"helps understand" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "This guide helps understand the fundamentals of grammar."
Fortunately, the brain mechanisms of fear and anxiety seem to overlap, so progress in understanding fear also helps understand anxiety as well.
An understanding of these four steps and their role in cancer metastasis helps understand the metastatic process and also identify targets for intervention.
It helps understand the implementation in a more solid way.
This study helps understand the hydrodynamics of soil erosion and sediment transportation of saturated soil slopes.
"I think this helps understand it far more than traditional liberal and conservative labels".
But the diagnosis helps understand why Duerson ended his life the way he did.
That 15 minute experience helps understand what a brand stands for.
The model obtained helps understand how customers describe highly preferred designs.
This approach specifically helps understand the impact of landscape configuration at the micro-level neighborhoods.
It also helps understand the principles of experimental design and data analysis.
The empirical Bayesian theory helps understand the integration among the levels of hierarchically organized cortical systems.
