Sentences with phrase «whose brains she studied»

Raghanti says that the 20 chimps whose brains she studied had not been tested for cognitive or behavioral changes.

Not exact matches

I worry that lost amidst the hoopla about the new CTE study is the fact that not every football player whose brain was donated to the CTE Center for pathological scrutiny was found to have the disease, and, that it was not detected in either the brains donated by the families of football players who died before they got to high school, and in only three of fourteen of high school players (and, in those, the disease had not progressed beyond the «mild» stage).

Studying preterm infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St. Louis Children's Hospital, the researchers found that preemies whose daily diets were at least 50 percent breast milk had more brain tissue and cortical - surface area by their due dates than premature babies who consumed significantly less breast milk.

His group is also planning longitudinal studies to identify the brain and behavioral characteristics that distinguish children who will have persistent numerical and mathematical deficits from those whose problems are more transient.

Michael Kaplitt, a neurosurgeon at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, whose lab develops gene therapies for brain disorders, teamed up with Greengard and other colleagues in the new study.

A majority of football players whose brains were donated for research suffered a degenerative brain disease during their lives, according to the largest sample of players ever studied.

But, how much it differs could depend on the cognitive ability of the person whose brain is being studied.

Cuthbert, whose project may receive additional funding from the Obama administration's planned Brain Activity Map initiative, is encouraging researchers to study basic cognitive and biological processes implicated in many types of mental illness.

Brain researchers determine the function of a part of the brain by studying people whose brains are damaged in that reBrain researchers determine the function of a part of the brain by studying people whose brains are damaged in that rebrain by studying people whose brains are damaged in that region.

Indonesia's enigmatic «hobbits» were no more than average humans whose small stature, tiny brains, and peculiar anatomy were caused by a severe lack of iodine before birth, a new study claims.

Marieta Pehlivanova, Joseph Kable, Theodore Satterthwaite and colleagues studied whether this relationship between cortical thickness and reward preference holds true for teens, whose brains are undergoing dramatic structural changes.

In brain imaging studies, the OPFC is highly active when people deliberate between actions with uncertain risks and rewards, and clinical reports describe patients, such as Gage, whose inability to consider long - term consequences can lead to tragic outcomes.

Amyloid — an abnormal protein whose accumulation in the brain is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease — starts accumulating inside neurons of people as young as 20, a much younger age than scientists ever imagined, reports a surprising new Northwestern Medicine study.

The study described in the second paper used groups of three or four rats whose brains were interconnected via microwire arrays in the somatosensory cortex of the brain and received and transmitted information via those wires.

He was discussing how the league could donate $ 1 million or more to the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University, whose discoveries of brain damage commonly associated with boxers in the brains of deceased football players were regularly discredited by the N.F.L.

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

In a key memory experiment in the study, mice brains were injected with beta - amyloid, whose increase is one hallmark of Alzheimer's in humans.

In the largest study of its kind, researchers led by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing have investigated the caregivers of 186 mothers to childhood brain tumor survivors aged 14 - 40 whose care needs last long into adulthood.

The study's results suggested that girls whose brains showed less reward system activation to foods also gained more weight — if they had the DRD2 Taq1AQ1 or the DRD4 7 + repeat alleles.

Electrode studies of monkeys and other animals whose brains resemble ours have yielded valuable insights, but these creatures can not describe their subjective sensations.

Thanks to studies of humans and animals, we now know that it is a subtly nuanced state whose nature and intensity varies according to the brain's intrinsic level of activity, its chemical microclimate and the information it receives from outside.

The study showed that the brain region known as the posterior cingulate — an area whose damage is often seen in those with Alzheimer's — plays a crucial role in creating permanent memories.

Studying fruit flies, whose sleep is remarkably similar to that in people, Johns Hopkins researchers say they've identified brain cells that are responsible for why delaying bedtime creates chronic sleepiness.

Companion studies also shed light on the question of why boys are more likely to develop autism than girls, and begin to outline a network of genes whose activity is altered in the brains of individuals with autism.

WIKIMEDIA, BRUNO BASTOSIn a small study of animals whose yawn durations were tabulated from YouTube videos, researchers found that the longer the yawn, the bigger the brain.

The findings may even have implications for studying glioblastoma, a common brain cancer whose ability to grow, migrate and hack into the brain's blood supply appears to rely on a pattern of gene activity similar to that now identified in these neural stem cells.

For this study, monkeys, whose sensory systems closely resemble those of humans, had electrodes implanted into the area of the brain that processes touch information from the hand.

«The physical symptoms that affect people with Parkinson's — including tremors and rigidity of movement — are caused by an imbalance between two types of medium spiny neurons in the brain,» said Dr. Kreitzer, whose lab studies how Parkinson's disease affects brain functions.

«It shifted the focus from fetuses to adults, and also children whose brains are still developing,» said Sujan Shresta, a professor at the La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology who's a co-author of the study.

A group of researchers conducted a study whose results suggest that sending electric impulses to the brain may help boost memory in people with epilepsy.

In a 2016 study from JAMA Psychiatry, senior citizens whose brain scans showed the development of amyloid protein clusters were 7.5 times more likely to be classified as lonely than those whose scans were negative.

A 2000 study in the Journals of Gerontology showed that rats whose diet was supplemented with vitamin E experienced a 500 to 900 percent increase in brain and nerve tissue over an eight - month period, as well as an increase in the release of dopamine in the brain, the «pleasure» chemical that controls flow of information to different parts of the brain.

In the study, mice whose daily diet was supplemented with 20 milligrams of luteolin had reduced inflammation in their brains.

Studies whose endpoints were surrogate outcomes (e.g., weight loss, LDL cholesterol, and brain - derived neurotrophic factor) that themselves are predictors of clinical events were not considered to be clinical outcomes sStudies whose endpoints were surrogate outcomes (e.g., weight loss, LDL cholesterol, and brain - derived neurotrophic factor) that themselves are predictors of clinical events were not considered to be clinical outcomes studiesstudies.

whose theoretical studies of the human brain's untapped potential make him an information source and then finally a kind of partner - savior to Lucy; the handsome nice - guy Parisian cop (Amr Waked) who assists Lucy during her climactic mission to acquire more of the experimental hormone to ingest and become whatever it is that she's becoming: a 1950s sci - fi monster, probably — the kind that can not be killed because everything you shoot at it makes it stronger and hungrier.

The recent college grads whose brains we picked are Nick, a UC Berkeley Economics major, Victor, a Cal State University East Bay Marketing major, and Aidan, an Azusa Pacific Business Administration and Biblical Studies major.

The researchers studied a series of brain scans of children from preschool through early adolescence, finding a sharper rise in the volume of the hippocampus in the kids whose mothers supported and nurtured them during the preschool years.