Previous studies have also
shown brain anatomy differences associated with income, but did not link those differences to academic achievement.
Not exact matches
Recent research
shows basic
anatomy that has eluded scientists and clinicians up until this point: the
brain has a lymphatic system, one of the primary purposes of which is to connect it to the immune system.
But none of the human - specific enhancers previously had been
shown to influence
brain anatomy directly.
Thomas Willis, a 17th - century British physician whom Zimmer casts as the Galileo of modern
anatomy,
showed that the
brain, then considered a marginal organ, was the seat of consciousness.
Using rodent models of opiate addiction, Dr. Laviolette's research has
shown that opiates affect pathways of associative memory formation in multiple ways, both at the level of
anatomy (connections between neurons) and at the molecular levels (how molecules inside the
brain affect these connections).
It has previously been
shown that people with PTSD have altered
brain anatomy and function.
But the proximity of The
Anatomy Lesson to the self - portraits in the
show — one among many unnerving conjunctions — only serves to alert us to the strangeness of the
brain's everyday, non-horrible externalisation... the world of faces is rightly his, and ours in turn: we inhabit it as we would a hall of mirrors.