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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Brain--Research"”.
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Improving teaching practice through education, mind, and selected brain research
… the emerging science of learning. However, a research-to-practice gap persists, and many students, particularly low-income and minority children and youth, are failing to reach their academic potential. The texts submitted with this document (Conyers & Wilson, 2015a, 2016; Wilson & Conyers, …
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Advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging to facilitate brain research
Probing brain functions at laminar and columnar level provides opportunities in understanding local and remote neural circuits that are critical for cognition and behaviors. High field functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) based on blood oxygenation level dependent contrast (BOLD) is one …
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Connecting brain research with teaching practice among middle school teachers
The discipline of mind, brain, and education science is the merger of psychology, neuroscience, and education. Its focus is to address complex problems in education and provide evidence-based solutions. One facet of this mixed methods action research study expanded middle school teachers' knowledge …
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Educational Brain Research as Compared with E.G. White's Counsels to Educators
… threefold: to review current, education-relevant brain research; to review the educational writings of Ellen G. White for major emerging themes/principles; and to compare these findings for similarities and differences.</p> <p><em>Method and Results</em>. Using an inductive process, the synthesis …
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Formulation of electrophoretic module for integration onto silicon-on-insulator neural probes
… where sample volume is constrained, such as brain research. This thesis investigates the scaling and integration of CE into micro-nano scale systems (focusing on how it can be adapted for neurochemistry workflows) and showcases further advancement from existing Microchip electrophoresis to …
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Research, Rhetoric, and the Writing Curriculum: Consciousness Expansion Through Bi-Hemisphericity
… psychological theory. It examines what recent brain research has to say about left-hemispheric verbal skills and right-hemispheric imaginal skills. A survey of literary, philosophical, and rhetorical expressions shows that man has for a long time "known" what brain research bears out: verbal …
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Maverick Neuroscientist: What Does a Life in Science Look Like Outside the Ivory Tower? : Dr. Eugenio Vargas-Pena is a renowned psychiatrist in Paraguay, who conducts neuroscience research without university ties, funding, or peer review. ls his embodiment of the gentleman scientist an alternate path for those who want to break away from institutionalized science?
… in his countryside home. Vargas-Peña conducts brain research independently, guided by decades of self-study, clinical practice, and an unwavering belief in the value of curiosity-driven inquiry. The piece interweaves historical context, character study, and personal narrative, using the …
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The Politics of Play: A Sociocultural Analysis of Play in the Context of State Preschool Standards
The past decade has seen an explosion of brain research and early childhood policies resulting in academics as a priority at state-funded preschools. Although strongly supported through a century of research, play often is pushed out by a more formalized, academic curriculum. Under the direction of …
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The Need for Arts Education and Alternative Assessment in Light of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
… Left Behind Act of 2001, this essay examines research of the positive influences of arts education on student academic achievement and social growth. Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory and brain research, such as that of Eric Jensen, suggest the necessity for various types of …
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Kent Kiehl’s Search for the Criminal Brain America’s self-proclaimed “psychopath whisperer” says he can predict criminality in incarcerated people. Is the legal system buying it?
Since the 19th century, researchers have attempted to uncover the biological roots of criminality. The process has been both scientifically dubious and ethically fraught. While biological theories of criminal behavior faded after World War II, they arose again in the 1990s and early 2000s, when new …
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Corpus callosum morphology in retinopathy-positive and retinopathy-negative Malawian children diagnosed with cerebral malaria
… area measurements to determine whether overall brain area, CC area, and five segments of the CC (i.e., genu, body, midbody, isthmus, and splenium) differed as a function of retinopathy status. No significant group differences emerged in any of the analyses. However, a large effect size was noted …
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Water Maze Strategies used by Mice Exposed to Radiation and Pomegranate Juice
… oxidative stress in specific areas in the brain. Research has shown that radiation affects the hippocampus, which is responsible for relational/contextual types of learning and memory. Spatial learning and memory is one type of relational learning that is easy to study in animals. The water …
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Immunocytochemistry, Mass Spectrometry and Microengineering for the Study of Cell Signaling
… mediated by neuropeptide transmitters in the brain of Aplysia californica . This combination of techniques provides complementary qualitative information on the peptide structural identity, localization and action within a particular neuronal circuit. The study tests the hypothesis that …
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Differential appetite regulation in lines of chickens selected for high and low juvenile body weight: the role of beta-MSH
… the roles of the hypothalamus and hindbrain in the differential food intake response, an experiment was designed where chicks were injected targeting either the lateral or 4th ventricle utilizing a novel freehand injection procedure. Chicks from both lines responded similarly to …
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Effects of frontal cortex and caudate nucleus lesions on stimulus generalization learning in rats
The purpose of the present experiment was to compare the behavioral consequences in rats of lesions of the frontal pole area (FP), the anterior median cortex (AM) described by Leonard, and the caudate nucleus (CN) on a brightness stimulus generalization task. It was hypothesized that deficits in …
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Thai Teachers' Beliefs about Learner-Centered Education: Implications for Success For Life Thailand
… past decade. Success For Life Thailand (SFLT), a brain-research-based early childhood education program blended with the theories of the developmentally appropriate practices and child-centered philosophies, has been implemented in Thailand for over 8 years. The purposes of the present study were …
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Elucidation of the Specificity of Neuroactive Steroids and Related Compounds at the at the Vesicular Glutamate Transporter
… that of a steroid molecule. In light of recent research suggesting steroids act within the CNS in a non-genomic manner, this observation prompted the testing of a panel of steroid molecules at VGLUT. These compounds, known as "neuroactive steroids" have been shown to be synthesized, modified, …
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Elucidation of the Specificity of Neuroactive Steroids and Related Compounds at the at the Vesicular Glutamate Transporter
… that of a steroid molecule. In light of recent research suggesting steroids act within the CNS in a non-genomic manner, this observation prompted the testing of a panel of steroid molecules at VGLUT. These compounds, known as "neuroactive steroids" have been shown to be synthesized, modified, …
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Potential relevance of neuroscience to guide consumption of multimedia technologies towards enhancing learning
… impact on the NG with an understanding of the brain. Research does show that if technology is not weaned correctly, can have negative effects and addictive behaviours emerge such as craving, concealing, and lying. There is no link, to the author's knowledge, between these scientific findings of …
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