BRAINS IN BRIEFS
Scroll down to see new briefs about recent scientific publications by neuroscience graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania. Or search for your interests by key terms below (i.e. sleep, Alzheimer’s, autism).
Finding the patterns of white matter growth that support children’s cognitive development
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Development of white matter fiber covariance networks supports executive function in youth
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Understanding the brain during mindfulness
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Mindful attention promotes control of brain network dynamics for self-regulation and discontinues the past from the present
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Little kids, big insights: What childhood can teach us about how the brain supports cognition
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The age of reason: Functional brain network development during childhood
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Keeping your brain's symphony in sync
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Weakly correlated local cortical state switches under anesthesia lead to strongly correlated global states
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How brain waves might help us see
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Visual evoked feedforward-feedback traveling waves organize neural activity across the cortical hierarchy in mice
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How different levels of brain development help adolescent cognition - or don’t
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Dissociable multi-scale patterns of development in personalized brain networks
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