But they translated those signals internally, to improve brain function rather than to activate outside appendages.
This result suggests that increased connectivity reflects a decline in brain function rather than a compensatory process.
My thinking at the time was that the challenge of searching for answers would be much greater if the unknown I wanted to explore was how our brain functions rather than why a mobile phone fails.
And to ensure that no sober drivers are wrongly convicted, states should judge impairment by field sobriety tests of motor skills and brain function rather than arbitrary concentrations of THC in the bloodstream.
Although several MRI studies have been conducted in both primate [13], [14], [15] and rodent models of PD [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], these have primarily focussed exclusively on the nigrostriatal system or on changes in brain function, rather than structure.
The results from genome-wide association studies have suggested that genes related to general brain functions rather than specific aspects of the disorder may contribute to its development.
There is a paucity of studies of brain function rather than structure alone, which makes links to cognitive outcomes and difficulties rather speculative, and no researchers to date have investigated brain connectivity or neurotransmitter function.
The BAIAP2 locus is not only a new gene to be investigated in ADHD, but it also indicates that genes related to general brain functions, rather than specific aspects of the disorder, may contribute to ADHD development; common variants in these genes could then confer susceptibility to a group of related psychiatric disorders.
Both drugs affect the brain's metabolism of the neurotransmitter serotonin, and this had led researchers to suspect that obsessive-compulsive disorders arise primarily from defects in the brain's neurochemical functioning rather than from purely psychological causes.
After Cardiac Death Another approach is to retrieve more organs from individuals who suffer cardiac deaths, that is irreversible loss of heart and respiratory function rather than irreversible loss of all brain functions, the criterion for brain death.
