"Having these ways to look into the brain gives us a tool that we can then use to study the effects of music on the growth and development of the brain, " says Professor John Iversen of the Institute of Neural Computation at the University of California San Diego.
This suggests that there is a critical period in the development of the brain when the bacteria are influential.
But this new study is the first to extensively evaluate the influence of gut bacteria on the biochemistry and development of the brain.
Professor GERALDINE DAWSON (Director, Autism Center, University of Washington): When we think about the brain systems that are involved in autism that are responsible for things like eye contact or interest in other people or the development of language, these are brain systems that come on in the first year of life, certainly by six to seven months of age.
NPR's Jon Hamilton reports that scientists believe early detection may eventually allow them to alter the course of brain development in these children.
It is thought that this early injury might somehow interfere with the proper development or wiring of other brain regions resulting in the behavioural symptoms of autism.
Professor Gus Baker, a neuropsychologist, followed 600 babies from birth to aged six and found a marked difference in the brain development of some of the children.
It is time of remarkable brain development, but also an extremely vulnerable time for young children, especially in the developing world, where a child has a four in ten chance of living in extreme poverty and 10.5 million children under age of 5 die from preventable diseases every year.
The BRAIN Initiative will accelerate the development and application of new technologies that will enable researchers to produce dynamic pictures of the brain that show how individual brain cells and complex neural circuits interact at the speed of thought.
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Previous research has suggested that autism is linked to damage to a part of the brain called the brainstem in the early stages of development.
Parkinson's pathway: A cellular network linking various regions of the brain may play an important role in the development and progression of Parkinson's disease, research published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine suggests.
John Walsh, a professor of gerontology at USC, studies the effect of intense exercise on brain development.
Currently, it is allowed only in cases of rape, abnormal brain development or when the mother's life is at risk.
The US team showed that DISC1 plays a key role in normal brain development and the growth of individual neurons.
He's heading the Symphony Project, one of the first longitudinal studies of its kind on the effects of musical training on brain development.
These complications are the primary cause of serious long-term brain damage in premature babies and are associated with the subsequent development of cerebral palsy and mental retardation.
The brain unfolds during development, by means of essential cell:cell interactions, of which we understand only a tiny fraction.
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Several previous studies have shown that eating fish during pregnancy helped in the baby's brain development and in reducing the risk of post-partum depression.
Research on early childhood and brain development concludes that the first years of life have a much greater and more lasting impact on children's future growth and learning than we previously understood.
Lilly has another promising brain drug nearing the end of its development as well: Strattera, a non-stimulant treatment for attention-deficit disorder.
Kurzweil notes that the technique that has taken over much of AI development is similar to the mathematical technique the brain uses.
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The disease hinders development of the myelin sheath, a fatty covering that protects the brain's nerve fibers.
As far as the brain development genes are concerned, these probably reflect some of the behavioural differences we now see in the two canids.
For her pioneering approach to biomaterial development to regenerate damaged nerve tissue and for her development of a new method to deliver drugs to the spinal cord and brain.
The teeming trillions of bacteria in the digestive tracts of mice have been shown to affect the animals' brain development and behaviour.
Keynote speakers include American economist Jeffrey Sachs (by video) who will present the investment and productivity argument for ECCE, Jack Shonkoff, professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Chair of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child in the United States, who will speak on brain research and child development, and Danny Faure, Vice-President of the Seychelles.
Before the development of imaging agents, amyloid plaques could be determined only after death, by examining the brain during an autopsy.
"Early intervention is key, because brain development starts before birth, " says Dr. Pat Levitt, director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development in Nashville, Tennessee.
More likely than hooking your brain to a machine, though, in my view would be the development of a drug that allows for lucid dreaming like in the film Inception.
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