will focus on determining whether these brain structure findings translate into impact on cognitive skills, such as problem solving, memory and language.

So Antonio Convit at the New York University School of Medicine wanted to see what impact obesity had on the physical structure of the brain.

Their analysis focused on the substantia nigra, a brain structure where Parkinson's disease kills neurons that use the chemical dopamine to communicate with other cells.

The cortex and its gateway, the thalamus — the quail egg — shaped structure in the center of the brain — on the other hand, are essential for consciousness, providing it with its elaborate content.

The piece goes on to describe the known functions of the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens, another brain structure, and explores the concepts of consolidation and visualization.

PANS is thought to be an inflammatory condition that results when an infection or some other invasive trigger spurs the body to turn on itself and attack structures in the brain.

For instance, the globus pallidus — dual almond - shaped structures deep in the brain — puts a brake on muscle contractions to keep movements smooth.

On the bright side, some people appear to overcome the ravages of a rotting brain by recruiting new brain systems or structures to take over functions of old ones.

Studies on autopsied brains can look at structure but not activity.

«Research on brain plasticity supports the assumption that the environment can shape brain structure and function.

Since 2009 clinical psychologist Bruce Cuthbert and his team at the National Institute of Mental Health have been constructing a classification system based on recent research, which is revealing how the structure and activity of a mentally ill brain differs from that of a healthy one.

Researchers from Hokkaido University and their colleagues found that male cockroaches can «see» fine structures of odor plumes, thanks to their finely tuned odor sensors on their antennae and neural circuits that convey spatial information to the brain.

He is a professor of anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley and an expert on the evolution of the brain; he is also interested in the chemical origins of life and the mathematics behind the emergence of complicated structures like language.

The scientists zoomed in on the ellipsoid body, a donut - shaped structure in the middle of the fly's brain where they suspected the insect equivalent of head direction cells might reside.

Assessing the impact of brain anatomy on pain reduction, Bushnell said gray matter changes in the insula or internal structures of the cerebral cortex are most significant for pain tolerance.

An article, «Smaller amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex predict escalating stimulant use,» published online on May 13 in Brain: A Journal of Neurology has found that individual differences in brain structure could help to determine the risk for future drug addicBrain: A Journal of Neurology has found that individual differences in brain structure could help to determine the risk for future drug addicbrain structure could help to determine the risk for future drug addiction.

Experiments were then performed on real brain tissue in the Blue Brain's wet lab in Lausanne confirming that the earlier discoveries in the virtual tissue are biologically relevant and also suggesting that the brain constantly rewires during development to build a network with as many high - dimensional structures as possbrain tissue in the Blue Brain's wet lab in Lausanne confirming that the earlier discoveries in the virtual tissue are biologically relevant and also suggesting that the brain constantly rewires during development to build a network with as many high - dimensional structures as possBrain's wet lab in Lausanne confirming that the earlier discoveries in the virtual tissue are biologically relevant and also suggesting that the brain constantly rewires during development to build a network with as many high - dimensional structures as possbrain constantly rewires during development to build a network with as many high - dimensional structures as possible.

The Effect of Alcohol Use on Human Adolescent Brain Structures and Systems.

Amygdalae Sometimes called the body's «emotional thermostat,» these two structures are deep in the brain, one on each side.

As you move, the brain generates all possible skeletal structures at each frame, eventually deciding on, and outputting, the one that is most probable.

In this latest research, using algebraic topology, multiple tests were performed on the virtual brain tissue to show that the multi-dimensional brain structures discovered could never be produced by chance.