Questions tagged [brain-development]
For questions about the physiological and embryological foundations of neural development
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Someone using: OMNIFIT Brain: the concentration enhancing brain training solution? [closed]
I read a lot about that devices.
Only one person using who I know and say is good after 4 weeks [Muse].
Someone from forum using or use that and have something to say?
That is no subscription.
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To what extent is the brain self-wiring?
There seem to be these two contradictory ideas about the structure and development of the human brain:
that the brain is self wiring - that neurons interconnect with one another automatically (...
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Phases of Brain Development and Gender Identity
What stages of brain development are represented by sexual differentiation and linked to prenatal development of gender identity?
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is there a way to predict the possible modularizations of the brain?
we know that human brain becomes more and more modular during its development. We see similar places for the similar modules in the brain (probably because of the similar inputs and vasculature around ...
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How would a human baby's brain develop if born in a sensory deprivation chamber?
According to Scientific American, people who are blind can learn to use their sense of hearing more efficiently. Similarly, deaf people, may learn to utilize their vision more effectively. While the 5 ...
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Searching for finding the graph connection of different mental disorders
We are searching for finding the graph connection of different mental disorder. So I googled the graph flowchart of mental disorder slideshare and find the below ...
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How communal parenting, through the develpment in the prefrontal cortex, could lead to a better emotion regulation? [closed]
In this Michael Meaney interview, he let an open question at the end. He mentioned that communal parenting, could "in some ways buffer the child by having potentially more positive sources of ...
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Why can't we do the things we know instantaneously?
In the following video eventhough people know that when handlebar of the bicycle is turned left the wheel of that bicycle is turned towards right and vice versa, they can't ride that new bicycle ...
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Death caused by "Failure to Thrive" (FTT)
This question, whilst to a degree can be seen as "common sense" in some respects, has puzzled me in other ways.
Looking at the situations where Failure to Thrive (FTT) can cause death, even ...
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Understanding the 'Wiring Catastrophe'
Introduction:
In 'Wiring optimization in the brain'(2000), Dmitri Chklovskii and Charles Stevens
analyse the dependence of the complexity of cortical circuits on the number of synapses per neuron ...
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Modelling the Human Brain as a directed graph
A mathematician on the MathOverflow, Hans-Peter Stricker, recently(2016) considered the possibility that human brains may be modelled as directed graphs with neurons as nodes and synapses as edges. I ...
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Supposed 'brain training' [duplicate]
The term brain training is nothing new, however how effective is the 'N-back' method, does this work scientifically speaking?
There are mixed reviews on this:
one claiming it works
https://www....
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why are all human brains so similar in brain structure, specialization of their parts and functioning?
As a result of my growing interest in neuroscience, I have begun to try and understand the functioning of the brain. However, I am always confronted by the following questions:
The brain is a ...
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When does the brain stem appear in humans?
When does the brain stem appear in humans?
The following article states:
Once the neural tube closes, at around week 6 or week 7 of pregnancy,
it curves and bulges into three sections, commonly ...
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How do we know human brain development stops around age 25?
I've heard this stated as a fact more times than I can keep track of, but I haven't been able to find papers that actually demonstrate this. This seems to be the most cited paper on the topic, but it ...
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