However, the incidence of aneuploidy in the developing human brain and its impact on the brain development and function are obscure.
'Magnetogenetics' is therefore an important addition to neuroscientists' tool box, which will undoubtedly be developed further, and provide researchers with new ways of studying brain development and function.
Given the growing evidence for conservation in genetic programs underlying brain development and function, the human brain is likely to consist of similar basic operation units".
The notion that autism was caused by "refrigerator" mothers and absent fathers, promoted by psychoanalysts in the 1950's and 1960's, has yielded to the realization that the disorder is strongly rooted in genetics and abnormalities of brain development and function.
Neurons and astrocytes, more importantly, their cooperation is essential for brain development and function.
The changes in genes related to brain development and function are especially intriguing, Barrès says.
The work suggests "a role for the [microbes] in regulating brain development and function".
Brain development and function are susceptible to perturbation by environmental factors.
The effect of sex hormones on brain development and function is well documented.
Recent studies have shown that the spatial organization of the genome is essential for normal brain development and function.
In humans, n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids play a well-documented role in brain development and function.
