Sentences with phrase «shows brain differences»

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«These maps show us a stark difference — and complementarity — in the architecture of the human brain that helps provide a potential neural basis as to why men excel at certain tasks, and women at others,» said Verma.

As Dr. McGonigal presents various scientific studies that show differences in the brain functioning between meditators and non-meditators, she highlights how meditation practice benefits the practitioner in various ways such as higher pain thresholds and reduced depression.

If I recall correctly, I think I have seen studies that show there are actually * physical * differences between the brains of believers and atheists.

Brain research shows the brains of men and women are organized differently, and these gender - related but not always gender - specific differences could be construed as suggesting new stereotypes, another «dichotomy.»

They were amazed to find a large difference in the brain scans of these 2 - 3 year olds, showing that in the first few years of life a child's brain development relies heavily on nurturing by his parents.

For the baby, instrumental delivery can increase the short - term risks of bruising, facial injury, displacement of the skull bones, and cephalohematoma (blood clot under the scalp).24 The risk of intracranial hemorrhage (bleeding inside the brain) was increased in one study by more than four times for babies born by forceps compared to spontaneous birth, 25 although two studies showed no detectable developmental differences for forceps - born children at five years old.26, 27 Another study showed that when women with an epidural had a forceps delivery, the force used by the clinician to deliver the baby was almost twice the force used when an epidural was not in place.28

A 2012 study showed that pink noise made a measurable difference in the quality in sleep, both in how participants felt afterwards and as measured by brain activity monitors).

Tiny balls of brain tissue made from donated stem cells from children with autism or a condition that makes them hyper - sociable show intriguing differences

A recent experiment, for example, showed that six weeks of cognitive training could produce detectable differences in brain microstructure.

The analysis revealed that people with schizophrenia showed markedly less brain activity during detection of the tonal changes as compared to the control group, a difference that became more apparent as symptoms worsened.

At first glance, the brains of birds and mammals show many significant differences.

The study of gender differences in the brain and the resulting differences in behavior dates back to the mid-1800s, with the classic experiment of German physician Arnold Berthold, who showed that testicular secretions were essential for the normal expression of male actions.

Their results demonstrated that, instead of an overall decrease in variability with aging, as earlier studies showed, the brain displayed regional differences, with some areas of the brain showing increases in variability across age while other areas showed a decrease.

Although modern medicine means that many of these premature babies now survive, recent studies have shown differences in their brain structure compared with babies born after 37 weeks, as well as an increased risk of emotional and behavioural problems in childhood.

«Our findings are really novel as they show distinct differences in brain activity from one generation to the next.

Other factors may also be important in birds, which show a greater difference in brain size than bats.

We've shown that the patients can improve in nine weeks — and that this leads to structural differences in their brains,» says Kristoffer NT Månsson.

This shows that it does make a difference which brain region's neurons you're working with.»

Brain regions that responded equally to both tasks yielded a difference of zero, while those that responded strongly to one task and not the other showed a high value.

University of California, Irvine - led researchers, however, have found that high - resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain can be used to show some of the underlying causes of differences in memory proficiency between older and younger adults.

In the rested condition, the brain region didn't show any difference between high - and low - reward conditions.

Previous studies have also shown brain anatomy differences associated with income, but did not link those differences to academic achievement.

We were surprised how quickly we saw differences in the ability of mice from each group to learn how to run on complex wheel, which shows just how fast the brain can respond to wrap newly - activated circuits in myelin and how this improves learning.

The study found that occasional users who subsequently increased their drug use compared with those who did not, showed brain structural differences when they started using drugs.

A study by Florian Krause from the Donders Institute in Nijmegen shows for the first time that these individual differences have a structural basis in the brain.

The electric brain signals, measured by using EEG, of males and females show differences.

«Male and female brain rhythms show differences.»

The massive analysis of human, chimpanzee, and monkey tissue published Nov. 23 in the journal Science shows that the human brain is not only a larger version of the ancestral primate brain but also one filled with distinct and surprising differences.

In a recent study published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, López - Caneda and colleagues set out to see if the resting brains of binge - drinking college students showed any differences compared with those of their non-bingeing counterparts.

Connectivity is a critical issue because the brains of people with psychiatric disorders usually show very few physical differences from healthy individuals.

Weirdly, men's brains don't show this difference.

These maps, they say, will show everything from relative sizes of anatomical features to differences in brains associated with age, race, gender, educational background, genetic composition, and other distinguishing characteristics.

For example, some twins who had undergone the operation and had apparently normal brains when screened using ultrasound showed differences in brain volume when screened using the more sensitive MRI technique.

«This study shows, through a «before and after» design, that a particular set of learning activities is both the necessary and sufficient causal explanation for resulting differences in brain characteristics,» says John Sloboda of Keele University in the UK, and a long - time champion of practice over genius.

Slight differences in water content (most of the hydrogen atoms buzzed by the magnet are tied up in water) show up as shades of gray, revealing bone, cartilage, or clusters of neurons deep inside the brain.

It's the first time scientists have shown in selectively bred animals that the propensity for addiction is linked to differences in expression of genes for specific molecules in a specific brain region.

His studies of language development showed that even month - old babies can perceive subtle differences in sounds, the first evidence in support of the theory that language is hardwired into the brain.

For example, the researchers were able to identify previously unknown gene expression differences between the neural stem cells that give rise to the brain's deep structures versus its neocortical surface, and to show that molecular signatures of different neural cell types arise much earlier in brain development than previously realized.

Genetics and specific brain regions are linked to sex differences in chimpanzees» scratching behavior, a common indicator of anxiety in humans and others primates, according to a research study led by Georgia State University that shows chimpanzees can be models of human mental illness.

New research shows that humans distinguish the difference between fine textures, such as silk or satin, through vibrations, which are picked up by two separate sets of nerve receptors in the skin and relayed to the brain.

The researchers found that the portion of a brain region called the insular cortex (which is made up of gyri, or folds) showed differences in activity between men and women.

The Europeans also showed differences in the function of enzymes that are known to be involved with the metabolism of fat in the brain.

Previous imaging studies, she notes, show no difference in brain activation when homosexual and heterosexual participants viewed pictures of their loved ones.

Whereas liver and blood gene activity patterns showed the expected differences among the three groupswith human transcription looking similar to that of the chimp, and different from that of the more evolutionarily distant macaquegene activity in the brain revealed stark differences between humans and chimps.

Previous studies on post-mortem brains and blood samples from patients with schizophrenia indicated that their brains show differences in terms of vascularization.

A study just published in Scientific Reports shows that these differences go hand in hand with differences in the patterns of integration among functional modules of the brain.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging has shown that mothers, but not fathers, have increased brain cortical activation in specific language processing areas when listening to infant - directed speech, suggesting that mothers have an intent to communicate and the difference in neural processing is experience - dependent.24 The mothers spoke more to infant girls than boys in early infancy.

Interestingly, the differences in the music students» brain waves in response to sounds as described above occurred after two years but not at one year, which showed that these programs can not be used as quick fixes, Kraus said.

Because the SPM revealed a significant group difference in MP - induced changes in midbrain BPND, we also performed correlations with this brain region and showed a significant correlation with positive emotionality (r = 0.42, P = 0.003) such that the greater the BPND decreases, the lower the scores.