Sentences with phrase «several brain structures»

«In our study, we integrated results from common variant studies of schizophrenia and volumes of several brain structures,» Sullivan said.

When comparing brain responses from each trial, the group identified several brain structures that were more or less active before and during the painful stimulus in those who experienced a placebo effect.

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They don't have the brain structures to physiologically «self soothe» yet, and they won't develop these for several years.

Severe CTE was defined as tau clusters and several other degenerative abnormalities affecting not only the cortex, but deeper brain structures including the hippocampus, the amygdala, and the brain stem.

Several other structures located along the side of the brain form two lateral subnetworks, one of which potentially serves to regulate the internal status of the body (i.e. taste, hunger, visceral information) and the other as a «mega-integration» subnetwork that allows the interaction of information from nearly the entire cortex.

The researchers identified the brain subnetworks based on their high degree of interconnectivity — though relatively independent, several structures provide communication routes through which the subnetworks interact.

In a study reported in the journal Nutritional Neuroscience, the researchers looked for relationships between several omega - 3 fatty acids in the blood, the relative size of structures in the frontal and parietal cortices of the brain, and performance on tests of fluid intelligence in healthy elderly adults.

He examines several well - studied receptors — the bacterial aspartate receptor (Tar), human epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), and human brain - derived neurotrophin receptor (BDNFR)-- and comes to a conclusion that they all have similar chemical structures with or without their corresponding ligands.

To do this they will combine several imaging tools including something called diffusion MRI, which maps the structure of the white matter that insulates the «wires» of the brain, and also resting - state MRI, which measures how brain regions oscillate in unison as a result of shared connections.

Several years ago, one of the students in Verma's lab noticed that BRCA1 is very active in the neuroectoderm, a sliver of embryonic tissue containing neural stem cells that divide and differentiate into the brain's vast assortment of cell types and structures.

In this review we aim to examine how our understanding of the relationship between structure and function in the «resting» brain has advanced over the last several years.

Several structures located deep within the brain, such as the hippocampus (responsible for the formation and storage of memories) and the thalamus (involved in the regulation of sensory perception), comprise the limbic system, a complex network that controls our emotional responses, survival instincts, memory creation, and memory retrieval.