Sentences with phrase «subtle changes in the functioning»

«This allows us to identify subtle changes in the functioning of neuronal circuits that we never had access to before.»

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Among them were the Purdue and Rochester studies of athletes in high school and college football [1,8,9,12,13, 31 - 38] and ice hockey, [8] which, as noted above, found subtle changes in cerebral function in the absence of concussion symptoms or clinically measurable cognitive impairment which researchers linked to the volume of head impacts, and a much publicized case - study autopsy of a collegiate football player, Owen Thomas, with no reported history of concussions, which revealed early signs of CTE.

fMRI measures changes in blood oxygenation, which were previously thought to be too slow to detect the subtle neuronal activity associated with higher order brain functions.

Previous studies have found that several years before the disease manifests itself, the brains of people with the mutation undergo subtle changes, with a thinning of the regions involved in motor function.

Kinney is leading a team researching the role of several risk factors and subtle changes in cell function associated with Alzheimer's disease, including interactions between diabetes and inflammation in the brain in the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease.

THURSDAY, January 5, 2012 (Health.com)-- For years, many experts have maintained that the subtle changes in memory and mental function that occur naturally as we get older rarely begin before age 60.

Those playing the shoot -»em - up games saw a boost in their «contrast sensitivity function,» or the ability to discern subtle changes in the brightness of an image.

Asher writes: «DeFeo's metaphysical but concrete art functions in much the same way: the act of mirroring, or flipping images over and around, of changing black to white, of cutting through the surface of something, of changing liquid to solid, of waking and sleeping, of returning a different person to the place where you began your journey: such transformations are the very sensibilities of DeFeo's art, not one of mere sentences but one of propositions, abstract, as direct as they are elusive, subtle, alive to indispensable distinctions.»

Mosses are important members in many dryland ecosystems and the community changes observed here reveal how subtle modifications to climate can affect ecosystem structure and function on unexpectedly short timescales.

In this regard, the Family Drawing Paradigm has proven a useful tool to capture subtle changes in children and their families» representations of family functioning for research but undoubtedly also clinical purposeIn this regard, the Family Drawing Paradigm has proven a useful tool to capture subtle changes in children and their families» representations of family functioning for research but undoubtedly also clinical purposein children and their families» representations of family functioning for research but undoubtedly also clinical purposes.