Sentences with phrase «study brain connections»

«Statistics method shows networks differ in epileptic brains: Scientists develop novel method to study brain connections in epilepsy.»

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A study published in May found that for adults aged 60 - 88, walking for 30 minutes four days a week for 12 weeks appeared to strengthen connectivity in a region of the brain where weakened connections have been linked with memory loss.

«Listening to music and singing together has been shown in several studies to directly impact neuro - chemicals in the brain, many of which play a role in closeness and connection,» explains a recent Greater Good Science Center round - up of research on the subject.

That might be because, according to a study from the University of Pennsylvania, women tend to have more connections between the hemispheres of their brain, encouraging intuitive and analytical thought, whereas men tend to develop one - sided brain connections, encouraging quick perception and corresponding action.

A study by Harvard University Professor, Dr. John Ratey, shows the connection between exercise and the brain.

The Power of Yes [3] Duhachek A, Zhang S, Krishnan S. Connections in the brains of young children strengthen during sleep, CU - Boulder study finds.

While young children sleep, connections between the left and the right hemispheres of their brain strengthen, which may help brain functions mature, according to a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder.

The authors of the study referenced in the article found there was no causal connection between light and cell division in the brain of mice if they had artificial light shined at them at one - hour intervals.

That's interesting because previous brain imaging studies of synesthetes have suggested that they might have an abnormally high number of neuronal connections.

Focusing on the neural pathway from the brain's prefrontal cortex to the amygdala, they combined optogenetics — a technique that uses light to control the activity of neurons in living tissue — with behavioral testing, a methodology that allows researchers to study functional connections between different regions of the brain.

While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the brain's emotional processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.

But for neurons, birth date plays an important role in how these cells find their connections in the brain, a new study finds.

Several of these studies have shown that years of abstaining from booze can allow brain regions to return to their original volume and can repair neural connections across different regions.

An earlier study had identified the connection between the thalamus — a brain region that relays incoming signals from the muscles and senses — and the dmPFC, along with the role this neural circuit can play in modifying a mouse's desire for confrontation.

Merkler plans to study the connections between retinal infarction and stroke using brain magnetic resonance imaging tests to see what's happening.

Previous studies of PLEs have found alterations in specific brain networks, but the findings reveal that it is not just about damaged connections — the amount of time spent in uncommon brain states may contribute to psychosis..

This is the first time a direct connection has been established between a person's eye movements and patterns of brain activity, which follows up on previous studies linking what we see to how we remember.

Severance says they plan to take their studies of the gut - brain connection into mouse models to test for a cause - and effect - relationship with Candida and memory deficits.

The 2009 book The Playful Brain: Venturing to the limits of neuroscience, for example, reviewed many studies showing that playful activity leads to the growth of more connections between neurons, particularly in the frontal lobe — the part of the brain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functBrain: Venturing to the limits of neuroscience, for example, reviewed many studies showing that playful activity leads to the growth of more connections between neurons, particularly in the frontal lobe — the part of the brain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functbrain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functions.

Studies in animals also linked sleep spindles to the process by which the brain makes new connections.

«This connection between an innate call and the activity of a brain area important to learned vocalisations suggests that during the evolution of songbirds, the role of the song area in the brain changed from being a simple vocalisation system for innate calls to a specialised neural network for learned songs,» concludes Manfred Gahr, coordinator of the study.

Studies have long documented the connection between the nose and brain function.

A group of scientists planning to map all the major connections in the human brain began studying their first test subjects in August.

In the study, the researchers then used a combination of different techniques to map the connections from the habenula to the frontal area of the brain, and to precisely control the activity of neurons in these regions.

He has spent years poring over studies of long - distance connections in the rhesus macaque monkey brain, ultimately creating a map of 383 different brain areas, connected by 6,602 individual links.

«These studies are a window into the brain - body connection,» says Poldrack.

«You can think of it as showing which connections in the brain are on speed dial and which ones aren't,» says Michael Milham, a psychiatrist at the Child Mind Institute in New York City, who led the study.

Seidler said the brain changes could reflect new connections between neurons, and she's leading another long - term study that will help determine the repercussions on cognition and physical performance, as well as how long the brain changes last.

First, looking at a study of 185 cases of childhood epilepsy, Wittkowski's team found that mutations in genes that control axonal guidance and calcium signaling — both of which are important early in the developing brain when neurons are forming the appropriate connections — led to increased chances of having the disorder.

Studies have also shown changes in the blood flow in the brain, but none had looked at the two together, to determine whether the connection between the neck and deeper parts of the brain was causing whiplash symptoms.

Danielle Bassett, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, studies the organizational principles at work in the brain, and how connections within the organ change over time and under stress.

Beaty and colleagues reanalyzed brain data from previous studies and found that, by simply measuring the strength of connections in these peoples» brain networks, they could estimate how original their ideas would be.

«Neurons become increasingly more complex in their extensions and connections as the brain matures, and the maturational delays reported previously in animal models and human behavioral studies of iron deficiency would predict that lower iron intake would produce neurons in cortical gray matter that are structurally less complex and more immature.

Results from the studies suggest that LSD simultaneously creates hyper - connections across the brain, allowing the functions of seemingly unrelated regions of the organ to ooze into one another.

The new study — published October 18, 2016 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry — combined genetic analysis of more than 9,000 human psychiatric patients with brain imaging, electrophysiology, and pharmacological experiments in mutant mice to suggest that mutations in the gene DIXDC1 may act as a general risk factor for psychiatric disease by interfering with the way the brain regulates connections between neurons.

Other studies bolster the case that intellectual pursuits help build neural reserves: richer, more efficient connections that help the brain compensate as it runs down with age.

Published in the Neurobiology of Aging, the study, which focused on detecting changes in the white matter connections of the brain, offers tantalizing potential for the identification of biomarkers connected to the development of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.

A new in vitro model Scientists developed a new research tool for this study that enabled them to monitor the spread of Tau aggregates whilst changing the synaptic connections between brain cells.

Researchers from Hiroki Taniguchi's lab at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) published a study in eNeuro in May 2017 showing for the first time that a unique type of inhibitory interneuron called chandelier cells — which are implicated in several diseases affecting the brain such as schizophrenia and epilepsy — seem to develop their connections differently than other types of neurons.

Prior research showed that the mPOA is important for social and reproductive behavior in all vertebrate species studied from fish to human, but it has been unclear whether this area drives social motivation through circuit connections with reward systems in the brain.

«This study suggests that amyloid deposition in the gray matter affects the associated white matter connections, which are essential for conducting messages across the billions of nerve cells in the brain, allowing for all aspects of mental function.»

Changes in brain connections visible on MRI could represent an imaging biomarker of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

«The next step is to figure out if this is telling us something about what those [altered] connections mean in terms of early brain development,» says Emily Jones, lecturer in the Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development at Birkbeck, University of London, who was not involved in the sbrain development,» says Emily Jones, lecturer in the Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development at Birkbeck, University of London, who was not involved in the sBrain & Cognitive Development at Birkbeck, University of London, who was not involved in the study.

The study also suggested that the Fragile X cells had delayed development in formation of neuronal synapses, the connections that neurons make between regions of the brain to send messages.

«The end goal of this research is to understand if some type of connection exists between the brain and spiritual experience,» said Daniel Cohen, co-author and assistant professor of religious studies.

Much as you can infer the existence of a motorway from an aeroplane at night by studying the pattern of lights below, neuroscientists can now map neural connections from the water traffic in the brain.

The study, published in the journal Brain, used a novel brain imaging method to identify altered brain connections in people withBrain, used a novel brain imaging method to identify altered brain connections in people withbrain imaging method to identify altered brain connections in people withbrain connections in people with ASD.

«This distinction is linked not just to brain activations selective to the processes studied but is also due to the difference in connections with other cerebral regions that require these two operations,» continues Grandjean.

A new study published in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry suggests that schizophrenia is associated with reductions in the complexity of the cortical folding pattern that may reflect deficits in the structural connections between brain regions.

Animal studies have shown that lengthy or multiple experiences with anesthesia can lead to cell death and problems with the formation of connections among brain cells.