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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"brain functioning"”.
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Development of a Mobile Health-tracking System for Longitudinal Clinical Assessment of People with Impairments in Brain Functioning
… with developmental or acquired impairments in brain functioning may present complex needs that affect their quality of life and wellbeing. Clinical assessment in such circumstances would be enhanced if there was a convenient and non-invasive method to collect, integrate, and analyse various …
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Creating Appropriate Clinical Guidelines for The Bilingual Population with Acquired Brain Injuries
… this population should they experience a brain injury. This is a growing area of interest, as research has demonstrated that the acquisition of a second language promotes neuroplastic changes that then impact brain functioning pre- and post-brain-injury. Given bilingualism’s cognitive …
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Topology matters: characteristics of functional brain networks in healthy subjects and patients with Epilepsy, Diabetes, or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis during a resting-state paradigm.
The brain can be seen as a complex structural and functional network. Cognitive functioning strongly depends on the organization of functional brain networks. EEG/MEG resting-‐state functional connectivity and functional brain networks studies attempt to characterize normal brain organization as …
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O lugar da neurociência no currículo do curso de Pedagogia
… and teach the child in a way compatible with brain functioning. We propose, in this academic work, a new vision in the scope of the curricular components of the Pedagogy, because we believe in the need to implement new disciplines that address in more depth aspects about: Neurolearning, …
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The identification of candidate genes using cDNA microarray and the analysis of two SNPs of the reelin gene in a South African austistic population
… implicated in this disorder are involved with brain structure formation and brain functioning. Studies have identified the reelin (RELN) gene as necessary for proper formation of brain, which indicates that RELN abnormalities could contribute to the aetiology of several neurogenetic diseases …
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Deep Multimodal Physiological Learning of Cerebral Vasoregulation Dynamics on Stroke Patients Towards Precision Brain Medicine
… blood flow, which is very important for normal brain functioning. Developing accurate, non-invasive and efficient methods to detect this condition aids in better stroke diagnosis and prevention. The aim of this thesis is to develop deep learning techniques for the purpose of detection of …
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Tau pathology, microglia activation, and network dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease
… functional connectivity, more strongly connected brain regions accrued more tau pathology. Increasing tau burden was also linked to progressive weakening of the connectivity across the same regions. I also found increased [11C]PK11195 binding (reflecting neuroinflammation) in the medial/lateral …
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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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Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Collision and Contact Female Athletes Over the Course of a Season
… effects of such cumulative hits on neurological functioning remain elusive. This study examined resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) of brain networks in a sample of female varsity athletes over the course of a season. Design: 19 female university athletes involved in contact (N = 7) and …
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Exploring the combined use of electrical and hemodynamic brain activity to investigate brain function
… between electrical and metabolic aspects of brain functioning in health and disease, measured with QEEG and NIRS, in order to evaluate its clinical potential. First the limitations of NIRS were investigated, depicting its susceptibility to different types of motion artefacts and the inability …
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Developmental myelination and myelin plasticity during spatial working memory task acquisition
Myelin is essential for brain functioning, as it enables fast signal propagation and synchronisation of neuronal impulses. Myelin sheaths are created by oligodendrocytes, which stem from oligodendrocyte precursor cells. During development neurons become myelinated, and this process can be modulated …
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The prediction of cognitive ability from sensory/motor performance : examining the role of sensory/motor performance in the Dean-Woodcock Cognitive Neuropsychology Model
… predict specific cognitive performance. Because brain functioning is hierarchical with simpler processes being foundational to the development of more complex functions, it is likely sensory/motor skills can aid in the prediction of specific cognitive abilities. If this is true, then …
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New perspectives on the multimodal validation of the human brain white matter anatomy.
For much of history, the brain has fascinated scholars as the seat of thought, sensation, and behavior. Early theories of brain functioning focused on the cortical surface, seeking to localize cognition within discrete gray matter regions. Today, it is clear that the richness of human behavior …
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Collective dynamics of astrocyte and cytoskeletal systems
… into the multiscale interactions within the brain. This thesis aims at a complementary view of the general information processing of the brain, focusing on other modes of non-electrical information. The modes discussed are the collective, dynamical characteristics of non-electrically active, …
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Regulation of ageing by electrical synapses in the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
… are abundant in nervous systems and critical for brain function. They allow not only the exchange of ions, but also of metabolites and second messengers and have been implicated in the transmission of damage or death signals between cells. However, it was not known if they play a role in the …
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A Window Into Autonomic Nervous System Functioning in Autism: Pupillometry in Adults on the Autism Spectrum
… current study looked at autonomic nervous system functioning in adults on the autism spectrum through the lens of pupil responsivity to tasks probing reactions to changes in environmental lighting and to complex stimuli. The primary aims of the study evaluated the questions: (1) Do measures of …
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The role of daytime napping in sleepiness and cognitive function in 24-70 year olds /
… be due to sleep loss and age-related decline in brain functioning. Longer naps were expected to provide greater improvement, particularly for older adults, by reducing sleep pressure. Thirty-two adults, aged 24-70 years, participated in a repeated measures dose-response manipulation of sleep …
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Conjugate-lateral eye movement behavior in later childhood
… the effects of hemispheric specialization of the brain upon children's cognitive processing and therefore, upon content or modes of instruction. Before educators can accept or even test these statements, it is important to devise easy-to-use measures of hemispheric functioning and to study their …
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Large-scale neuronal networks: from simulation technology to the study of plasticity-driven cognitive processes
The brain is one of the most intricate systems and the quest for simulating the neuronal dynamics has led to the development of several approaches and simulation tools able to represent the behavior of portions of the brain with different levels of detail. Among the different techniques that we can …
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