Mental tests can help identify it, and magnetic resonance imaging scans can detect a characteristic pattern of brain shrinkage.
Luiz has microcephaly – a head that has not grown to its full size – and the pattern of brain damage that doctors now link to the Zika virus.
Perhaps we form political affiliations by semiconsciously detecting commonalities with other people, commonalities that ultimately reflect a shared pattern of brain function.
Helen Fisher, the Rutgers anthropologist, believes that romantic love has three phases, lust, attraction and attachment, each one with a distinct pattern of brain activity.
This confirmed that the film clip evoked the same pattern of brain activity in all the participants, as in the 2004 study.
During wide-awake consciousness the pattern of brain waves consists of rapid irregular waves of low amplitude or voltage.
This suggests that Taung Child had a partially fused metopic suture at the time of death and, therefore, that the pattern of brain development in this Australopithecine species was similar to that of anatomically modern humans.
The study's findings document a troubling pattern of "brain drain," the flight of skilled middle-class workers who could help lift their countries out of poverty, some analysts say.
Frontotemporal disease causes a different pattern of brain damage than Alzheimer's disease, and does not start with the kind of memory loss that usually signals the onset of Alzheimer's.
And when imagining an elephant, or seeing an elephant, moving from left to right on the screen, the pattern of brain scanning shows a fuzzy image of an elephant.
A consistent pattern of brain activity can be seen in non-autistic people when distinguishing between happy, sad and neutral faces, but people with autism struggle with this kind of emotion recognition.
