Sentences with phrase «white matter found»

Yellow regions (top) show the enlarged white matter found in autism patients.

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Writing in the journal Neuron, the scientists found that reading increased the quality of white matter, the brain tissue that carries signals between areas of gray matter, where information is processed.

On Monday, Trump's personal assistant, John McEntee, was escorted from the White House grounds after an investigation found that he was a security risk due to his gambling habits, The Washington Post reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

I grew up on chewy white loaf bread in Asia, and no matter what I try on my recipe, I couldn't achieve the same chewy texture until I found this high gluten flour.

No matter what you're looking for, you're likely to find a white noise machine made to suit your needs.

They found a strong correlation between the white matter changes and the number of head hits with a peak rotational acceleration exceeding 4500 rad / sec2 and the number of head hits with a peak rotational acceleration exceeding 6,000 rad / sec2, and an especially strong correlation where the number of the former exceeded 30 - 40 for the season, and the number of the latter exceeded 10 - 15 for the season.

Using DTI imaging technique, researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, found in a 2013 study [16] significant differences in brain white matter of varsity football and hockey players compared with a group of non-contact-sport athletes, with the number of times they were hit correlated with changes in the white matter.

Indeed, the 2014 University of Rochester study [23] suggests that, «rather than monitor total head hits, as [was initially suggested [by Sports Legacy Institute in its much publicized Hit Count program], it may be more effective to monitor those hits that are most likely to produce [white matter] changes, which Bazarian and his colleagues found were when the number of helmet impacts resulting in a peak rotational acceleration of 4500 rads / sec2exceeded 30 - 40 for the season, and when the number of helmet impacts resulting in a peak rotational acceleration.6000 rads / sec2 exceeded 10 - 15 for the season.

Perhaps most concerning, four of the Purdue studies found that damage to the brain from RHI persisted after the football season was over, as did a 2014 study by Bazarian and his URMC colleagues, [23] which found changes in brain white matter in a small group of college football players which persisted six months after the season was over.

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

Geoffrey Berman's interim appointment as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York is set to expire in a matter of weeks, shouldering Manhattan federal judges with the responsibility of appointing Berman until a formal nomination is made by the White House and confirmed by the Senate, finding someone else or even opting out entirely.

Compared to the brains of people without bipolar disorder, the researchers found that the MRI signal was elevated in the cerebral white matter and the cerebellar region of patients affected by bipolar disorder.

When Jan Scholz and his colleagues at the University of Oxford looked at brain scans of new jugglers they found that the 24 young men and women had grown more white matter after six weeks of juggling training.

Studies have also found damage in the white matter of the brain, which connects these regions.

Using neuropsychological testing to assess cognitive performance, the researchers found a relationship between the amount of white matter injury and changes in reaction time and the ability to switch between mental tasks.

Prior studies of dark matter have found that galaxies and other visible matter float inside blobs of dark matter, like white chocolate chips in a dark cookie.

He published his find of the VOF, a bundle of white - matter fibers near the back of the brain, in 2013 and helped show its involvement in reading.

WHITE MATTER CONSCIOUSNESS I found «The Hidden Brain,» by R. Douglas Fields, to be exciting reading.

The researchers, who evaluated the BSCB in test animals at seven and 30 days after stroke modeling, found that ischemic stroke damaged the gray and white matter in the cervical spinal cord on both sides of the spinal column, based on analysis of electron microscope images.

The researchers found that the developmental course of the children's white matter volume predicted the kindergarteners» abilities to read.

Specifically, they found that processing speed and white matter connectivity in a brain region related to memory were linked to learning to play the strategy game, while learning to play the action game was related to a brain region governing mood.

They found that cognitive performance and white matter connectivity in the brain predicted how best we can learn to play the two types of games.

Young hockey players who have suffered concussions may still show changes in the white matter of the brain months after being cleared to return to play, researchers at Western University have found through sophisticated Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques.

Further bolstering this idea, the researchers used an MRI - based method to measure the white matter that connects different brain regions and found that the IFJ is highly connected with both the FFA and PPA.

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.

«The DTI findings pertaining to the most frequent headers in our study showed white - matter abnormalities similar to what we've seen in patients with concussion,» said Dr. Lipton.

A study published in May found that this duplication (or absence) of genetic material relates to a distinctly different brain structure, such as a larger or smaller corpus callosum, the tract of white matter connecting the brain's hemispheres.

«People were saying, don't look at the white matter, look at the cerebral cortex, but I knew we had an important finding.»

The researchers also found they could predict which players had depression by examining images of their brains» white matter, suggesting a link between white matter changes and depression.

However, despite this reduction in white matter, cognitive tests did not find any evidence that being overweight was linked to reduced brain function.

A study of 473 adults has found that people who are overweight have less white matter, which connects different brain areas and enables signaling between them.

The study group had normal structural MRI findings, but MRS results showed significant differences in the biochemical maturation of white matter between the term and preterm infants, suggesting a disruption in the timing and synchronization of white and gray matter maturation.

The team also found that the insomniacs had poorer connections in the white matter of the thalamus, a brain region that regulates consciousness, alertness and sleep.

In a study published in the February 18 issue of Nature, Gilfanov and Bogdán report that they found just a fraction of the x-rays expected from white dwarfs accreting matter from their neighbors.

The researchers found cardiorespiratory fitness was positively linked to the structural integrity of white matter fiber bundles in the brain in the older adults, while no such association was observed in younger adults.

Though much of the concern in the media regarding the toxic effects of Zika virus has focused on brain findings of microcephaly, the researchers noted that there are a variety of brain abnormalities that can be found in fetuses exposed to the virus, including gray and white matter volume loss, brainstem abnormalities, calcifications, and a condition called ventriculomegaly, where the ventricles, or fluid filled spaces in the brain, are enlarged.

Among other white matter tracts, the white matter organization of the cingulum tract (as reflected by the level of fractional anisotropy measured with diffusion tensor imaging) was found to be positively associated with IQ.

Furthermore, white matter organization was found to be most prominently related to PIQ and POI subscales (Chiang et al., 2009).

In an earlier study, the researchers found that another nutrient, iron, influenced aspects of both grey and white matter development.

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.

«This finding simplifies matters and opens up new possibilities for white biotechnology,» says Weiss, who is Head of the Biomineralization Program at the INM.

The researchers found that no matter at which age an ablation is performed, adult patients with Wolff - Parkinson - White continue to have a life - long, significant risk of atrial fibrillation.

«Our findings suggest that differences in white matter microstructure may partially account for the variance in functional outcomes among this population.

«Using neuroimaging, we found that changes in white and gray matter contributed to failure to accurately identify the emotions expressed in the facial photographs in FEIT.

The researchers found a link between abnormalities in white matter and a decrease in functional connectivity in the brain's default - mode network, a set of regions that typically shows abnormal behavior in people at genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease.

Their findings indicate a pattern of white matter damage and gray matter atrophy associated with this specific impairment of social cognition after TBI.

A longitudinal study of college football players found alterations in the white matter in their brains after a single season.

«We had performed multiple imaging studies on contact sports athletes in the past where we found changes in white matter diffusion over the course of a single season of sport (and exposure to repetitive head impacts),» explained study author Inga Katharina Koerte of the University of Munich and Harvard Medical School.

white matter One of the two main tissue types found in the brain and spinal cord.

Goldstein and her colleagues found that patients diagnosed with â $ œamnesticâ $ MCI showed greater loss of white matter integrity in a certain part of the brain — the medial temporal lobe â $ «than cognitively normal controls of similar age.