Sentence examples for impaired connectivity from inspiring English sources
"impaired connectivity" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It can be used to refer to a situation where two or more components of a system (e.g. telecommunications, computer networks, etc.) are unable to connect or communicate properly with each other. For example: "The impaired connectivity between the various components of the network caused serious delays."
Schizophrenia is a complex and devastating neuropsychiatric disease thought to result from impaired connectivity between several integrative regions, stemming from developmental failures.
This further supports the notion that left neglect may arise as a combined breakdown or impaired connectivity between frontal and parietal mechanisms involved (respectively) in the selective control and memory storage components of spatial attention.
Also, there was no further investigation of the influence of damage in the cerebral regions on apathy or on the influence of impaired connectivity in each cerebral region on apathy.
Several potential predictive markers have been identified, including changes in ipsilesional/contralesional M1 activity and residual perilesional activity [22 ▪▪], impaired connectivity between key motor regions [77], metabolic markers such as GABA levels in ipsilateral M1 [78 ▪▪], or asymmetry in microstructural measures based on diffusion MRI [27].
Neurally, impulsive actions and decisions are widely hypothesized to originate from impaired connectivity and function of the prefrontal cortex and subcortical structures involved in the timing and control of goal-directed behaviour (Winstanley et al., 2006; Dalley et al., 2011; Kim & Lee, 2011; Sato et al., 2012; Jupp et al., 2013; Merchant et al., 2013; Simon et al., 2013; Hayes et al., 2014).
Compared to HC, early-stage stroke patients showed impaired connectivity in a language subnetwork of 24 connections.
In schizophrenia patients, alterations of intracortical and intercortical connectivities at subsecond timescales were investigated by TMS (see Fig. 1) and these impaired connectivities have been linked to an abnormal cerebral lateralization and a cerebral asymmetry in schizophrenia patients.
One further study supported the idea of an altered interhemispheric connection, revealing a selectively impaired facilitatory connectivity between the left dorsal premotor cortex and the right M1 [ 34].
More relevant studies of functional and effective connectivity in response to emotional challenges also suggest impaired fronto limbic connectivity (23 27,32).
Moreover, an additional independent whole-brain functional connectivity study based on a larger sample will further strengthen our understanding of the impaired functional connectivity patterns and provide novel evidence for a future meta-analysis of AD/MCI.
In humans, impaired limbic connectivity is thought to be implicated in the negative symptoms observed in schizophrenia.
