Therefore, additional research will be needed in order to understand the functional role of brain regions beyond the primary sensorimotor cortex in one-handers.
As magnetoencephalography (MEG) is of increasing utility in the assessment of deficits and development delays in brain disorders in pediatrics, it becomes imperative to fully understand the functional development of the brain in children.
The ReHo method focuses on the similarities or coherence of the intraregional spontaneous low-frequency (<0.08 Hz) BOLD signal, which enables a novel perspective to understand the functional deficits in particular brain regions.
Since activation of distinct neural loci does not disambiguate between the functional processes subserved by the activated regions, the MT-related sensitivity of specific model parameters might help to better understand the functional involvement of specific brain regions in the effects of MT on cognition.
Meanwhile, the nematode worm, with its 302 neurons and the zebra fish with its 300,000 neurons are helping scientists understand the functional anatomy of the human brain, with its rather more complex 86 billion neurons.
This study is the first instance in which scientists have been able to identify individual synapses -- work that will help us understand the functional organization of the human brain.
The reason I emphasize the word "neurocircuit" in our work is because I believe that in order to understand how the brain accomplishes virtually anything, one must first understand the functional cellular and synaptic "scaffolding" from which brain phenomena emerge.
To understand the functional role of specific neurons in micro- and macro-brain circuitry, health, and disease, it is critical to control their activity precisely.
Knowledge of the precise anatomical distribution of extrasynaptic receptors is required to understand the functional roles of various nonsynaptic mediators and diffuse pathways in the brain, as well as to the design of selective drugs for pharmacotherapy.
Thus, it is important to examine the individual differences and to associate brain activity with certain behaviors to better understand the functional significance of the activity [Passamonti et al., 2008, 2009].
The study of microglia and macrophage (M/M) morphology represents a key tool to understand the functional activation state and the pattern of distribution of these cells in acute brain injury.
