Brain size
Brain size and urbanization in birds
... on brain size and urbanization originated from the same ...population size will cause noise in the data and ultimately make it more difficult to discern any ...
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Selection for relative brain size affects context dependent male preference for, but not discrimination of, female body size in guppies
... The brain, as the central organ in the neural network, is essential in animal decision ...Indeed, brain size has been shown to impact cognitive ability (Kotrschal et ...body size is commonly ...
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Living in stable social groups is associated with reduced brain size in woodpeckers (Picidae)
... for brain size increase in ...of brain expansion in birds (7, 10); and that species living long-term in larger groups would have larger brains than pair-bonded species, as has been found in primates ...
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Brain size: a possible source of interindividual variability in corpus callosum morphology
... cross-sectional size of the CC may indicate the number of fibres crossing through (1), implying that a larger callosal area may indicate a higher capacity for interhemispheric ...CC size is so easy to ...
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Brain size and resource specialization predict long-term population trends in British birds
... Shultz, S., Bradbury, R.B., Evans, K.L. et al. (2 more authors) (2005) Brain size and resource specialization predict long-term population trends in British birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: ...
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Changes in Brain Size with Treatment in Patients with Hyper or Hypothyroidism
... in brain cells may be disturbed. Some evidence suggests a reduction in brain-cell osmolyte levels in the hyper- thyroid state; this reduction may be an adaptive re- sponse to increased amounts of cellular ...
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Evolution of the Human ASPM Gene, a Major Determinant of Brain Size
... The size of human brain tripled over a period of ⵑ2 million years (MY) that ended 0.2–0.4 MY ago. This evolutionary expansion is believed to be important to the emergence of human language and other ...
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging Brain Size/IQ Relations in Turkish University Students
... The eight published studies of in vivo MRI-measured brain size and IQ were all carried out in Western cultures, especially in the United States. Although the head-size/IQ relation has been ...
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Change in Brain Size during and after Pregnancy: Study in Healthy Women and Women with Preeclampsia
... cellular size by control- ling intracellular genomic ...in brain size has been observed when large doses of exogenous steroids are administered ...the brain during ...
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Effect of temperature and glia in brain size enlargement and origin of allometric body brain size scaling in vertebrates
... the brain during ...on brain size, body size and meta- bolic rates for all the major types of vertebrates, devel- oped a theoretical framework based on examination of the real data, and ...
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Brain size and brain/intracranial volume ratio in major mental illness
... Brain size and the ratio of brain size to total intracranial volume has been a topic of interest since the advent of the capacity to image the ...the brain directly ...in brain ...
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Absolute brain size predicts dog breed differences in executive function
... Difference scores between the Watching and Not Watching conditions in the Cunning task a and scores on measures of self-control [b] Cunning: Watching condition; [c] Cunning: Not Watching[r] ...
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Lucy_Min_-_Senior_Honors_Thesis.pdf
... Lastly, we analyzed the brains of the third instar larvae in order to determine if there was any microcephaly or apoptosis. We utilized mad2 sas-4 double mutant flies as a positive control, because these animals are ...
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Neuroscience and Sex/Gender: Looking Back and Forward
... human brain shifted researchers’ focus from subcortical structures, such as INAH-3 and BSTc, to struc- tures that could be visualized using these ...and brain organization than are studies of INAH-3 or the ...
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Captive breeding does not alter brain volume in a marsupial over a few generations
... breeding for a small number of generations does not cause brain size reduction. This 158[r] ...
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The importance of the altricial – precocial spectrum for social complexity in mammals and birds – a review
... the brain circuits, which regulate social behaviour in non-mammalian vertebrates, are homologous to those found in mammals ...‘social brain’ hypothesis [4] posits that social complex- ity and brain ...
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Plastic changes in brain morphology in relation to learning and environmental enrichment in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)
... in brain morphology respond mainly to environmental cues (Gonda et ...on brain size and cognitive ability (Buechel et ...the brain in these types of small-brained vertebrates need only target ...
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Predation pressure shapes brain anatomy in the wild
... the size of the brain and six brain ...body size ([mm], standard length—measured from the tip of the snout to the end of the caudal peduncle), brain weights [mg] and brain region ...
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TIPIT: A randomised controlled trial of thyroxine in preterm infants under 28 weeks gestation: Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Angiography protocol
... on brain size, key brain structures, extent of myelination, white matter integrity and vessel morphology, somatic growth and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal ...
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Birth Size and Brain Function 75 Years Later
... head size to account for the strong correlation between body and brain size present at birth, we cannot rule out residual ...birth size – brain pathology ...birth size were ...
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