Sentences with phrase «typical brain development»

In concert with studies of the effects of puberty on typical brain development, this work will help to explain the developmental shift that is suggested by the existing literature of functional connectivity in autism.

During the initial stages of typical brain development, stem cells go through a period in which they divide to make more stem cells, increasing their numbers.

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Ron McKay and his colleagues at the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland, usually focus on brain development, but they were intrigued by recent papers reporting that some pancreas cells express nestin, a protein typical of developing neural cells.

«We wanted to learn more about how the brain is different in Down Syndrome compared to typical development, so we measured surface area and thickness, which both contribute to cortical volume but are determined by different genetic factors.»

Typical and atypical development of functional human brain networks: insights from resting - state FMRI.

These children quickly develop the typical symptoms of old age, such as hair loss, atherosclerosis, loss of eyesight, wrinkles and stiff joints, but the brain seems not to be affected and mental development is normal.7

Her current research within the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience focuses on auditory and language processing in the human brain and its applications for the development of typical and atypical language and literacy skills.

Tectonic social changes — including demographic shifts that have placed most women with school - age children in the labor force, research breakthroughs in the learning sciences and in socio - emotional and brain development, and daunting national achievement worries — have all converged to place a major new emphasis on the quality of a child's learning experiences throughout the typical school day, after school, weekends, and across the year, including summers.

Because human gray matter follows a nonlinear developmental trajectory, we established a reference for typical development in focal brain areas and constructed an index that measured whether regional gray matter volume was larger or smaller than expected, comparing children with others of the same sex and age.

Given their typical age of onset, a broad range of mental disorders are increasingly being understood as the result of aberrations of developmental processes that normally occur in the adolescent brain.4 — 6 Executive functioning, and its neurobiological substrate, the prefrontal cortex, matures during adolescence.5 The relatively late maturation of executive functioning is adaptive in most cases, underpinning characteristic adolescent behaviours such as social interaction, risk taking and sensation seeking which promote successful adult development and independence.6 However, in some cases it appears that the delayed maturation of prefrontal regulatory regions leads to the development of mental illness, with neurobiological studies indicating a broad deficit in executive functioning which precedes and underpins a range of psychopathology.7 A recent meta - analysis of neuroimaging studies focusing on a range of psychotic and non-psychotic mental illnesses found that grey matter loss in the dorsal anterior cingulate, and left and right insula, was common across diagnoses.8 In a healthy sample, this study also demonstrated that lower grey matter in these regions was found to be associated with deficits in executive functioning performance.