Sentences with phrase «study of the brain»

Studies of the brains of model organisms do allow for investigations of how brain activity arises from groups of neurons and how different groups of neurons interact with each other.

Recent years have seen an explosion in the use of mathematical models to integrate insights emerging from studies of the brain and behavior.

A new study of brain cells in this area finds that firing these neurons at one frequency makes the brain treat novel images as old hat.

He believes «it's just a matter of years before sensitivity is vastly improved,» leading to more detailed studies of brain development.

This theoretical consistency is important, as it allows researchers to better focus future studies of brain connectivity in schizophrenia, by targeting the brain regions known to be affected.

Studies of brain tissue from both groups of mice revealed dramatic differences in nerve cell appearance and function.

Conversely, when data from 12 studies of brain training in people with dementia was combined, results were not positive.

These ideas put forward nearly a century ago are now being supported by scientific studies of the brain and how people learn.

Promoting the international and interdisciplinary study of brain - behavioral relationships throughout the lifespan.

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More fundamental studies of brain function and connectivity, as well as studies of the spine, are performed in non-human primates.

There was an interesting study of brain activity in language recently conducted by a group in Milan.

A preliminary longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging study of brain volume and cortical thickness in autism.

Sensory experience of food and obesity: a positron emission tomography study of the brain regions affected by tasting a liquid meal after a prolonged fast.

The new study is an example of what happens when epidemiology experiments — studies of patterns in health and disease — crash into studies of brain imaging.

In recent years, DNNs have also been expected to be useful as a tool for studies of the brain.

A landmark longitudinal study of brain growth using imaging technology, though, revealed that the emotional areas of the brain are fully developed around the age of 10 to 12 years, but the regions responsible for rational thought and emotional control mature closer to 22 to 24 years of age.

The pregnant mothers were participants in a larger, long - term study of brain development led by Thomason.

Previous studies of the brain have revealed the importance of «cortical integration» in maintaining consciousness, meaning that the brain must process and combine multiple inputs from different senses at once.

Laboratory studies have examined the effects of ocean acidification on many types of corals and coralline algae, revealing a range of responses from a 3 % to 60 % decline in calcification rate for a doubling of atmospheric CO2.ref A recent study of brain corals in Bermuda found that calcification rates have declined by 25 % over the past 50 years and ocean acidification is a likely contributing factor.

A longitudinal study of brain volume changes in normal aging using serial registered magnetic resonance imaging

Currently Dr. Ramey is helping to launch a long - term longitudinal study of brain development known as the Roanoke Brain Study.

When you look at fMRI studies of the brain it shows up more as a desire.

The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) is a historic study of brain aging looking to help increase the pace of discovery in the race to prevent, treat and one day cure Alzheimer's disease.

Postmortem studies of the brains of Alzheimer's patients show a dramatic destruction of neurons, and particularly neurons which secrete or utilise the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.

A resolution may not be far off; Mourrain and Applebaum's new imaging technique will allow for more detailed study of the brain during sleep in years to come.

Matthew Walker at the University of California in Berkeley and colleagues have conducted the first study of brain activity in relation to food among sleep - deprived people.

But can study of the brain really tell us about God?

Here's a hint: «Low calorie» does not equal «World's healthiest», especially when you add artificial sweeteners, which have been linked to studies of brain damage and cancer.

A benefit for the Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation, it is celebrating the idea that psychoanalytic concepts like repressed impulses and unconscious drives remain important and relevant in this era of the neurobiological study of the brain.

This approach revealed much more than Reid's study of brain size.

«New study of brain circuits finds key links to symptoms of depression: Altering distinct brain pathways found to aid symptoms such as social withdrawal and helplessness behavior.»

Moreover, their brain scans and autopsy studies of brains from nonhuman primates confirmed the results seen in humans, suggesting the lymphatic system is a common feature of mammalian brains.

Studies of brain structure and correlations with levels of a protein known as BDNF (brain - derived neurotrophic factor) will also be performed using these findings.

Studies of brain slices have shown, for example, that adenosine binds to and interferes with receptors on cholinergic neurons, the alertness - controlling cells found mainly in the basal forebrain.

Fear of pain, for example, can increase the pain itself, and Mackey's group studied some of the brain regions involved in this anticipation.

«Geometric study of brain cells could change strategies on Alzheimer's.»

«The idea they can clean up brain debris has been well established in studies of brain disease,» says Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital.

And electroencephalogram studies of the brains of preterm infants show electrical activity in the auditory cortex in response to sound.

With that in mind, some scientists were hopeful that careful studies of the brain might uncover an all - powerful hormone that regulates food consumption or a single spot where the cortical equivalent of a neon sign blinks «Eat Heavy,» all the better to shut it off.

Two just published studies of the brain's visual networks, including the FFA, enlarge what we know about the physical basis of face perception.

In the largest collaborative study of the brain to date, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) led a global consortium of 190 institutions to identify eight common genetic mutations that appear to age the brain an average of three years.

When the investigators analysed MRI studies of the brain, they found that participants with MCI, particularly those with non-amnestic MCI, had larger white matter lesion volumes and worse microstructural integrity of normal - appearing white matter compared to controls.

• Jeffrey Macklis, whose studies of brain - cell generation we mentioned (3 April, p 29), is at Harvard University, not MIT.

More detailed studies of brain maturation are now needed to validate the findings, Sebat said.