Sentences with phrase «structural brain characteristics»

Recent reports indicate that adjustment problems in childhood psychopathology are related to structural brain characteristics (9 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 13), but the brain basis for development of self - regulation in normal children is less well - understood.

Although development of self - regulation in children is the result of a dynamic interaction between maturation and learning, we have scarce knowledge about the role played by structural brain characteristics in this process.

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A defining characteristic of stroke is the loss of motor control due to structural damage in specific brain areas.

Philosophy isn't about the brain processes involved in our experiences; what philosophers try to do is to explain these experiences themselves by uncovering their structural characteristics.

Dogs exhibit the same behavioral characteristics, respond to the same medication, have a genetic basis to the disorder, and we now know have the same structural brain abnormalities as people with OCD,» said Nicholas Dodman, BVMS, DACVB, professor of clinical sciences at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University.

The lab has shown that when NMDAR function is impaired by a genetic mutation, they can recreate, in the mouse, the structural, neurochemical, and functional alterations in the brain that are characteristic of schizophrenia — for example, cognitive and memory impairments for which there are currently no effective treatments.

This study demonstrates that regional correlations between CT and CSA asymmetries are a characteristic of brain structural organization that could be of significance in the choice of structural markers in studies dealing with the genetic basis of brain lateralization.

The integrative failure that is characteristic of traumatized individuals may also relate to structural brain changes, notably in the hippocampus.