But DNA and brain structure are only the beginning of our understanding of biology.
Omega-3 is a long-chain fatty acid critical for brain structure and function.
All of these early influences impair brain structure and function, and they contribute to the brain impairments we find in criminals and psychopaths in later life.
The Neanderthals' more visually-focused brain structure might also have affected their ability to innovate and to adapt to the ice age that was thought to have contributed to their demise.
After being rewarmed, babies at UCSF are given an MRI to look at brain structure and for evidence of degree of injury, and EEGs, which measure the brain's electrical activity and seizures.
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That said, this problem of causality in the area of neuroscience is endemic to a lot of papers that come across my desk that try to relate a particular brain structure to a type of behavior.
One experiment measured the brain structure of pathological liars, and compared it to normal controls more specifically, the ratio of gray matter (the neural tissue that makes up the bulk of our brains) to white matter (the wiring that connects those brain cells).
And long-term brain studies have demonstrated that the structure of the brain can change based on behavior and environment.
This does not involve permanent changes to the brain's structure.
In the human brain, a synapse is the structure which enables a neuron to send information to other parts of the brain.
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At the hub sits the structure's brain: Mr Gross, in a rotating chair, stroking a virtual white cat.
My sense is that the human mind is not to be found in the structure of the brain, but rather in its function.
For around 90 minutes each day, the electrodes were also stimulated to map the structure of the brain so as to identify language centres and other vulnerable areas.
Even if the human brain were significantly different in structure and function the basics of behavior, action, social living were all evolved and inherited from all other living things.
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Yet, scientists and journalists alike are frequently too quick to make sweeping generalizations about the behavior and structure of the brain, often forgetting that the brain is an incredibly complex, interrelated system.
The IBM chip uses the structure of the human brain as map for the design of the circuits in their chip.
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Milk, liver, peanuts and eggs also are naturally rich in choline, and studies have shown that it seems to play a role in metabolism, cell structure to the workings of brain neurotransmitters.
Body weight is controlled mostly by the hypothalamus, a structure at the center of the brain that fine-tunes metabolism to a level that no conscious calorie-counter could match.
In the new technique, the brain's three-dimensional circuits and their molecular structure stay intact.
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The scientists found a way to chemically remove the lipid fats that normally make brain tissue opaque, in effect turning any postmortem brain specimen into a picture window that reveals its internal structure.
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And nothing is more so than the most complicated structure we know of in the universe, the human brain.
Yet in just one of those blinks, the human brain nearly tripled in size, due primarily to the dramatic expansion of a special structure that allows modern people to do things that their ancestors couldn't even imagine.
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