Sentences with phrase «white matter connections»

Specifically, these men had altered development of white matter connections in the left side of the brain, the arcuate bundle, which is involved in language.
Maternal SSRI use was also linked to an increase in white matter connections between the two regions.
The scanner, quiet enough for a baby to sleep inside, relies on a new brain - imaging technique called diffusion MRI, which maps long - distance white matter connections in the brain by tracking the movement of water.
Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the study was the correlation between the cognitive abilities of participants with Down Syndrome and the integrity of their white matter - those who had higher motor skill coordination and better learning and memory ability had healthier frontal white matter connections.
When people with Down syndrome and dementia were compared to people with Down syndrome without dementia, those same white matter connections were even less healthy.
«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.»
We think that when it comes to certain language skills, the loss of grey matter outweighs the strengthened white matter connection».
They found that older adults who had greater variability in neural activity in specific brain regions performed better on fluid ability and memory tasks, and also had better quality of structural white matter connections in the brain.
SSRI group infants also had «a significant increase» in white matter connections between those two regions, relative to the other groups.
Overall, they found that the less fit people were, the weaker their brain's white matter connections, and the worse they did on the cognitive tests.
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.
But Kable explains that even though you start out life with lots of those white matter connections, they tend to get trimmed and refined during development.
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